Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1902-10-08
WORLDS MEMS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and westean Hemispheres
During the Past week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tcrsely Expounded.

A reduction of 20 cents keg in the
price of wirenails is announced.
1t is reported that the business por-
ton of Gervais, Ore. was destroyed by
fire recently.
The seth annual encampment Of the
G. A. R. begun at Washington, d. G.
last Monday. 1t will last week.
A cargo of raw silk valued at 81 =
SOC, 900 arrived at Vancouver, B. G.
the other day.
w. R. Hearst of the New York
Journal, has been nominated for con-
gress from the eleventh district by the
democrats.
Beginning October 8, stopping of
apple shipments enroute to Fargo, N.
D. will be discontinued by the north
transcontinental lines.
Judge Brooks of Minneapolis has
sentenced former Superintendent of
Police f. w. Ames to six years and a
half in the penitentiary for accepting
bride.
A committee of Boer sympathizers
of New York welcomed Francis Will
lam ReitZ, recently. He was formeraly
secretary of state of the Orange Free
State.
The rumor started some months ago
that the Chicago, milwaukee & st.
Paul was seriously contemplating the
extension of its system to the north
Pacific coast as again been revived.
General Chaffee and Vice Governor
Wright have sailed from Manila on the
transport Sumner. They were accord
ed general and popular farewell
demonstration.
The total gross earnings Of the
Northern Pacific last year were $4l,-
1880; net, $40, O,09s, ,968; surplus,
81 ,547, 1856 (increase, 1914, ,667.) The
total surplus now is $5,054, ,7O9.
The city reservoir at Camden, N. j.,
broke recently and about 5000, 900
gallons Of water escaped and flowed
down the streets, flooding the cellars
of many houses and doing other damage.
The Saimese government has just
issued large quantity of paper money
with the assistance of the Hong Kong
e. Shanghai hank .Siamese credit is
thus placed under the control of Great
Britain.
Sheriff Robinson of Cripple Creek,
Col, levied on a pullman car for taxes
amounting to 1868 which the pullman
company neglected to pay and in order
to prevent the removal of the car, he
chained it to the track.
The river steamer Hassalo and the
British ship Cypromene were in col
lision recently on the Columbia river
at Coffin Rock, two miles below Kala-
ma. The total damage will be about
SIC, 900.
At 0 O'Clock Monday morning the
gates of the ninth anuanl Spokane In
terstate Fair was thrown open and at
Z O'Clock the in evening the Masonic
Fair were opened. 1t is believed the
two big events will send to Spokane
record breaking crowd.
According to the report of the pay
master general, army expenses decreased
during the past year s9l8,819, as COM
pared with the preceding year, partly
owing to the decrease In the pay of the
army and in part to the reduction of
claims for extra pay to volunteers.
The total expenditures made by Pay
master General Bates were $52, ,532,-
i79.
Utah Mormons are greatly incensed
over the insinuation that the crime of
Wilcliam Hooper Young, alleged muir
derer, is in accordance with the blood
teachings of the mormon
Of which his grandfather,
Brigham Young, was the great profit.
The Kansas supreme court has grant
ed stay of execution in the case Of
Jessie Morrison, now in the peniten-
tiary for the murder Of Clara Wiley
Castle. The case will be heard in
January. Miss Morrison's appeal bond
will be fixed at $4,000. As soon as
this is given she will be released until
the time of her trial. She was sentenc-
ed to Is years in the penitentiary.
William Nelson Cromwell, general
counsel for the new Panama company,
who has returned from Paris, says he
delivered to Attorney General Knox in
Paris every conveyance, decree, con-
cession or other document relating to
the properties of the new Panama
panal company and its unquestionable
cover to convey the canal, the plant,
Concessions and other property to the
United States, free and clear Of all
liens or claims Of anv kind.
The feature of the naval estimatesl
for 1904, which have been made public
at the navy department, is the liber-
ality of the recommendation for each
of these branches Of the service which
have to provide for the equipment of
our fighting ships. A great increase
is noted in the estimates of the or
dnance bureau for target practice, due
to the coming maneuvers in the
Caribbean. Another noteworthy feature
Of that bureaus estimates is provision
for civilian supervisor of the govern
ment factory at Washington at $4,000.
Rear Admiral O'Neill holds that the
temporary occupancy of that post by
naval officers is not good for the service.
The total estimate is $82 1926, ,030. ,5S.
In an earnest effort to expedite the
adjustment of the coal strike problem