Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-13
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

way ON the Vancouver, Victoria &
Eastern railway.
John Hedman was drowned recent
ly in the Columbia river three miles
west of Columbus.
The firm of Cooper & Levy of Sc
attic has been arrested and fined for
each of the various buildings they |
rent for immoral purposes.
Representative Jones has taken up |
with Governor Mead the feasibility Of
appropriating state funds for topo-
graphic survey of Washington.
E. Riste, superintendent of the We
natchee schools, has rendered his res
ignation. Miss Ida M. Case, principal
of the high school, has also resigned.
w. j. Downing, laborer at a rail
road camp near Penewawa, dropped
dead recently while at work. Death
is supposed to be due to the extreme
heat.
Mrs. Henry Strohm of Dayton,
Wash, was recently placed under
$500 bonds for shooting the 10-year-
old son of j. M. Dunlap with % cal
iber rifle. The boy had annoyed her.
Marion A. Mulroney, formerly a
Plaza boy, but now in charge of the
wireless telegraph service on the U.
S. S. Boston, is only 20 years of age.
He learned the Morse system of teleg-
raphy at his home in Plaza Wash.
The officials of the Sound single
mills bureau admit that it is the in
tention of single manufacturers
throughout the state generally to try
and resume operations this week with
non-union men.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of ]. f. Kennedy of Lewiston,
a surveyor, who has been employed
by L. S. Wilson, in charge of a sur
veying crew for the Northern Pacific
near Marshall, Wash.
In a row recently over changing a
team with which Sol McGrith was
hauling water for Fred Hopkins at
the latter's farm near Walla Walla.
McGrith fired three shots from SO
caliber revolver point blank at Hop
kins' head at close range, two OF
which took effect with probably fatal
result
First gashing his throat with a
razor, Trussaint Beaudry, aged So, a
prosperous farmer of Mckee valley,
leaped into an irrigating ditch at
North Yakima and drowned himself in
a foot of water. On account of ill
ness he had scarcely slept for 10
days and was temporarily insane.
The coroner's jury at Asotin, after
investigating the cause of the death
of Christian Blomond, alias Friend
Stang, leader of the three Jail break
ers, returned verdict that he came
to his death by gunshot wound in
ficted by Harry Draper of Spokane
while acting under the authority OF
Sheriff R. H. Richards.
G. Meade Emery, distinguished
lawyer of Seattle, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded at his residence
in that city Saturday night by Ches
ter Thompson, University of Wash
ington student and son of Will H
Thompson, former attorney for the
Great Northern Railroad company
The cause was infatuation for Char
lotte Whittlesey, niece of the stricken
man, who had denied his attentions
and then asked her uncle that her ad
mirer be denied admittance should h'
desire to see her. Judge Emery wal
shot down on his own threshholC
while attempting to restrain Thomp
son from entering the residence.
Two electric cars on the Point DE
fiance line at Tacoma were in head
on collision Sunday and five passen
gers and one employee were injured.
The body of Max Papineau of Pax
ton, ILL.,, son of manufacturer there
was found on top of a westbound pas
senger coach Sunday at Seattle. 1t /
supposed that he was beating his way
The hot weather in the Yakima va
ley has caused the death of thousand
of fish in the Yakima river. Wagol
loads of dead fish have lodged agains
the different dams and the farmer
are hauling them away for fertilizer.
Frank B. Bonner, formerly of Spo
kane, was drowned at South Bend Sa
urday night.
Barney Leroy Layman was Instant
killed by lightning recently thre
miles east of Toppenish. He was
years old. A younger brother stant
ing near was shocked, but recovered
The state still holds Soap lake. Tn
reported sale of riparian rights prove
to be false.