Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-03-14

ure. The date OF the election Will be
May ~.
Thomas Nelson, forean Of the
Northern Pacific roundhouse at Man
dan, N. D., has been appointed master
mechanic at Livingston to succeed ].
H. Sally, whose resignation took effect
the first of the month.
To the surprise of every one the
county commissioners, at the close of
the regular session at Livingston, an.
nounced that the proposition 10 put in
operation the Waite primary election
law was defeated.
BY order of the forest service small
group of reserve south of Bozeman
have been merged into larger reserve
under the name Of the Gallatin forest
reserve, composed of q compact body
of land containing about $50 acres.
M. E. Miller, Burlington locomotive
fireman. who lives at Sheridan. Wyo.,
was badly scalded by the bursting Of
steam injector pipe in the cab Of an
engine recently while at work In the
Northern Pacific roundhouse.
WAS0JN0JON NJ CO.
Fourteen convicts were taken to
the penitentiary Saturday by Travel
ing guards Esterbrook and Chalott
and Deputy Sheriff Chef Bedding Of
Seattle. There are 819 convicts serv.
Ing sentences at the penitentiary and
"a out on parole. ...
Jay P. Graves Of Spokane has pur-
chased the tremendous falls in the Co.
lumhia river above Kettle Falls.
Wash, 100 miles north Of Spokane.
for $77,000. He expects to develop 1t
into one Of the greatest electric prop
critics in America. Although the falls
are so immense that it is exceedingly
difficult to estimate the flow. there is
believed to be q minimum Of 10000
to 100000 horse power at low water.
The supreme court, in decision
handed down recently, sustained the
lower court in finding L. N. Poole OF
Spokane guilty Of living OF the earn
ings of a fallen woman, and in sen.
fencing him to five years imprison-
ment.
The North Coast road Is not only an
assured fact but 1t has been definitely
stated by President Robert e. Stra.
horn that North Yakima Is to be the
main division point between the two
terminals, Walla Walla and Seattle.
While lying fiat on the floor Of the
Arst story Of the Merle Heany Manu-
featuring cQmpany's building, with
their heads projecting over q freight
elevator shaft, directing streams Of
water into the basement where fire
broke out recently Lieutenant Charles
Kirk and Pipeman Herman Larson OF
the Seattle fire department, we're
caught under the elevator and receiv.
ed serious injuries.
The Tacoma republican convention
has nominated for mayor. r. L. Nc
Cormick; treasurer. Ray Freeland !;
comptroller. John Mead.
| In response to request for an
opinion on the subject. Attorney Gen.
eral Atkinson has advised the board
Of control that the grain bags manu-.
featured at the Walla Walla peniten.
Liary can be sold only to actual con.
sumers who are residents Of the
state.
A full-fedged opium den, with some
Of the paraphernalia still In sight, was
discovered in Seattle recently In a
Chinese laundry.
The supreme court has declared
unconstitutional the so-called pedlers'
licene law Of 1905. under the provi.
sions of which pedlers were required
to pay a license fee Of 5000 In each
county in the state In which they car
ried on bushes.
Judge Moore. mayor elect OF Seat.
tie. says he will close all forms Of
gambling down tight in Seattle.
The supreme court has rendered q
decision knocking out as unconstitu.
tional the plumbers license law.
Tho Lewiston-C Charleston company lie
employing 125 men laying the new
pipe line from Asotin creek to irrigate
vineland. Five miles of the work is
finished.
Tumbleweeds and Chinese lettuce
which have been long a pest to far
mers Of Harrington section, are re-
ported to be worse than ever.
The state land commissioner Of
Ace has made the regular monthly set
Element with the state treasurer with
total remittance Of $137, 459.37, the
principal items being the current
school fund collection. 329.ss1.70; the
permanent school fund. $50. 408.71, and
the tide land fund. which goes into
the states general fund, $45.0s7.40.
The contract for the construction
Of the new armory building at Spo-
kane has been let. Price $4,000. .
The supreme court has decided that
where q boundary line between two
tracts Of land has been fixed by mu.
tual consent between the owners and
remains the recognized dividing line
for q period Of 20 years. in fact 1t
becomes the actual boundary, not:
withstanding a subsequent govern
ment survey finds 1t is wrongly locat-
ed.
Memorial to Pauncefote.
London.-The memorial to the late
Lord Pauncefote, erected by his wife