Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-03-17
EDITORIAL SNAP SHOTS.

EDIIOKlAL SNAP SHOlS.
Don't be the last one in town to
clean up your yard
Governor Gooding has sighed the
new hsh and game law
There may be disease germs in five
dollar bills, but some people squeeze
them SO hard that they are hfeless.
The dispatches say that the gloon
is so thick" in St. Petersburg, that it
resembles the fogs which hang over
Puget Sound in the fall Of the year
Review.
Troy is a good town because the
business men, instead Of opposing
each other, and Directing to every
thing anyone else proposes, join hands
and hurrah for Troy.
It is % be hoped the assessor will
not overlook those 3O,O00,000 feet OF
saw logs now lying on the banks Of the
Palouse river at Princeton waiting to be
sawed up at Palouse.
Horticulturists now are promising US
bloomless, seedless, coreless, worthless
apples. Next we will have tongueless
women, and drunkless, tobaccoless,
swearless men, barkless dogs, and
squealless pigs.
The Wisconsin legislature proposes
to Investigate violent cases Of women
iniuring themselves by wearing corsets
too tight" There is a rush Of states
men anxious to serve on the commit
tee OF investigation.
Cougars will please take notice that
their scalps are now worth SIS per and
govern themselves accordingly. The
governor signed the new bill this week.
He also signed a bill removing the
bounty on coyote scalps.
Among the things captured from the
fleeing Russians at Mukden were, ac-
cording to the dispatches, twenty-five
cart loads of maps. This would seem
to indicate that the Russians do great
deal OF their fighting on paper.
Idaho now has a bee inspector. If
the new official is empowered with
to properly dispose of sena-
torial, congressional, gubernatorial, and
other bees Of this class the legislature
will be justified in creating such an of
fee.
The Charleston (Wash.) Republic,
says: A mammoth carrot was brought
to the Republic office this week, the
same having been grown by C. S. Nc
Cready. The carrot measures about
"a inches around, and weigs about IA
pounds.
The grandmothers of America re-
Gently held a convention, and we see
by the dispatches that the principal
address was delivered by Senator Du-
bois, Of Idaho. Well, the senator was
certainly in congenial company for
little while at least.
The country literary society has
been a great developer OF latent ability,
and every school district ought to
maintain one during the winter months.
Today the man who cannot express
himself in public is working under a
handicap which a little practice in a
district debate would have overcome.
General Won Baguslowsky, a promi-
nent Russian army official, says that
Kuropatkin's training enables him to
handle only one hundred thousand men,
and that he has been given four times
that many. From recent reports the
Russian army will soon be reduced to
Kuropatkin's size.
According to Col. Shaver, Charles
]. R. C.llins, CONGRESSMAN
French and P. L. Orcutt are RESPONSE
bic for the shortage Of water in the Pa
Iouse river. Well, one thing certain
Congressman French and the rest of
the statesmen, are in no wise re-
iponsible for the many brilliant ideas
which inmate from the fertile brain of
this modern Don Quixote.