Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-08-21
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An epidemic has broken out among
the horses in the Vicinity Of Creston.
New school buildings are being
erected at Rockford, Tekoa, and La
tab.
Joseph P. Ringo, one of the Pa
louse's Oldest and most respected citi-
zens, is dead.
The entire family Of l. B. Frazier
Of Wenatchee was poisoned a few
days ago by milk.
William Parks, for many years a
prominent single manufacturer of
Centralia, is dead.
Secretary of War William H. Taft
will not stop off in Spokane during
his tour of the west.
During the quarter ending June 80,
the state has paid out $7691 in boun-
ties on wild animals.
A monster sea lion weighing 1,4OO
pounds was killed in fish trap at
North Edmonds recently.
Ivan Jacobsen was terribly mangled
by being run over by an interurban
car near Tacoma recently.
An effort is being made by people
at Walla Walla to hold Chautauqua
institute at Walla Walla next year.
The annual convention of the fourth
class postmasters Of the state will take
place in North Yakima during state
fair week.
The Colville public schools, with
Professor w. o. Cummings as city
superintendent, will open Monday,
September 8.
A building permit has been issued
at Tacoma for the erection of the CO.
lossal 100000 Imperial building. 1t
will be 20 stories high.
The mayor of Everett has instructed
the chief of police to close all gam
bling houses in that city at once.
Dance halls are also to be closed.
Ben Gillian, formerly chief turnkey
under ex-warden A. F. KEGS, was
killed recently by holdup men while
defending his employers store at Co
bre, Nevada.
1t is said that Miss Mary Thomas.
a 2O-year-old girl, whose dead body
was taken from Lake Union near Sc
attic recently, did not meet her death
by drowning.
George w. Brown, who was arrested
in Seattle on the charge Of forging
the name of Victor o. Boone to checks
has been sentenced to serve three
years in the state penitentiary.
The first market day in Seattle
Saturday opened auspiciously with a
large attendance, variously estimated
at from 10000 to 10000, between a.
m, the opening hour, and noon.
Samuel Patterson of Spokane, who
has been working with threshing
gang at Spangle for the past week,
was thrown from the rear of farm
wagon near that town and instantly
killed
C. E. Mallory, who was shot in the
elbow recently by William Sloan
near Tenino, has been arrested on
complaint of Sloan, charged with fell
onious assault upon Sloans 15-year
old daughter.
Henry E. Nicholai, wealthy Sun
nyside rancher, who mysteriously dis
appeared from home two months ago,
and for whose discovery a reward Of
81, 900 was offered, was found on a
ranch near Seattle by his son-in-law,
John Hefferman.
Ten ranchers on the Wishkah river
have filed suits against the Wishkah
River Boom company for obstructing
the river at Aberdeen, Wash. Dam
ages asked for vary from $1,700 to
$4,000 in each case.
Six thousand acres Of southwestern
Washington timber has been bought
by N. B. Bradley 4 Sons, of San Fran
cisco, who paid the Pelton-Armstrong
company 100000 for this fine Wah-
kiakum county body Of forest.
Miss Minnie Morton proved herself
a heroine at Tacoma when she rescued
Lyle Froggatt, the 2-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Froggatt, from
drowning in American lake, where the
parents and others were picnicking.
James Dalton, convicted Of killing
Patrolman Henry Stotko at Spokane
on the morning of April 4, 1905, and
whose final appeal to the supreme
court was rejected, was sentenced by
Judge Miles Poindexter Of the supe-
rior court to be hanged October ~.
While eight men were playing cards
in the rear of the Clinton saloon, Spo-
kane, Saturday night, two masked
men entered through the rear door
and with drawn revolvers command
ed all to throw up their hands, and
then robbed the saloon and everybody
present.
Can the county commissioners, af-
ter having failed to organize as a
board of equalization on the first Mon
day in August, as prescribed by law.
organize at a later date and legally
transact the business that comes with
in the province of the board of equal
ization? This is the question which
now confronts the Whitman county
commissioners and the taxpayers Of
Whitman county.
In spite of her baby's screams Of
terror and the sobbing protests Of the
foster mother who WAS finally heateu