Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-03-01
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
Piace-Fali Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


outside world. Wheat waits in ware
before next crop.
Master painters of Tacoma have de-
cided for an open shop policy after
March l, regardless of the action of
the union.
Walla Walla county has been the
hardest hit of any of the eastern
Washington sections on account of
washouts, thousands snpon thousands
of dollars worth of damage being done
the roads and farms, aside from the
damage the railroads have received.
Copies OF the Indian war records for
the state of Washington have been
completed and forwarded from Wash
ington TO Olympia. They contain a
record Of all Indian wars in this state
with roster of all those who took
part in them.
A. c. Steinman of Ellensburg has
assumed the duties as receiver of the
North Yakima land office.
The seventh annual convention of
the Washington Letter Carriers asso-
cation was held in Seattle Friday of
this week. =.
George Hubner was crushed to death
recently by rolling a log in England's
logging camp near Castle Rock.
Tacoma has been selected by the Co
lumbia conference as their next place
of meeting in the fall.
S. Gardner Yerkes, assistant general
passenger agent of the Great North
ern railway, has resigned his position
With tho Hill limo RI. hpror11a affaptiVp
March l.
Serving sentence of four days in
the city Jail as a man, dressed in
mems clothing and confined in the
tank" with dozen seasoned hoboes,
was the experience of Edna Elliott,
who, seeming to be unable to keep
out of trouble, was convicted OF petty
larceny in Spokane and sentenced to
pay fine of 500 and costs.
The Chelan Commercial club, at it's
last meeting, passed resolutions in
Niting the Mountaineering club of Sc
attic to hold its first annual outing
on Lake Chelan, and pledged its mem
bers, in the event of the acceptance
of the invitation. TO do all in their
power to make the visit of the Noun
taineers agreeable.
Judge James X Kennedy, an old
and well known lawyer and former as
sociate justice of the supreme court
of the territory of Washington, died
at his home in Walla Walla recently
aged "a. Death was due to heart dis
ease.
Arrangements have been made for
Spokane to hold it's second annual big
cleaning day under the direction of the
City Beautiful committee of the $780,
900 club
E. w. Downen has sold his farm, ly-
ing between Pullman and Wawawai,
to w. L. LaFollette, the fruit king" Of
Wawawai, for $4,000. The farm con-
tains $40 acres and is well improved.
Jack O'Keefe, pioneer of Asotin
county, died recently.
News has just been received that the
wages of miners in the Roslyn and Gle
alum districts have recently been adj
vanced 10 per cent. In view of the
scarcity of fuel during the past win
ter, this increase may become bene-
fetal to the coal market if it remains
permanent.
1t is said trains will be running from
Tacoma to Spokane over the North
Coast railway in two and half years.
Tacoma will be the first large city
reached by our line after passing
through the Tieton pass.
Acting under orders of Mayor Moore
and Chief Wappenstein, the Seattle po-
lice Sunday enforced the Sunday clos
ing law in identically the same manner
as on last Sabbath.
The Tacoma saloons were closed
tight Sunday and few attractions of
the Sunday closing law have been re-
ported.
The legislative investigation now in
p progress into the conduct of the Office
of the state land commissioner has
brought out prominently the fact that
standing timber on the lands owned by
the state is being sold at from 20 cents
to 80 cents per thousand feet less than
it could be sold under the same law
with a slight amendment permitting
the purchasers two or four years more
time within which to remove the tim
Der purchased. This is the testimony
of all witnesses examined on this
point without single exception.
Back of this is another very per-
tinent fact, not alluded to in the
testimony, and that is that the pres
en- law was passed by the legislature
of 1897 at the instigation of the log
ging interests, the purchasers Of the