Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-11-30
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Accl-
dents and Personal Events Take
Pace-Fal Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

OF the serious problems IndL is cOu-
fronting Spokane dairymen.
1t has been carefully estimated that
at least 1900 acres of fruit trees will
be put in by the farmers in and close
around Brewster.
1t is reported gambling dens are
again running wide open in Tacoma.
Not the slightest effort is being made
to conceal the fact.
Jacob Johnson, a Northern Pacific
Waterman at Toppenish, was fright
fully mangled at North Yakima re-
Gently by being run over by a freight
train.
The State asylum at Medical Lake
has advertised to receive bids for 2700
cords of wood for the asylum. The
Der 8, at 2 p. m.
The state superintendent announces
that 1T teachers certificates had been
issued to Spokane applicants and 16 to
Stevens county applicants as a result
of the recent examinations.
Chinese and Japanese are to be pro-
tected in Tacoma hereafter. Judge
Linck recently gave white man and
negro 30 days on the chain. gang for
beating Chinese restauranteurs.
Fire in the interior of the Grand
opera house at Seattle recently caused
$4,000 damage. 1t is believed to have
started from a lighted match or a
cigarette dropped by stage hands.
Special memorial services were held
in the First Presbyterian church in
Seattle Sunday afternoon in honor of
aster. Many prominent divines assist
ed in the services.
Conductor f. e. Hatton Of the Ida
no division of the Northern Pacific
| fell from the top Of a boxcar recently
while his train was pulling into the
siding at Selah, % miles east of Ell
lensburg. His injuries will not prove
| fatal.
DR.. Levi L. Sutton, a farmer and
practicing physician, and one of the
| first settlers in that part of the coun-
try, died at his home, seven and one
half miles east of Hatton, recently. He
was born in Orleans county, New
York, September 1. 1885.
]. N. Iompkins, president and found
] Ell of the Farmers & Mechanics bank
fof Cashmere and Wenatchee, died sud-
Sc years of age, and until few hours
before death had been in what he be-
lieved to be excellent health.
Governor Mead has summarily re-
moved Oil Inspector J. l.. Canutt Of
Colfax from office for misconduct and
unfaithfulness to the duties of the
Office" and appointed II. A. Clark of
Snohomish county, who has been dep
uty inspector, to the POSITION.
c. B. Dunning, department COM
mander of the department of Wash
ington and Alaska of the Grand Army
of the Republic, accompanied by Ad-
jutant General William H. Wiscomb,
has returned from a visit which they
were making to the posts of western
Washington.
Major A. N. Brown, Governor Mead s
private secretary, is working to Sc
cure a state rogues' gallery to be used
by the police departments Of the state
says a west side report. The gallery
will probably be kept in Seattle when
completed, and pictures will be added
to it constantly.
After a Thorough inspection County
Commissioner Meter of Tacoma es-
Inmates that it will cost $4,000 to re
store bridges and roads of Pierce
county to the condition they were In
before the floods. This does not in
clude the loss in the Stuck river val
ley, where the diversion Of the White
river has caused endless havoc.
A trio of cracksmen crawled through
a window of Blackburn & Burrows
general store at Ridgefeld recently
unlocked the door, rolled 700 pound
safe two blocks and half down the
street into a cut, punched off the com
bination. blew the safe open with
black powder and got safely away
with 5000 in money.
Tacoma has 140 saloons, exactly the
same number as before the presen
saloon ordinance went into effec
: about six months ago. There is ap
. parently no tendency to decrease tn,
, number Of the increased fee, from
5000 to $500, as the opponents of thu
measure urged at the time of its pas
sage.
January will be a busy month il
r Pullman. There will be three big con
ventions under the auspices of tn,
Washington State college. The frs
l Of these will be the annual conven
1 ton of the Washington State Bee
keepers association, January 7, an,
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