Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-09-13
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
Plaee-crop outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.


Nobody was killed.
The weather throughout the Palouse
country is all that could be desired for
the completion of harvest work.
Marion Russis, young Frenchman.
aged 81 years, met his death by drown
ing in the Palouse river recently.
w Phillips, rancher in the Matches
valley, committed suicide recently by
shooting He leaves a wife AMI fam
lily.
Too drunk to exercise reason, Carl
Brown of Tacoma, 40 years of age,
was run over by an electric train and
killed.
Tomato shipments continue from
Sunnyside, and it will be another
month before the entire crop is mar
keted.
In a struggle with a thief in room
at hotel in Seattle recently Detec-
tive Lee A. Barbee shot and killed his
adversary.
Jefferson H. Fulton, of Asotin, has
left for Manila to enter upon his duties
as second lieutenant in the United
States army.
A floating dock has been built for
the accommodation of steamboats,
landing at Kennewick, and moored at
the landing.
There is hay famine on the coast.
The death of Mrs. Mary P. Shieldse.
an old pioneer of Garfield county, oc-
cured at Seattle recently.
Joe Mackine, a Finnish contractor,
was killed recently at Aberdeen,
Wash, by falling from the lift in a
well which he was digging.
Horse thieves appear to be numer-
GUS in the Yakima country, number
of cases where horses have been stol-
en- being reported within the past few
days.
Beginning this week the Washing
, ton, Idaho & Montana Railway com
pany will put on two trains each way
daily between Palouse and Deary
which is the present terminus.
r Farmers Of the vicinity of Dayton
are taking advantage of the fine
weather to haul their grain to the
r warehouses as fast as possible, anC
already the houses are nearly filled
|
grain.
The entire city of Wenatchee is il
S dire straits because of a flume beina
/ washed out at the Wenatchee Electric
+ company. No power is to be had il
D the city, nor lights, and as a result
f the entire community has beer
plunged into a state of things border
6 ing on the archaic.
@ The annual business excursion of thu
+ Spokane Merchants & Manufacturers
association will this year touch tn,
e country lying west of Spokane aloni
s the Washington Central and Grea
q Northern roads. The start will b,
J. made on Wednesday morning, Sept
IS, at 1880 o'clock.
Fire destroyed the Webb hotel a
Shelton, 20 miles from Tacoma, re
n Gently Miss Bailey and Mrs. Nudge
both of Shelton, are known to b
r among the lost The following perish
r ed: Miss Ivy Bailey, chamberlain
w. II. Holmes, master mechanic in tn
q Peninsula Railway shops; Pearl +
, Larson; a boy driver for Connolly, tn
butcher; Mrs. Gay of the hotel; Dai
It J. IIennessey, a logger. Eight or min
# are still unaccounted for.
} Tied in their stalls and unable t
}. escape from the burning building, 2
d horses belonging to the City Da
Q Scavenger company were cremated il
# a fire that destroyed the company
O stable at Spokane. Thirty tons Of ha
O in the loft of the barn, where the fir
is supposed to have started, were ais
e lost, making the total loss over $40
D. OOO Only about $4,000 of this wa
o covered by insurance.
r. The old soldiers in camp at ChewC
y lah recently elected the following off
o GERS for the ensuing year: Commander
y Comrade F. A. Parmeter Of Dais!
Wash; senior commander, Conrad
Childs. Kettle Falls, Wash; JUNO
commander, Comrade Stafford, Kettl
o. Falls, Wash; adjutant, Colonel Fisl
:. Kettle Falls, Wash; officer Of day,
~ T. Grove, Deer Park; officer Of guarC
= Mr.. Anderson. Spokane; quarterma
- ter, E. A. ,Keyes, Spokane.
OREGON ITEMS.