Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-16
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The citizens of Okanogan are soon
to vote on the incorporating of the
town.
The ukase has gone forth, and the
hobo in Whitman county must work
or move on.
Construction On the Portland G. De
attic railroad is being rapidly pushed
to completion
The bodies Of Vern Wilcox and
Robert ID. Mitchell, who were drowned
in the Columbia river recently near
Bridgeport. were recovered
Carl b. Roden, assistant in the Chi
cago public library, has been elected
librarian for the Seattle library.
Whitman county will be entirely out
OF debt this fall, according to the state
ments of the county commissioners.
1t is said the warehouse men
throughout the Inland Empire have
raised the price for storage and hand
ling Of grain.
Under regulations issued by the sec
rotary of the interior, automobiles
Will hereafter be permitted In Mount
Rainier national park.
1t is said Washington's new CT
gazette law which is in effect Will yet
result in the manufacture of a new
variety of cigarettes.
l.. f. Darr, a prominent hardware
marchant Of Uniontown, met with an
accident recently during a runaway
that will probably prove fatal.
The wreck on the Northern Pacific
at Garfield has all been cleared up.
The four men injured are doing nicely.
and the doctor says they will recover.
AS many as 80 cruisers have been
looking over timber for the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad in the
dense forests on the Olympia PENN
sula.
Riley Harris, declared by the King
county sheriff to be one of the most
noted and daring horse thieves in the
country, was captured in his camp in
Seattle.
w. II. Ludden, a we'll known at
tcrney of Spokane, has announced his |
intention of making the race for the
nomination to congress from the Third |
district.
During the past year ending June
30 the police of Spokane made a total
of $40 arrests, of which number 4917 |
were for city offenses and 553 for
state offenses.
In a rearend collision of southbound |
trains on the Northern Pacific at Kala-
ma recently Conductor c. B. Carl of
Tacoma, who was in the caboose of
the forward train, was instantly killed |
Magnus Olson who is to have charge |
of the chorus work of the Nord Pa
ciflc saengerfest, which will be held |
in Spokane from August 29 to Septem-
Der 1, says a large crowd will be |
there.
After 30 years spent in searching
for his two children, who had been
taken from his home by their mother
33 years ago, M. L. Fauver of Boyd |
county, Nebraska, has located them in
Whitman county.
Orders have been issued from the |
Great Northern headquarters instruct
ing all agents to refuse conslgnments |
Of shingles for points via Duluth or
Superior, along the Great Lakes. ow-
ing to congestion of freight at the
docks at the head waters of the lakes. |
The report of Professor Elton Full
mer of the Washington State college |
on his examination of the stomach of |
Clyde Henion OF Newport has been
made public, and the chemist states
that he did not discover any poison
that could have caused the death of |
Henion, or any trace of poison.
The farmers of the vicinity of Day
ton have been taking advantage of the
high price offered for barley, which is
81, and in some cases higher, per 100
pounds. The farmers have estimated
a total yield Of 100000 sacks of barley
alone. If this is true, and with the
wheat crop, there will be nearly 81. 0O0.-
600 in circulation in that vicinity dur
ing the coming fall.
AT a recent mass meeting in Seattle
at which 200 shingle manufacturers
were present. a fund of $4,000 was
pledged to cooperate with the Pacific
Coast Lumber Manufacturers associa-
ton and other lumber associations in
fighting the proposed 10-cent advance
in freight rates to the east to be made
by the transcontinental lines October
Lumber associations have already
raised S145.000.