Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-05-18

picnic and race meet of the Lincoln
County Pioneers association, June 10,
20 and 81, are now well under way,
and the affair this year promises to
be a great success.
Lying in the water of Mission creek,
back of his fathers barn, the body of
w. P. Fly, son of C. B. Fly of Cash
mere, was found where it has lain
since the disappearance of the young
man from his home some two weeks
ago.
Nazzareno Civerchio, who stabbed
Charles Rossi at Trinidad some time
ago, from the effects of which Rossi
died, has pleaded guilty in the superior
court at Waterville and was SEN
fenced to serve five years in the state
penitentiary.
The Woodmen of the World are to
hold a monster meeting and competi-
tive initatory contest in Spokane
July 25.
Crops in eastern Washington. parti-
cularly cereals, begin to show bad eff
fects of the long continued dry spell
and the warm wave of May.
Chief OF police Iva A. Brown will in
stall an up to date Bertillon system
to which will be added rogues gal
lery at the Walla Walla police station.
The Albion State bank was organ
lied at Albion recently with capitali-
cation of $4,000.
1t is said that the orchards from
Ellensburg down through the Kittitas
and Yakima valleys to the Columbia
river comprises three quarters of the
orchard lands of the state of Wash
ington.
Strawberry growers at Kiona re-
Gently engaged a party of 55 Yakima
Indians to pick at 40 cents a crate
Upon discovering the urgent demand
for pickers in all parts of the valley
these up to date sons of the forest
struck for so cents a crate-and will
get it.
Attorneys ]. w Brooks and Guy
Bartlett of Walla Walla have pur
b chased a one half interest in the ole
Baldwin and Day ranch, near Chart
station, on the line of the o. r. & N
road between Starbuck and Pomeroy
There are about 5000 acres in the
, ranch, which was purchased on thu
basis of $15,4OO
!, Typhoid fever is unusually preva
lent in Spokane.
Reno Hutchinson of Portland ha
been chosen general secretary of tn
Young Mems Christian association
in Spokane.
The president has sent to the senat
the nomination of Potter Charles Sulli
\ van to be United States attorney TO
! western district of Washington.
v One of the future industries c
Spokane will be a shoe factory.
g The judges in the recent inte
e scholastic oratorical contest at Wasl
T. ington State College. Pullman, decide
s Chester Lehman of Spokane as WHINE
+ of the gold medal and the best orato
y of the high schools in the Inlan
It Empire.
d Harry Draper, slayer of the Or
g gon outlaw, Frank Smith, accom-
panied by Tom Hopper, both of Sp'
kane have gone to Kamloops. B.
where they will take up the ira
n of the two bandits who recently hel
o up the Canadian Pacific passenge
J. train near there, securing nearly SAC
"a 900.
g Mes" Cole, the aged rancher {
Ten Mile bridge, who disappeare
le from home March 2S, was found mu
N dered in the Spokane river q mile
If below Spokane.
The May term of the supreme cou
Il began Monday with 164 cases to l
~ heard, the largest May docket in tt
s. history of the court
q The body of August Robards of Ga
&c field, we'll known stockman and ca
tie burger. was found in the SpokaI
ie river in the heart of the city last Tue
day. Search of Robard's pockets gay
strong evidence of murder and robber.
His silver watch had vanished and n
OF thing of value except the bank book r
IS manned.
" Mrs Josephine Baruth was four
IL guilty at Spokane Tuesday night
granddaughter for the killing of her d
II, vorced husband at their home in Med
re cal Lake, Wash. late last March.
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