Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-03-21
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
washington, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news items.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaIl Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
Seattle is to have a garbage plant
and municipal crematory.
Much Of the wheat in the Palouse
section was injured by the recent cold
weather.
Friends and acquaintances Of DR..
James M. Allen, the veteran minister
of the Christian church of Spokane,
who died last week, paid tribute of
love and respect at his bier in the Cen.
trail Christian church Sunday after
noon.
A veterinary surgeon states that the
horses around Reardan were poisoned
by eating straw on which there was
fungus growth.
Gilbert Cowles, the Yakima city
school board clerk who forged war.
rants, has been senteiced to five years
in the penitentiary.
Spokane men have filed articles of
Incorporation at Olympia for the In
land Thresher company. to engage in
the manufacture of motor driven
thresher machines.
Whitman college won the debate
with the Washington State college
elementary school
George Brouchou, who resided in
the Yakima valley, was frozen to
death during the late cold snap He
started for his home across lots, and
failing to appear, search was made,
resulting in the finding of his body.
M. E. Mergens, until few days age
station agent with the Great North
ern railway at Marysville, is in the
county jail at Everett charged with
embezzlement of $153 of the com.
pany's receipts.
A purchasing agency Of the com
missary department of the United
States army is to be established al
Seattle Immediately.
The controlling interest in the Mo
ran shipbuilding plant in Seattle has
been sold by Moran brothers to the
Griscoms of Philadelphia. The sum
| involved Is between two and three mil
lions. The Morans will complete the
battleship Nebraska.
The state supreme court by a recent
decision sustained the constitutional
ity of the state inheritance tax law.
Attorney General Atkinson has pre-
pared formal complaint asking fol
a permanent injunction to prevent the
destruction Of Castle Rock, the ia
nous landmark on the Columbia rivel
above Portland.
Mayor Ballinger of Seattle last Sat
urday issued an order to the police
to put an end to dice playing at cigal
stands and all other forms of gambling
operated by retail cigar men
| Farmers who believe their wheat
will have to be resown are buying
seed and getting ready to commence
work when the snow disappears.
The severe cold has undoubtedly
damaged early fruits and the fall sown
wheat is retarded in its growth, but
the general opinion of the wheat
ranchers is that the wheat is not seri
ously damaged.
Members of the Woman's Temper
ance union have drawn up a petition
to Governor Mead to be presented tc
the various churches Sunday, asking
for the parole and release from the
penitentiary Of Myrtle Upton, the
young girl convicted in Whitman
county of horse stealing and sentenced
to term Of two years.
Unexpected demands for coal dur.
ing the recent cold snap completely ex'
hausted the supplies and these have
not been replenished.
Attorney H. ]. Snively of North
Yakima. whose residence was com
pletely destroyed by fire recently, will
soon commence the construction of q
handsome stone residence upon the
old site on Mob Hill Mr.. Snively esti
mates his loss, after the payment Of
the insurance policies, at $500.
A number of hop contracts have re.
Gently been made by growers in Yaki
ma county for this years crop at 10
cents pound. Last year the aver
age sum received by the growers was
about 10 cents, while for 1904 1t was
20 cents or over.
Completely exhausted, after a seven
hour battle with seven foot shark
Patrick Sullivan and w. d. Yates pull
ed their boat into Seattle.
An immense flow Of water has been
struck at the well being drilled by
L. S. Green for the city on A street
in Ballard.
His neck broken and his feet touch
ing the ground, w. A. Holland of Ia.
coma was found hanging by a slender
cord tied to small limb of tree in
the woods north of the new Tacoma
high school building
OREGON ITEMS.