Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-09-24
FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD,
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the week-The
Outlook Is Good in Every Section
Many Accidents and Personal
Happenings
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
The strike of warehousemen at Ia.
coma has been settled.
Wheat was selling at so cents per
bushel at Colfax last week.
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles
was in Seattle recently. He inspected
Forts Casey, Flagler and Worden.
A longshoreman named Peter Yes.
dale was killed by a Great Northern
passenger train at Whatcom recently.
Mike Carter, a well known gambler,
took $500 from a Colfax saloon last
week.
The states tax levy is seven and
three-fifths mills and the property val.
ued at 261 100000 is expected to yield
the revenue.
Good reasons exist for believing that
the new state capitol building will not
be in condition to house the next legis.
lature.
Governor Henry Mcbride has been
invited to open the interstate fair at
with an address.
Frank B. Cole of Tacoma has been
nominated for congress by the demo-
cratic state central committee to sue.
ceed Stephen Barron of Okanogan.
The acting secretary of the interior
has extended the time for the first pay
ment on land entries in the Colville
reservation until after the next session
of congress.
The wife of William Gent, one of the
leading formers of Lincoln county. re
Gently committed suicide by taking
morphine and strychnine. No cause is
assigned for the act.
The Monte Cristo railroad has pass
ed into the hands of the Northern Pa
ciic Railway company. 1t extends
from Everett to Monte Cristo, a dis
tance of 60 miles.
The Tacoma Elks voted to accept
the prize Of $3.50 awarded them at the
Portland carnival and distribute the
amount among the fire stricken dis
tricts of southwestern Washington.
According to reliable reports. Mrs.
Mary Waggoner OF Napavine, the wo.
man who. who with her year old son,
discovered the body of Dave Merrill,
has eloped from Chehalis. Her part
ner is none other than Ben Merrill,
brother of Dave Merrill.
The r. F. Matkin ranch of 24S acres,
eight miles northeast of Garfield, was
sold last week for $45 per acre, total
of $11, 100 cash. This Is practically
an unimproved property, without an
orchard and without buildings of any
consequence. Wheat grown on this
ranch this season averaged GO bushels
per acre.
James A. Roosevelt, first cousin OF
President Roosevelt. has arrived at
San Francisco on the steamer DoricI
from China. lie is but II years of age,
and Is making a tour of the world,
which will be completed when he re-
turns to Boston, whittier he Is now
travelling. He was accompanied on his
trip by II. Yeomans Of Spokane, Wash
A head on freight train collision on
a heavy down grade at the eastern
end of the Northern Pacific tunnel
the Cascade mountains last
week caused the death Of II. ID. Shaf-
fer. fireman, and the serious injury OF
A. J. Adams, engineer, both OF Taco
ma. Brakeman Oswald. also OF Taco
ma, was badly hurt The wreck caught
fire and IL cars OF lumber and coal
were burned.
The Waverly beet sugar factory,
owned by ID. c. Corbin OF Spokane
begun operations Monday. The factory
will employ about 1876 men, and Will
run steadily about 65 days. During
that time 1t will convert 2250 acres OF
sugar beets into refined sugar, and will
disburse about 100000 to sugar beet
owners and about $4,000 in wages and
factory supplies.
The signs point to a large attehd-
ance from the country at the coming
interstate fair at Spokane and the Wis
itors may rest assured that in nearly
every particular the exposition this
year will be more comprehensive and
interesting than ever before. 1t Is not
to be merely a fall race meeting; 1t is
to be distinctively fair with many
features that are we'll worth seeing.