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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
Assessor Of Adams County,"

Trial by jury may be the palladium
Of our civil rights, as the legal pro-
fession takes so much pride in declar-
ing, but that wheel in the machinery
Of justice is one OF the moet farcical
adjuncts to that complicated ma
chinery that could we'll be imagined.
The trial by jury Of ones peers has
pleasantly protective sound in rhet-
oric, but it degenerates into a joke in
practice. A mans guilt or innocence
is rarely PASSED upon by delegation
OF his peers, for knowledge and com.
mon sense are ingredients rarely de.
sired in the juryman. The shrewd
attorney who is working for the inter-
ests of his client. is largely to blame
for this anomalous condition. Any
one who has ever been a locker on in
the court room at time OF the &C.
lection OF jury has been struck by
the critical care taken by the attor-
neys in accepting jurors, and how
particular they are, as a rule, in ao.
cepting only those who know little
and think less. To the guilty man
this system may have its advantages,
but it would seem that the man
strong in the consciousness OF his own
innocence would prefer the court to
pass upon his case without the inter.
position OF an intermediary in the
shape OF an average jury, or if jury
was deemed necessary submit bis case
to twelve good citizens, even if they
had read the alleged particulars OF
the transgressions hs stands charged
with, but who are fair enough to de.
clare that they enter upon the hear
ing unprejudiced, and prepared to
render verdict in accordance with
the evidence. The beauties OF our
jury system were recently illustrated
in a case on trial at Waterville, where
the jury disagreed and was discharged,
and the next day the prisoner walked
into court, plead guilty and was sen.
fenced to the penitentiary. Our
courts are undoubtedly indispensable,
and the great bulwark of our liberties,
but the system in which they are CON-
Quoted could be improved on without
endangering the life, liberty or hap.
piness Of the people.-Palmer Mount.
ain Prospector.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
To Classify County Lands.

County Assessor f. l.. Bradley is
advocating the establishment Of grades
for every piece OF land in the county
in order to intelligently fix rates OF
taxation. He states that the present
system OF grading land values is very
much by guess which is often errone-
Gus, and that a body of qualified men
should so over the county and make
tabulated statement for record oil
every piece OF land OF 40 acres extent
in the county. The need OF an in.
telligent basis for official action is
apparent. Assessor Bradley asks that
the commissioners authorize the tab.
ulations at once in order to be ready
for next year. Certainly the lands OF
the county should be classified and a
careful record kept Of improvements
each year. The assessors letter to
the public follows:
at lie a fact that the lands OF Ad-
ans county are not, nor have they
ever been, graded or classified. l think
l am safe in saying, could blind
folded man be dropped down in any
part Of the county and start off in
any direction, the first man that he
would meet, could, if INTERCEPTED,
tell some sort OF story of hardship
and inequality in the matter Of taxa
ton; and justifiably so.
"a body OF three qualified men
should at once be sent over the en-.
tire county to grade and classify care
fully by 40-acre tracts, and also take
note of values and improvements.
This information could be properly
filed and utilized another season.
From that date affairs would begin to
assume better condition. At pres.
ent it is impossible to arrange matters
satisfactorily.
with no reflection, and only good
intent, l am your humble servant,
"E. L. BRADLEY,
Assessor Of Adams County"
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21

Owing to the fact that the restaur-
ants went out OF business the first Of
the week, the editor and staff are
baching-that and other reasons
and yesterday rural subscriber
brought us in piece Of limburger
cheese, saying that il we didn't care
to eat it we could use it TO drive away
ants. Will it drive away ants? Will
it! Verify ! say unto you, it will
drive dogs out OF a tan yard; it will
drive buzzards away from carcass; it
will drive herd OF Buffalo through a
burning forest and mule through a
barbed wire fence; it will drive man
crazy if compelled to stay within
twenty feet of its polluted presence;
indeed, it will drive away ants-and
uncles, too, and mothers and fathers,
brothers, sisters and grand mot hers,
even to the seventh generation; still
there are some who claim to like linn
burger.-Freewater Times.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
The Railroad Commission.

The railroad commission has now
been appointed, in pursuance OF the
act creating that body and defining
its powers. OF the three members OF
the commission, Mr.. John G. Law
renee Of Whitman county, is most
identified in any manner with either
the shipping or the railroad interests
OF the state, the two parties most
concerned. AS a large wheat farmer,
he is fairly representative OF the in
terest which has been most clamor-
GUS for the appointment of commits
sion and knows by his own expert
ence whether this particular class Of
shipper has grievances to redress or
not.
Mr.. Mcmillan is the head of an i'm.
portant industry which he has built
up to very large proportions. His
plants are located on an island on
which there are no railroads and on
which there never will be any. Al
though large shipper, his shipments
have been handled exclusively by
water routes, not by rail, until within
a comparatively recent period, when
some shipments have been made by
rail to points to the southwark. Thus
he is identified neither with the rail.
road nor the shipping interests. He
has had no connection, proximate or
remote, with any railroad company
nor with any official of any railroad
company. In his relation to the state
he is a business man only.
Mr.. Fairchild, the third member,
has record that probably is better
known than that of either OF his col.
leagues. There is nothing in that
record to identify him either with the
cause of the shippers or with the rail-
roads. He has no known relations
with shippers and his only connection
with railroads has been as an attor-
ney employed against them in some
litigation. He has been very active
in politics.
The public has right to expect
from any commission fair and i'm
partial administration of the law;
with full recognition of the principle
of the square deal, that equal and
exact justice may be done both to the
shippers and to the railroads. II
these men prove competent so to act
and do their duty, they will leave
honorable records. Otherwise they
will be failures.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
NOTICE FOB PUBLICATION.
United States Land Once.

Notice 10 hereby given that IN compliance
With the provisions Of the act Of Congress Of
timber lands in The st.tss q California. ore.
gon. Nevada and Washlngton Territory" -
sxtsndsd 70 ell the Public Land gtatss ~ act
vile, county 81 ADAM, stat: 81 Ws:Sinst s
has this day died In this once his sworn state.
mcns No ~. for the purchase Of the ~
township No. 10 q. range 81 3. v. n. and viii
offer proof to ehow that the land sought 10 more
valuable for it, timber or stone than for agri.
70 said land before Alice 9. French. o. 9. Com.
missioner, at Ritsville, Washington, on 6atur.
day. the sth day Of July. 1906.
Henry Ksh. Jacob sherley. Joseph Hallstt, ali
Of Rttsville, Warrington.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above -desbribed lands are requested 70 ale
their claims in this once on or before said 9Th
day Of July. 1905.
Hall. ceLs. Rssistsr.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land once at Spokane Falls. Waah.,
MAJ A 1o06

named settler has nled notice Of his intention
to make nnal proof In support Of his claim, and
that said proof viii b made before Allies Q:
French, q. B. Commissioner for the District Of
Warrington. at Ritsville wash, on July i,
1905, Wis.
ROBERT W. MCCALL,
who made Homestead entry No. lio7s for the
ex swk and lots 8 and Z. section 10. township
10 n, r. 80, E. W. n.
He names the following witnesses 70 prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
Of said land, Wis:
Joe Patterson Of Ritsville. Wash.
Joseph r. 8vanda, Of Lants, Wash.
Floyd 3. Bennett Of LAnts, Waah.
Custer p. Davis Of Lants, Wash.
HAL J. COLE. Register.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
Council Proceedings.
RIrzy1LLn.Wash.. June 20. 1905.

RITzvILLE,W WASH, June 20, 1905.
Council met in regular session.
Present-Msyor Lansing, Councilman
Martin, Thiel, Fsucher and Zent, At.
torney Adams, with Gent acting a.
clerk.
Minutes OF the previous meeting
were read and approved. Whereupon
Councilman Fauoher was appointed
special on finance committee and the
following bills we're approved by the
finance committee, and upon motion
allowed and ordered paid by warrants.
o.Wit:
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF FINAL &C
COUNT.

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF FINAL &C.
COUNT.
In the Superior court OF the state Of Hash.
ington, for Adams county.
IN the matter Of the estate Of kmmA n. Ad-
ans, deceased.
Notice u hereby given that J. Oscar Adams.
administIator Of the estate Of Emma u. .Ad.
ans. deceased. has rendered and presented for
settlement 70. and died In the Superior court
Ct Adams county. state Of Washington. bis
day. the sth day Of june, 1906, the SSme being
. day upon which the court will hear such
r.. snH 'cs " o. ssic
the city Of Ritsvills. In said Adams county.
h. Sssn dgi{ :pPoinssd By order q q aid 50.
count. ct which time and place any person In
terssted IN said estate may appear and die bis
exceptions in writing 70 the said anal account.
and contest the same
witn.ss. ": 7. Warren, iudee Of The supsrio,
amxed. this :. day q Nay, lso5:
GEO. }: cHKIsTENsxN,
tsgALl Clerk Of the Superior Court Aforesaid.
Adams Davis. attorneys, Ritsvtlle, wash.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
ORDER TO SHOW GAUSS.

In the Superior court Of the ststs Of Wash'
tneton. In and for Adams county. In probate
In the matter Of tho estate ee norfis Ahesu
deceased.
d. E. 0ritman, executor Of the estate Of Nor.
RE Ahern, deceased. having filed his petition
herein praying for an order - sell o. mortgage
all or part Of the real estAte belonging to eaid
therefore ordered BY the said Court, that all
persons interested in the estate OF said deceas.
cd appear before the. said Superior court o.
In tho forenoon Of said day. ct the court room
Of said Superior court, in Adams county. Wash.
ingtop. TO show cause why an order should not
be granted to said executor to sell or mortgage
shall be necessary. and that COPY Of this or
der be published ct least four successive weeks
in tho ADAM COUNTY NEWS, . newspaper
state.
Done In open court this 18th day Of Nay. 1905.
W.T., WARREN, judge.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
NOVICE TO CRYDITORs,

state OF Washington. county Of Adams, q.
In Superior court. In probate.
In the matter Of the estate Of Harriet 3.
Barfonett, deceased.
Notice Il hereby given that the undersigned
has been appointed aud has duly qualified q
executor Of the estate Of Harriet 3. Barr0nett
deceased, and that creditors Of said estate may
present their claims duly verified. with Rrope!
o. B. Holcomb, Ritsvills, Wash., the place foI
the transaction Of business Of said estate. with.
in one year from the Slst day Of Nay. 1905, OF
the same will be forever barred.
Dated Ritsville, Nay -. 1906.
DANIEL O. BARRONETT, Executor.
o, 3. HOlcOmb. Attorney.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
NOTICE OF HEARING.

In the Superior court Of the STATE Of wssh.
ington, for Adams county.
In the matter Of the dissolution Of Qavenny
Drothers, Q corporation.
Of "Davenny Brothers," : c1fporation, with
IL principal place Of business 1t Ritsville.
Wxih.. have nled petition in this court prsyy'
Incorporated. and that Saturday. the 1lth day
Of June. 1906, ct the hour Of 10 O'Clock .. M,
has bseu AGED ~ the Judge % the time Of
heard upon satd day ct the court house In Rits.
Vile. Warrington, or - coon thereafter - may
BE- convenient 70 the Court. at which time al
granting Of aid petition.
April, 1905. -
fuALl Clerk Of said Court.
zent : Lowell, Attorney, Ritsyille, Wash.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
That Tired Feeling.

If you are languid. depressed, incapa.
BILE for work, it indicates that your liver
is out of order. Herbine will assist ma
ture to throw off headaches, rheumatism
and ailments akin to nervousness and re-
store the energies and vitality Of sound
and perfect health. J. Hubbard. Tenn
pie, Texas, writes: 81 have used Herb.
inc for the past two years. 1t has done
me more good than all the doctors. 1t
is the best medicine ever made for chills
and fever" soc. For sale by Thiel
Drug Co.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21

Kalkwarf & Schoenhuth OF Ritz.
vile, have leased the Nichols store
building and will put in 81, 900 stock
Of general merchandise next week
They hope to be ready for business
about June 26th. They have en-.
gagged E. L. Thompson to act as man.
lger. We extend welcome hand to
be new 6rm.-Cunningham Gazette.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
CALL FOR TOWN WARRANTs

The following Ritsyille town warrants drawn
upon the following fund Of said q town wili 3
lndShtedness Fund-Nos. 90 70 q, inclusive.
Interest on the above named warrants Will
cease on and after June l6, 1905.
q. A. ALBERT, City Treasurer.
Once ct Ritsville Trading Co.. store.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
Inventor Of independence
Day Celebrations.

II am apt to believe
that it will be celebrated
by succeeding genera
tons as the great Ami
versary Festival. 1t
ought to be eommemor-
ated, as the day of deliv-
erance, by solemn acts
of devotion to God AL
mighty. 1t ought to be
solemnized with pomp,
shows, games, sports,
guns, bells, bonfires and
Examinations from one
end of the continent to
the other from this time
forward forever" Pres
ident John Adams.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

Klf3ViLLx, WeSh.. Hoy u, IUQ6.
Notice 10 hereby given that the co-partnes
| ship heretofore existing between the under.
signed In the general retail merchandise bust
Hans Thomson rstires from said arm. and
D. ]. Xalkwarf and 4. 6ch0euhuth continue
the business Of the late drm, and assume 81
debts and liabilities OF. and colleUt and retsiu
~ debts sud accounts due OF owing to, TIL
late drm.
u. THOM6EN,
DJ.KALKWARP.
A, 1CHOBNHUTH,
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21

Everybody cordially invited to cele.
'rate the glorious Fourth OF July
With the people Of Ritzville.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-06-21
G. e. PRESTON, Prop.

NOTICE.
The annual stockholders' meeting Of the
Golden Monarch Mining and Milling Co. Will
- held June IL. 1905. ct 2p. m, ct the once OF
the white River Lumber Co.
4. BAILEY, Secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15
SOUP Favored WITH WEEDS.
Delicious Results Produced by the
French With Potatoes and Sorrel.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The French people esteem so highly the
wholesome qualities of sorrel that they call
the soup made of it potage sante, or health
soup. Nevertheless. so few New Workers.
use sorrel in their own houses that 1t is
difficult to get the vegetable outside of the
shops that cater to the French trade. 1t
has sourish. vinegary taste that is appe-
tizing and piquant.
The average sorrel soup Is made with a
meat stock to which some cream is added.
Then boiled potatoes enough to flavor the
soup are sliced and put In.
1t Is regarded as a most wholesome soup
and Is certainly very delicious one. what
ever its hygienic qualities may be. So
great is the popularity of potage sante that
nine walters out of ten, If left to suggest
the soup. will mention 1t. 1t is their own
idea Of what is good and seasonable. In
this matter their taste is not bad.
Persons who cannot get the sorrel cult
waited In French gardens will find an adj
mirable substitute in the ordinary sour
grass which country children sometimes
eat. It's scientific name is Rumex acetosel
la, and 1t Is a similar variety that the
French cultivate.
French cooks use sorrel in omelets SAL
ads, gravies, meat stuffings and In all sorts
of combinations that admit of favoring
with herbs. But this is above all the time
for sorrel soup or potage sante.
One Of the other weeds that Americans
now avoid may be made palatable, and
housewives who fraid of it might walk
through the Italian quarter and see how
popular 1t still Is there. The long leaves
Of the dandelion are now bitter. The roots
are almost too tough to be used. But the
leaves II boiled twice are as good as in
They should be cooked about half the
time necessary and then the water should
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15
Poet, Playwright, Reformer
Re-Enters French Politics.
REVENGE ON GERMANY
DREAM OF HIS LIFE SINCE SIEGE
OF SEDAN.
Mystery of the League of Patriots
What Will Come After the
Moroccan EmbroglioP
PARIS. July 2. 1905.

GAfNlSt July =, 1fyJs
Punishment seems a queer punishment IN
these days OF publicity. To Americans it
looks like lending picturesqueness to polit-
icaI offenders. That 1t has lent romantic
interest to Paul Deroulede cannot be
doubted.
High In the public view, the banished
poet playwrigh politician has been prom
enading the terraces OF the San Sebastian
citadel In Spain ever since the high court
sent him out of France in 1899. Now he is
TO be allowed to return and become an or
binary citizen again.
of course. the suggestion that Paul De-
roulede could possibly become an ordinary
citizen is a manner OF speaking. He belongs
10 the exalted type. He is a high-pres-
sure patriot-poet on whose cheek the
French defeat of 1870 burns like blow;
and he has a gift for public speaking that
moves crowds to enthusiasm. AS the
founder of the League of Patriots" he has
q following not limited by the circumscrip-
tion that made him deputy. That he
appears TO have an exaggerated idea of his
own Importance cannot he denied; but it
might be answered that the exaggeration
really applies to his idesl-his red-Eot and
aggressive love of native land
There is no doubt that he has always
been republican. Previous to the break
ing out of the war of 1870 he was a young
law student of influential family. nephew of
Emile Angler and grandson of Pigault-Le-
brun. Angler was 4 great friend of the
Princess Mathilde and a welcome fire.
quenter of the imperial court; but young
DeIoulede would never let himself be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15
Dorchester House.
he London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
Dorchester House, in Park lane, OF which
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid has just taken possess
sion. suggested to Ruskin in "Munera Pull
yeris" one of his most striking examples OF
ill-distrfbuted labor. Speaking Of the Savoy
ard peasants who die OF cold because their
novels are badly fitted, he contrasts with
them the case of the ''practiced English
Joiner who had been employed from
six in the morning to six in the evening for
two months. In fitting without nails. the
panels of a single door In large house In
London" That house, as Mr.. E. T. Cook
explains In the new Library Edition" Of
Ruskin. was Dorchester House. and the
Joiner was Mr. George Allen, who afterward
became Ruskin's assistant and his publish
err. The door took two skilled men seventy
nine days to make. Ruskin thought they
might have been better employed. But the
fact suggests the amazing sumptuousness
with which Mr.. Holfords mansion wal
equipped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15


PLANTATION. dalli, one Of berouiede's lieu
tenants, has told how, the night before the
funeral OF Felix Faure, some one proposed
to Deroulede the following hypothetical ques-
ton: "If you should meet the Duke OF Or
leans tomorrow, what would you say?' And
Deroulede replied: with my own hand I
would arrest him. -
Who was the "some one?' OF what In.
terests was he the emissary2 How far were
those interests the interests of certain great
ones of the army7 And was Deroulede too
honestly republican. GALL has limited It,
Perhaps some day II will be recognized, he
says, when the events that have remained
so fatally obscure are better known, that
the republic was then saved by the man
that the high court condemned to Danish
ment for plotting against the republicr'
Does the proposed amnesty of Deroulede
suggest that the great ones of the republic
have come to some view like this2 Does 1t
not perhaps. even indicate a new spirit,
aroused by the Morocco imbroglio2
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15
ATTEMPTS TO KILL RULERS.
Many European Monarchs Have Had
Marrow Escapes From Assassination.
From Tit-Bits.

From Tft-Bits.
The present Emperor of Austria has twice
escaped the assassin's hanG--once in 1882,
when the soldier Overdank suffered the ex-
treme penalty of the law, and once on Feb
ruary, 1853, when. walking on the ram
parts of Vienna, he was stabbed from be-
hind by the Hungarian Libenyi and severe
ly wounded in the head.
Twice ere Its tragic end was the life of
King Humbert of Italy attempted, the first
time being at Naples. in 1878, when COOK
called Giovanni Passanante approached the
kings carriage with the apparent intention
of presenting a petition He held small
flag in his left hand, and as the monarch
leaned forward, struck at him through 1t
with a dagger. His majesty promptly
hit the would-be regicide across the head
with his sheathed sword, and the premier.
Signor Carroll. throwing himself In front
of his master to intecept a second stroke,
was slightly wounded.
William I of Germany three times mar
rowly escaped assassination. In 1851. while
out walking. he was fired at from behind
by Oscar Becker, the bullet inficting a
slight wound in his neck, and in May, 1875
he was the object of one Hodefs cowardly
attack. Three weeks later DIR. Karl Nobil-
ing, professor of philology. fired at his
emperor with double-barreled gun, loaded
with shot, from shop window overlooking
the Inter den Linden. Over thirty pellets
lodged In his majesty's arms. neck and
shoulders. :,
Thrice also was Napoleon III In like peril
of his life, the attempts of Pianori and
Bellemare April and September, 1850, pre-
ceding by less than three years that OF Or
sini and his accompiices. when. although
the emperor escaped, two persons were
killed and many wounded by the explosion
OF the shells which were flung at the royal