Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-09-12
WAsHINoToN ITEMS.

WAo01NS ON ~ EWoa
The Photographers association of
the Pacific northwest elected w. G.
Emery president.
The Masonic fraternity will lay the
cornerstone of the new Y. M. G. A.
building at Spokane.
Considerable grain has been de-
stroyed in the vicinity Of Palouse In
the past few days by fire.
There is still vast amount of har-
vest work to do in all parts of the east
ern half of Whitman county.
The state school for deaf and blind
at Vancouver has re-opened with a
largely increased attendance.
Franklin B. Gault of Tacoma has
been elected to the presidency Of the
state university of South Dakota.
The headquarters Of the Occur d'A-
enc Indian agency will be removed
rom DeSmet mission to Tekoa, Octo-
Der /.
Palouse city council has fixed the
evy on all taxable property in Palouse
It Is mills on the dollar for municipal
purposes.
The Hotel Donnelly at Tacoma was
partly destroyed by fire recently.
There was a panic among the guests,
but all escaped in their night attire.
The Northwestern Woodenware fac
DRY at Tacoma was destroyed by fire
'ecently. One dry kiln and one boiler
-oom were saved. Loss, 100000; in
surance. $4,000,
G. e. Rusk of Chelan and A. L. Cook
If Lucerne have returned from trip,
during which they made the success
Jul ascent Of Glacier peak. the fourth
highest mountain in Washington.
State Fire Warden J. R. Welty re-
ports that the rains of the past few
lays have closed the season of active
field work, and he is now checking up
20 find how his Office stands flnan-
:ially.
Mrs. e. G. Stanly, wife Of a music
iealer in Walla Walla, received word
hat a fortune amounting to 100000
had been left her and five other heirs,
in Germany. Her share amounts to
about $4,000.
Terrified at the burning Of their
homes, and by threats made against
heir lives by the Bridges on Vashon
sland, thirty miles from Seattle, prom
'nent citizens Of that place have Sc
cured warrants for the arrest OF the
band.
N. e. Christie. farmer from Iowa,
has purchased the old Steineger farm,
one and one-fourth miles northwest of
Addy, WASH, in the Colville river val
icy. This is one of the most interest
ng historic farms in the state.
The home industry building at the
Spokane fairgrounds huns like a hive
these days, for in that building the
floats for the carnival parade that Is
10 be held the opening night Of the
fair, September "a. are being built.
A number of soda water dispensers
in Walla Walla we're caught recently
for SIS each when Internal Revenue
Collector w. e. Blow swooped down
,pon them for dispensing claret with
heir soft drinks without first procur-
'ng a license.
Railroad contractors have been in
formed that the plans and profile Of
The new Union Pacific road from Port
and to the Sound can be seen at the
Union Pacific engineers Office In Sc
attic, and contractors are invited to
submit bids on the work.
Federal Judge Hanford has granted
! temporary restraining order forbid
ling the state railroad commission
from interfering with the o. R. & N.
Or other state railroads In an attempt
20 enforce the joint wheat rate order.
The temporary restraining order will
continue in effect until the case can be
heard on its merits.
According to Professor ]. 8. Cotton,
who has represented the government
1t Ellensburg for several years in the
matter Of conducting experiments
looking to the restoration of ranges
timothy has shown itself to be pre-
eminently superior for renewing ran
yes, excelling all other grasses in it's
hardness, tenacity and general adapt
utility to adverse conditions. Red top
he professor finds to be close Sec
md. He has concluded that these two
are the ones that must be depended
upon to restore depleted ranges.
Ten cars Of steel rails, part of a
freight train, west bound, Sunday aft
srnoon, we're derailed at the west end
Of the G. N. Camden tunnel. No one
vas injured. The cause Of the derail-
ment was a broken hange on one Of
he wheels Of a boxcar near the front
end of the train. The debris collected
about the scene and workmen were
nut to work clearing it away at once.
The track will be cleared and ready
for the operation of the regular sched-
ule.
IDAHO NOTES.
Solomon Hasbrouck. clerk of the