Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-08-14
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The citizens of Okanogan are soon
to vote on the incorporating of the
town.
The ukase has gone forth, and the
hobo in Whitman county must work
or move on.
Construction en- the Portland & oe-
attic railroad is being rapidly pushed
to completion.
Robert D. Mitchell, who were drowned
in the Columbia river recently near
Bridgeport. were recovered
Carl B. Roden, assistant in the Chi
cago public library, has been elected
librarian for the Seattle library.
Whitman county will be entirely out
of debt this fall, according to the state
ments of the county commissioners.
1t is said the warehouse men
throughout the Inland Empire have
raised the price for storage and hand
ling Of grain.
Under regulations issued by the Sec
rotary of the interior, automobiles
will hereafter be permitted in Mount
Rainier national park
1t is said Washingtons new CT
garette law which is in effect will yet
result in the manufacture of a new
variety of cigarettes.
L. F. Darr a prominent hardware
marchant Of Uniontown, met with an
accident recently during runaway
that will probably prove fatal.
The wreck on the Northern Pacific
at Garfield has all been cleared up
The four men injured are doing nicely
and the doctor says they will recover
AS many as 80 cruisers have been
looking over timber for the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad in the
dense forests on the Olympia PENN
sula.
Riley Harris, declared by the King
county sheriff to be one of the most
noted and daring horse thieves in the
country. was captured in his camp in
Seattle.
W. H. tudden, a we'll known at
tCrney of Spokane, has announced his
intention of making the race for the
nomination to congress from the Third
district.
During the past year ending June
80 the police of Spokane made total
of $40 arrests, of which number 1917
were for city offenses and $50 for
state offenses.
In a rearend collision of southbound
trains on the Northern Pacific at Kala-
ma recently Conductor c. B. Carl of
Tacoma who was in the caboose Of
the forward train, was instantly killed.
Magnus Olson, who is to have charge
of the chorus work of the Nord Pa
cific saengerfest, which will be held
in Spokane from August 20 to Septem-
Der 1, says large crowd will be
there.
After 80 years spent in searching
for his two children. who had been
taken from his home by their mother
33 years ago, M. L. Fauver of Boyd
county, Nebraska, has located them in
Whitman county.
Great Northern headquarters instruct
ing all agents to refuse consignments
of shingles for points via Duluth or
Superior, along the Great Lakes, ow-
ing to congestion of freight at the
docks at the head waters of the lakes.
The report of Professor Elton Full
mer of the Washington State college
on his examination of the stomach of
Clyde Henion of Newport has been
made public, and the chemist states
that he did not discover any poison
that could have caused the death of
Henion, or any trace of poison.
The farmers of the vicinity of Day
ION have been taking advantage Of the
high price offered for barley which is
81. and in some cases higher, per 100
pounds. The farmers have estimated
a total yield of 100000 sacks of barley
alone. If this is true, and with the
wheat crop, there will be nearly $1,000
600 in circulation in that vicinity dur
ing the coming fall.
At a recent mass meeting in Seattle
at which 200 single manufacturers
were present. fund of $4,000 was
pledged to cooperate with the Pacific
Coast Lumber Manufacturers associa
ton and other lumber associations in
fighting the proposed 10-cent advance
in freight rates to the east to be made
by the transcontinental lines October
/. Lumber associations have already
raised $145,000.