Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-19
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Outlook Is Bright.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

1udl meeting IN Seattle, June zO-zl.
Exports from the Puget sound GUS {
toms district to April were the heavi-
est on record, reaching a total of {
s4,702,616.
The tallest concrete chimney in the
world has just been completed by the
Tacoma smelter. 1t rises 306 feet 6
inches from the base.
A building boom seems to be in
store for Asotin this summer. Citi-
zens look forward for one of the best
years in the history of the town.
Five thousand people crowded the
streets of Walla Walla last Saturday
to witness the parade of fine horses,
in which 60 high grade animals were
shown.
The present population of the state
is SAT 900, according to estimates COM
pleted by the statistical department of
the secretary of states office. The
same estimates give Seattle about 1884,
900 people.
The $1O1, 900 appropriated by the
last legislature for buildings at the
western Washington hospital for the
insane will be used by the board OF
control in erecting and equipping two
detached ward buildings.
The Columbia Irrigation company,
which is building a canal from the
Walla Walla river to reclaim large
tract of land, has 107 teams at work
and ten miles of the "a mile canal is
practically complete.
About As members of the Foresters
of America left Spokane Tuesday to
attend the session of the grand court,
which convenes in Seattle May 16
This will be the fifteenth grand court
to be held in this state.
The library committee of North
Yakima has been notified that An
drew Carnegie has given an addition
al $4,000 for the library, making the
total $4,000. Work on the building
will be commenced at once.
Superior Judge Frater of Seattle de-
cides that the probate fee law, pass
ed by the legislature of 1903, is uncon
stitutional. The county clerk will
hereafter collect probate fees in &C
cordance with the former law.
In a drunken row between party
of Firms and Swedes Sunday morning
John Thornsen was killed by blow
from a two by six inch plank, whlcf
fractured his skull. Martin Marten
son, one of the suspects arrested, was
held and is now in jail here.
In a row which started in the bar
room of hotel on Main avenue, Spo
kane, shortly before midnight Satur
day night, William Crane, the barten
: der, was shot in the back by an ltal
ian, and his wound may result fatally
; Weinberg Bros, the old hay firm
T, of the Kittitas valley, have bough
4 from Henry Lutro 100 acres of lam
three miles from Ellensburg for $40
= 600 cash. This farm sold for $500
> three years ago and $4,000 five year
: ago.
The countrymen of H. Arao, tn
u Japanese who murdered a Chinama
Ii in Spokane and is sentenced to b
hanged in the Walla Walla penite1
> tiary on June 3, have petitioned Wa
den KEGS that the body be given
{ them after the hanging to dispose o
The law says there is nothing to hill
der him from granting the request.
Grain merchants on the Sound al
expecting a large -four trade with ia
an. due to the new Japanese war tart
:. which will go into effect July 1. 4
- least two steamers have been especia
p ly chartered to load with flour fro
"A Tacoma.
"A B. F. Onstot, whose daughter, Mis-
Mae Onstot, was drowned by the &C
= lapse of the foot bridge in Colfax c
q the night of April 5, has offered
70 settle with the city of Colfax IL
n $500. The city council refused Il
so proposition.
"a The new Cow ordinance" at Sedr
A Woolley, prohibits all stock from ru
II ming at large within the corpora
n limits of the city, except mich COW
which are allowed to run from a.
to Z D. m. The COWS, however, a
Y. prohibited from wearing bells, b
IS must wear a license tag.
20 st. John lodge No. 9, F. and A.
AZ the Oldest Masonic lodge in Seattl
~ will erect an appropriate memoir
10 over the grave of its first mast'
u John Webster, who, As years ago, pl
~ sided over the lodge sessions, ma
40 ing the journey from Port Madisc
where he then resided, in a rowbo
by himself, returning to his home t
on same night in order to be at work
SIS the sawmill next morning.
es- The summer science school for I
Id, teachers, which is to be reestablish