Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-02-01
WASHINGTON NOTES.


bill authorizing the construction of
dam across the Snake river at Five
Mile rapids by the Benton Water COM
pany.
Unlike nearly every former in
stance of a Yakima Indian being killed
| by a train, WaYnaka, the old Indian
who was struck and killed by loco
motive at Toppenish recently, was not
drunk.
At recent meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Dayton creamery a commit
tee, consisting of j. w. Jessie, H. A,
Kaeppler and A. G. Gerkin, was ap-
pointed to dispose of the creamery
plant, the venture having proved a
financial failure.
Gray & Gray have sold their grist
mill at Oakesdale to a Mr.. Barron of
Asotin.
The annual district convention of
Knights of Pythias convened in Spra-
que and held an all-night session Fri
day night Five candidates were given
the last rank in the order. Team work
was put on by the Spokane lodge and
team taken from Harrington, Daven-
| port and Sprague.
Ice jams are forming in the Colum-
bia river and within the last few days
two such jams have frozen together,
making a compact mass of ice capable
of sustaining the weight of teams and
sleds. One is in the river just below
Wenatchee, the up-river end coming
just to the piers Of the new bridge, the
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two miles. The other is above Wenat-
chez, between OTondo and Chelan, and
is over mile long.
Elaborate services were held over
the remains of the late Eugene J. Eel
loves at Spokane last Sunday in the
Masonic temple. The dead man was
a member of several fraternal and
social organizations and members Of
these bodies turned out to honor the
memory of their dead comrade
Wenatchee business men are debat-
ing the question of raising 5000 a
month to advertise the Wenatche val
ley.
Senator Ankeny has taken up with
he director of the geological survey
the feasibility Of irrigating a 10000
ecre tract of land lying along Tucanon
liver in Garfield and Columbia coun-
ties. During the flood season it is esti-
mated the river carries off twice the
volume of water it does during the dry
season.
The state board of control has con.
iracted for 5000 bales of jute al $26.9G
per bale. delivered f. o. b. Walla Walla
to continue the operations of the mill
in the penitentiary. F. T. Grove &
Co., Tacoma, are the successful bidders.
The last contract price, in December,
was $2765 per bale.
Because Orville Jackson, aged 10,
adopted son of ]. Jackson, who lives
On a ranch near Cedar Creek, between
Garfield and Palouse, attempted to poi
son his foster father, the little fellow
has been sent to the reform school at
Chehalis.
A plan is on foot in Spokane to found
a domestic training school for the edu-
cation of girls in the science of cook
ing, laundering, serving, manners, care
of children and the general duties of
the modern house servant.
The director of the geological survey
has assured Senator Ankeny he will
have the proposed irrigation project,
which was recommended by the sena-
tor in Garfield and Columbia counties,
examined into at once. Instructions
have just been sent to geological sur
vey engineers III the field to make a re.
Port at the earliest possible date.
Members OF the Spokane delegation
sent a committee to Governor Mead re-
sently asking, him to make a change
in the superintendent of the Medical
Lake hospital on account, as they
stated it, of the inability of Superin-
tendent Anderson 10 handle the insti
tuition efficiently. DR.. Anderson will
take his vacation during February and
may not return as superintendent
After living in the woods about the
outskirts OF Tacoma for more than a
year, associating with no one, and Sc
curing food by midnight thefts, Frank
Richie, the police say, is the man who
Tor year has been hiding in the
woods, sleeping in the underbrush and
stealing chickens or whatever he could
lay his hands on to keep life within
him.
The river and harbor bill, reported
to the house Monday, carries 5000, 600
for the Cello canal, 100000 having
been added to the amendment original
Iy looked for.