Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-04-15
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATEST NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week-Most
Every Section Shows Prosperity
Many Accidents and Personal Hap.
penines.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The telephone girls are being cr-
ganized into union at Spokane.
A cinder path to Occur d'Alene City
is being planned by the Spokane wheel
club.
The ten million mark has been
passed in deposits by Spokane's five
big banks.
The long projected sanitarium for
Medical Lake is about to assume SUBJ
stantial shape.
The per capita to the grand lodge
of Workmen is reduced. Seattle Is
the next meeting place.
The firemen of the Northern Paci.
fic have been granted the increase in
wages asked for some time ago.
Dude Lewis lost the decision to Kid
Fredericks of Buffalo in the eleventh
round at Spokane last week on a pal.
pable foul.
The Spokane County Teachers insti-
tute last week is said to have been the
most successful session since the es.
tablishment of the institute % years
ago.
For the fourth time in succession
Whitman college Of Walla Walla won
the annual intercollegiate debate with
the Washington Agricultural college
last Saturday.
Spokane county and every other
county in the state, may expect to
have a farmers institute this year,
under the auspices of the state agri-
cultural college.
Will Moody, son of the late Dwight
Moody, accompanied by DR.. G. Camp
bell Morgan, will be in Spokane Tues
day, the 18th of May, and will hold
union services
The new survey Of the Bellingham
Bay & British Columbia railroad from
Maple Falls eastward through the Okla.
hogan country toward Spokane is pro-
crossing rapidly.
G. P. Dart, the Spokane iumberman,
died recently from injuries received
from falling timber. G. P. Dart was
born in jamestown, N. Y, 70 years ago
and came to Spokane in 1882.
Governor Mcbride is greatly pleased
over the decision of the circuit court
of appeals in the merger case and be-
lieves affirmance by the United States
supreme court is a certainty.
James Warwick, 10 years of age, Of
Spokane, killed himself last Sunday
afternoon at his residence by shooting
himself through the heart. The act
was committed with a double barreled
| shotgun.
Young Corbett," the conqueror of
Terrible Terry" McGovern, will ap-
pear in Spokane about April 20. Cor.
bett is travelling with a theatrical
combination and will give an exhibit
ton of boxing.
moderator of the last triannual coun-
Gil of the Congregational church,
which was held in Syracuse, will tour
the cities of the coast, including Port.
land and eastern Washington, in few
weeks, and hold services.
Adjutant General James A. Drain of
the national guard OF Washington has
been appointed by the secretary Of
war as one of the members of a board
created by congress, approved March
2. 1903. which will have direction OF
tests for national trophy and other
prizes for craftsmanship provided in
the act.
For the first time in the history Of
iute manufacture at the state peni-
Tertiary the season mas opened with
a large surplus of the estimated output
of the mill not contracted. The esti-
mated output this year, which is only
an average one. will pc 1,34S,S11 sacks,
and applications for only 3S2,770 sacks
have been made by the grain growers
of the state.