Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-03-23
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Aeci-
dents and Personal Events Take
piace-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Seattle is to have a garbage plant |
and municipal crematory.
Much of the wheat in the Palouse
section was injured by the recent cold
weather.
Friends and acquaintances of DR..
lanes M. Allen, the veteran minister
of the Christian church Of Spokane,
who died last week, paid tribute of
love and respect at his bier in the Cen
trail Christian church Sunday after
noon.
A veterinary surgeon states that the
horses around Reardan were poisoned
by eating straw on which there was
fungus growth.
Gilbert Cowles, the Yakima city
school board clerk who forged war
rants. has been senteiced to five years
in the penitentiary.
Spokane men have filed articles of
incorporation at Olympia for the In
land Thresher company, to engage in
the manufacture of motor driven
thresher machines.
Whitman college won the debate
with the Washington State college
elementary school
George Brouchou, who resided in
the Yakima valley, was frozen to
death during the late cold snap He
started for his home across lots, and,
failing to appear, search was made,
resulting in the finding of his body.
M. e. Mergens, until few days ago
station agent with the Great North
ern railway at Marysville, is in the
county jail at Everett charged with
embezzlement of $153 of the COM
pany's receipts.
A purchasing agency of the COM
missary department of the United
States army is to be established at
Seattle Immediately.
The controlling interest in the Mo-
ran shipbuilding plant in Seattle has
been sold by Moran brothers to the
Griscoms of Philadelphia. The sum
involved is between two and three mil
lions. The Morans will complete the
battIeship Nebraska.
The state supreme court by recent
decision sustained the constitutional
ity of the state inheritance tax law.
Attorney General Atkinson has pre-
pared a formal complaint asking for
a permanent injunction to prevent the
destruction of Castle Rock, the ia
nous landmark on the Columbia river
above Portland.
Mayor Ballinger of Seattle last Sat
urday issued an order to the police
to put an end to dice playing at cigar
stands and all other forms of gambling
operated by retail cigar men
Farmers who believe their wheat
will have to be resown are buying
seed and getting ready to eommenct
work when the snow disappears.
The severe cold has undoubtedly
damaged early fruits and the fall sowI
wheat is retarded in its growth, bu
the general opinion of the whea
ranchers is that the wheat is not seri
ously damaged.
Members of the Woman's Temper
ance union have drawn up petition
to Governor Mead to be presented u
the various churches Sunday, asking
for the parole and release from tn
penitentiary of Myrtle Upton, tn
young girl convicted in Whitman
county of horse stealing and sentences
to a term of two years.
Unexpected demands for coal dun
ing the recent cold snap completely eH
hausted the supplies and these hav
not been replenished.
Attorney H. ]. Snively of Mort
Yakima, whose residence was CON
pletely destroyed by fire recently, Wi
soon commence the construction OF
handsome stone residence upon tn
old site on Mob Hill Mr.. Snively est
mates his loss, after the payment c
the insurance policies. at $500.
A number of hop contracts have r.
Gently been made by growers in YAK
ma county for this years crop at
cents a pound. Last year the ave
age sum received by the growers wa
about 10 cents, while for 1904 it wa
% cents or over.
Completely exhausted, after a seve
hour battle with a seven foot sharl
Patrick Sullivan and w. d. Yates pull
ed their boat into Seattle.
An immense flow of water has bee
struck at the well being drilled b
L. S. Green for the city on A stree
in Ballard.
His neck broken and his feet touc
ing the ground, w. A. Holland OF L
coma was found hanging by slend'
cord tied to a small limb of tree
the woods north of the new Tacon
high school building
OREGON ITEMS.
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