Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-03-15
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA NEWS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Inc school LOT Ine Ie6Dl6 minded at
Medical Lake has 124 attendants
Samuel McCauley has been appoint
ed regular rural carrier at Dayton.
1t is said Everett will be connected
by electric road with Seattle at an
early date.
The embargo on through eastbound
dead freight, in effect west of White
fish, Mont, since January 2, will be
lifted March Is.
Victor Dessert, owner of the Pacific
hotel and a pioneer resident of Spo-
kane, died recently. His fortune was
rated at $750,000
The annual bean bake of the G. A.
R. post and Woman's Relief corps at
Pullman last week was one Of the big
events of the season.
The funeral Of H. G. Stimmel, who
died in Seattle, was held Sunday aft
ernoon at Spokane, where he had made
his home for 23 years.
A cooperative store, with a capital
stock of $4,000, fully subscribed, is to
conduct a general merchandise bust
ness in Harrington.
A number of schoolgirls in Walla
Walla, ranging in age from 10 to 10
years, have been stealing small arti
Giles from the different stores in town.
John H. English, aged IS years, who
lived south of Palouse, was found dead
recently at the foot of a bluff along
the Palouse river just east of the city
limits.
The case against a Tacoma skating
rink proprietor who kept his place open
on Sunday has been dismissed. The
court held the prosecution had failed
to make a case.
The February report from Medical
Lake hospital for the insane shows an
average attendance of 526 patients
with 16 new ones, six discharged and
two deaths.
1t now appears that Washington will
be divided into three congressional dis
tricts, one east of the mountains and
two west. Klickitat will be in the
Pierce county district
Roy N. Wolfe, who was selected last
December as the champion debater OF
Whitman college, will be given the
debate trophy, awarded by the gradu-
debatef
The IL year old son of Mr. Snead
of Garfield, while out hunting SOUR
re1s recently with younger brother
and a neighbours son named Davis
was accidentally shot dead by the
Davis boy.
County officers at Bellingham are
having trouble with negro laborers i'm
ported by j. j. Hill to replace Japs on
the Great Northern The negroes have
been quarantined, but refuse to remain
in the camps.
Mrs. Jane Anderson, the Oldest
woman in the state of Washington and
perhaps on the Pacific coast, died last
week at the home of her daughter
Mrs. W. H. Hamilton, in Bellingham
She was 101 years old.
The body of a woman was found
on the ice in the Mohawk river neal
Schenectady, N. Y, recently. She
had jumped from a passenger train
Her ticket bore the name of Mrs
Maria Becker, of Chehalis, Wash.
Efforts are being made by the
friends Of Herman Lown of Edmonds
Wash, to secure for the young hero
Carnegie medal Young Lown saved
four girls from drowning last Sun
day after boat in which they were
rowing had capsized, himself receiving
serious injuries.
Mother" Smith of Portland, known
over the northwest for her work il
trying to reform the criminal element
visited the Walla Walla Jail and peni
Tertiary and preached to the prisoners
recently. She travels without money
and says that God always provides fol
her wants.
The town of Prescott is headquart
ers for the new association recently
organized under the name of Farmers
& Wheat Growers of America. The
purpose of the association is to pro
tect the members from the grain buy
ers combine, and assist in marketing
their product to the best advantage.
1t is reported there is a scarcity o
farm laborers throughout the Palous'
country and wages have been ad
vanced Farmers are paying 81 t.
$1.50 per day and board for common
farm work, and some are Offering 3!
per month and board for steady work
with regular harvest wages during har
vest.
MONTANA ITEMS.
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