Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-02-24
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Pafrick Devils boheer of Whit
man county, is dead.
The recent fruitgrowers' institute
WIS pronounced the best institute ever
held III Yakima.
y A splendid wheat crop Is assured by
the abundant snowfall and ranchers
are highly elated over the prospect.
Samuel Kohn, sewing machine
agent, crazed by drink. committed sui
eide at Spokane by jumping into the
river recently.
Samuel Vinson, deputy United States
marshal in Spokane during the last
Cleveland administration, died a short
lime ago in Virginia.
Everett Wilson shot and wounded
Dan Bethune at Orient during a quar-
rel. Wilson fired with big revolver,
the bullet entering the abdomen.
At the special election held at Ores.
ton to vote on the proposition to bond
the district in the sum of $1,000 to erect
and furnish new school building the
ballot stood As for and S against.
Governor MBride has appointed w. H.
Cline of Sunnyside member of the
state fair commission to succeed G. j.
Hill of North Yakima.
Collector If Customs Ide at Port
Townsend has fined l6 steamers plying
no Puget sound, for violations of the
steamboat inspection laws and regula-
tioos and rules to prevent collisions be-
tween vessels.
The mid winter carnival at Walla
Walla given by the band was grand
success.
Water has been secured on the John
son ranch on the highlands near the
Snake river, after drilling to the depth
of $50 feet. There is 100 feet of water
in the we'll. An extensive test failed
to lower it to any perceptible extent.
According to we'll known Spoka ne
builder, more construction has been
going on during the present month
than in any other February since the
fire of 1889.
Franklin county business men have
organized a chamber of commerce at
Pasco.
Sheriff Denholm of Tacoma has ar
rested Harry Taylor, a two term con-
vict from Walla Walla ON the charge
Of obtaining money under false preten-
ses by selling land that did not belong
to him. Taylor is q three quarter
blood Indian, and is highly educated.
Manager Robert H. Cosgrove of the
Spokane Interstate fair is expected to
arrive in Spokane within few days
from his home at LeSueur, MINI.
Senator Foster has introduced an
amendment to the military bill provid.
ing for an Appropriation of $4,000 for
construction Of steel bridge across
he Spokane river, connecting Spokane
with Fort Wright.
John M. Swan, a pioneer of the state
IF Washington, and one of the best
known Odd Fellows in the state, died
recently at the Odd Fellows home
n Walla Walla, the immediate cause
If death being senile decay.
Yakima Memorial Is the new name
If the new home at Spokane acquir.
ed by the Northwestern Home Find.
ing association. 1t is to be a perpet-
ual monument to the citizens of North
Yakima for their liberal contributions
10 the support of the home.
William Isenhart has been appoint.
ed postmaster Of the Chelan postoffice.
County Clerk Arthur A. Hauerback
Of Walla Walla filed his resignation
with the county commissioners. A
shortage in Mr.. Hauerbach's accounts
was discovered. The shortage totals
over $1,000. He and friends have
made up the shortage and he has since
withdrawn his resignation.
Attorney General Stratton has Civ.
en- his opinion to the effect that for.
eign corporations who have filed their
articles in the secretary Of states Of
fee can not evade the payment of the
yearly license tax on the ground that
they are not doing business" in this
state.
AS the result of quarrel at Cam
den. over ice cutting privileges. Claude
Calhoun was fatally shot, Fred Geb.
hardt was beaten to insensibility and
Postmaster A. D. Owen was also Civ.
en- few blows. Owen shot Calhoun
after the Calhoun brothers had attack
ed the postmaster in his own store.
Owen Immediately gave himself up
and with Ernest Calhoun, brother OF
the wounded man. was taken to Spo.
kane.
Spokane Shippers, who pay to the
railroads in freight rates annually
three-quarters of a million dollars,
have combined to throw all their traf.
fic to the Oregon Railroad & Navi-
cation company until the Great North
ern and the Northern Pacific railroads
offer satisfactory rates. The firms
represented are members of the Spo.
kane Shippers association and unani.
mously passed a resolution demand.
ing transcontinental rate which will
not exceed the coast rate plus Is per
cent Of the return local rate from the
terminal point.