Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-07-11
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WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news ITEMS.
\ Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur.
rounding country-Numerous Accl'
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FaIi Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Steel is now eight miles from Mid
way on the Vancouver, Victoria &
Eastern railway.
John Hedman was drowned recent
ly in the Columbia river three miles
west of Columbus.
The firm of Cooper & Levy Of Sc
attic has been arrested and fined for
each Of the various buildings they
rent for immoral purposes.
Representative Jones has taken up
with Governor Mead the feasibility of
state funds for topo.
graphic survey of Washington.
E. Riste, superintendent of the We
natchee schools, has rendered his res
ignation. Miss Ida M. Case, principal
of the high school, has also resigned
W. ]. Downing, laborer at rail
road camp near Penewawa, dropped
dead recently while at work. Death
is supposed to be due to the extreme
heat.
Mrs. Henry Strohm of Dayton
Wash, was recently placed under
$500 bonds for shooting the 10-year'
old son of J. M. Dunlap with a 20 cal.
iber rifle. The boy had annoyed her
Marion A. Mulroney, formerly a
Plaza boy, but now in charge of the
wireless telegraph service on the U
8. s. Boston, is only 20 years of age
He learned the Morse system Of teleg'
raphy at his home in Plaza, Wash.
The officials of the Sound single
mills bureau admit that 1t is the in.
tention of shingle manufacturers
throughout the state generally to try
and resume operations this week with
non-union men.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of ]. F. Kennedy of Lewiston
a surveyor. who has been employed
by L. s. Wilson, in charge of sur
veying crew for the Northern Pacific
near Marshall. Wash.
In a row recently over changing a
team with which Sol McGrith was
hauling water for Fred Hopkins al
the latter's farm near Walla Walla
McGrith fired three shots from a IS
caliber revolver point blank at. Hop
kins' head at close range, two Of
which took effect with probably fatal
result.
First gashing his throat with 9
razor, Trussaint Beaudry, aged So, q
prosperous farmer of Mckee valley
leaped into an irrigating ditch al
North Yakima and drowned himself In
a foot of water. On account Of i'll
ness he had scarcely slept for IL
days and was temporarily insane.
The coroner's jury at Asotin, after
investigating the cause of the death
of Christian Blomond, alias Friend
Stang, leader Of the three Jail break.
ers, returned a verdict that he came
to his death by a gunshot wound in
ficted by Harry Draper Of Spokane
while acting under the authority OF
Sheriff R. H. Richards.
G. Meade Emery, distinguished
lawyer of Seattle, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded at his residence
in that city Saturday night by Ches
ter Thompson, a University of Wash
ington student and son of VIII H
Thompson, former attorney for the
Great Northern Railroad company
The cause was infatuation for Char
lotte Whittlesey, niece Of the stricken
man, who had denied his attentions
and then asked her uncle that her ad'
mirer be denied admittance should he
desire to see her. Judge Emery was
shot down on his own Threshold
while attempting to restrain Thomp'
son from entering the residence.
Two electric cars on the Point De
fance line at Tacoma were in a head.
on collision Sunday and five passen.
gers and one employee we're injured.
The body Of Max Papineau of Pax.
ton, ILL.,, son of manufacturer there
was found on top of westbound pas
senger coach Sunday at Seattle. 1t is
supposed that he was beating his way
The hot weather in the Yakima val.
ley has caused the death of thousands
of fish in the Yakima river. Wagon
loads Of dead fish have lodged against
the different dams and the farmers
are hauling them away for fertilizer.
Frank B. Bonner, formerly of Spo.
kane. was drowned at South Bend Sat.
urday night.
Barney Leroy Layman was instantly
killed by lightning recently three
miles east Of Toppenish. He was 16
years old. A younger brother stand.
ing near was shocked. but recovered
The state still holds Soap lake. The
reported sale of riparian rights proves