Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-06-28
washington, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA news.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
derts and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


. Butte, Mont, public schools, has beer
- elected principal of the Spokane higf
= school. His salary was fixed at $4,000
!. year.
!, The fifth annual Lincoln County Pr
= oneer and Historical associations pic
q mic was the most successful in the his.
tory of the association.
Hundreds of carloads of harvesters
are being brought to Tacoma for trans
shipment to Vladivostok, whence they
are sent by rail to Manchuria.
A Great Northern railway passenger
going west was wrecked about eight
miles up the Tumwater canyon west of
Leavenworth Saturday night. The
train was a double-header. The first
engine spread the rails, falling on its
side. The second engine was thrown
from the track into the Wenatchee riv-
er, carrying the mail car along with it.
There was nobody injured except the
fireman, who was slightly injured
about the head.
The large blast near Kahlotus on
George Chew's contract on the Port
land & Seattle line was exploded Sat
urday night. This blast consisted of
10000 pounds of powder, which rep
resents an outlay of over $4,000 for
powder alone.
State Horticultural Frank E. Hunt |
ley and his deputy, P. S. Darlington,
are in Wenatchee to investigate the |
condition of the orchards and the fruit |
crop. Mr.. Darlington will make We
natchee his headquarters and have I'M
der his official observation the coun-
ties of Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan.
j. e. Nessly of Pullman is not gull
ty of maintaining a nuisance and
Judge Chadwick instructed the jury to
return verdict.
jennie McLain has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at Walla Walla. The crime for
which he was arrested and to which
he pleaded guilty was that of the MUIR
der of William Cameron, a white man,
on the Colville reservation about two
weeks ago. McLain is a halfbreed
Indian.
The Stevens County Pioneer society
will hold its regular annual meeting
and picnic at Chewalah next Sunday.
The body of William Gustavus Adolf
plus Schoening, formerly a student at
the University of Washington, was =
found floating in the bay near the l
fire boat at the foot of Madison street.
seattle, Wash, Coroner Carroll be-
ieves that Schoening committed sui .
eide while temporarily insane The =
body had lain in the water at least
.wo weeks.
Ernest f. W. Poolton, aged Is. a :, u
student in the freshman class of the u
Seattle high school, died Monday as d
he result of burns received from an g,
lamp
Under the name of the Young Mems -"
association Of Seattle, Japa- e
lese Of Seattle have raised a fund of "
$4,000 and have purchased a site for ~ !,
temple. u
George W. France, for over seven III
ears postmaster of Hoquiam, sue
umbed to lingering illness from can. OF
er OF the stomach and other organs h
'hich was too far advanced to be re- ~
moved. f
While Mrs. Bumgardner and her Ii
aughter Clara were assisting the fer W
yman In crossing the Central ferry t1
ecently the rear wheel, which they OK
ere operating, got beyond their con- pa
'ol, and, catching in the clothes of fhe
lie woman, threw them overheard %
lrs. Bumgardner caught in the ropes I'll
nd was rescued, but the younger wom- III
D. being less fortunate, was thrown he
IT out in the stream beyond all DOS 70
Die help and was drowned. IN
saul Louie, the Indian charged with
urder in the first degree for brutallv
eating the life out of his sweetheart
the reservation April 10, because in
lie laVished her affections upon an nv.
her red man, was sentenced to ID We
'ars In the penitentiary at Walla p
ALA. D.
Complete returns from the specia1 a.
ection held in school districts No. / Do
b 20, SS, 49, 46, 81 and 11e Whitman
unity, to decide whether or not thew Of
ould organize into high school dis Iii
lct snow that large majority voted da,
'ainst organization. on
Inc wreck which happened on the on,
'okane & International recently at a :
INT near Spokane Bridge. killed Kin
Gorge e. Kendall and w. H. Waters 10,
tn train men.
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