Adams County,  Ritzville, WA  

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Adams County News,  

All of January 1905 is missing from files

Adams County News, February 15, 1905, issue

James T. Despain
	James T. Despain, the aged father of W. F. Despain, the popular drayman of this city,
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. W. Robbins, West 218 Third avenue, Spokane, Saturday
evening at the age of 80. Death was caused by cancer of the stomach. Interment took place
Tuesday at Pendleton, Ore.    

Adams County News, February 22, 1905, issue

John F. Brewer
	John F. Brewer died at his home in Walla Walla Tuesday afternoon at the age of 63 years.
The immediate cause of death was paralysis of the brain, after an illness of several weeks,  
superinduced by la grippe. He had been a resident of Walla Walla county for 24 years, representing
it in the territorial legislature of 1885, and was a member of the present city council. His
daughter, Miss Maud Brewer, clerk in Wm. Snyder's emporium left Wednesday for the Garden City
to attend the funeral.

Adams County News, March 8, 1905, issue  

Henry Mundhenk
	Henry Mundhenk, the venerable watchman, who has served for the past three years at the
railroad crossing on E street, died in a Spokane hospital last week of old age. While he has
always been at his post, rain or shine, he leaves considerable wealth in property and cash
behind him. He owned a section of valuable Franklin county land and securities to the amount
of $14,000.

Adams County News, March 15, 1905, issue

Birgholz infant
	The 10-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Birgholz, living near Paha, died last
Friday morning at 7 o'clock from diphtheria. Funeral occurred from the Silem German Congregational
church Sunday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. G. J. Rieker, the pastor.

Adams County News, March 22, 1905, issue

Passing of John Jacob Bauer
	Jacob Bauer, Sr., head of one of the oldest and most respected German families of the
county, died Sunday, March 19, 1905, at 4 p.m. at the age of 58 years, at the family residence
on West College Hill, after a lingering complicated illness of three years standing which had
seriously developed in the past two weeks, the end being hastened by consumption.
	Funeral occurred from the residence Monday afternoon at 2 p.m., a short service being
given at the home before the long funeral cortege passed to the German Congregational church
where Rev. Stahl, the pastor, assisted by Rev. Egerland, conducted the last solemn rites. Anthems
were rendered by a choir consisting of Fred Weiand, Hannah and Minnie Spanjer and Theresa
Kalkwarf. The body was interred in the Spanjer cemetery north of town.
	John Jacob Bauer was born in Russia in 1846, crossing the ocean to the new America in
1878, first finding a home in Nebraska. In 1883, with the westward trend of immigration, the
family went to Walla Walla, arriving in Adams county the following year, where they homesteaded
a choice piece of land three and one-half miles southeast of town, becoming wealthy during the
continuous seasons of large crops, and adding largely to land holdings.
	Two years ago a palatial residence was erected in the city on West College Hill where the
family has since resided. In 1864 he was married to Anna Marie Koch and they have raised five
children, all of whom are residents of this county. They are Peter, Henry, Lydia E., Wilhelmina
and Mrs. Maria Johnson.
	The deceased was eminently respected, being a man of considerable business ability, a  
hard working, persevering, honest farmer, to whom the fruits of labor came late in life, but who
has left the impress of his character on his family as a loveable husband, and kind and generous
father.

Adams County News, March 29, 1905, issue

Leonard Infant
	An infant of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leonard died today at the home on the Flat.

Mrs. Joseph Dixon
	Mrs. Ella Thompson returned today from Pomeroy, where she was called to attend the funeral
of an aunt, Mrs. Joseph Dixon, a pioneer lady of Garfield county.

Luke Conroy
	Luke Conroy, a laborer, who has been in the employ of the city in excavation and street
work, died at his home, the old Haight building on Fifth street, Wednesday, March 29, 1905, after
a long siege of the dread disease, consumption.