Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-02-03
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanges-cullIngs
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
Numerous Accidents and Personal
happenings Occur.
WAsHlNGToN ITEMS.

UaPPcniH0o OCcurs
wAsHlNeToN ITEMS.
There is not a case Of smallpox at
Spokane at present.
On account of the prevalence of
diptheria the directors have closed the
public schools at Tekoa.
After February until further notice
most of Odessa business houses will
close their places of business at Z p. m.
Walla WalIa's fifth annual poultry
show opened Tuesday morning with
the largest display of fine fowls ever
seen in that city.
The state grain commission will
establish dockage system for the
state Of Washington and will have
it in effect for next years crop.
Charles W. Grant, who for seven
years has been secretary of the state
board of control, has resigned and will
go into business IN North Yakima.
Changes have been ordered in a
number of school buildings at Spokane
They are ordered to render the
buildings safer for egress in case of
fire.
Some Prescott business men and
farmers are trying to revive interest
in the irrigation and power project
started there some time ago, but now
lacking capital.
Spokane's exodus Of vice has begun
in earnest. Ahere has been a general
outpouring lately of the women who
have been occupying the properties of
the vice landlords.
The weather throughout the Palouse
country is springlike and If it con.
tinues warm few days more plows
will be started in the western part
of Whitman county.
The pension claim of Charles H.
Pierce of Pullman has been pushed
through to a settlement. The claim.
ant received accrued pension to the
amount Of over $1,000.
William NJ. Clemenson of Clark ston.
Richard Cornell of Odessa, H. G. Bill.
ger Of Gle Elum and w. P. Ward of
Rosalia, Oscar G. Truax of Tekoa,
have been confirmed as postmasters.
Sixty single mln employees who are
on strike at Bellingham have reported
to State Labor Commissioner William
Blackman tnat the strike. If unsuccess.
full, presages general cut in mill en-
ploye wages throughout the state.
R. G. McCroskey has bought 70
acres of land located just south of
Garfield, from J. 9. Lawrence, for
f45 per acre. Mr.. McCroskey prev
iously owned 1850 acres almost sur.
rounding Garfield.
Orders have Deen received at Hill
Yard that, beginning Monday, the men
in the blacksmith shops, the boiler
shops and the machine shops of the
Great Northern will work nine hours
day, instead OF 10 hours.
At recent meeting of the stock.
holders of the Lincoln County Fair
association, Peter Leipham, president
of the association, was elected mana.
ger for the coming season. Fred
Baske was elected secretary and Louie
D. Todd assistant secretary.
Mrs. Arta Thorp, wife of DR.. Charles
fW. Thorp. died at Spokane Sunday
Death followed an operation for ap
pendicitis. Mrs. Ihorp was formerly
Miss Arta Cody, eldest daughter Of
Colonel William F. Cody buffalo Bill)
Mrs. George R. Andrus, one of
Washington's pioneer residents and
in spite of her advanced years one
of the most active Sunday school and
church workers in the state, died
suddenly at Tacoma recently from
pleurisy at the age of 80 years.
Members of the Washington state
delegation have received invitations
from James J. Hill to attend the launch
ing Of the steamship Dakota, now
building for the Great Northern Steam.
ship Company, which takes place at
New London, Conn, February 8.
The burglar killed by Mayor Heintz
Of Monroe, situate near Everett, was
Edward Sullivan, 20 years old, whose
parents live in boston. Heintz heard
man in another room of the store
and ordered him out, and, without see.
ing him, fired through the wall with
fatal effect. walter Williams is un.
der arrest as Suliivan's companion.
The annual reunion of Company F
of Dayton, known as the Edward w.
Strain camp Of the Spanish-American
War Veterans, will be held at Frater-
nifty hall in Dayton Friday, February
s. the object being to celebrate the
fifth anniversary of the battle Of San.
ia Ana.
Buried under three tons of falling
earth, the body of little Ethel Gladys
Brown, was found recently by her
aunt, Mrs. McCloud. She had appar-
emily been playing at the foot of
bank of clay on newly graded
street when the slide occurred that
buried her in Seattle.
The G. A. R. of Spokane is continu.
ing Its active campaign to have Fort
Sherman at Occur d'Alene, Idaho, con.
vortad into a national old eoldtarsi