Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-06
WARRINGTON ITEMS.


The -four mill at Albion has changed
hands.
c. F Headley, a pioneer of Walla
Walla, is dead.
The settling of southwestern parts
of Whitman county is rapid.
The Northern Pacific has decided to
build $4,000 depot at Kennewick.
Hitching posts have been removed
from the main streets at Walla Walla.
Active steps have been taken by
citizens of krupp towards securing n
depot.
A steamship line has been estab
lished ON the Columbia river between
Wenatchee and Kettle Falls.
The indictments of the Seattle grand
Jury against George u. Piper ana
Judge George have been dismissed.
Frank Haff, sawmill man who has
in the neighborhood of Addy, is miss.
ing.
NJ. De La Montanya. rural route in
spector. has passed favorably on two
proposed rural routes to be established
at Sunnys'de
The University of Washington de
feated the Seattle Y. NJ. c. A. team ID
the recent track and field meet by a
score Of TN to 57h.
The six shingle mills operating in
Spokane have closed for an indefinite
period. The reason given is that there
is no market for the supply.
The Huntley Mercantile company,
with capital stock OF $4,000, has
been organized to do a general mer
chandise business at st. John.
II. G. Stimmel, manager of the Spo
Kane Interstate fair, has let the con
tract to cover the race track with
:our inches Of black loan soil.
Samuel E. Robinson of the Wash
ington Agricultural college won the
seventh annual intercollegiate orator.
cal contest held at Whitman college
Lucy ana Leon Caron, charged with
importing two French girls into the
I nited States from Belgium for in,
moral purposes. pleaded guilty in tn,
federal court at Spokane last week.
The state penilentiary record l.
again broken by the accession OF 1.
King county convicts. There are nov
635 prisoners in the institution, ant
the record number is steadily rising
T. A. Livesley Of North Yakima ha.
sold 1lS bales Of hops to Portland
company. The price is given out BY
the buyers to have been II cents, bu
the growers say that % cents wa.
raiL.
AS result of the May day strikes II
Spokane 800 men were thrown out oi
employment. The millworkers. the
iron moldors and the building laborers
struck because their demands were no,
granted.
Coroner +. p. Heliker has. filed with
the county commissioners a report o
The recent finding Of an unknown dean
indian near the John Cleman's sheel
camp in Kittitas canyon. He was
hanging by his neck to post, hand
kerchief heing used as a rope.
April was heavy month in the Spo
lane land office. The total cash re
ceipts from all sources amounted Il
s13.334.s0. There were 119 homestead
entries, the total acreage being 49,
215.16. The total receipts from cash
sales of land amounted to $75S446.
Mrs. W. c. Kornbaugh OF Tyler re
.nntly was accidentally shot in the
hand and side by a gun In the hands
OF her husband. He had just loaded
the gun and was walking to the doOi
to shoot p coy, te. when the weapon
was discharged. The wound Is not Sc.
riOus.
The mill. lumber and several houses
Of the Martin Lumber Co. Of Contra
liza were recently burned to the ground.
A boxcar on the siding was destroyed.
The loss n the mill alone will amount
to 100000. but how much lumber has
been destroyed it is impossible to say.
The mill will be rebuilt.