Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-01-28
FOUR 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.
penings.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Oakesdale's new theatre has been
completed.
Another food recently threatened
the Palouse country.
The Seattle Athletic club will build
a new club house soon.
Mohler, a station six miles south Of
Harrington, is soon to have a -four
mill.
The Canadian Pacific Railway COM
pany ras established offices In Spo-
kane.
The w. A. c. girls basket ball team
defeated the Colfax girls club las,
week by score Of IL to 0.
As shown by the postofice records
the business of Sunnyside has increas
ed IS per cent over last year.
The Yakima Baseball association
will soon be reorganized and a stock
company formed to build new grounds.
Edward Spencer, who killed Ella
Mundt recently in Spokane still sur
fers considerable pain from his wound.
He will recover.
ut I0mdkuS "a tAC A0A AOuAu w SAAS
river bank on the military reservation
near Spokane have been identified as
that of Nels Lofholm.
Joseph Smith, another Of the few
remaining compatriots Of DR.. Marcus
Whitman and Joseph Meek, is dead.
He was 81 years Of age.
The two new passenger locomotives
installed on the Northern Pacific, to
run between Spokane and Ellensburg
! are the largest on the line.
There is q great demand for seed
spring wheat among the farmers who
were detained from sowing last fall
because of the dry condition Of the
soil.
The death of Captain Alexander
Griggs, owner of the Columbia &
Okanogan steamer line, occurred this
recently at Wenatcsee from a para
lvtic stroke. the third he has had in
the past six years.
ue COMING meeting Of the North
west Fruitgrowers' association in Spo
kane on February 3, 4, 5, ought to be
the most successful in its history" said
3. pergunder Of Colfax, vice president
Of the association.
| +. MlnLer, conductor on Wash
ington and Columbia river construc.
ton train, was recently assaulted from
behind, knocked senseless and robbed
IF his money and watch, at Wallula.
General Charles King, now stationed
at Milwaukee. may be in Spokane on
February to attend the ball which
the members Of General Charles King
camp of the Spanish war veterans are
planning to give then.
A heavy flow of artesian we'll water
has been struck near the property o.
the Blalock Island Corporation Of Spo
kane, which owns 1000 acres Of semi
arid land on the Washington side OF
the Columbia river opposite Blalock
island.
The consensus of opinion along the
line of the much advertised electric
railroad from Dayton to Pendleton
through Waitsburg. Dixie, Prescott
Walla Walla and all the remaining
towns to Pendleton is that the project
is all off.
The largest land deal ever made In
North Yakima county was consum.
mated recently by Coffin Brothers. who
sold at one time 43 sections of Horse
Heaven wheat land to a syndicate OF
capitalists of Spokane. The consid
Grafton is given as 100000.
The remains Of the IL men who
were killed in the wreck on the Great
Northern. near Leavenworth, Wash.
recently, have been identified as Alex.
ander Nelson, J. A. Nelson, G. J. Olson.
Frank Nelson, Richard Honbaum, John
Connolly, Ray McCaslin, Alexander
Hoag. John Bassett, Robert Rollins,
Charles Buckley and Fred Corrigan.