Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-07-08
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS.
A number of important transactions
took place last week among the
sheepmen of Yakima.
In the police court at Republic John
Daniels was acquitted on a charge. of
shooting Archie Mcclellan on June rs
at place between the Ike Lafleur
and Lambert ranches at Lambert
creek.
Nature supplied the fireworks for
the Fourth of July celebration at Spo-
kane. A violent electric storm, with
thunder and lightning, raved during
the evening.
John Berg Of Whatcom successfully
defended his title to the catch as catch
can championship of the Pacific coast
by defeating F. S. Lewis in two falls.
Berg won the first fall in 48 minutes
and 80 seconds and the second in 20
minutes.
The annual report Of the Spokane
postoffice for IL months ending June
30 show receipts of $137,392.62, an in
crease of about 20 per cent over re-
ceipts for the previous year.
Walla Walla contributed two Fourth
of July accidents. An old man named
Loughead was knocked down while
crossing the street by runaway team
which had been scared by fireworks.
Loughead's leg was broken below the
knee, and he is in a hospital. The
wrong end Of firecracker held by
lad named Patterson, years old,
blew out, burning the boys face pain
fully, but not seriously.
The three Odd Fellows lodges in
Spokane are looking forward eagerly
to the day when they can occupy
home Of their own.
The most successful Independence
day celebration ever held in Colville
was that of the 4th. Over 5000 peo-
pie from outside points were in at
tendance and the program as outlined
was carried out without hitch.
Palouse, with almost every building
decorated with the national colors, pre-
sented a festive appearance the 4th.
With the exception Of the rain, nothing
occurred to mar the celebration, which
was the most successful and largely
attended in the history Of the town.
Farmers in the Big Bend passed an
enjoyable Fourth, as the heaviest rain
Of the season fell. The rain was gen.
eral over a vast area and assured
wheat crops.
The Fourth was celebrated by the
largest number of people ever assem-
bled in Sunnyside.
The biggest deal in timber lands
since the Weyerhaeuser syndicate
came to the state of Washington was
contaminated recently when G. H.
Cobb, James Campbell and Rufus H.
Smith of Seattle and Frank Brownell
Of Everett paid 100000 In cash to
the Dunsmuir estate for $4,000 acres of
timber lands on Vancouver island.
This deal has been on for more than
year. The purchasers are to have
the choice Of any $4,000 acres of the
| 100000 acres owned by the Dunsmuir
estate.
Ships for the north Pacific squad
get sound navy yard for the first time
since the trouble between the town of
Bremerton and the navy department
over the saloons near the yard gates.
George Mitchell, until recently en-
ployed by Twohy Bros. on railroad
construction work in Montana, was
murdered by unknown men on the
river bank two blocks west Of the Mon
roe street bridge at Spokane recently.
He was hit over the head with round
iron bar.
Two hundred or more Japanese Ia
borers at Waverly have been ordered
to pay poll taxes or work on the roads.
The board Of Spokane county COM
missioners have spread upon their
minutes the motion declaring that
Spokane county is a county of 10000
inhabitants, and that the same is a
county of the second class"