Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-02-26
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Eight men deserted from Fort Walla
Walla last week.
La Framboise, a former resident of
Colville, Is missing.
John W. Goodwin was nominated for
mayor by the democratic convention
at Seattle.
The cable ferry at Chelan Falls,
which has been tired up during the
running of ice, has again resumed op-
erations.
Representative Jones has introduced
bill granting $4,000 acres to the state
of Washington for the benefit of the
state soldiers home.
Representative Jones has introduced
bill appropriating $4,000 to estab-
fish a fish hatchery in Yakima coxty
for the propagation of trout for stock
ing the Washington streams.
James Carrier, IL years of age, was
found dead Sunday morning under a
fallen tree near his home in Olympia.
He had felled the tree and failed to
get out of its way as it came down.
This is the municipal ticket nominal
ed by the Seattle republican conven-
ton last Friday: For mayor, Thomas
]. Humes; for comptroller, John Rip
linger; for corporation counsel, Nit
chell Gillian; for treasurer, Matt H.
Gormley.
Charles Lee dropped dead near his
home at Yakima City last week. Heart
failure was the cause. Mr.. Lee was a
pioneer of the Yakima valley and was
the largest bee keeper in central Wash.
ington. He was 60 years old and
leaves family.
Fire partially destroyed the Puget
Sound Bridge and Dredging company's
big dredger San Diego, anchored in Ell
lott boy, Friday afternoon. The fire
smouldered in the boiler-room for more
than two hours before it was discov-
cred.
Representative Jones will offer an
amendment to the Indian appropriation
bill appropriating $4,000 to defray the
expenses of transferring the Wenat
chez Indians from their lands near
Wenatchee to the south half of the
Colville reservation.
Mrs. Clara Malvern was shot to
death recently at her home in Sno
homish, but whether a case of suicide
or murder Is unknown. Joe Malvern
a piano player, went home in an in
toxicated condition and began quar-
rel with his wife, during which a shot
was fired. Malvern claims that his
wife shot himself
Forty thousand acrer in Douglas
county have been purchased from the
Northern Pacific company by syndi
cate company of Tacoma. For some
time past the parties have been oper
ating in the wheat lands in Adams
and Douglas counties.
| A special round trip rate of one fare
plus So. has been made by the northern
transcontinental railroads in favor Of
the homeseekers coming into the west
ern territory. This rate, which is ar
extremely low one, went into effect
February 10, and will be effective up tt
and including May 20, 1902.
An unknown Indian was killed las
week at Ainsworth by the w. & g. r
railroad train. The Indian wanted to
cross the Snake river with a morse and
buggy and planned to swim the horses
across and pull the buggy by hand
over the long Ainsworth bridge. He
was half way over with the buggy
when the train caught him and hurled
him off the bridge. He is said to have
been badly mangled.
Stoke & Amery have arrived al
Sprague with carload of pure Perch
eron horses and Hereford cattle from
Kansas City. Among their purchases
are three of the first cows out of the
S. head of the Armour estate, imported
from England the same week Stoke
& Amery arrived in Kansas City. The
five Percheron horses from Iowa and
Illinois will average 1856 pounds each