Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-13
LATEST NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Wsek-Most
Every Section Shows Prosperity
Many Accidents and Personal Hap.
peninqs.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

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City and Texas points.
w. w. Renfrew Of Colfax, former
county clerk, has bought the Bank Of
Elberton from H. w. Roberts.
Ralph Niles of Whitman academy
Won the interacademic defamation
contest at Walla WalIa recently.
Bert Fuller of Pendleton, Ore, was
lrowned in the waste ditch Of the Yaki-
ma Milling company Saturday night
A steady, soaking rain which Will
e of inestimable value to the grain
rop Of the Palouse country. fell last
sunday.
A letter has been received from
Iarconi, the inventor of wireless
Biography, stating that he would visit
spokane in June.
The semicentennial reunion Of the
pioneers association of Washington
yill be held at Madison park, Seattle.
m June 2 and 3.
The little son of Henry Schlehube',
Tho lives north of Pennington, was
licked by a horse recently, causing
racture or the Skull.
The members of the Spokane G. A,
(. propose to give royal entertain
lent to fellow veterans when the de
artment encampment meets in Spo-
ane in May.
The German steamship Anubis
mashed into the south grain conveyo,
md dock Of elevator q at Tacoma re
emily, causing damage estimated a;
letween $4,000 and $4,000.
At Whatcom fire recently destroyed
ne dry kiln and shiEgle shed, together
Nth 100000 shingles, belonging u
he Hastings Single company of Van.
ouver, B. c. Loss 100000.
The electric light company has an
.ounced that it will at once entirel,
eplace it's line of poles and wire n
,sotin. The company now has abou'
so lights in use in Asotin.
A carload-about $50 head-of stock
logs was shipped from Garfield recent.
to Spokane. The pigs weighed from
0 to 1875 pounds each. Eight cent?
,er pound was paid for them.
The Pasco country is to be irrigated
t last. Water is to be secured from
make river and to he raised to a de-
ired level by an immense pumping
liant, 1t is said, at Five Mile rapids.
Tommy Saluskin, an Indian, wa
illed recently at Big Cottonwood o,
he upper Ahtanum. He got into G
ght with some Indians over horse
Then George Ward hit him with ?
tone, killing him almost instantly.
The May apportionment Of curreni
chool funds will exceed any other
uarterly apportionment ever made IN
his state by over 100000. The state
uditor certified to the amount avail
BILE for distribution among the school
'istricts, placing it ut $906.6s5.
Mrs. Kahlert died at Spokane hos
,ital recently of pemphigus. PEN
higus is verv peculiar disease and
literally skins the patient alive. The
isease originates in large blister.
other blisters form and, expanding
axe the skin OFF the patient. It is al,
ways fatal.
The government has ordered a gen.
raj investigation of the status of In
liam allotments which may result ir
he cancellation of number of sucl
laims on the Colville reserve and the
hrowing open to settlement and entry
y citizens of some of the best land:
eastern Washington.
A contract has been awarded by the
fierce County Improvement company
which is Harvesting the glaciers Of
fount Tacoma for power for four OF
he largest turbine wheels in the world.
rhe giant generators will develop 1900
'lorse power each and are II feet in
liameter. They are to supply electric
'urrent for Tacoma and the nearby
places.
George G. Hackett Of Boston is in
'eattle for the purpose of erecting a
arge refrigerator plant and arranging
or the establishment of line Of 100
refrigerator cars between Seattle and
'astern markets. In these his COM
amy will ship from Puget sound fresh
almon, halibut. smelt and other fish
all points in the United States. Each
ar has a capacity Of rs tons net and
ill be shipped 10 times each year.
George T. Mcconnell, an Odd Fellow
or nearly a half century, is dead at
Valla Walla, aged so.
Angus J. McPhall of Darlington,
Wash, shot and killed Fred Anderson.
saloonkeeper. McPhail is in the hands
the authorities here. Business jeal-
'usy Is said to be the cause Of the
Iced.
An artesian flow of water has been
truck on the Blalock fruit farm near
"alla Walla at distance Of $50 fee.
rhe water runs so gallons per minute,
nd comes to the surface at tempers
IRE Of 70 degrees.
Thirteen city prisoners, serving
hort terms for minor offenses, took
he hinges off a door of the Seattle
all and escaped. Twenty other prison.
RS declined to go out into the dark
less and stayed until new hinges were
ut on the door.
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