Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-11-29
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Secret Service Officer Steven A.
Cornell makes an estimate that Geo.
edward Adams, defaulting cashier of
The United States assay Office in &c.
little, has made away with an amount
n excess of 100000.
Harry Davis, private secretary to
Representative Jones, has been in
formed by Secretary Hitchcock that
he department would take no action
IN Washington irrigation projects I'M
Ill the matter could be taken up with
he Washington congressman.
A resolution to provide for a post
graduate course Of lectures upon all
branches Of medicine and surgery was
recently adopted with unanimity at a
special meeting of the Spokane County
Medical society and the faculty of 20
physicians was appointed.
w. J. Shaughnessy, formerly pub
Usher of the Kennewick Courier, was
iilled on the railroad four miles east
Of Prosser last week. 1t is supposed
he was either struck by a train or
fell off while riding on train. His
jody was found completely cut in two.
within the past four months four
times as many inspections of diaries
and creameries have been made in
Washington as were made in the pre-
ceding six years." says L. Davies,
state dairy and pure food commits
sioner.
The state railroad commission has
appointed o. O. Calderhead an expert
on railroad freight rates. He was for
nerly cashier for the Northern Pa
life Railroad company.
After searching for four months for
heir brother, Thomas E. Jones, who
was reported to be MORALLY wounded
n the mountains of Idaho, near Spo-
tame, Mrs. William Martin and Mrs.
Georgia Nevin of Denver have given
Up the quest without securing a trace
Of Jones.
Lieutenant D. C. McClelland of Com.
oany e, at Fort Wright, has returned
S44O, Company Els missing funds.
Cleaning day in Spokane, last Satur-
lay, was pronounced success.
The permitting of gambling in their
places will prove quite an expensive
luxury to the proprietors of the five
saloons in Walla Walla, whose licenses
we're revoked by the council. The to-
al amount forfeited by reason of the
revocation of licenses is s2045.50.
George Raymond Of Seattle has
made one Of the largest purchases Of
wheat land that has taken place in
he Alto vicinity in long time, when
he closed deal for the Charley lobe
place Of 100 acres at $40 an acre, or
lbout $4,000 for the ranch.
The railroad commission has accept
ed the resignation Of J. Will Lysons,
temporary secretary, to take effect on
April l, 1906, and elected Clinton A.
5nowden of Tacoma permanent secre-
tary; selected o. o. Calderhead of
Seattle as expert employee; made Mrs.
c. e. Van Etten, permanent clerk at
an increase in salary of 500 per
year. or total of $1,000. and voted to
employ Mr.. Snowden as clerk from
January l to April /, at a salary of
800 per month.
A syndicate composed of David T.
Ham, E. A. Torrance, F., D. Garrett,
G. L.. Hoffman, Aaron Kuhn and w.
). Yearsley. has purchased 5000 acres
Of land in southern Alberta, N. w. T.,
for 100000.
Tacoma grain buyers who are said
to belong to the combine are noncom.
initial over the opinion of the assis.
tant attorney general that the compact
said to have been entered into by
millers and buyers is in restraint Of
trade, as contemplated in the inter-
state commerce law, prohibiting such
combinations. Those who say anything
at all are inclined to consider the
matter as joke.