Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-07-12
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON news ITEMS.
\ Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Cur.
rounding country-Numsrous AecL
dents and Personal Events Take
Piace-0utIook 10 Bright
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
H. F. Gibson, a druggist, and Mrs.
James Mitchell, wife Of furniture
salesman, were drowned in Lake
Washington, near Seattle. An up
turned boat with wearing apparel be-
longing to the couple was found on
the bank of Union bay.
Saturday afternoon during the Ritz
ville-Palouse ball game, within 20
rods of the grounds, William, the IL
year old son of John Dawson of Pa
louise, was drowned while swimming
in the river.
Harry G. Boyd blew out his brains
at Spokane last Friday night. He was
the assistant general agent of the
Hamburg Bremen Fire Insurance COM
pany and had been in the insurance
business in the northwest for % years.
He was one of the largest stockhold-
ers in the Big Bend National bank OF
Davenport, Wash.
R. H. Chiffon of Dayton, aged IS
years, in a fit Of dependency placed
"A caliber revolver to his right ear
and sent crashing through his brain
bullet that caused instant death.
Unless the state takes some steps
Immediately toward the appointment
of a deputy fire warden with 1urisdic-
ton in this county the whole country
to the north and northeast Of Seattle
will be in flames within the next few
weeks. says Game Warden Reif.
The body of Albert Irving was found
in Kettle river, about five miles above
Danville, and taken to Curlew for
burial. Irving was driving logs down
the river and was drowned May IL.
The place where the body was found
was 12 miles from where the acci-
dent occurred.
Ulysses s. Grant. son of the Illus
trious federal commander in chief, Is
spending this week in Spokane.
Marshal Lyons of Toledo has arrest
ed Hezekiah Hall, familiarly known In
his native home in Lee county, Vir-
ginia, as Hike" Hall. He Is wanted
| in Lee county for the alleged murder
of John Grubb and divers other seri'
GUS offenses. Hall admits that he KILL
ed Grubb, but claims that he did 1t
in self defense. He stated to Sherin
Urquhart that he had killed eight
men, remarking that some men would
never be good until they were dead,
and that he had run up against eight
men whom he found it necessary to
make good" The man Is 58 years
old and quite gray.
Seattle's foreign export business for
June amounted to nearly 100000,
being greater than that Of any previ'
GUS month in the history of the city.
| The Northern Pacific hauled 655
cars of lumber out Of Tacoma In
June.
The legality of the 100000 issue
of school bonds for Tacoma has been
sustained by the supreme court. The
money will be used for the construc'
ton of high school in that city.
| Graduates Of the law department OF
the University of Washington will be
admitted to the senior class OF the
Yale law school on presenting their
diplomas.
The Wenatchee cannery has com.
pleted the first week of its existence.
Mr.. Foy, the manager Of the canning
company, says that everything Is NOV.
| ing off In first class order, and In the
first weeks run over 10000 cans OF
cherries have been disposed Of.
Ed Stickney, J. H. Malone and Jas.
Leslie, escaped convicts from the
United States penitentiary at Nc
Neill's island, have been captured.
w. A. Davis of Stepto has discover
ed a new and effectual method Of de-
stroying squirrels. Mr.. Davis sent to
Iowa for some ferrets, which he uses
to hunt squirrels, which are one OF the
greatest pests of this section. The
Iferrets are trained to 90 into the holes
after the squirrels and either catch
and kill them or drive them out OF the
holes, where dogs catch them. Mr..
Davis took three ferrets and two dogs
and went into the fields. In less than
two hours he had killed 81 squirrels.
Solon H. Seaman, aged II years, was
drowned while swimming In the Spo-
kane river about IL miles above the
city limits Sunday afternoon.
The entire alfalfa crop around We
natchee was badly damaged and In
sections entirely ruined by the heavy
rains of last week. The crop was all
down.
Fire which started In the basement
of F. B. Wright & Co.'s paint and wall
paper store at Spokane at o'clock
Saturday afternoon. did damage es-
timated at more than $4,000.
In the person of Louise Colotchi, the
Spokane police have unearthed an
heiress to a $150.000 fortune in San
Francisco.
e. ]. Lewis. the real estate broker
In Seattle, wanted at Wheaton. ILL.,,
for frauds amounting to more than
10000. will return without extradi-
ton.
IDAHO NEWS.
} Miss Lucy Aiken, q telephone opera
ltor at Moscow. received q severe shock