Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-05-04
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Walla W0lla MetnOQlStS are plan.
ming for a $4,000 church.
The baseball season will open in the
Southwestern Washington league May
z.
Hal J. Cole has assumed the duties
Of register Of the United States land
Office at Spokane.
Lett Adams, whose parents and
home are at Detroit. Mich, committed
suicide at Spokane.
The output of Washington loggers
will be curtailed SO per cent during
the months of May and June.
The Spokane bank clearings for the
month of April as reported by Brad
streets. amounted to $9,973.24S.
Work on repairing the hrigeting
ditch of the Palouse Land & Irrigation
company will begin in the next few
days.
The annual army athletic competi-
tion for this department will be he,u
at Vancouver barracks. May 10. 20.
and 81.
Final arrangements have been made
for the state trap shoot, to be held in
Harrington on the 10Th, Goth and 21st
Of May.
The Master Horseshoers and Black
smiths Protective association held its
fourth annual convention In Yakima
Saturday.
The trustees of the state normal
school at Cheney have decided to. re-
tain the entire faculty for the coming
school year.
The first Seventh Day Adventist
campmeeting of the upper Columbia
river conference will be held at Col
fax June to IL.
A big stock parade has been arrang-
ed by the management Of the Spokane
Interstate fair association for Friday
afternoon, October 7.
State inspector says conditions are
best ever for grain. The acreage is
the largest known in states history
No wheat winter killed.
Another attempt is to be made this
week to organize all the lumber deal
ers of the northwest, except the coast
shippers, into one associationy
Edwin A. Snow, assistant professor
of English at the Washington Agricul-
tural college, has severed his connec-
ton with the school and left Pullman
Merchants and people handling mon
ey should watch for counterfeit coins,
as several bogus ten dollar gold pieces
have been passed in Colfax recently.
Rates for Bellingham on hay, grain
and -four from eastern Washington
equal to the carload lot schedule in
effect to Everett and Seattle, is in ef
feet.
The proposition for filter for Col
fax's water supply carried by a vote
Of 293 to III in a recent election. The
plant will be installed as soon as pos
sible.
Victor Ahern, the 16 year old son
of Mrs. Ahern, a widow living seven
miles northeast of Ritzville, was killed
at Ritzville by train striking his wag
on while crossing the tracks.
In trial test Of Greene Smiths new
reversible hillside disc harrow near
Colfax proved perfect success and
no doubt exists but that 1t will meet
the requirements of the country.
Robert d. Williams accidentally kill.
ed himself while STOPPING over to drink
from a spring, while bear hunting
about two miles from Northport. The
accident was caused by a revolver
dropping from its holster. the hammer
striking a rock.
Two switch trains coming together
with a crash Sunday morning in the
Northern Pacific yards at Spokane, in
jured Switchmen s. L. Whipple and
Waniel A. Carrigan, and Engineer
Charles Beadle, partly demolishing a
boxcar and damaged one engine.
Sheriff J. A. Denholm of Tacoma was
shot through the head and seriously
injured by Bob Taylor. who later shot
and killed an English tramp and then
wounded boy companion of the tramp
on the Indian reservation between Ia
coma and Puyallup. Denholm was try
ing to gain admittance to the cabin
where the crazy man war hiding. The
injured boy lives in Butte. where he
says his father is a physician.
Frank P. Bell of Fairfield Is the
inventor of a device which he claims
will prevent lightning from striking a
telephone and running the instrument
or giving person who may be using
it at the time shock.
The scaffold on which Champoux,
Seattle wife-murderer, will be hanged
May 6, is ready at the state peniten-
tiary. Champoux will be the first man
to suffer capital punishment under the
new law which provides for all exc
cutions at the prison there.
The Goss contract for the building
Of the state capitol annex has at last
been completed and contractors are
ready to turn the building over to the
state. Some minor contracts. which
include installing of vault fixtures,
electric fixtures and hot water heater
for the lavatories, are not completed.
but will probably be finished before
the capitol commission Is called.
Thomas Upton at Naples.
Naples, May 2.-Sir Thomas Upton,
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