Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-05-30
NEWS0F northwest
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news items.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur.
rounding Country-Numerous =
dents and Personal Events
Place-FalI Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON NoTE9.

kane high school, has formally az
ted the position for next year.
John L. Kaiser, a pioneer of
man county, aged SO years, dro
dead recently at his home in Golf;
The Walla Walla lodge of Elks I;
last meeting took initial steps to
the erection of home for the ord
George Meredith was struck
circus train as it was pulling fror
North Yakima depot and sustaine
juries that will result in his death
J. H. Young has sold the Charlt
wards farm, of 800 acres, three miles
northwest of Colville, to David phil
pott of Lind, for s20,250 cash.
The date of the meeting Of the
Washington State Press association
has been fixed for July oath, 25th and
26th.
Richard Fredrickson, in an encoun-
ter with holdup man at Puyallup was
shot through the left shoulder. His
wound is serious. The holdup man es-
capped.
The Knights of Pythias in the state
Of Washington are soon to have a
home where old and INDECENT knights
are to be cared for in their declining
years.
The fourteenth annual commence
ment sprogram Of the state normal
school at Cheney will begin Friday,
June LIST, and close on Wednesday,
June 9Th.
Robert Wilson has been paroled from
the state penitentiary by Governor
Mead. Wilson was sent from Cowlitz
county, in November, 1902, for 10 years
for robbery.
Some of the townsite residents of
Toppenish are addressing a protest to
the real estate men requesting them
not to sell or lease property on the
townsite to negroes.
The digect of the laws of Washing
ton which has been compiled by Ar
thur Remington, the supreme court re-
porter. is believed to have been lost in
me San Francisco disaster.
Governor Mead has received and &C.
cepted the resignation of State Sena-
tor Walker A. Henry of Spokane coun-
ty, who has accepted the appointment
to the federal land Office at Waterville.
William Malcolm, who is charged in
Passaic, N. j., with embezzling $780,
900 of the funds of the Passaic Build
ing & Loan association, was arrested
in Seattle recently at his mercantile
store where he has been in business
for four years.
At the banquet given at Spokane in
honor of the visiting members of the
Portland Commercial club, Theodore
B. Wilcox, chairman of the executive
committee of that club, reused keen
enthusiasm with his plea for opening
the Columbia river.
Jones & Nicely, purchasers of the
large Babcock ranch at Trinidad, are
having 3,2O8 feet of 16-inch pipe laid
to carry 5000 gallons of water min
ute to a reservoir on the high ground
They are putting in many trees and
placing the land in good condition.
Charles Arneson, North Bend sa-
loon man, is under arrest in the county
jail at Seattle on suspicion of having
murdered P. H. Ross, a rival saloon
man, and his wife last August at Ker.
iston.
Representative Humphrey has intro
duced bill in the house authorizing
King county to construct ship canal
along the government right of way
connecting the waters of Puget sound
with Lake Washington.
While seated on chair on the porch
Of the family home at North Y"''''"
the 10 months old child of Hen
derson fell into boiler of warm
the other afternoon and was de
fore discovered.
Warden A. F. KEGS, in respon;
suggestion that 1t would be wei
turn to the pro rata system of
uting grain bags manufactured
penitentiary, among other thing
This system has been tried flu
the farmers do not want any
it. They say generally it res,
their not knowing what amo.
sacks thew cou1d denend unOn