Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-01-29
FOUR NORTHWESTERN STATES
NEWS Is BRIEFLY TOLD HERE.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week
Every Section Shows General
GrOwth-Many Accidents Occur
Personals.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Henry l.. Leland, a prominent Ia
coma commission man, is dead.
w. A. Lewis stands convicted of the
crime Of larceny by embezzlement at
Spokane.
Gov. Mcbride makes a positive an
nouncement that there will be no extra
session now.
Manager Grim, of Spokane league
team, has signed king" Kelly and
Charles Elsey.
At Northport, Miss Jennie M. Bar
low committed suicide last week by
uncle, Robert Morrill,.
Wesley & McRae, the big sheep rails
ers of Yakima county, are making ar
rangements to ship 5000 head of sheep
to Chicago in February.
Intimation comes from the depart
ment of justice that Attorney General
Knox will recommend the abandon
ment of the Mcneil island peniten-
tiary.
Quincy, Wash, is a new town To-
Gated on large prairie eight miles
from the Columbia river, and so level
that the trains of the Great Northern
can be seen for twelve miles.
Fruit Inspector Beck has notified all
the fruit growers that the cottonwood
trees and willows near their places
must be cut down at once, on account
of being infested with San Jose scale.
At Wenatchee, George Washington,
an Indian known all over the north
western portion of the state, was found
dead on the railroad track. near the
crossing to the Touring mill, last
week.
A number of small boats more OF
less injured, many buildings along the
water front damaged, and business Of
all sorts completely crippled, is the
record of storm that swept over Sc
attic last week.
| Otto Cawthorn, an 18-year-old boy
employed to run the elevator in the
Standard Furniture company's build
ing, was almost instantly killed las
week at Seattle while attempting to
rise from the floor.
| Horticulturists from all over east.
ern Washington and northern Idaho
gathered in Spokane last week, the
occasion being the second annual
convention of the Inland Empire
Horticultural and Horticultural asso
citation.
During the As mile wind storm las.
week section of wharf in Old Ia.
fioated out to sea. On the wharf
stands a small grocery store owned b!
a man named Johnson. They were
finally brought to shore and safely
moored.
| George w. Middleton, aged 20, com
mitted suicide last week at Cheney
| placing the muZzle of a rifle to his
forehead and pulling the trigger with
his foot. Middleton left a letter say.
ing girls had cost him his life, and
Announcing his determination to kill
himself.
| The senate committee on public
building has authorized a favorable
report on Senator Turner's bill appro-
priating 100000 for public building
at Spokane. The committee also au-
thorized a favorable report on Sena-
tor Fosters bill for a public building
at Tacoma but reduced the appropria-
ton from $780, 900 to $550,000.
At New Whatcom, while the six chill
dren of Robert Shield were gathered
around stove a water tank. which
had frozen as the result of blizzard
which had commenced during the
night, exploded, injuring all six. Frank,
IL years of age, suffered a double
compound fracture of the left thigh
and may die. Pearl, aged 7, was bad
ly cut by flying pieces of iron. The
room was completely wrecked.