Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-25
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON. IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA NEWS.
: Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the sur.
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Fiace-crop Outlook 10 Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.


A nursery company of Sunnyside has
secured seven tons of peach pits for
their next seasons planting. They ex,
pect TO grow half a million trees from
this lot. From one sack of pits this
season this company grew $500 trees.
5. A. Bowers, who owns a quarter
section of land four miles east Of Pa
louise, has sack containing 20 pota-
toes, which weighed so pounds. The
largest tuber weighed four pounds.
Christ Rukus, a Greek laborer. aged
Is years, employed in the Oregon Rail
road & Navigation extra grang at
Meeker's station, on the o. R. & N.
railroad, four miles west of La Crosse.
was accidentally shot and instantly
killed by his 15-year-old nephew. name
unknown, recently.
The Spokane postoffice is now doing
a business of upward of $7,00O000 a
year.
After being arrested in Spokane. M.
I. Brown, who was wanted at Taco
ma on the charge of stealing about
$500 from the Northern Pacific depot
at Tacoma, escaped from the officers.
Later he was located at Bellingham.
but succeeded in getting away before
the officers secured him. He is still
at large
DR.. John A. Crosse, a farmer near
Starbuck, lost about $500 by al fire
which started on top of a haystack
and burned rs tons of hay recently.
Judge ]. A. Taggard, who is said to
have united in marriage more couples
than any other man in the state. is
dead at North Yakima as the result of
an operation on one of his eyes.
Caught by a revolving shaft in the
mill of the Puget Sound Lumber COM
pany, on the Tacoma waterfront. Thad-
deus H. Ward was beheaded and every
yestige of clothing was stripped from
his body
George Bald, aged So years, commit
ted suicide recently at his home at
Connell He had been sick for two
weeks with asthma and had other
Alleged to be short in his accounts
at least $110, H. B. Messenger. book
keeper for the Frye-Bruhn Packing
company at Everett, has disappeared.
AS remedy for the prevailing hop
dealers in North Yakima
have been urged to assist in organic
ing a pool to dispose of the crop for
this year to the best advantages.
John Price and Roy Cornell. both
recently convicted at Pendleton of
1orse stealing, were sentenced to five
and three years, respectively, in the
The new 60-gallon chemical fire en-
CINE ordered several months ago by
he Toppenish council has arrived.
Lumber has declined in price until
common dimension stuff can now be |
purchased from the mills in Tacoma at
'13 and $14 thousand, this being SO
md "a below the figures quoted a few
months ago.
The September report of the State
Soldiers home at Orting, made by SUI
'erintendent Willis L. Ames to the
tate board of control, shows on the
asst day Of the month 256 veterans in
he institution, 81 in the colony and
lS on parole, total of 4O6 on the
oils.
In rage of jealousy, John Schwab
young Slovenian of Roslyn, recently
hot and instantly killed his young
life and then turned the weapon up
n himself, with the result that he al
died few hours afterward. The
Dung people had only been married
70 months, and report has it that the
usband was insanely jealous of his
oung bride, and owing to her persis- s
nee in speaking to old acquaintance.
is supposed they quarreled and in his {
lge he took the life of his companion. ]
The Kennewick volunteer fire de- +
lrtment has adopted resolutions re- '
resting the town council to order an
lratus to the extent of about $500
Unable to get hay balers, the ranch
s of Green valley have banded them o
Ives together and have bought a n
achine which they will operate a
emselves. The ranchers in that dis v
let have In the neighborhood of 1000
MS of hay on the ground, and there u
e no baling machines in sight. p
Wheat hauling from the Glade and z
her grain sections tributary to Nab :,
4 is now at its height, and there are u
I'M rs to 100 loads brought in each =
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