Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-06-20
NEWSOf NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IpAa0, MONTANA
and OREGON News items.
\ Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Cur.
rounding country-Numsrous AeeI.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FalI Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
| w. e. Henry, state librian Of In
diana, has resigned to accept the posi-
ton Of librarian at the University Of
Washington.
A bad fire occurred at Fairfield Sat
urday. Three buildings were burned.
Secretary Hitchcock has allotted the
following funds in addition to allot-
ments heretofore made: Sunnyside
project, $250.000; Yakima Indian re-
servation. 100000. This makes the
total ailotments for these projects up
to date $2,OOO,OOO.
The Colfax high school debating
team has received the championship
medal for the Inland Empire. The
team comprises Miss Frances Boots
and Messrs. Virgil Canutt and Robert
Burgunder.
Kirt Flecsig. log driver on the
Pend d'Oreille river, who lived near
McDowell's Crossing, was drowned in
Colville river near Blue creek. His
badly was recovered.
Grace Kelso, 1S years old, who lived
just south Of Olympia, drowned her
self recently.
Samuel H. Piles will address the
people Of Ritzville on the Fourth of
July.
Lind will soon buy a chemical en-
gine.
Mrs. Matte Oaks. wife Of w. w.
Oaks of Seattle. who has been insane
for some time, and who was recently
taken home from the Steilacoom asy-
lum. drowned herself in the bathtub
few days ago.
James Doyle, brakeman on freight
train on the Washington, Idaho &
Montana railway, had his left foot
so badly crushed recently that ampu-
tation was necessary.
ueorgie Williams, the II year old
son Of George Williams, an employe
Of the Potlatch Lumber company, was
drowned in dam at the sawmill.
The petition asking govenor> Mead
to extend clemency in the case Of
Oscar Bradshaw, sentenced to be ex-
ecuted August for the murder Of one
Nelson in a boxcar at Pasco three
years ago, will be presented to the
chief executive here on the 23d in
slant, when he will speak at the
Modern Woodmen of America picnic.
1t looks as il 80 bushel crop is
assured in the Big Bend. The wheat
IL uncommonly thick, the plant is
very healthy, and the farmers say
that this promises to be the banner
year for the section.
The house has concurred in the
senate amendments to the Jones bill
ratifying and confirming soldiers ad-
ditional homestead entries heretofore
made and allowed upon land embraced
in the Columbia Indian reservation.
The bill now goes to the president for
his signature.
As LAe result Of the seamen's
strike Grays Harbor lumber mills
have been forced to close down and
others are preparing to cease opera
tons.
State Fire Warden J. r. Welty has
given out a list of contributors to the
fund that is being raised for carry
ing on the work Of his bureau this
SUNNI r. The total amount contri-
buted is $7633 Of which $4,000 comes
from the Weyerhauser Timber COM
pany, and the fire remainder being
made up of IS contributors.
AS result of the recent conference
between the state railroad commission
and the Union Pacific, Northern Pa
cifc and Great Northern railroad com.
panies. all grain bags shipped from
the penitentiary will have the same
freight classification as those shipped
from coast points.
A remarkable discovery has been
made by a workingman grading on the
Lewiston-Riparia railroad. Men en-
ployed encountered what they be-
lieved to be mounds Of earth cover
ing rocks. Investigation disclosed
these to be ancient Indian mounds.
Many curious relics were unearthed.
Defective electric wiring is given as
the probable cause of the fire Sunday
morning which did damage at the Vic
tor building and MCGOWAN Bros. hard
ware store, southwest corner Of Mill
street and Sprague avenue.
Louise Walton, colored, claimed to
be one of the cleverest shoplifters in
the country. was apprehended at Bill
lings. Mont, upon the request Of the
Yakima sheriff. Her trunk, which
weighed over 800 pounds, and which.
It is asserted. is filled to the brim with
stolen goods from Spokane and North
Yakima stores valued at over $1,000,
was taken in charge by the Montana
officers and will be returned here with
the woman.
| OREGON iTEMo.
4 Colbert p. Blair died at the home
II ,l hIa sx1a dauubfo. In Randlofon M