Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30
Northwest STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news items.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur.
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Outlook 10 Bright.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


The Wenatchee band has disbanded.
The reason given is lack Of funds.
The Farmers State bank, the new
100000 financial institution planned
for Colfax, will open October 1.
The Bank of Downs at Downs has
been purchased by J. D. Bassett of
Ritzville and H. w. Davis of Spokane
1t is said Adams county will produce
this year 100000 bushels of wheat
or 100000 bushels more than last
year.
The body of Engineer Peter Bro
kaw of Spokane, who was drowned
June 3 in the Kootenai river, has been
found.
Frank Lee has sold his farm four
miles below Penewawa to Lewiston,
Idaho, real estate firm for $4,000. The
farm consists Of HOO acres of land.
From prevailing crop conditions, 1t
is evident the warehouse men of Da-
venport will have handled about $780,
900 bushels when the season closes.
DR.. w. James Howells, superintend-
ent of the Medical Lake hospital for
the insane, has left for six months
tour through the United States and
Europe.
Professor Arthur R. Priest, head OF
the department of rhetoric and ora
tory at the University Of Washington,
has been elected dean Of the College
of Liberal Arts.
William BEDFORD, pioneer of 1862,
aged rs years, died at Walla Walla
recently, leaving five grown children
He farmed extensively at one time in
Washington and Oregon.
A device, the result of nine years
work by Victor E. Campbell, Gold
endale, Wash, jeweler, has been in
vented to prevent escape of gas after
the flame is blown out.
Miss Ida X. Greenlee, for the past
five years teacher in English in the
Seattle high school, has been elected
assistant in the department of Eng
fish at the University of Washington
R. P. Pickerell, special agent of the
navy department at Washington, has
unearthed, he claims. evidence Of
graft" at the Puget sound navy yart
at Bremerton and has forwarded his
report to Washington.
The first effect of the Chinese boy
colt of American goods has been fell
in Seattle in the canceling Of orders
tor 100000 sacks of -four which were
to have been shipped by the Centen
NAL mills on the first outbound boat
Milton Gabel, once prominent pol
itician and business man Of eastern
Washington, who is serving sen
tence in the penitentiary for embez
element, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Mead within 60 days of the enc
Of his term.
Postmaster Willard T. Harrison plans
to make a private census of the city
Of Spokane by means of the mail car
riers as soon as he feels that the re
suits will show a population Of $4,000
people.
The Spokane Fish Protective asso
citation is the name of the new organ
ization which will have for its pur
pose the promotion Of trout fishing IL
the Spokane river and its tributaries
A large number of the grocerymer
Of the state are planning to attend the
meeting of the grocers, which Is to BIZ
held in Tacoma on the 10th, 18th ant
18th of September.
Acting land commissioner has in
formed the land officers of the Water
vile district to withdraw from al
forms of disposal the following de
scribed lands on account of the Okla
hogan irrigation project. All Of town
ship "a north, range 26 east, not al
ready withdrawn.
The new bonds of the city of Spo
kane, amounting to $450,00O, issued to
pay for building improvements and
extensions to the city water system
were sold to the banking house Of N
w. Harris G Co. of Chicago for the
sum of $460,418.
AS the elimination of long standing
family trouble, Bernard Coin, a tail
or, shot and probably fatally wounded
his father in law, W. Poznansky. at
ELY IL Front avenue, Spokane, Sun
day. Cohn, according to his wife
served IA years at San Quentin for
manslaughter.
One Of the worst windstorms known
during the history Of Spokane passed
over that city Sunday evening. For
five minutes, about 1920 o'clock, the
wind, from the southwest, attained a
velocity of 80 miles an hour.