Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-04-11
NEWS0F NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON News items.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur.
rounding Country-Numerous Ace!.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaIl Trade 10 Coed.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
Mrs. Ruth Coston of Spokane will be
101 years old Saturday.
The battleship Oregon is at Seattle,
where she will undergo repairs.
Extensive improvements are to be
made in the roads leading into Colfax.
Governor Mead has returned home
after several weeks visit in Califor-
mia.
Citizens of Seattle are organizing d.
rect primary leagues in every ward in
that city.
The Prosser school bond election to
vote $4,000 for a new brick building
was carried by a vote of IS to 80.
Archibald R. Voliva. one of the best
known bartenders in North Yakima, Is
first cousin of w. Glenn Voliva, who
has succeeded Dowie as leader of the
sect.
Using a stove poker as their only
tool, prisoners in the old Yakima coun-
ty Jail had started to dig to freedom.
Before lney had made much Roadway
they were detected.
The International Anticigarette
league is sending to Spokane its gen
eral superintendent, Rev. Wallace r.
Struble, to engage in a crusade against
| smoking by minors.
| 1t is said that reckless Automobiles
who use the Tacoma public streets for
speeding will either have to run at a
slow speed while within the city limits
or suffer the penalty of arrest.
Agent Jay Lynch of the Yakima In
dian reservation, has received an or
der from the Indian bureau to confis-
cate the drug stores on the reservation
which have been selling whisky to
Indians.
When inmates of state institutions
commit suicide and the coroner con.
ducts an inquest the coroner must be
paid by the county and not by the
state, according to an opinion rendered
by Attorney General Atkinson.
Archie Griffin, who escaped from the
Oroville Jail recently and was reported
to have broken his neck by a fall over
the cliff at McLaughlin's canyon, is
still alive and well ahead of the sher-
ifs posse on the Colville reservation.
Information from all parts of the
Yakima valley point to record break.
ing fruit crop in this section. Further
examination Of the trees shows that
the apricot trees are the only ones
damaged to any appreciate extent by
the March freeze
The new cruiser Washington, which
has just been completed for the United
States government, is in readiness for
her speed trials, which will take
place during the week. The Washing.
toms contract calls for a minimum
speed of % knots per hour.
N. M. Cole, 68 years of age, fam
iliarly known as "Nes." a rancher, liv.
ing half a mile from the mouth of the
Little Spokane, 10 miles from Spokane,
has disappeared amid circumstances
strongly suggestive of foul play. He
has been missing from his cabin since
Wednesday evening. March 20.
In order to break into the Elk lodge
rooms in the fifteenth story of the
Alaska building, in Seattle. daring
burglar recently climbed up the fire
escape from the court to the top floor
and in that way gained easy entrance.
He pried open the secretary's desk
and took about $40, overlooking 5000
which was few inches from the
smaller sum.
| Two batallions of colored troops
with regimental headquarters and the
band for Fort Wright, at Spokane, is
the latest.
| The sheep on the mountain ranges
are particularly fat and the wool ex.
ceptionally fine this spring. Though
the winter was no milder than usual,
the sheep came through 1t in good
shape, and the losses were few. Geo.
w. Lowden of LOOMS lost but one eve
out of flock of 1850 head, and the ex.
perience of other stockmen was sim.
liar. 1t is estimated that there will be
crop of 10000 pounds of high grade
wool from Okanogan county this shear.
ing.