Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-10-11
Northwest STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news items.
Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Accl.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


From Walula comes the information
that a big grading outfit with about
| 100 men is at work on the north bank
Of the Columbia at Wallula.
Nome has come forward with a
subscription of $4,000 for the Alaska
exposition, proposed to be held in Sc
Ittle in 1907.
The Great Northern has authorized
reward of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction OF each man implicated in
,ne recent hoIdup Of the overland
Lrain near Ballard.
Information is wanted as to the
whereabouts of Frances Bartlett or
r'rances Err. 1t is understood she has
also been known as Madge Cohen.
Address George Err. Lynden, Wash.
Blown up by dynamite, the barge
Newport, a lumber freighter Of the
best type ON the Pend dOreille river,
was reduced to wreckage at her moor
ings at Newport, recently.
Three persons killed. each at diff
ferent place and time, together with a
serious wreck in the Northern Pacific
yards, was Tacoma's casualty record
Tor last Friday. The dead are: Ed
ward Tromar, Northern Pacific fire.
man; John +. Keiser, Northern Pacific
switchman, and Charles Robinson, an
lndiaL.
Rev. u. F. Hawk of Spokane has
sold his farm of 800 acres, IL miles
south of Colfax, to Paul Priest of Spo-
kane for $4,000, or about $43.75 an
acre.
f. w. Statt, carpenter employed
by the Washington Water Power Com
pany, was accidentally drowned in the
spokane river Saturday.
At the recent meeting of the Presby-
terian state synod it was decided to
divide the Presbytery of Puget sound,
placing King, Jefferson and Clallam
counties in one and the counties OF
Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan and Che
an in the other. The latter is to be
aalled the Presbytery Of Bellingham.
AS to forestry the state Of Washing
ton is placed in a class by itself by
the findings of the Lewis and Clark
IcApOoitiOh loiCotiy July o"oAu1S "AA>h
gave out that a gold medal had been
awarded to the Evergreen state for
every entry in the forestry class and
there were between 40 and SO.
The total number OF teachers en-
ployed in the state is 5179, of whom
1928 are males and 1851 females.
Male teachers receive an average sal
ary of $6451; females $51.61.
The long looked for opening of
Spokane's new public library will take
place November l.
Preparations are already under way
for the meeting Of the State Educa-
tional association, which will be held
at North Yakima December 2S, 29 and
80.
Governors Rogers and Mcbride par
doned in eight years 112 penitentiary
convicts, an average Of IA year. Gov
ernor Mead has pardoned rs convicts
in the first nine months Of his ad-
three sentences, RENTED two fines
and paroled Is convicts.
A rural route service from POme>
roy to Tucannon and Marengo goes
into effect December 1.
Deep gloom has settled upon the
new farmers of the Palouse country
who have their grain crop unthresh-
ed, and they will suffer serious loss.
A state bank with a capital stock
Of $4,000 is assured for Thornton.
The waters of the Columbia river
are rising rapidly, occasioned by
heavy rains near the headwaters. In
the past week the raise has been more
than IS inches.
Albert Laabs has purchased a half
section of land Of c. c. Buck for $17.-
900. The land lies a mile and half
northwest of Davenport and is con-
sidered fine ranch.
| w. r. Lamb has received his ap-
pointment as the first postmaster OF
Richland, a new town recently start
ed nine miles west from Kennewick.
H. A. Fairchild and John s. McMil-
lin, members Of the state railroad
commission, announce that all COM
plants of shippers about refusal of
railroads to grant joint rates will be
heard at the Colfax meeting.
Rev. David Leland Spaulding, a
Methodist minister, so years Of age.
succumbed Sunday to old age at the
residence of Judge Z. H. Sullivan, Spo-
kane.
The United States surveyors employ
ed in locating the international
boundary line Of the 49th parallel west
Of the summit of the Rocky mountains
will complete their work this fall. and
the Canadian parties will probably
finish next season.
The sheriff of Island county and B.
]. White, publisher Of the Island Coun-
ty Times. were in a shooting scrape
recently. While under the influence OF
liquor White went on a rampage and
broke into the store of Kinith & Wig.
gins, where he secured gun and sew.
eral knives. Returning to the street
the report has it, the drink crazed
man started after the citizens on the
street with a raised revolver. The
sheriff In his endeavor to capture and
arrest his man was forced to shoot
the ball striking White In the arm.