Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-07-14
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
. Few Interesting Iteris Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
roundInu county-Numerous Acci-
d.nts and Personal Events Take
pIace-Outlook Is Bright
WASHINGTON NOTES.

b lanes Mitchell, wife of furniture
Eeolesman. were drowned in Lake
81 washington, near Seattle. An up
Hturned boat with wearing apparel be-
Elonging to the couple was found on
1.-The bank of Union bay.
n Saturday afternoon during the Ritz
n ville-Palouse ball game, within 20
r. rods of the grounds, William, the 1S
Dyear old son of John Dawson OF "a
Iouse. was drowned while swimming
n in the river
Harry c. Boyd blew out his brains
kat Spokane last Friday night. He was
the assistant general agent OF the
MHamburg-B Bremen Fire Insurance COM
many and had been in the insurance
Nbusiness in the northwest for % years.
Nile was one of the largest stockhold-
ers in the Big Bend National bank OF
davenport, Wash.
R. H. Chiffon of Dayton, aged 90
Nyears, in fit of dependency placed
IA Al caliber revolver to his right ear
n and sent crashing through his brain
a bullet that caused instant death.
Unless the state takes some steps
Immediately toward the appointment
h of a deputy fire warden with jurisdic-
4 ton in this county the whole country
to the north and northeast of Seattle
will be in flames within the next few
z weeks says Game Warden Ref.
The body of Albert Irving was found
8 in Kettle river, about five miles above
n Danville, and taken to Curlew for
dburial. Irving was driving logs down
s. the river and was drowned May II.
1.-THE place where the body was found
was IL miles from where the acct
dent occurred.
Ulysses S. Grant, son of the Illus
trious federal commander in chief, is
spending this week in Spokane.
Marshal Lyons of Toledo has arrest
3 ed Hezekiah Hall, Familiarity known IN
u his native home in Lee county, Vir-
n ginia, as Hike" Hall. He is wanted
in Lee county for the alleged murder
q of John Grub and divers other seri-
GUS offenses. Hall admits that he kill
n ed Grub, but claims that he did 1t
& in self defense. He stated to Sheriff
b Urquhart that he had killed eight
men, remarking that some men would
B never be good until they were dead,
& and that he had run up against eight
men whom he found it necessary to
make good" The man is So years
old and quite gray:
Seattle's foreign export business for
June amounted to nearly $4,0OO,OOO,
K being greater than that of any previ-
4 GUS month in the history of the city.
The Northern Pacific hauled 655
4 cars of lumber out of Tacoma In
June.
The legality of the 100000 issue
of school bonds for Tacoma has been
sustained by the supreme court. Ihe
money will be used for the construc
ton of high school in that city.
Graduates of the law department OF
the University of Washington will be
admitted to the senior class of the
Yale law school on presenting theil
diplomas.
The Wenatchee cannery has com
pleted the first week of its existence
Mr. Foy, the manager of the canning
company, says that everything is NOV
ing off in first class order, and in the
first weeks run over 10000 cans o.
cherries have been disposed Of
Ed Stickney, ]. H. Malone and Jas
Leslie, escaped convicts from the
United States penitentiary at Nc
Neills island, have been captured.
w. A. Davis of Stepto has discover
ed a new and effectual method OF de
stroying squirrels. Mr.. Davis sent u
Iowa for some ferrets, which he use
to hunt squirrels, which are one OF tn
-
ferrets are trained to go into the hole
after the squirrels and either catcl
and kill them or drive them out OF tn
holes, where dogs catch them. MI
Davis took three ferrets and two dog
and went into the fields. In less tha
two hours he had killed 62 squirrels.
Scion H. Seaman, aged II years, wa
drowned while swimming in the SpC
kane river about IL miles above tn
city limits Sunday afternoon.
The entire alfalfa crop around W.
natchee was badly damaged and |
sections entirely ruined by the heav
rains of last week. The crop was
down.
y Fire which started in the basemer
of F. B. Wright & Co.'s paint and wa
paper store at Spokane at 1 o'cloc
Saturday afternoon, did damage e
timated at more than 100000.
In the person of Louise Colotchi, tn
Spokane police have unearthed a
heiress to a $150,O00 fortune in Sa
Francisco.
e. ]. Lewis. the real estate broke