Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-09-23
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanqes-CuIlings
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.


dent of Colville, died at his home re-
Gently.
The State Teachers association of
Washington will meet at Tacoma. De
cember % to 30.
More than IL miles Of track have
been laid east from Spokane on the
Occur d'Alene electric line.
Governor Henry McBride's presence
at the Interstate Fair October z, "Gov-
errors day." is now assured.
Some grain is standing in the fields
about Oakesdale, Seltice and Belmont,
and this is being cut by headers.
1t is estimated that from 80 to IS per
cent of the crop of Whitman county
mas been cut and about IS per cent has
been threshed.
Plans and specifications have been
completed for the new jail at Asotin.
which will be built this fall at an ex'
pense of $4,000.
While working in the jute mill at
Walla Walla, Wash, a convict had his
hand caught in the machinery and a
severe wound resulted.
The sawmill of the Eureka Sawmill
company, situated five miles north.
west Of Republic, was consumed by
fire recently. There was no insurance.
A man named Tanto committed sui
eide by blowing his brains out with a
gun. He lived on homestead about
30 miles from Lind in Douglas county.
Wheat is coming into Edwall at the
rate of about 10000 bushels per day.
Ninety per cent of the wheat is blue
stem, and it is almost all grading No:
1.
The body of w. H. H. Ragan. the
Steptoe Butte farmer, was found by
searching parties two miles from his
home. He had wandered away and
died.
Wheat this year along the Great
Northern railway is of uniformly good
quality and smut cases are rare, most
of the wheat weighing 60 pounds to
the bushel.
Several carloads of fine Italian
prunes are being received in Walla
Walla from orchards near Dixie, the
fruit being sent there for packing and
forwarding.
An endeavor is being made by the
cattlemen of Okanogan county to
reach an amicable adjustment of the
serious differences which have exist
ed there since the introduction of
sheep.
John Sullivan, night Waterman al
the old smelter, four miles down the
river from Spokane, was thrown from
his buggy and kicked in the abdomen
so violently by his horse that he died
recently two hours after.
John l.. Smith, the veteran superin-
tendent of 10 successive Interstate
fairs in Spokane, is to be with the In
terstate Fair association in the ca.
pacity of superintendent of the stock
department no more after this sea.
son.
The wheat of the Waitsburg district
is nearly all in the warehouse, and It
is estimated that fully 100000 bush
els are under cover. The dealers say
about one-third of it has been sold at
prices ranging from 10 to rs cents for
club and bluestem respectively.
The total tax levy for state pur-
poses has been fixed by the state board
Of equalization at seven and three.
ifths mills, five mills Of which is for
the school fund. This is no change
from the total Of last year. The total
amount of state taxes that will thus be
raised is $2,1O5,116, Of which 1892, All
goes to the general fund, $1,384.947
to the school fund and $27,7OO to the
military fund.
The matter Of organizing a board OF
trade or a commercial club is being
agitated by some of Harrington's citi-
zens.
The real estate of the Joseph Conat-
ser estate was sold at auction Satur.
day at Colfax, and brought good prices,
at spirited bidding. The real estate
consisted of 140S acres of land and
about 100 town lots in Sunset The
land brought an average of about $25
per acre and the town lots averaged
about IS each. d. F. Anderson of Ro-
salia was auctiopeer. The real estate
brought almost $4,000.
A lynching was narrowly averted
at Sunnyside, three miles east of Ev.
erett, recently. A rancher named M.
l.. Scott. formerly member Of the Sal
walton army, accused Of assaulting the
~ year old daughter of A. s. Nichols,
was in the hands of an Infatuated mob
Of farmers, with the hemp rope all
but around his neck, when Sheriff
Brewer arrived and pursuaded the an
cry ranchers to turn the accused man
over to him. The crime is the third
Of its kind that has been committed
in that neighborhood in the past IS
months.
Frank Geiger, Jr., about 20 years Of
age. fell dead recently while stacking
straw for threshing machine at the
old Albert Lang place. eight miles
south of Pomeroy. Over exertion and
a weak heart are supposed to have
been the causes of death.
At the competitive drill Sunday at.
ternoon between companies B and D
Of seattle and H of Spokane at the
state encampment, for the Tacoma cup,
in close order work, Company B won
the trophy by a small margin.