Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-07-22
WAsHINGToN NEWS.

Harvest In Whitman county has be-
gun.
Ellensburg women are raising $3.50
for public fountain.
| Crop reports are . little more
gloomy than they were little earlier
In the season.
Rev. G. Tsuruda is pastor Of the
Spokane Japanese Methodist church,
organized recently.
F.. A. English has sold his fruit farm,
four miles north Of Pennington, for
$4,000. An Iowa man is the buyer.
The Weyerhaeuser syndicate has
purchased 14.700 acres of land in Sno-
homish county. for which it paid $751;
740.
| T. ]. Pitzer, a Garfield grocer, Is
missing. He has not been heard from
since he left home q week ago for
Spokane.
The first catch of sockeye salmon Of
the season has reached Seattle port.
1t consisted Of 5000 fish taken on the
San Juan island banks.
| Seattle was chosen by the labor com.
missioner as the field for the first in
spection Of bakeshops under the law
passed by the last legislature.
| Mrs. Annie Null died at Seattle sud-
denly week ago and her infant daugh-
ter 36 hours later. An autopsy indi.
Gates poison by carbolic acid or simi-
lar drug.
The route lies through the Methow.
the OkanOgan and the Spokane valleys
to Spokane. 1t taps Mt. Baker, Slate
Creek and the Methow Valley mining
country.
Elvin Nicholson, "a years old. of Ell.
lensburg. committed suicide at North
Yakima recently by shooting himself
In the head. He leaves q wife at
Ellensburg.
The personal property Of Whitman
county is assessed at more than $780,.
900 more than last year. nearly every
line OF property assessed showing q
marked growth for the year.
The oficial call for the next meeting
Of the transmississippi commercial
congress at Seattle. has been issued by
Secretary Arthur F. Francis. The
dates fixed are August Is, 10. 20. u.
1903.
Miss Edna I. Warner, Miss Nina
Soloman and T. v. Foster were drown
ed in the bay at Everett last Sunday
by the capsizing Of their sail boat.
There were no witnesses to the &C.
cident.
Grief over the sudden death Of her
husband, followed almost Immediately
by the confinement OF her daughter in
an asylum for the insane. has caused
Mrs. F. c. Yonnie, q we'll known resi-
dent of Tyler. to lose her mind.
The body Of Fred Payne. drowned
recently of the steamer Chelan at We.
natchee. was found near Rock Island.
He was about 80 years of age and
unmarried. Charles Hare was also
drowned in attempting to rescue him.
The ninth annual fair of the Whit.
man County Fair association has been
decided upon. and It will be held In
the fair grounds west Of Colfax, be-
ginning Monday. October IL. and clos.
Ing Saturday. October II. being in op-
Grafton for six full days.
Herbert Bolster, one Of the best
known citizens Of the Inland Empire.
a pioneer of Spokane. and for several
years manager Of the Spokane fruit
fair, died last week at his home. For
many months Mr.. Bolster suffered with
nervous malady, which bafned the
skill Of physicians.
John Dexter. a harvest laborer in
~ 80 4. Hntu - Iy~tH
burg. was drowned while bathing at
Teal bridge. The unfortunate man
was wading in four feet of water when
he suddenly stepped into q hole over
nine feet deep. He was unmarried
and came recently from Oregon.
A novel sight recently was that Of
Misses Alice Mullen and Minerva Fo-
ley, respectively business manager and
operator in the telephone once at Re-
public, climbing q telephone pole to
put new cable fuse In the box. Ow-
ing to the linemen's strike now on. not
man could be found to do the work.
The greatest irrigation enterprise In
the northwest was set on foot when
the Yakima Development company.
capitalized at $3.50. 900. fled articles Of
Incorporation. The scheme is the de-
velopment Of every foot Of desert land
In the Yakima valley. the water to be
taken from the Yakima river. its tribu.
taries and storage lakes.
Amended articles Of incorporation
have been fled with the secretary Of
state and the Whatcom county auditor
by the Bellingham Bay & British Co
lumbia Railroad company. The arti-
cles we're amended at San Francisco
July 2, and propose an extension Of the
line to Spokane. a distance Of 295
miles. This will be the shortest. most
direct route from Spokane to tidewa-
ter on the Pacific, 10 miles shorter
than the Great Northern.
One Of the most horrible accidents
recorded in the annals Of Clarke coun-
ty occurred recently at FIatwood. IL
miles north Of Vancouver, in which
an estimable mother lost her life. Mrs.
Asa Sturgess and husband were riding
upon load of hay. when q portion Of
the load slipped on. precipitating Mrs.
Sturgess. A three tined pitchfork fell
from the load at the same time. tines
upward. and upon this Mrs. Sturgess
fell, all three tines piercing her body.