Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
IDAHO VIEWS.


IDAHO NEWS.
The log cut around ST. Maries will i
be large this summer. Contracts are
under consideration for about 50,000,-
900 feet
Andrew Carnegie has donated $1,000
to be applied toward the purchase of
pipe organ for the Presbyterian
church at Boise.
The badly decomposed body of
Frank G. Marin was found recently
in a cattle shed at the fairgrounds at
Blackfoot. He had been missing for
five weeks.
The 32d annual session of the Co
lumbia River conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church will convene
in Moscow August %.
Tom Wheeler carries the record as
champion sheep shearer in Idaho. He
is now at his ranch near Hayburn. Mr..
Wheeler also won a round trip ticket
to the Portland exposition for the
rapidity and neatness of his work.
Governor Gooding has requested the
cooperation of the different towns OF
the state in the organization of state
band, which will make a trip to the
Portland exhibition and participate in
the observances on Idaho day, Sep
TENDER 4.
Miles S. Johnson of Lewiston, for
four years prosecuting attorney of
Nez Perez county, has been appointed
assistant United States attorney for
North Idaho and assumed the position
on August l. Lewiston has been desig-
mated as his official residence.
After being a fugitive from justice
for over eight years, Theodore Foust,
who was indicted for robbery by the
grand jury of Shoshone county early
in 1898, was arrested by Sheriff Suth-
erland and officer Quinn, who found
him walking the streets of Wallace.
Information has reached Boise of a
fatal dynamite explosion which occur
red few days ago at Meadows. A
man named Barnum was killed and
three other men were injured. A box
of dynamite at Carl Browns camp on
Big creek caught fire while number
of people were sitting near it, and ex-
ploded before they could get away.
contracting firm Of San Francisco
has been awarded the contract for
constructing the o. R. & N.-Northern
Pacific connection between Riparia
and Lewiston. The line will be start
ed Immediately and according to the
terms of the contract is to be in shape
for operation April l, 1906. The esti'
mated cost is between S1,700,000 and
|, $2,000,000.
Professor H. T. French, in charge
of the agricultural college and expert
, ment station, is planning for the most
extensive series of farmers institutes
throughout the state this fall that
have ever been held in Idaho. In al
: there will be Is or 20 Institutes, ex
| tending from the panhandle to the
southern extremity of the state. Coco
, roads will be a leading subject of the
programs.
All of the churches of Weiser will
: hold union services in the open all
t Sunday evenings during the summer.
2 Mrs. Caddie M. Shupe was convicted
{ at Paris of the crime of voluntary
! manslaughter, in the murder Of Arthur
a Douglas. The crime was committed
5 at Montpelier July 1. Douglas ha(
been living with the woman for two
: years, but determined to leave her. HI
+ visited her and gave a final answer t.
Y her pleadings that he do not forsak'
e her, declaring he would not yield. Sh'
1 then shot him.
: There will be launched at thu
a Cramps shipbuilding yards in Phila
J. delphia next fall a battleship whicl
/ will be one of the most effective in tn
: world. The battleship will be tn
: Idaho, and belongs to what is know
as the Mississippi class. The Idah'
will be a ship of 1900 tons, with
waterline of 375 feet, n feet wide, AM
have a coal bunker capacity of IT'S
tons and II knots speed. Her meal
d gross draft will be 81 feet. When CON
, pleted she will have cost nearly Sc
. 100000.
There is absolutely no truth in an
z shape and form in the report that tn
Morning mine has been sold to tn
smelter trust or anyone else" say
{ Thomas L. Greenough. at is tn
:, widest kind of rumor. A rumor t
u this effect was current at Wallace 70
a week, but there is nothing in it a
Il all. We have not even been in NJ
gotiation for the sale of the property.
J. MONTANA ITEMS.
IS The Flathead Indian agency in MOI
5 tana has received instructions ths
Il people will be permitted to fish on tn
II reservation as in the mast but in az