Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-07-17
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

With a capital stocf of $4,000, half
of which is paid up in cash, the First
National bank of Harrington, Lincoln
county, has been organized.
Ranchers in the Washtucna country
this year will not pay the high prices
for labor that have prevailed in the
past. The ranchers offer So for box
drivers, $3.50 for stackers, leaders
and spike pitchers. For separator
tenders the wages will range from
$3.50 to Sc, according to the size of
the machine.
Professor Johnson of the English
department of Washington State col
lege, has resigned and has left Pull
man for Saltwater, Okla, where he
has accepted a position of professor
of English in the state university.
Harold Slorah, aged 10 years, of
North Yakima, died recently as the
result of a blank cartridge wound in
the palm of the hand received July 4.
The death at Pullman of Mrs. M.
w. Whitelow, wife of Mark Whitelow,
representative from the Pullman dis
trict and one of it's wealthiest farm
ers, occurred recently.
The Oscar e. Young farm of Bill
acres has been sold to Samuel and
William Easto of Davenport, father
and son, who will take possession
August L. Price, SCI an acre.
Governor Mead has reappointed
Of
Der of the state board of pharmacy.
Grover Weinan, % years old, en-
ployed on the Figure Eight" scenic
railroad at the White City, Madison
park, Seattle, recently fell 40 feet to
the ground and received fatal injuries.
Mrs. S. e. Hardenbrook discovered
the body of boy 10 years old float
ing on the Columbia river near He'll
Gate.
A serious forest fire is raging on
the bills at East Silver Beach, near
Bellingham.
Tho fees of the Stevens county
offices fol June as reported to the
treasurer were: Auditor,
$579.05; county clerk, s249O5; sheriff,
$126.3O.
After she had broken nearly every
piece of furniture in the house, Mrs.
Nellie Johnson of Seattle carried the
pieces into the back yard and set fire
to them. She lighted the pile of kind
ling wood while her husband was
away for a physician.
County Clerk Hugh G. Todd, secre-
tary of the state county clerks associ-
alton, announces that the next meeting
Of the association will take place at
Seattle on July 20.
line of frame buildings facing the
alley at the rear of the Whitman Coun-
ty State bank building and extending
from Sixth to Seventh streets, Rosalia.
were wiped out by fire at an early
hour Sunday, entailing a loss estimat-
ed at $1,000. The buildings were used
for warehouses and private stables.
Seven horses persisted in the flames.
Fire of unknown origin completely
destroyed the lumber mill of the
Holmes Pine Lumber company at
Lyle recently. The loss is estimated
at $4,000, the plant being valued at
$4,000 and the lumber at $4,000.
Mrs. Rollo George of Olympia was
drowned in Talcott lake as a result of
some one in a party of four rocking
the craft which caused it to upset.
One Japanese is dead, another is
dying, 200 persons were rendered
homeless and eight three-story build
ings were destroyed Saturday by a
fire which threatened to wipe out the
restricted district in Seattle. The
Japanese was buried under ruins
while trying to save his trunk, and the
fatally injured one leaped from a win
dow. The origin of the fire is I'M
known.