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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30

three bullets at Virgins before a shot
was returned.
Montana Stock Growers association.
Miles City, April 10.
Mrs. w. w. Works was arrested re-
Gently in Helena. on orders from
Bloomington, ILL.,. where 1t is alleged
she murdered her husband. Michael
Cotton, May "a, 1897. The woman de-
MES the murder.
A Great Northern passenger train
collided with a rotary snowplow near
Browning. One passenger, Engineer
Carroll, Brakeman Driscoll and the por-
ter were injured.
Professor Cooley. entomologist at
the experiment station at Bozeman, is
preparing a collection Of insects for
the Columbia gardens at Butte.
The pilot of the engine on the east
bound North Coast Limited was torn
off by running into a boulder which
had fallen from the bluffs few miles
east Of Rosebud.
Major James B. Hossford, for 20
years connected with the office of the
supervising ARCHITECT of the treasury
department, and for two years and a
half superintendent of construction of
the Helena federal building, died sud-
denly at Helena of Brigbt's disease. He
was 81 years old. The body was taken
to Genesseo, Ill.
A new society was launched in Mis-
soula few days ago, and it will be
known as the National Theatrical as.
ISOLATION.
Chief of Police Jack Robertson OF
Bozeman and his deputies are making
strenuous efforts to enforce the ordi
nance prohibiting minors from fire.
| luenting saloons.
Mrs. Lizzie Scheldman was arrested
recently at the Edison theater in
Great Falls on charge Of permitting
children in her charge, under the age
If sixteen years. to sing and dance in
public playhouse.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30
MODERN BLUEBEARD,
Geo. Crossman, Of London Had Eight
Wives.

Geo. crossman, Of London Had Eight
Wives.
London, Eng.-Polygamy and it's in.
Auences over George Crossman, who
had eight or more wives, and the de-
velopments following from the suicide
Of Crossman, are absorbing public at
IGNITION. On the night of March %
Crossman. who was living in the re-
spectacle suburb of Kensalrise, killed
himself to avoid arrest by the police,
whose suspicious had been aroused
regarding the contents of a trunk
which Crossman was sending away
from his house. On opening the trunk
the body of a woman was found en-.
cased in cement. An investigation
proved that she was murdered about
six months ago and that she was one
Of Cheeseman's wives. Five Of his
wives were traced and found alive.
One wife is dead and two are missing.
The body found cemented is in a
decomposed condition, even to the
skull. which had been split with an
axe.
The police believe 1t possible the in
vestigation may prove that Crossman
adopted a similar method in Kidding
himself Of other wives, Of which 1t is
suspected he may have had several
who have not yet been traced.
Though only 80 years of age. Cross
mans career rivals that of famous
criminals. Under various aliases he
led double and even triple married
life. He was an engineer, composer,
wigmaker or bookmaker.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30
OREGON ITEMS.

Oregon Cattle Growers association,
Portland, April 16.
Dedication of the new Methodist
Episcopal church will take place at
Athena about May /.
This will be one of the biggest
building years in Atbena's history.
Six hundred horses afflicted with
contagious diseases will be killed in
Morrow county in pursuance of an
order made by the domestic animal
commission. The horses are owned
by Indians living On the Umatilla res.
ervation, and are afflicted with mango
In despair over terrific pain in the
head, the result of severe attack OF
grip, w. A. Jones of Milton blew out
his brains in his barn.
Cursing the man she loved. Tenie
Viola Williamson, pretty II year old
Pendleton girl, committed suicide by
taking poison.
A petition has oeen filed to be pre-.
scented at the next meeting Of the coun-
ty court asking the court to make an
issue for the June election of moving
the county seat from Union to La
Grande. This petition was signed by
257O Union county residents.
Two masked men attempted to hold
up the Club saloon and gambling rooms
at Baker City. The bartender made
a sudden leap ard turned off the elec-
trio lights switch, plunging the room
into instant darkness. The robbers
fed, leaving no trace. There were
$4,000 in cash in the saloon bank
roll and safe at the time.
By the passage OF an ordinance pro-
hibiting poolrooms the Portland city
council made the tacit announcement
that they may hereafter be run under
the fine system now controlling the
gambling houses. The penalty is $500.
Captain Jesse M. Baker, United
States quartermaster. has called for
bids for supplying the government with
1882 tons Of hay and 2546 tons of oats
for use in the Philippines, to be deliv.
cred at Portland The bids will be
opened at noon on April Is. 1904.
The largest mortgage ever record
ed in Baker county was filed recently
by the Baker City (Ore.) Wonder Elec-
trio Railway G Improvement company,
to secure the payment Of $4,000
worth of bonds. The mortgage COW
ers proposed railway from Baker
City to Prairie City. in Grant county,
distance of so miles, and also covers
60 patented and unpatented mining
claims in Grant county.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30
BRITT Is CHAMPION,
Wins Decision From Young corsett In
Twenty Rounds.

Wins Decision From Young corsett In
Twenty Rounds.
James Britt OF California was given
the decision over William Rothwsll,
better known as Young Corbett" Of
Colorado. in a 20 round contest at San
Francisco. Up to the 18th round Cor.
belts advantage was apparent, but in
that round Britt rallied and rained
right and left blows on various Dor.
tons of Corbett's anatomy. forcing the
champion to clinch to save himself.
The styles Of the two boxers were On.
tirely distinctive. Britt fought for the
body most Of the time, while Corbett
devoted himself to the face, head and
jaw. Britt weighed just 1923 pounds,
but Corbett's weight was not made
public, though 1t is understood it was
at least pound and half below the
agreed weight, 100 pounds.
Both men fought hard in every
round. Britt, in his crouching atti.
tude, was able to guard his stomach
effectively, though Corbett was able to
land hard on his head and jaw. In the
first few rounds Britt found the Den.
yer mans stomach repeatedly. though
his blows lacked steam.
A Great Fight.
It was without doubt the greatest
fight fought in California. Britt's abil-
lily to assimilate punishment and his
endurance were simply marvellous. At
no time during the 20 rounds did Britt
break ground. He always brought the
fight to Corbett. Britt was severely
punished, yet was at all times willing
to take more, and finally outgamed
the champion. The pace that both
men set was of a nature to make both
tired. However, their condition, after
minutes respite, brought them to the
center Of the ring with renewed vigor.
Britt was better at the outfghting;
Corbett superior in the infighting. Britt
had the best footwork and the greatest
speed. Corbett showed himself the
cleverer fighter at times and the heav-
Ter hitter.
After the fight Referee Eddie Graney
said: 81 simply gave the decision to
the man who had the best of the
fight"
Up to the 18th round Corbett had
the better Of the fight, but from this
round on Britt outfought Corbett at
every stage of the game.
When Corbett reached his dressing
room he burst into tears.
There were about 5000 people in
attendance. The club officials state
that the receipts would total about
100000, which is the greatest amount
ever contested for by fighters of Cor
belts and Britts calibre. Included in
the assemblage were prominent sport
ing men from all over the country.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30
-FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection Of Interesting items
Gathered From Exehanges-cuIlinos
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and oregon-Numerou Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.
IDAHO SQUiBS.

The Nez Perez Prairie Racing asso-
citation has been organized and will be
incorporated with capital stock Of
$4,000. w. J. Ramsey was chosen
president; K. J. Osterhaut, vice presi-
dent; P. w. Mitchell, secretary. and
Thomas Kirby, general manager.
Capitalists are trying to secure the
old Weiser Touring mill building for
the purpose of converting it into a
wooden mill.
A peculiar accident ended the life
of William J. Findley at Gordon &
Perry camp recently. He was struck
on the head and his skull crushed by a
small tree. He was we'll and favor.
ably known and a native of Chetak,
Wis.
Company c Of Standpoint was in.
spected recently by Captain r. W.
Walsh Of the 9th U. S. cavalry, station
ed at Fl. Walla Walla.
The government is to make an in.
vestigatiOn relative to the feasibility
of putting on lake mail service from
Standpoint, to embrace the towns now
upon the lake.
Work on the ferryboat at Orofino
is we'll under way. and the pontoons
will be ready for launching in short
time. The boat will be able to cross
four loaded teams at one trip and will
be better for high water than the one
now in use.
The Summit flour mill, which has
been shut down for the past three
weeks, has again resumed work.
Charles Terrei of Southwick died
from injuries received by having a
tree fall on him.
The new Lewiston cannery building
has been completed and the machinery
will all be in place early in April.
Senator Hepburn has secured the
passage Of the bill appropriating $25,.
900 for the establishment of a fish cul.
ture station in Idaho, the site to be sc.
lected by the fish commission.
A big fight is on for the control Of
municipal affairs in Caldwell for the
coming year, and the election on April
promises to be the most hotly-con
tested in the history of this city.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30
Panama News.

The second battalion of Panamaian
troops on the isthmus has been dis
banded, leaving one battalion under
the colors. and the vessels forming the
Panamaian navy are offered for sale.
Owing to the FIRE at Bocas del Toro,
involving loss Of 100000, four gov
eminent secretaries have been sent
there by President Amador to study
the means to be taken to repair the
damage. They sailed from Colon last
night, taking with them some relief
supplies for those who suffered from
the confiagration.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30
Zent,L0vell&Linn
Lawyers
Insurance...Money Loaned.

RITzvILLE, WASH, May s, '03.
To THE PUBLIC We are anxious to
make farm loan to every farmer in the
courtyard toinsure!every persons grain,
houses or BUILDINGS against fire or light
ming. We have unlimited capital to loan
at rates of interests as low as the loaner
is now getting in the far east, and can
only give You this rate by reason of the
great volume of business we do. Every
day our insurance and farm loan bust
ness increase q, and we want to meet and
do business with every person in the
county. Call at our offices over the Fir-t
National bank building whenever you
are in the city. Yours very,tru'y,
TENT, LOWELL & LINN.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30
PANIC IN CHURCH.
Cry Of Fire Causes a Stampede to the
Doors.

New Haven, Conn. March ga
panic occurred at the morning service
in st. Michaei Italian church here
Sunday in which a score of persons
were injured. Four, two women and
two children, wee seriously hurt. Dur
ing prayer some one in the congrega-
ton shouted 'F'ire!" Immediately the
worshippers arose and rushed for the
door at the re;.r the only exit.
Women and cnlidren were trampled
and dragged along the noor by others
in the effort to get out.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30

A young man often stays up nights
to learn things that cause an old man
insomnia because Of his inability to
forget them.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-03-30

But for the need Of horrible exam
pies many a mans usefulness would
never be properly listed.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1904-01-27
COalless Switzerland.

With a pc lion of 100000
Switzerland .thOut any coal
supply of ho. IN. None of her
rivers is navigable and all her
coal imports have to be brought
in by rail, which makes it very
expensive. Her coal bill is about
$12, 100000 year.
In order to make her outlay
for fuel as economical as possible,
the government has decided to
establish federal testing station,
attached to the leading institu-
ton for technical instruction at
Zurich. At this station every
kind of fuel used in the little
republic is TO be scientifically
tested, to determine its exact
heat-producing value, which will
be made known to the public
through periodical publications
by the government. 1t is intend
ed to reform the whole coal trade
by substituting heat producing
value for weight as the basis Of
its price per ton.
Our consul at Zurich, in re-
porting this scheme, states that
lis originator is an American, DR..
+. j. Constam, from New York.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1904-01-27
A Famous Cow.

One of the sights of the Kansas
flood that will be remembered by
thousands and which will be one
of the incidents preserved always
on account of the many photo.
graphs taken is that of the poor,
lorn cow floating on a section OF
wide freight platform. 70 make
her secure a man landed on the
floating raft and tied the cow TO
a hearse, which was covered with
"A tarpaulin, and it was in this
position that most of the photOg
raphers caught her as one of the
odd incidents of the flood worth
preserving. No doubt many
people who saw the COW in her
perilous condition have wondered
at her fate, whether she survived
or perished. She is alive and
doing well and doing faithful ser
vice for the family who own her,
j. II. Hobbs.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1904-01-27
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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-16
COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY.
That Is What Will Follow Our Control
ofthe Pacific.

Laying aside the other questions to
be affected by locality, is it possible
that any sensible human being, living
west of the Rocky Mountains, could do
anything but support what those who
are fumbling for objections to the exist
ing administration call .'Im%pcrialisn"?
This attitude is not confined to those
west of the Rockies alone-far from ii,
because. with new means of trade com
munIcatlon, we are as one people in our
handling facilities across this continent
but to the people of all the Pacific
Coast States especially must appeal the
fact that much of their future welfare
must depend upon the new and extra
ordinary pathway the United States has
made across the greatest of all the oceans
and has so connected itself, for all com
mercial purposes, with the greatest of all
the old nations of the Orient.
Business is business. We have taken
into our hands the of the
Pacific Ocean and we are quite capable
of retaining that management under any
circumstances. Upon our retention of it
depends, to an extent, our commercial
welfare. We are the great producers
of IA new land-a vast continent vet in
its infancy, and our welfare must year
ly depend to a great extent upon what
we export. We have exported to Europe
and the East and exploited the Atlantic
almost to its utmost; now we purpose
to export across the Pacific and supply
with Whatever they may need the teen
ing millions of the Asiatic continent.
Upon the realization of this great indus
trial dream, which has become n fact.
must largely depend, in the future, the
commercial welfare of the American peo.
pie. Does any group of fatuists, D
ing whatever has become an absolute es-
%sential, think that by raising the cry
of Imperialism" the course of demands
OF great lines of trade of IL great nation
can be deyiated for a moment? Non
sense!
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-16
THE AMERICAN COURSE.
A Policy that Works to the Advantage
of Commercinl interests.

of Commercial interests.
We are what we have become, and we
propose to hold our interests as a world
power for the benefit of the American
people. This is the Republican program.
Hence the recent Shanghai incident.
China is an enormous nation occupying
an enormous country, just now in a state
of dissolution or reconstruction-no one
can tell which. The various nations with
various interests look upon it's territory
with longing eyes, but it does not seem
best, with the interests of all considered,
that it should be dismembered. 1t APP
pears to be best for the interests of all
the other nations of the world that it
should be aided rather than divided.
This course has been decided upon by the
leading nations of the world, following
the suggestion and with the assistance of
the present Republican administration of
this country. This attitude is certainly
right morally, and, in the long run, must
be right as to material interests. particu-
larly for the people of the United States.
Russia and Japan are at war. There
has arisen an incident which is some
what an anomaly in international affairs.
Warships have fled into a neutral port of
Stil ohh lic vi SllpS 4iNS pulSuGh
them. Under the laws Of nations no
battle may occur in a neutral port. such
as that of Shanghai. The United States,
taking the initiative, has promptly inter-
vened to see that no violation of the laws
of nations may occur, and has lone this
because of the helplessness of China. vast
as the empire is, to enforce all proper in
ternational Obligations in it's own har-
bors.
This is but in keeping with the tone OF
what the United States under the pres
ent administrator has lone before. 1t
suggested and induced an agreement be-
tween the great nations that China
should not be dismembered. Having TAX
en- the initiative in this respect, it was
but right and proper that we should take
the initiative in seeing to it that what
was suggested and built up by us should
be enforced. This has been done.
That is the way the present admins
tration Of the government is doing things.
mat is the way it will continue to do
things. The doing of this is for the
greatest good for all the commercial in
terests and other interests of all the
world. The doing OF this implies and in
wolves immediate executive action by the
administration of the United States. 1t
is for the good of the world.
Imagine such prompt, sensible and
forceful action under the administration
of a man like Parker, admitting for n
moment the possibility of his election.
Well, we can't imagine it!
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-16
PARKER is NOT a SAFE MAN.
Will Be Influenced by the Radical
Element in His Party.
(ManSield (O) Nave

Ii his own utterances are to be cred
lted-and nobody is disputing them
Judge Parker in 1896 and 1900 was not
for free silver, but on the contrary was
an advocate of the gold standard. and
yet he admits to having voted for Bryan
and free silver twice. How strong his
convictions and principles were for sound
mi honest money may best be Judged
by his profession of one thing and his
practice of another.
If then as a virtually private citizen.
protected as it were by the divinity he
seems to think hedges in the judiciary.
Judge Parker-possibly then without
thought of further political preferment
could not bring himself to elevate
principle above politics and to place pa
triotism above p~arrisanism. how could
he be expected, in the fierce light that
beats upon place of political power and
preferment, to prove other than mildly
plastic and complaisant to the widest
demands of the Democratic Huns and
Nandals who would rend asundcr tl,r
very fabric of government in their wild
scramble for place and pic, pelf and
self?
Is it not wiser for the people of this
nation 10 keep crring aud SHINING Democ-
racy, possibly. hut not positively pcni-
tent, on probation awhile longer-at least
until it has brought forth fruits meet
for repentance?
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-16
1suator Stewart of Nevada Sees the
Great Light.

Senator Stewart of Nevada. the last
OF the Silyerites, has seen the great
white 6slh. His visions are those OF
Joseph andft the seven fat years. His tall.
Is of minerals and Nevada, and the bless
ings Of the Dingrey tariff on borax and.
wool He said:
president Roosevelt is very popular,
In the mountain States of the West.
Through his Influence the irrigation law
was passed. The Dingley tariff is a,
great blessing to the far West. The
tariff on lead, borax, wool and hides is
especially beneficial to the interior noun
tain States. The people of Nevada are
beginning to realize that the silver dues-'
fior has been relegated to the rear ;as II,
result of the enormous output of gold
during the last eight years. Those voters
who left the party o N account of the
silver issue are returning and, with the
Democrats whe desire practical good, are
sinit,ng in SUPPORT of the administration.
My information is that Nevada will go
Republican.