Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-12-01
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Secret Service officer Steven A.
Connell makes an estimate that Geo.
Edward Adams, defaulting cashier of
attic, has made away with an amount
in excess of 100000.
Harry Davis, private secretary to
Representative Jones, has been in
formed by Secretary Hitchcock that
the department would take no action
on Washington irrigation projects I'M
til the matter could be taken up with
the Washington congressman.
A resolution to provide for a post
graduate course of lectures upon all
branches of medicine and surgery was
recently adopted with unanimity at a
special meeting of the Spokane County
Medical society and the faculty of 20
physicians was appointed
w. ]. Shaughnessy, formerly pub
Usher of the Kennewick Courier, was
} killed on the railroad four miles east
of Prosser last week. 1t is supposed
: he was either struck by a train OF
l fell off while riding on a train. His
: body was found completely cut in two
2 within the past four months foul
times as many inspections of diaries
D and creameries have been made II
r Washington as were made in the pre-
b ceding six years." says L. Davies
$ state dairy and pure food commits
t sioner.
: The state railroad commission ha
It appointed o. o. Calderhead an exper
e on railroad freight rates. He was fol
q merly a cashier for the Northern ia
r cific Railroad company.
" After searching for four months fc
n their brother, Thomas E. Jones, wh
% was reported to be MORALLY wounde
20 in the mountains of Idaho, near Sp
= kane. Mrs. William Martin and Mr.
~ Georgia Nevin of Denver have give
- IN the quest without securing a tra'
20 of Jones.
81 Lieutenant d. c. McClelland Of Coz
pany e. at Fort Wright. has return'
~ S44O, Company Els missing funds.
u. Cleaning day in Spokane, last Satl
~ day, was pronounced a success.
The permitting of gambling in the
gu places will prove quite an expense
ct luxury to the proprietors of the II
saloons in Walla Walla, whose licens
en- were revoked by the council. The
ISL tai amount forfeited by reason OF [
revocation Of licenses is $2045.5O.
George Raymond of Seattle /
made one of the largest purchases
at wheat land that has taken place
ira the Alto vicinity in long tme' WI
3d. he closed a deal for the Charley Jc
ms place of 100 acres at $40 an acre,
.lS- | tho ranch
ock The railroad commission has acce
ties ed the resignation of j. VIII Lyso
lily temporary secretary, to take effect
1t April 1, 1906, and elected Clinton
of Snowden of Tacoma permanent SCI
uld tary; selected o. o. Calderhead
and Seattle as expert employee; made n
ate G. e. Van Etten, permanent clerk
to an increase in salary of $500
,uld wear or a total of $1,000, and voted
rhis employ Mr.. Snowden as clerk II
the January l to April 1, at salary
by 500 per month.
i A syndicate composed of David
Ham. e. A. Torrance, f. ID. Carr
s. C. l.. Hoffman, Aaron Kuhn and
S. Yearsley, has purchased SOoo a.
,qed of land in southern Alberta, N. w
for 100000.
ltful Tacoma grain buyers VINO are
s of to belong to the combine are mono
nder initial over the opinion of the a
and tant attorney general that the com
rank said to have been entered into
millers and buyers is in restrain
the trade. as contemplated in the Il
the state commerce law, prohibiting
BY a combinations. Those who say anyt
at all are inclined to consider
orea matter as a joke.
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