Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-07-20

ceSSOr 10 Ine late hlBuL neVeTeuu
Monsignor F. X. Blanchet, has been |
made by Archbishop Alexander
Christie.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Esther Mitchell, the 1S-year-old girl
who cruelty slew her brother George,
is in the King county Jail, penniless
and deserted by her family. Mrs.
Creffield, who, to avenge the Staying
by George -.-.lchell of her husband, the
notorious "holy roller" induced Esther
to kill George, is also behind the bars,
with only her father and brother to
befriend her.
The funeral of the late Judge George
Meade Emory, shot and killed by
Chester Thompson in Seattle, was
held Sunday morning at the family
residence Two hundred prominent
lawyers and members of the Elks and
Loyal Legion attended. The body was
cremated.
1t is said that Colfax is in need of
carpenters.
In running fight with officers near
Zillah, an unknown young man, want
ed for horse stealing, was wounded
three times and will probably die.
A hurricane passed three miles
northeast of Valley recently. A vast
amount of valuable timber was blown
down, crops were beaten to the ground
and fences destroyed and telephone
wires dismantled.
The farmers in the cove east of Pa
louise have during the recent hot
weather been turning night into day.
Those who are blowing land Tor sum-
mer fallow, instead of working teams
in the heat, pillow during the night.
That North Yakima is singularly
free from fevers of all descriptions
this year is attributed to the care
taken by the authorities in keeping the
city clean.
Three grain warehouses are under
construction in ka-lotus.
Secretary of War TAFT will visit
Fort Wright, American Lake and
fort Lawton and other Washington
posts next October for the purpose OF
locating a brigade post at one of the
places.
Spokane has captured the 10th an
nual convention of the Baptist Young
Peoples union for July. 1907. 4 Ills was
decided at Omaha, Me-.
DR.. S. B. Nelson, professor of vet
Urinary science at Washington STATE
college and state veterinarian, has of
fered a sold silver cup for the bes
team of mares or geldings, or MARI
and gelding, at the Interstate fair il
Spokane. The team must weigh no
less than $500 and be driven to
truck or wagon.
That the American lake site will b.
selected by the government for tn
location of a brigade post is vouche'
for by a government surveyor.
The supreme court has decided tina
man who goes on unsurveyed gov
/, eminent lands and builds a cabin an,
opens a coal mine is entitled to tn
cabin and mine and necessary land TO
: his improvements as against any othe
person that may come along in hi
absence and take possession.
-, The Hessian fly, the most dreade
wheat pest, has made its appearance
in Clarke county.
Micheal Burns, one of the men cor
6 fined in the county jail at Asotin o
! the charge of burglary committed a
: Charleston and who with his compaI
ions escaped from Jail but was late
= captured, has become insane as tn
. result of his experience while endea'
oring to evade the officers.
!. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcoc
y has adjusted the allotments for tn
= various irrigation projects in WasI
- ington as follows: Okanogan, $500
: 900; Tieton, $1,25O,OOO; Sunnysid'
,, $1000,000; work in the Indian rese
= walton, 100000; a total of s2,950,00'
Contracts for the purchase Of Ian
u along the Columbia river for the righ
Il of way for the branch of the Gres
IS Northern between Wenatchee an
Oroville are being signed up, the col
e tracts including the purchase of TIL
e years crop.
4 The body of Krisjan Johnson of o.
4 taro was found beside the railroa
&c track in a secluded nook near Seattl
A brick is supposed to have been use
e by his assailants. He is supposed
"a have been killed in a drunken brawl
s. The total expense for the SpOkan
city schools proper was $316,766.7
% Added to this is $7,76796, interest G
If warrants, and 1872, $3.50, interest c
bonds.