Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-15

Helena organization would receive To-
900 trout fry some time this fall, to
be placed in the Little Prickly Pear
creek.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Spokane is soon to be supplied with
street signs.
The democratic state convention will
be held at Bellingham August 2.
Harvest In some parts Of Columbia
county will be delayed until nearly
October.
Walla Walla BARRIERS are scored by
the state board of BARRIERS. They claim
the shops are unsanitary.
Casting banana peelings on streets
or sidewalks is to be made INSIDE
meanor in South Bend, Wash.
Two thousand people attended the
A. o. U. w. picnic at Waitsburg. The
affair was a complete success.
Unions affiliated with the American
Federation Of Labor will form a Sec
ond trades council in Spokane.
Joseph F. Kennedy, veteran paint
er Of Spokane, was killed in a run
away last Saturday in Spokane.
Roy Painter, stamp clerk at the Wal
Ia Walla postofiice, has received an ap-
pointment in the Philippine service.
Fred J. Mcdonald, Is years old, is
under arrest at Colfax, on a charge
of attempting to pass counterfeit mon
ey.
F. G. CLEANERS was arrested at Will
bur and found guilty on the charge OF
practicing medicine in the state with.
out license.
The foundation for the Odd Fellows
building at Garfield has been CON-
pleted. Work on the structure will be
rapidly pushed.
The Reno post, G. A. R., of Spokane,
has appointed committee to see that
desecrators Of the stars and stripes
are prosecuted.
By the breaking of the suction pipe
in the hold the ocean going dredger
Pacific was sunk in 20 feet of water
in the channel at Tacoma.
The ninth annual meeting of the
Spokane Pioneer society will be held
at Natatorium park June IS, from 3
p. m. to 10 p. m.
General Adna r. Chaffee will inspect
the forts of this state during the com
ing July. He will be accompanied by
other army officers.
Frank Butler of Spokane, brakeman
on the Spokane Falls & Northern train,
was instantly killed Saturday at a
point two miles from Ymir.
Last Saturday the. dead body of j.
N. Bovee, a civil war veteran, who
hanged himself in the woodshed of his
home at Portage, WASH, was found.
Bellingham was entirely without wa
ter the first Of the week, caused by the
bursting of the big 30 inch main near
the source of supply, at Lake What
CON-
Directors of the Spokane Amateur
Athletic association have decided that
the new club building would be for
mally opened to the members and
their friends June 80.
The Stevens County Pioneer asso-
citation has secured 8. G. Hyde of
Spokane to deliver the first annual ad
dress to the association at its annual
picnic in Colville, June 80.
Judge Chadwick refused a change
Of venue from whitman county for
the trial Of ]. e. Brown, charged with
assault with intent to commit murder
for shooting T. ]. Turnbow.
Frank Baker, aged so, and whose
previous residence is unknown. fell
from a moving street car at Belling-
ham and sustained a fracture Of the
spinal cord, which resulted in his
death.
Plans for the new grandstand at the
race track in the fair grounds at Spo-
kane have been prepared. They pro
vide for building 1853 feet long, 4s
feet wide and 50 feet high that will
seat 5000 people.
The state college cadets held their
annual competitive drill before 800
people on the college campus. d COM
pany, with Captain Glare c. Todd com.
handing, won the silver cup for the
best drilled company.
The Interior Warehouse company's
big grain warehouse at Diamond, nine
miles west of Colfax, burned recently.
Loss $4,000, with $1,000 insurance. The
fire is supposed to have caught from
spark from the O. R. & N. passen-
ger train.
The 22d annual encampment of the
Grand Army Of the Republic, depart
ment Of Washington and Alaska, will
be held at Bellinghan June 81, 20 and
%. The convention of the Women's
Relief corps will be held on June 81.
The Spokane Interstate fair man.
agement announces that no vaudeville
night show will be given down town
during the fair this year. Instead fire
works displays will be given every
night at the fair grounds.
HE KILLS TWO WOMEN.