Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-03-02
WASHINGTON NOTES.

pleasant affair at waitsburg las
week.
The farmers of Walla waIla count
have been selling wheat in small lot
from day to day for the past few
weeks until 1t is estimated by dealer
that there is not to exceed 10 or q
per cent of the 1905 crop left.
II Is officially stated that the nex
annual encampment of the Department
Of Washington and Alaska. G. A r
is TO be held at Walla Walla. on Inn,
25. &c and 81.
Word comes from Bellingham thai
the scheme to raise a subsidy of 81
100000 for railway line between thai
city and Spokane has failed for the
lack of support, less than $500. DOC
having been subscribed toward the
project.
High school students who struck al
Tacoma for a Washingtons birthday
holiday are being suspended as fast
as their names are learned.
Kittitas county is yearly increasing
Its fruit production and it is believed
that more fruit trees will be planted
this year than during any previous
year.
The Pacific Coast Lumber Manu-
racturers' association has agreed to
the recommendation of the price list
committee, making an advance of 80
thousand on the existing lumber
schedules.
secretary Hitchcock has ordered the
cancellation of the Washington state
selection in the Yakima valley. The
selection embraces about $1,000 acres.
and was rejected by the interior de-
partment because it was in conflict
with government irrigation work.
Responsive to a movement begun
In Seattle to contribute 1000 tons of
wheat to the famine
stricken sufferers of japan Judge
chadwick of Colfax has begun a
vigorous and systematic effort in
whitman county to raise its propor-
ion.
The Big Bend railway is having
'alls hauled from Davenport to where
ne grading is going on for their cleo
rlc line few miles north of the
own
Two Japanese laborers. Y Yamam-
'to and G. Ibosi, were thawing out
Iynamite in a shack near Tacoma
ecently when % sticks exploded
bosi, was killed instantly and va
namoto, who was seriously injured. is
till alive.
Harriet Richards. a school teacher
. years OF age. from Clifford, Mo,
ommltted suicide in Spokane last
aturday morning by drinking two
unces OF carbolic acid. Dependency
yer III health is the supposed reason.
E. P. O'Neil, right of way attorney
'r the Northern Pacific, with head
larters at Tacoma, is now securing
gnt or way for an extension of the
orthern Pacific from Pasco to Ri
aria. Wash.
While the three big lumber associa- ,
ons on the coast increased prices on y
e mr. products and tilted the cost of .
IS 81 a thousand feet to become ef-
ctlve at once, the raise will not af-
ct the Wholesale prices on lumber in
10 part VI the country. 6
William Bartlett and Lauren Barnett
e boys who attempted to wreck the
H. & N. train and were sentenced a
one year in the county Jail. have a
Ell released. Several neighbors of a
Barnett boys family, living near W
John, visited Colfax and urged S
dye Chadwick to release the bows Il
s. Barnett is said to be almost a m
ntal wreck because of her son be-
in jail and it was feared she would q
insane. M
State college and the dc
iversity of Idaho will not hold their ye
ular annual debate this year. The tl'
'ate council of the University of ne
no has cancelled the date. Az
youngsters are believed %.
nave set in motion the Great North III
locomotive, which crashed into the pa
'gon Railway Navigation COM VI
US passenger train at the junction 0n
r Spokane last week, blotting out
life and injuring three others. -
Taylor the station agent at the ne
ctlon, who was injured by being hit ,ie
the head by a flying trunk, died a o me
hours later. AM
B. Bussel and Andrew Webber
ltalists of Seattle, will build
600 canning factory at North Me
ina this year.
ne plat of the townsite having its !
Invest corner IL miles due east of ret
'burg, in Stevens county, will be tho
in the United States land office nat
pokane on April 6. Actual settlers tbe
a"o"eu enree months after ind