Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-09-11
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Milk IL cents quart at Tacoma.
Two Great Northern freight trs
collided in the Newport yards recen
Nobody was killed.
The weather throughout the Palo
country is all that could be desired
the completion Of harvest work.
Marion Russis, young Frenchm
aged Fl years, met his death by dro,
ing in the Palouse river recently.
w. Phillips, rancher in the Match
valley, committed suicide recently
shooting. He leaves a wife and ia
lily.
Too drunk to exercise reason, c.
Brown Of Tacoma. 40 years of ag.,
was run over by an electric train and
killed.
Tomato shipments continue from
Sunnyside, and 1t will be another
month before the entire crop is mar
keted.
In struggle with thief in a room
at hotel in Seattle recently, Detec-
tive Lee A. Barbee shot and killed his
adversary.
Jefferson H. Fulton, of Asotin, has
left for Manila to enter upon his duties
as second lieutenant in the, United
States army
A floating dock has been built for
the accommodation Of steamboats,
landing at Kennewick, and moored at
the landing.
There Is hay famine on the coast.
The death of Mrs. Mary P. Shieldse.
an old pioneer Of Garfield county, &C.
cured at Seattle recently.
Joe Mackine, Finnish contractor
was killed recently at Aberdeen
Wash. by falling from the lift in
we'll which he was digging.
Horse thieves appear to be numer
GUS in the Yakima country, a number
of cases where horses have been stol
en- being reported within the past few
days.
Beginning this week the Washing
ton, Idaho & Montana Railway com
pany will put on two trains each wa.
daily between Palouse and Deary
which is the present terminus.
Farmers Of the vicinity of Dayton
are taking advantage of the fint
weather to haul their grain to thu
warehouses as fast as possible, ant
already the houses are nearly filled
Most of the farmers have sold Their
grain.
The entire city of Wenatchee ia ix
dire straits because Of a flume being
washed out at the Wenatchee Electric
company. No power is to be had in
the city, nor lights, and as a result
the entire community has been
plunged Iau in into .a, state Of things border
The annual business excursion of the
Spokane Merchants & Manufacturers
association will this year touch the
country lying west of Spokane along
the Washington Central and Great
Northern roads. The start will be
made on Wednesday morning. Sept.
10, at 1880 o'clock.
Tied in their stalls and unable to
escape from the burning building, 90
horses belonging /. to the City Day
Scavenger company were cremated in
a fire that destroyed the company's
stable at Spokane. Thirty tons of hay
In the loft of the barn, where the fire
is supposed to have started, were also
lost, making the total loss over &c.,
900. Only about $4,000 Of this was
covered by insurance.
The old soldiers in camp at Chewe-
lah recently elected the following off,
GERS for the ensuing year: Commander,
Comrade F. A. Parmeter Of Daisy,
Wash; senior commander, Comrade
Childs, Kettle Falls, Wash; junior
commander. Comrade Stafford, Kettle
Falls, Wash; adjutant, Colonel Fish,
Kettle Falls, Wash; officer of day, J.
T. Grove, Deer Park; officer of guard,
Mr.. Anderson. Spokane; Quartermas-
ter, E. A. Reyes, Spokane.
Fire destroyed the Webb hotel at
Shelton, 20 miles from Tacoma, re-
Gently. Miss Bailey and Mrs. Nudge.
both of Shelton, are known to be
among the lost. The following perish
ed: Miss Ivy Bailey, chambermain;
w. H. Holmes. master mechanic in the
Peninsula Railway shops; Pearl F.
Larson; boy driver for Connolly, the
butcher; Mrs. Gay of the hotel; Dan
j. Hennessey, a logger. Eight or nine
are still unaccounted for.
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