Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-07-28
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
, Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Bur
rounding country-Numerous AccI-
dents and Personal Events Take
Plsce-outIook 10 Bright
WASHINGTON NOTES.

j. j. watson, a SWltchman, shot ana
killed Otis DeLacy in Spokane Friday
night.
At recent meeting of the directors
of the Lincoln County Fair association
it was decided to hold the fair the
week following the Spokane Interstate
fair. There will be four days-the
18th, 18th, goth and 21st of October.
Ike Harris was unanimously chosen
manager.
Walla Walla county has begun the
annual campaign to straw the dusty
roads of the county and make them
passable for the immense amount of
wheat that must pass over them in
the next two months.
One of the most interesting events
connected with the Odd Fellows or
der of Washington was the recent cell
ebration of the semicentennial Of the
Olympia lodge No. 1.
]. L. Johnson of Endicott commit
ted suicide in that town recently. Mr..
Johnson had simply grown tired of
life and cut his throat.
Especially shocking was the terri
BILE accident on the United States gun
boat Bennington to the people of Col
fax. Amel Bensel, one of the war
ships dead left Colfax about one year
ago for the navy.
Within Is minutes after Frank
Nicholas of Colfax had sold a cent
package of cigarettes to a small boy
of II years he was arrested and paiC
$22.40 in fines.
Charles c. Setter has sold his 2S(
acre wheat ranch 10 miles south o.
Cheney, to T. w. Merriman, a recen
arrival from Lind, for a consideration
of $4,000.
The recognized Palmer Mountain
Tunnel company, pushing the big tun
mel through the huge mountain of mol
thern Okanogan county, has bee
launched under the laws of Arizona.
Washington has no uniform metf
cd for the assessment of railway prof.
, erty. The matter is entirely in tn
hands of county assessors and count
, boards of equalization to fix the va
utS Wllulu luSli iCopOSeA'O Jul ioNi'
{ lions.
. The Tacoma chamber of commerce
{ has already taken action in the e
, fort to induce the government to us
Washington fir on an equal basis wit
yellow pine in the construction wor
to be done in the Panama canal zon
: DR.. Dean Richmond Babbitt, lat
rector of the Church of the Epiphan
= in Brooklyn, N. Y, died recently fro
the result of an operation performe
: to relieve internal complications, SON
months ago. He was for 10 month
4 dean of All Saints cathedral in Sp
8 kane.
g Italians in Spokane and Lewisto
= Idaho, are asserting that Joseph Ros
l. Duo di Rossi, nobleman, grand'
and alleged heir to $4,000, 000-is
! fakir and owes sums varying from Il
v conventional IS loan to a board bi
}. A warrant has been obtained from
70 justice at Spokane for the arrest
70 Rossi on the charge of obtainii
It money under false pretenses.
It David Sullivan Was accidental
= killed in the California Wine house
10 Wenatchee by ]. F. Murphy, a pri
ter. Sullivan was a well known ranc
1t err, residing only a few miles from {
1t city. Without apparent cause, Sui
ir van commenced to abuse Murphy, a.
10 finally struck him. Murphy in tn
D. struck Sullivan in the mouth with |
If fist. Sullivan staggered over and +
D. backward, and broke his neck by t
t. fall. The blow received by Sulliv
s. was not a hard one, scarcely bret
ing the skin on his lip.
The mountain climbing party,
finally made up for the start on Ii
&C. Monday from Paradise valley to
m top of Mount Rainier, height 49,
IN feet, consisted of rs Mazamas FRI
p Oregon and Washington, 40 Sierl
n from California, 81 Appalachians fir
of the east and six Alpines. Red fire
he be burned from the mountain
re Tuesday night at 9 o'clock and shol
re- be visible with glasses for $50 mi
s.; around. The elevation of the pres
al camp is $500 feet.