Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-04-18
NEWSOf NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON News items.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Cur.
rounding country-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fali Trade 10 Good.
IDAHO NEWS.

After serving sentence of Is years
and nine months in the Idaho prison
for the crime of murder, Frank Arm.
strong was given his liberty last week
and left at once for Chicago, where he
has relatives. he was twice sentenced
TO hang, and afterward given life i'm.
prisonment, which was commuted to
35 years. He was good prisoner and
the time gained shortened the sen
| tence
The Shoshone county commission
ers appropriated $500 to assist the vii
lage Of Mullan in the erection of a
jail to cost not less than $1,000, on
the conditions that Mullan care for its
maintenance and deed half interest
in the building to Shoshone county.
w. E. Stillinger, president of the
Moscow Booster club, has received the
club buttons bearing the inscription
1910. Moscow population, 10000"
Arbor day was observed by the
Wardner public school in fitting style
The body of Edward Schrieb, drown
ed at Clarks Fork on February 25, was
found Saturday by a party Of fisher
men, floating a mile and a half below
where he was drowned
s. b. Carson. aged % years, brake
man on the Great Northern railway,
fell between the cars about one mile
west Of Bonners Ferry and was run
over. cutting his right leg of at the
hip. Mr.. Carson had been in the EN-
ploy of the company for the last two
years. The man will die.
Lewiston, Idaho.-Jerry Quick. a
we'll known trapper and hunter, is
dead He was employed with the Chi.
cago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul surveyors
on the North Fork of the Clearwater
and was assisting in towing supplies
up the river when the boat lurched and
he was thrown into the river and
drowned.
Nez Perce county officials will here.
after draw maximum salaries as fol.
lows: Sheriff. $4,000; auditor. $4,000;
assessor. $4,000; treasurer. $500; pro-
bate judge. $500: county superinten.
dent. $1,000; surveyor, $500; coroner,
$500. The increases are: Sheriff,
$3.50; treasurer, $500: probate Judge,
5000; coroner. $3.50.
J. H. Shavelear, agent for the North.
ern Pacific at Hope. has received no
tics from the bureau Of fisheries at
Washington, d. c., that his order. plac.
ed with the government last fall
through Senator Dubois for 10000 rain.
bow trout for planting in Lake Pend
d'Oreflle. will be delivered to him
within the next 80 or 40 days by the
governments fish car.
On last Wednesday William Olson
left Burke for Goldhelds. New. riding
his bicycle the entire distance. He has
chosen his route via Spokane and Port.
land After leaving the latter city ne
will ride over the old government mill
tary road in the southern part Of the
state into California. thence into Ne
vada.
The town OF Wallace Is expecting
this summer to entertain Opie Read.
novelist; R. F. Outcault, Of Buster
Brown" fame. and Charles N. Crewd-
son. a western life and serial writer.
Business men Of Washington and
Idaho are organizing tobacco grow
ing company to put in large planta'
tions at Lenore. This is the second
tobacco company to enter the Clearwa-
ter country.