Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-26
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
A number of Kittitas. valley farmers
will experiment with sugar beets this
season.
Grain sacks are higher in price. Cal.
cutta product is expected to sell at
$6.75 per hundred.
James Hamilton Lewis, former con-
gresham from Washington, is now a
lawyer-politician of Chicago.
The Auditorium Grand theater, at
Tacoma, was damaged by fire recently
to the extent Of $4,000 to $4,000.
Work is about to begin on the new
Masonic temple at Bellingham. The
structure will cost between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Between 1900 and 1900 church people
marched through the restricted dis
trict of Tacoma about IL o'clock last
Wednesday night.
The census of 1900 gives North va
kima 3142 people, but it is estimated
there are now over 5000 within the
corporate limits.
A freight train ran over Frank Boil.
tom while he lay on the tracks a few
miles west of North Yakima and he
was ground to pieces.
September 4. and has been fixed
as the date for the annual meeting of
the Washington State Press associa.
ton, to be held in Spokane.
A. l.. Stahl, farmer near Barry,
Douglas county, recently caught a
large bald eagle in steel trap. The
bird measured eign. feet from tip to
tip.
A man supposed to be E. H. Minsker,
recently from Walla Walla, committed
suicide in Seattle by shooting himself
through the head in the business dis
trict.
Former City Treasurer George Hol-
comb, of Everett, will have to stand
trial on the charge of having embez-
zled $11,136 during his incumbency in
the office Of city treasurer.
Commissioner Elmer e. Johnston of
the Lewis and Clark exposition COM
mission for Washington has selected
for his private secretary a young man
who bears the name of Lewis Clark.
Miss Elizabeth Severance, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Severance, of
Spokane, was elected assistant editor
in chief Of the Vassar Miscellany, the
college monthly magazine, recently.
The special election held to vote on
the question of bonding the town Of
Harrington for $14, 500 for the purpose
of buying the present water system
and franchise, resulted in its defeat.
Leslie Zadow, the Z year old son
of Frank Zadow, a carpenter residing
at Spokane, fell into the Spokane river
about a quarter of mile below the
falls and was drowned before he could
be reached.
A passenger train struck a section
man short distance below Ellensburg
last Friday. The trainmen put him
aboard and brought him to Ellens.
burg, but he died as they reached the
surgeons office.
At the final contest in fencing at the
United States naval academy at An
napolis, Md, held recently, Claude o.
Bassett of Spokane carried off the
championship and was awarded the
navy athletic silver medal.
Four diamond rings valued at $1,000,
property of Mrs. Frank Kimball, a
wealthy widow, stolen from the fash.
ionable boarding house of Mrs. ]. G..
Haines last March in Seattle, have
been returned to the owner.
E. w. Ross, commissioner of public
lands, has departed for Washington
city to represent the state in the pro-
test filed in the department Of the in.
terror against the proposed reserva-
ton by the state of land in Yakima
county for irrigation.
Federal Judge Whitson Of Spokane
is in receipt Of a copy of the recent de-
cision regarding the sale Of liquor to
Indians. It is stated that there is no
prohibition of the sale of liquor to
Indians who have title to their lands
and all such cases will be dismissed.