Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-04
WASHINGTON NOTES.

a Spokane saloon last week Dy Lar
nv Cavanaugh.
Children under Is cannot escape
the state law and must be sent to
school.
In future all cars of lumber will
he weighed on scales provided by the
pacific Coast Lumber Manufacture
ers' association before they cross the
mountains eastward bound.
A logging train on the England
tract near Castle Rock, ran away
few days ago and demolished the
whole outfit.
Lyle Hornbeck was shot and in
stantly killed in the residence OF
lean Winterstein at Toppenish.
Hornbeck, who was friend of Win
terstein, went into the latter's house
late in the evening and Winterstein,
believing him to be a burglar, fired.
All southeastern Washington and
the Yakima valley joined Saturday
night in the first annual banquet Of
the Kennewick Commercial club.
The event was also made the for
neal opening of the new Kennewick
hotel. The open river was the
theme of the banquet.
Adiutant General Ortis Hamilton,
of the National Guard of Washing
ton. has appointed board to revise
the military code and regulations for
the state.
John T. Kennedy was hurled to
GOI ~ ,.fxr
from the new bridge of the Portland
& Seattle railroad at Vancouver.
A line of boats is to be put on the
Columbia river between Pasco and
Portland, operating with the portage
railroad at Cello as connecting
link
Congressman w. L. Jones will be
in Spokane to deliver the principal
address in connection with the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the new
federal building on Thursday, Octo-
Der 8.
Justice Palmer of Wenatchee has
closed his fourth docket as police
Justice, showing 1900 cases passing
through his hands the past five
years.
Harvest work is near an end.
Jacob Kibler, 81 years old and a
pioneer of Walla Walla valley is
dead from a stroke of apoplexy.
The week Just closed has wit
messed the largest wheat sales al
Walla Walla during the present sea
son.
The twelfth annual state fair Sat
urday night closed the most success
full year in its history.
Clinton D. Town of Waterville has
been nominated by Congressman
Wesley L. Jones to fill one of thu
two vacancies as a cadet at the An
napolis naval academy.
Frank Doyle, aged 20 years,
brakeman in the service of thu
Northern Pacific, was crushed tt
death under the wheels of a freigh
car in the freight yard at Tacomi
Saturday.
The committee of the Toppenisl
Commercial club has made a call TO
bids for the construction of a bridg
across the Yakima river two and one
half miles north.
The general opinion of grain dea
ers in Spokane is that the crop thl
year is but slightly damaged so far b
the heavy rains, and that there is &c
ing to be a heavy yield.
The total apple acreage in this stat
is near the 100000, and the trees ar
heavily laden. The crop is estimate
by growers and inspectors to be wort
from 100000 to $10,000O0O thi
season, and of this more than $4,000
600 will be paid for fruit packed fo
export.
Gladys F. Baker, of Seattle, has 81
cured a decree of divorce from Charlie
H. Baker on the grounds of abandon
ment
John Sanger, who recently cam
to North Yakima from New Yorl
where he was a stock broker, na
closed a deal for the purchase of tn
P j. Flint ranch in Parker bottom Il
$4,000.
The steam schooner Santa Bar5ar
bound from Seattle to Valdez, struc
the rocks in Active pass, Puget SCUM
tearing a great hole in her hull.
Prosecuting Attorney B. r. Bone
OF Hoquiam has publicly announce
mat dance halls must go.
Otto La Budde of Walla Wal
holds the record for the large
peaches which have ever been gro"
IN that county. Mr.. La Budde secure
three boxes Of peaches from trees
MS yard which averaged one pour
each and measured 10 inches In CT
conference. A few of the peach'
ever exceeded the above figures.