Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-07-19
Northwest STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
4 Few Interesting ltsms Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding ceuntry-Numsrous Aeet
dents and Personal Events Take
Plaee-outlook 10 Bright
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WARRINGTON N0Tko.
Farmers generally predict large
grain crop in Columbia county.
An ice factory and cold storage
plant is being erected at Pomeroy.
Never before in the history of Doug
las county has wheat looked better.
American board of commissioners
for foreign missions, Seattle, Septem-
ber 14-18.
The street railways Of Spokane en-
ploy 4S4 men, providing living for
242O people.
Plans are being drawn for the $751;
900 county court house to be erected
In North Yakima.
The body picked up In the Spokane
river last Thursday is supposed to be
that Of Tom Kingden. lumberjack.
The peach and apricot crop this
year will be by far the largest and
the best ever harvested in the We
natchee valley.
The conditions of the crops indicate
that one of the largest yields in the
history of Walla Walla county will be
harvested this year.
The Spokane river claimed another
victim Saturday in Irving 8. Smith, a
10 year old boy, who was drowned
while attempting to swim across.
Garfield county, from the Snake riv.
er to the Blue mountains. is one Of the
great wheat yielding countries Of the
inland Empire, and the yield this year
will break all records.
Blind Dan" Cavanaugh, who has
been a familiar figure in Spokane for
the past three or four years as he sold
newspapers on the street corners,
committed suicide by jumping of the
Post street bridge Friday night.
Goodbye, Spokane" were his last
words as he leaped to his death in
the swiftly moving waters.
Judge Neterer Of the superior court
at Bellingham upheld the eight hour
law Of this state by overruling the de-
murrer submitted on constitutional
grounds by the defendant in the suit
brought BY the state against Con-
tractor Charles e. Lind, accused OF
violating the law which fixes the num-
ber of hours in day for which Ia
borers may be employed on public
works.
Ellensburg.-As the result Of team
running away while James Carver was
moving hay he was thrown In front
of the sickle and dragged some dis.
tance. He had presence Of mind to
throw the machine out of gear be-
fore he fell. and this saved his life.
One arm was broken in six places
and the flesh was stripped from the
bone. It was necessary to amputate
the arm near the shoulder immedi.
ately.
Whitman college has been notified
that its instructors are eligible to the
Andrew Carnegie fund of $4,000, 900
for the pensioning Of disabled college
instructors. The institution has no
members of its faculty who need such
aid, but should they ever 1t will be
forthcoming. as Whitman is one Of the
80 institutions that are eligible. The
college will also receive q portion of
the $780, 900 income from the $4,000.
900 given by John d. Rockefeller for
the assistance of the small colleges
in the United States.
Another step toward the early sale
and disposition of the surplus lands
in the Yakima Indian reservation was
taken Saturday when Secretary Hitch
cock appointed William e. Casson,
Superintendent of bitches Redman
and Superintendent Lynch Of the Yak
ina reservation and an irrigation ex'
pert from the reclamation service, to
constitute a commission with powers
to select such lands in the reservation
as in their minds are desirable in con
nection with the construction of the
contemplated irrigation systems OF
lands crossed by existing irrigation
bitches, also lands necessary for all
agency, school and religious purposes
also such tracts of grazing and tim
ber lands as may be deemed expedi
ent for use and benefit Of the Indians
Of the reservation. The commission
will also be empowered to appraise
residue lands of the reservation, and
where there are timber lands the tim
ber is to be appraised separately from
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