Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-11-17
WASHINGTON NOTES,

WASHINGTON NOTES,
Work on an immense hotel at Spo-
kane, at least eight stories high, cost
ing $4,000 is to be started in the
spring by Thomas L. Greenough.
Pasco is to have electric lights and
system of water works and sewers
Spokane dry goods dealers are form
ing a Merchants Protective associa-
ton.
The 18th annual teachers institute
for Adams county will open Decem-
Der 4.
Again the clearances of TIE local
banks have exceeded $4,000,009 In
single week.
Roy E. Mason has been appointed
postmaster at Latah to succeed }.
Mason, resigned.
Plans are being prepared in a tenta-
tive way to make Medical Lake pop
ular resort next summer.
Insanity is on the decrease in this
state. according to statistics compiled
} by the state board of control.
The council committee of Tacoma
has recommended increasing the sal
aries of city officials and employees.
. Threshing is nearly all completed
+ near Davenport, but to the southeast
= of town there Is still more grain to
e thresh.
t David Kieffer was killed at the
n Thompson logging camp on Nelson
n creek, four miles from Chewaukum, by
G falling tree.
William Cowles, clerk of the school
r board at North Yakima, has been ar
It rested on the charge of forgery in
g raising school warrants
e The state superintendent gave no
y tice recently that there will be meet
,r ing of the state board of education In
ID North Yakima December rs.
i'd ]. H. Shively insurance commission
ID err of this state, has returned from
le Ohio. where he stumped the state In
in the interests of the republican ticket
I'D Shaefer & Teft of Spokane have
e. placed a contract for a twenty-five ton
10. ice plant and machinery with the
York Manufacturing Co. of York, Pa.
It is said Colonel l.. Frank Boyd eX'
al mayor of Spokane, may soon enter the
ze- consular service of the United States
to representing this nation in some Tor
es eign city.
m The sum of $159941 will be distrib
ui- uted among the schools of the state
He representing the quarterly apporuon
ON ment of state funds. The NovemDe
quarter is the small one of the year
nm Mrs. Helen Moore Hubbell, widow
inc of Frank b. Hubbell, the well know
I'M capitalist who committed suicide Il
eft Seattle October 2S, has applied to b
appointed administrator of his estate
ern The Spokane-Columbia River Raj
red road & Navigation company ha
Bill awarded a contract to M. p. zindoI
the of Seattle for the grading of 63 mile
of of railroad from the Columbia rive
to Fletcher, Adams county, Washini
Jun ton.
lus- Secretary Hitchcock has rejected IN
ner Tieton and Okanogan irrigation pr
ark, ject on the ground that II "ouiu =
II quire more money to complete tne'
in than there is in the reclamation fun
at present. 1t is estimated that u
shot cost would be about $l,5OO,OOO.
aph Colonel Howard Hathaway of e
,een erett has brought before Governs
her. Mead petition for a Communication
con- life Imprisonment OF the death Sc
son. fences imposed upon Angus McPhi
lum of snohomish county. McPhail is
hang at the penitentiary December
and After a strike lasting since the ]
sew of May, the Northwestern Brewers
the ISOLATION and striking brewers ma
nuel signed an agreement Although nell
nose or will discuss the matter it Is po
, ar lively known the strikers won eve
ton. point including the eight hour day
and closed shop.
con- Because so much time has elaps
between the commission Of the ira
,own and the discovery Of their peculatio
cir many Of the timber lahu ciaiiii"'
that whom the federal government Deiie'
and TO have secured extensive land nc
ainly ings in this state fraudulently may
The cape criminal prosecution.