Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-31
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exehanges-cuIlinss
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oregon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

ka to Seattle is completed.
The sales at Colfax for machinery
for one year make an aggregate of
100000.
The public schools of Colfax will
open for the new year Monday, Sep.
TENDER S.
The business Of the Northern Pacific
in Pasco has reached about the high.
water mark.
The business men of Hillyard have
declared in favor of annexation to the
city of Spokane.
George H. Leggett, assistant chief of
the Tacoma fire department, commit
ted suicide last week.
The initial step has been taken to-
ward the organization Of Chelan
county bar association.
Saturday about noon company OF
friends called on Richard Mcmahon
Of Albion and celebrated his 92d birth
day.
Over 100 mills were represented at
the semiannual meeting of the Coast
Lumbermen's association, held in Ia.
coma.
The Puget Sound American is the
name of the new evening daily to be
started in Bellinghan by the Blethen
family of Seattle.
Four Spokane boys, all of whom
had a longing desire to see more OF
the world, rode into Seattle on brake
beams last week.
Mrs. Mary Phelps, one of the pio-
neers of Whitman county, was strick.
en- with paralysis at her home near
Garfield and died.
Jack Lawton, fireman on the tug
Tempest, while fixing valve was
scalded to death by steam, six miles
below Mukilteo, near Everett.
H. Baker, a prominent veterinary
surgeon of Walla Walla, was found
dead in his bed recently, death having
been caused by an overdose of choral.
Guy Cotton of the state of Washing
lon was struck by an eastbound Great
Northern passenger train near Cedar
Lake, Mimi, Saturday and instantly
killed.
Cracks in the walls of the recent ad-
iition to the state insane asylum at
Mealcal Lake are so serious that trou-
BILE is feared If patients should be in.
stalled.
Work will commence this week to
put the Spokane interstate fair
grounds in shape for the fair that
opens there October and continue
to October 8.
The jury in the case of state versus
Frank M. Taylor, who shot and killed
Bert A. Mcintyre on the streets of
Bossburg in the afternoon of July
%. returned verdict Of murder in
the second degree.
A twin screw steamer is loading
$4,000 sacks of -four at Tacoma for
the orient. This is said to be the
largest cargo of flour ever carried
from any port on the Pacific coast.
School opens at the Washington
Agricultural college on Wednesday,
September Fl, for a full term of nine
months. and the prospects are for a
larger attendance than ever before.
Jay P. Graves of Spokane, with A.
J. Smith and S. J. Crutcher of Pine
City, have made trip Of investiga-
ton in reference to the proposed line
from Colfax to Spokane via Pine City.
Special days have now been given
to each one of the dates of the Spo-
kane Interstate fair as follows: Octo.
Der 8, fruitgrowers' day; October s.
British Columbia day; October 6. Der
by day; october 7, Palouse day; Oc-
tober s. Spokane day; October 9, In
dian day.
The governors Office has given out
the names Of four officers of the ma
tional guard of this state who have
been recommended by the governor
for the course of free instruction at
the national military school at Fort
Leavenworth and Fort Monroe. They
are: Lieutenant Howard Darlington
of Seattle, Lieutenant Burton E. Bow.
en- and Captain Herbert Num- of Van.
couver and Lieutenant George M. Bur.
bingham of Ellensburg.
The monthly official report of the
Washington state penitentiary jute-
mills shows there were 100000 sacks
made and delivered; orders on file and
to be filled, 125,40O sacks; sacks on
hand, 350,115; jute on hand, when
manufactured, 100000 sacks.
s. Fl. Friedman, part owner of the
Cascade Steam laundry, Mason and
a member of the executive committee
Of the Oregon and Washington Inter.
state Laundry association, died Sun
day at his home at Spokane of Bright's
disease, after being in bed for 10 days.
News from Barrow, Whatcom coun.
ty, states that forest fires have de-
stroyed the stamp mill of the Goat
mine and all of the developments in
the Whistler mine, in the Slate Creek
district. The fire swept up the creek
for a distance Of several miles, and 1t
was only through the heroic efforts of
the miners that its progress was
checked. The property loss is esti.
mated at 100000.
While threshing on the farm Of Bud
Furgeston, five miles west of Cakes
dale, Mr.. Goodard's threshing ma
chine was. blown up by smut and the
entire inside burned out. Very little
grain was destroyed, though the straw
stack was burned. Nobody was hurt