Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-14
RITZVILLE
WASHINGTON NOTES.

HoQuiam is preparing to organic
a Boosters Club"
Half q million fruit trees will b,
planted in the Sunnyside district thi,
year.
Unprincipled white men at Chelar
and at Lakeside continue to furnish
Indians with liquor.
The Stetson-Post Mill company's
six acre mill site at Seattle was sold
recently for 100000.
John u. Hofstetter, for 40 years one
OF the foremost citizens Of Stevens
county. died recently. He was rs
years old.
With an initial membership of So
lodge No. A of the Theatrical Me-
chanical association was organized at
Spokane last week.
The committee on subscribers for
the Tekoa commercial club has secur-
ed 60 names on the list, which is suf-
flcient to insure success.
Ed Erickson and another man are
under arrest in Seattle suspected OF
holding up the Great Northern train
recently near Ballard.
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tertainment and ball by the G. A. r.
post and Woman's Relief corps at
Pullman was a success.
| ]. F. Boise. who lives near Ellens-
burg on the Cariboo in the northern
part Of the valley, reports finding a
nice flow of oil on his place.
There were three daring holdups In
Tacoma Saturday night, all the work
Of lone highwayman, and 1t was evil
IDENTIFY the same individual in each
case.
Jay P. Graves of Spokane has new
$4,000. 1t is classed as the finest ma
chine in the state. It is fitted with
closed body and electric lights.
The safe in the postoflce in the
East Spokane grocery was blown open
with nitroglycerine Sunday morning.
The men secured SO and $500 worth
OF stamps In small denominations.
The Spokane Central Labor council
was formed Sunday at a meeting of
delegates from % unions. The new
central body will take out a charter
from the American Federation of La
Dor.
1t Is learned on absolutely reliable
authority that the Union Pacific will
build to Tacoma and. as announced
several wees ago, 1t will be the first
Of the transcontinental lines to reach
that city.
At a meeting of the Cashmere Fruit
Growers association 1t was unani-
mously agreed to join the fruit grow.
ers' union now being formed to EN-.
brace every fruit producing district In
Chelan county.
The lid went down tight in Walla
Walla at IL o'clock Saturday night.
Every business place In the city was
closed excepting hotels. restaurants.
livery stables. drug stores and under
taking parlors, which are exempt un.
der the law.
The Law Enforcement league of
Spokane are demanding that all forms
OF business be closed on Sundays ex.
cepting the four classes exempted by
the city and state laws governing Sun.
day closing. The businesses exempt
are drug stores. undertakers. hotels
and livery stables.
L. F. Parker. who was employed on
the new packing house near Fort Wal
la Walla. was recently found dead be-
side the fence west Of the fort. A
empty and a bullet wound in the right
side of the head told the sad story Of
a suicide. No cause can be assigned
for the act.
w. A. Nichols. q Spokane man,
makes the announcement that money
has been raised and the delivery Of
steel begun for the construction of
the Big Bend Transit company. The
proposed road will run from Spokane
to Davenport. From Davenport two
lines will be built. One line will run
to the mouth OF the Spokane river
and the other to Ritzville.
Sailors on the French bark Admiral
Courbet. lying in Port Townsend. mu-
tinted Saturday and. forcibly taking q
boat. pulled ashore. declaring that
they would not proceed to sea in the
vessel. owing to her lightened condi-
tion. N. w. O'Rear Of Port Townsend.
who arrived In the city today, said that
the sailors we're afraid to go to sea
with the vessel In light ballast.
The Chelan Transfer company has
been awarded the contract for carry
ing mail from Chelan Falls to Chelan
and Lake side beginning July 1. This
company has the present contract
Mayor Amos Edmunds has been
awarded the contract for carrying the
mails on Lake Chelan from the foot
of the lake to Stehekin and intermedi.
ate points.
Sentences aggregating 50 years were
pronounced Saturday by Judge Rigg
at North Yakima upon four prisoners.
Joseph Whitley. colored. was given q
20 year sentence for manslaughter:
Joseph Reed. IA years for assault to
commit robbery; Joseph Anderson.
colored. II years for burglary, and
Edward Mitchell. colored, four years
for burglary. Robert Small II years
old. convicted of horse stealing, was
sentenced to the reform school, as was
6touter. colored. aged ~. who drew