Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-30
WASHINGTON NOTES.

In the state of Washington one per-
son in 345 owns an automobile.
Jacob Stevig of Starbuck is dead
in St. Ignatius hospital at Colfax.
Alfred e. Tellesen, aged 20. was
drowned at Tacoma recently, while
fishing.
The second crop of alfalfa is being
cut and stacked and hauled to market
at Pullman.
It is said the railroads are break
ing the new labor law by working
their men 10 hours a day
The new recitation building for the
Washington State college will not be
built this year owing to the lateness
of the season.
Near Asotin recently Chas.s Sage,
aged Ia years, was accidentally shot
and killed. 1t is supposed that he
was shot while attempting to climb
the fence.
A cloudburst on the Genesee branch
of the Northern Pacific railroad Sat
urday afternoon tore out about 300
feet of track, and the passenger train
narrowly escaped being caught by the
raging waters.
There is said to be serious talk in
the Tacoma city council of impeach-
ing Mayor Wright and Commissioner
of Public Works Woods because they
failed to put a stop to the stealing of
gravel from the city property.
The banner wheat yield for the
Odessa section reported so far this
season comes from the ranch of Pc
ter Luiten, four miles northeast of
town, where a setting cut from 30
acres was threshed this week which
averaged AZ bushels to the acre.
The strike in the South Bend Mill
company's plant is growing, 40 men
having walked out Saturday. Owners
say they can get plenty of help and
that they will not suffer by a shut
down. The strikers have been given
"a hours in which to return to work.
In an opinion just rendered the at
torney general holds that "the fees
collected by county auditors or depu-
ties for preparing abstracts of title,
whether during or after office hours,
must be paid into the county treasury
for the benefit of the county in the
same manner as the other fees Off
cially collected by him.
j. II. Forman, a rancher at Parkers
bottom, has sold the pear production
on half an acre of land for $500.
This discounts all former records for
fruit production and value in the Yak
ina valley. The fruit which was sold
for that price on the trees, is the crop
Of 81 trees, planted IA years ago. The
pears are of the Anjou variety.
The first field fire of any conse-
quence near Colfax this year occurred
at the farm of Niles Champlin. The
fire originated from a smut explosion
and resulted in the complete destruc-
ton of the threshing machine and der
rick table Of w. p. Brewrink, to-
gether with $50 sacks of threshed
wheat. a stack containing about 600
sacks more, and 1000 new empty Cal
cutta grain bags belonging to Niles
Champlin. -a.
Charles E. Lewis made a good run
with his threshing machine recently
on Peter Klavano's ranch near Endi-
colt. The outfit moved and set five
times, and turned out 1856 sacks in
~ hours. Lewis hires histhelp on the
basis of 1000 sacks, and finds it brings
good results. In five days the average
threshing was 1852 sacks.
When the Pierce county board of
equalization adjourned sine die Sat
urday after a strenuous session of
three weeks it is estimated that
Pierce county had to its credit an in
crease in the assessment valuations
for 1907 of over $5,OOO.0OO, notwith-
standing the reductions made on pro-
tests, errors rectifed and assessments
altered.