Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-03-12

west, where they were looking for
land speculations Everything
seems to be suatched up thereabouts,
and $40 per acre is asked for any.
thing like fair agricultural soil. The
whole country is alive with rev COM
ers who are swarming into tbs coun.
try by the hundreds. Six months has
worked revelation through what
then appeared trackless waste
These gentlemen have both made
well in the opportunities afforded dur
ing the last year for investments.
Bathed IN eternal sunshine, famed
by ocean breezes equaling air from
tropic seas, midst the silver sands Of
a most prolific part of mother earth,
where the possibilities for future won
deriul condition likened unto delight
ful palms, cvcoanut trees and 5loss-
oming vines, bring the tired easterner
from the haunts which will know
him no more. Such is the trans
parent scene which many OF us may
live to behold ere long IN this God
favored spot-Eastern Washington.
The organization of Board Of
Trade Or similar body would mean to
Ritzville 10000 inhabitants within
five years instead of 2,0O0;. to the
county $4,000 people as against 10000;
the town from hamlet to busting
city; the county from a sparsely set
tied district to one of the richest and
heaviest populated communities in
the world, with business in every line
and channel increased ten fold. Lit
tie concerns doing penny trade would
grow to strong industrial establish
ments.
"The use of intoxicants, their
habitual use or the frequenting Of
places where they are sold," means
summary dismissal Of any employe Of
the Burlington Railway Co. The to-
bacco habit is a close second and in
time will be another consideration
when a young man seeks position Of
responsibility. Boys make gentlemen
of yourselves.
Among those in town Saturday,
prom nent citizens OF the county,
were Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon Leonard,
ex-County Commissioner and Mrs.
J. A. Willis, M. V. Simas and wife,
Maurice Ahern, Solomon l. Bartges,
John and George Dewald, Albert s..
Elder, August Krouse, Louis e. Pitt
man of Cheney.
Thirteen sections OF Yakima county
land twelve miles from Prosser, was
sold yesterday in body to James
Turner, o. r. Haight, John Prouty,
Frank Downs, w. K. Kennedy, John
Sponcler, VIM. and Geo. Snyder, D.
Won Holt, N. H. and o. H. Greene
and ID. A. Davenry.
=. Dick Coleman, the jolly Hinglish.
man, has put up and opened new
hotel at Quincy, which is constantly
filled 10 overlooking. B. E. Hervey,
the real estate agent, just returne!
from there and states that the big
rush is on and immigrants going in
by the hundreds.
John A. and Fred Thiel Friday last
bought the residence property of w.
l.. Olmstead on second street now
occupied by Hon. w. X. Kennedy,
and the fire-proof store building used
by the Rosenoff drug firm, for $1,000.
Mr.. J. A. Thiel will move in town
soon.
Philip L. Reese, the real estate agi-
tator and G. 0. Greene, the opera
house owner and manager were whip
ping up and down the country out
north during the last week, picking
up land snaps that seem to be hang
ing ON every bush in the country just
now.
Z. b. Born, Jr., has bought the
James III. Brooks house down in front
OF the public school building and will
erect large addition or main pa TT
thereto and will practically make a
new building OF the old land mark.
Mr.. Born is in Spokane today.
Rev. Dan. W. Haight, sufferer
from internal cancer, still hovers be-
tween life and death. Since the oper-
alton was performed by the surgeons
and physicians he has gradually failed
and small hopes are entertained for
his recovery.
w. J. Bennington, the genial fellow
who trades money for mortgages. and
by the way gives pretty square deals
too, was hob-nobbing with Cheneyites
during the latter end OF the past
week.
The Ritzville band played a concert
at the onera house Tuesday eveninp