Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-24
WASHINGTON NEWS.

IL is said tnat Spokane stands sec
ond only to Los Angeles as a bicycle
town.
The hay harvest in Kittitas valley
is practically over and the balers are
at work in all directions.
Company l., N. G. W., at ColfaS, has
been mustered out of service because
of lack of competent officers.
The most serious of the forest fires
in this part of the state appear to be
in the northern part of King county.
Sportsmen are having no trouble in
bagging plenty of birds this season
around Chelan. as they are plentiful.
Whitman county's yield of wheat is
enormous. Conservative men place to-
tai at between 12,000,00O and 14,OO0,-
900.
The Whitman county fair will be
held at the association grounds just
west of Colfax from October 12 to Is,
inclusive.
r. c. McCroskey of Garfield sold
Saturday to Kerr Clifford 4 Co. for
sc cents.
Frederick William Round, Jr., To-
comotive fireman, % years old. ended
his life with pistol at Tacoma Sat
urday last.
T. ]. Demerest of Palouse has just
sold to w. J. Demerest of Salem, Ore,
his patent right on compressed air
water elevator.
The people of the Chelan country
think they have real live volcano in
addIlion to many other interesting
natural features.
|, Saloon man Portz of Uniontown was
victim of masked thugs recently. They
secured $3.50 in cash, S54 in checks
and gold watch
The plans submitted for the county
bridge over the Okanogan river at
Riverside have been approved by the
secretary of war.
Twelve of the leading knight Tenn
plar communicates of various eastern
cities will pass through Spokane on
their way to San Francisco.
Jesse Reeder was killed and fear
fully mangled in threshing machine
accident recently near Texas lake, Is
miles southwest of St. John.
Work was begun this week exca.
waiting for the foundation and swim.
ming tank for the new gymnasium for
Whitman college, at Walla Walla.
Twelve adults and 23 children are
homeless as result of what is thought
to be an incendiary fire which burned
over Fourth Plain, five miles east OF
Vancouver.
GEORGE l.. Woerheide, apparently of
cultured family in st. Louis, commit
ted suicide in Spokane because he
would not stoop to an inferior position
in the community.
Frederick Campbell the II year old
son of Rufus Campbell, farmer living
six miles west of Sprague, was drown
ed Saturday morning in Colville lake.
He had gone swimming.
Tommy Burns of Chicago defeated
Cyclone" Kelley of San Francisco at
Tacoma recently in the fourth round
of what was to be 20 round match
with right to the heart.
A few days ago Fred Ripley of
Stehekin rowed a small boat from the
head to the foot of lake Chelan in a
little over ~ hours. The distance is
supposed to be about GO miles.
Dogs of high and low degree will
compete for premiums in Spokane
from October to s in the bench show
whicn is to be given in connection
with the Spokane interstate fair.
Many fields Of wheat that farmers
estimated would make 40 and so bush
els per acre before harvest show at
threshing time a crop OF 80 to 40
bushels instead
Fire broke out in the stockyards of
the Great Northern at Hillyard. Two
warehouses were burned. The build
ings were filled with outftters' tools,
and the loss is estimated at about
$4,000. The cause of the fire is un-
known.
The mystery surrounding the disap.
pearance of William Mckenzie of Bell.
ingham, who was last seen two weeks
ago in company with Miss Kate Bast,
was cleared away today by the dis
covery of both the bodies floating in
the water Of Lake Whatcom.
At present there are 7,240,760 acres
of forest reserve in Washington, and
1t is proposed to increase it by with
drawing 2,7s2,0O0 acres more. 1t is
probable that 403, 900 acres of the
Walla Walla reserve will be eliminat-
ed, leaving a total of 397,44O acres in
this reserve.
John A. Parker, E. F. Messenger and
Newton Peer of Tacoma have sold 49,
900 acres of raw land In Douglas coun-
ty to T. J. Bray and l.. ]. Fitzsimmons
of Grinnell. Iowa, for about $4,000.
The land is in township Is Of ranges
"a and rs, and lies from six to IS miles
east of the Columbia river, between
Gualquit rapids and Island rapids.
A. NJ. McCoy's planning mill and lum-
Der yard was totally destroyed by fire
Sunday. II was one Of the hottest fires
in the history Of Waitsburg. The fire
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