Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-03-29
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Selah valley farmers are shipping
potatoes to the sound markets.
The president has appointed L. c.
Weik postmaster at Odessa, Wash.
An officer to trace cars will be re-
established by the Great Northern in
Spokane.
The grand nest of the Brotherhood
of Owls has moved from Walla Walla
to Seattle.
Building contractors of Walla Walla
claim that a sand trust has been or
ganized in that city.
The Stevens county sawmills are
preparing, almost as a whole, to start
work saving on April l.
Secretary Taft, Governor Hughes
and Governor Folk may visit this
state during the coming summer.
The first steel passenger coach to
come to Spokane arrived Saturday
over the o. r. & N. from Portland.
The first strawberry of the season
has made its appearance in the Hover
end of the Kennewick-Hover valley.
EVERY physician in North Yakima
is violating the state law because
they have not registered their license.
The Northern Pacific announces
that on March % the resumption Of
through freight east will be resumed.
There is no longer any doubt about
the Canadian Pacific using the o. r.
& N. tracks from Spokane to Port
land.
Jennie Jackson, an unmarried In
dian woman living on the Puyallup
reservation, was recently killed by
train.
The plumbers union of Spokane is
said to have decided to raise the scale
of wages from $3.50 to Sc for a day of
eight hours.
Fred Miller, murderer of Fritz Diertz,
was hung at the penitentiary Friday.
He totally collapsed at sight of the
rope and tainted.
4 tract of SO acres of land near
= Cornell has been selected by the state
| college for the experimental purposes
during the coming season.
The Columbia club of Vancouver is
a recently organized club of Vancou-
. yer for the purpose of promoting the
commercial interests of Vancouver.
w. M. Allen, chief clerk in the Uni
! ted States land Office at Waterville for
the past six years, has received no
t tice of his transfer to the Seattle Of
fee.
The general land office has just is
sued a circular announcing that no
: definite date can be named for open
i ing the Yakima reservation for settle
> ment.
!, Missing for two weeks, and believed
to have met with foul play, N. P.
a Nelson, bachelor living recently in
e Seattle, is being sought for by his
friends.
e The disagreement between the Sc
e attic master builders association and
the building trades assembly on the
J. scale of wages for unskilled labor has
a now reached point where there is
little prospect of any settlement.
: Washington, says the Railway Age
6 the foremost authority on railroad
t. matters, leads the world in the mum
; Der of miles of roadway under con
T struction, $50. OF this amount Mes
l. srs. Hill and Hartman are behind the
building of no miles.
e Whitman County Notes.
The poll tax collectors are now max
e ing their rounds throughout the
county.
e Calvin McCracken, a former pioneer
u resident of Whitman county, passed
h away at his home in Charleston recent
ly.
+, The 26th session of the Whitman
D. County Teachers institute is in SEES
o sion this week, $50 teachers are pres
emit
d The Colfax Commercial club has or
J. dered 10000 copies of a pamphle
4 advertising Colfax and Whitman
l. county.
Judge Chadwick of Colfax was thu
first to enforce the insanity plea Law
8 now upheld by the supreme court o
q the United States.
y Committees have been appointed Il
n formulate plans for celebrating il
4 Colfax the SSth anniversary of thu
founding of Odd Fellowship in Ameri
CT. This occurred in Baltimore Apri
&c, 1919.
The Palouse river broke out of it
\ banks recently in North Colfax, owinl
to a log jam that had formed in tn
4 river. AS a result four houses of tn
flooded district have foot of water il
them, though the water is slowly sui
siding.
In the death of John Bryant, bette
known as Grandpa" Bryant, Whitma
county loses one of the oldest settler
and best known characters. Mr.. Bry
ant was "a years old on March 9.
James Bunch, who is awaiting tria
at Colfax upon the charge of assault
with a deadly weapon with intent t
infiict bodily injury and who is tn