Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-03-28
WASHINGTON NOTES.


Douglas county is stirred up over
railroad building.
Whitman county farmers believe
damage to wheat is less than ex-
pected.
| Arrangements have been completed
for the cannery to be established at
Spokane.
Farmers are elated over the slight
damage to winter wheat by the recent
cold snap.
Mayor Wright of Tacoma says he
wiz order the police force to close
the dance halls.
| The commercial club of Prosser has
decided to inaugurate Benton county
fair this fall to be held at Prosser.
The Waverly Commercial club got
into action last week and gathered up
every tin can within the city limits.
Twelve big wagonloads were hauled
away.
The credit for the capture of Jack
Hopkins, wanted for horse stealing,
is due to Deputy Sheriff Hall Of
Sprague, who worked up the case and
| WduO Tue dTT0Sl.
Some mining interests at the head
Of Lake Chelan seem opposed to the
setting aside of that section as a ma
tional park. A petition against the
project was circulated at Chelan.
The citizens of towns of the state
as a whole have decided to follow in
the lead of some of the larger cities
this spring and have general clean
lup of the town in the interests Of
9TH health and beauty.
Too much free love has caused the
issolution of the Freeland colony, an
quality settlement near Bow, Skagit
ounty. A receiver has been appointed,
nd it means that the little band
ill be broken up and the effects
old to satisfy creditors.
After making a thorough investiga-
ion j. M. Brown, county fruit inspec-
or of North Yakima, is satisfied that
he loss of fruit due to the recent cold
snap will be of small moment. He
kinks that the apricot trees alone
we're damaged, and these but slightly.
The Washington Land, Stock & I'm
)rovement company, composed Of Spo-
zane men and controlling seven Sec
ions of raw land situated in the vi
Unity of Winchester, in Douglass
county, has been organized for the
purpose Of. breaking and improving
he raw lands of Douglass county.
Ora Holdman, Robert Fancher and
Carl Hall, students at Whitman COL
ege, have been dismissed for hazing
her students, and number of 9TH
have been severely disciplined
A gang of craftsmen, which for a
onth or more has been preying upon
e safes of the stores and banks in
small towns of the Inland Empire,
'erated at Medical Lake Sunday
orning. The safe in the A. w. Green
ore on Lake street, opposite the Vir-
hotel, was blown open by the gang.
lie safe blowers secured $40 from
, ..e depository.
!, The supreme court holds that the
proper remedy to be invoked against
an order made by the state land COM
mission is by mandamus instead of
by appeal. Recently the court held
tnat a mandamus would not lie against
an order made by the state board of
land commissioners, and that the prop
err remedy in such case was by appeal.
In response to an inquiry on the
subject, the attorney general has CIV
en- the state board of control an
opinion to the effect that it is lawful
to work convicts on the public roads
In their prison garb of stripes, and
that under the law the sentiment of
common humanity is the only restric-
ton upon the working Of convicts in
blasting rock or other dangerous work.
Sleeping Tom." man afflicted
with peculiar malady. has returned
to North Yakima. He has been known
, to 60 to sleep while standing on the
, sidewalk and to fall over into the gut
ter. Some time ago he was engaged on
trench being dug in the city. He had
worked but few days when he was
sized ore afternoon with drowsy spell
and was found asleep leaning against
! the side Of the trench, holding the pick
! over his shoulder. He appeared to have
dropped asleep while in the act of
swinging the pick.
The members of the Tacoma Re
tail Grocers' association have taken
a decided step for patronizing home
Industry.