Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-09-11
WASHINGTON, IDAHO. OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
Few Interesting Items Gathered
rrom our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
d.nts and Personal Events Take
pace-crop outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The reBlsuid1iOh ANA wv - "~ ~ -
Seattle totals 4O,2o2.
whitman college will open for the fall
.omester September Is, when the con-
roootion address will be delivered by |
Iudge Burke of Seattle.
Judee Cullen is dead. He was pion-
oor of the northwest and had been a |
,asident of Spokane since 1900, NOV
mo there from Helena, Mont.
The heaviest registration in the his
tOry of Spokane was chronicled Satur-
Adv night when the books closed for the
or;maries. The total was 1868.
F. E. Price died at Reardan after a
hrief illness. Mr.. Price was one of the
oldest of the pioneers of this vicinity,
having come to this state in 1881.
Following fit of dependency after
having last $50 at the races at Seattle,
Frederick F. Dahl, first class private
in the hospital corps at Fort Lawton,
committed suicide.
There are now 1909 prisoners in the
state prison at Walla Walla, who manu-
featured during August 136,400 grain
bags at the jute mill, at cost of $.O6O3
each to the state.
The council chamber at Olympia re-
gently was the scene of 100000 bond
fire. They were the old per cent
bonds issued in the early COS and re-
funded for bonds bearing 3% per cent
interest
Fruit growers at Charleston are feel
ing the need of strongly organized
association and before another season
an organization including every grower
in the place will without doubt be
formed.
The wheat ranchers in the Big Bend
country have disposed of $4,000 bush
els of wheat, which they had pooled to
sell to the highest bidder. The price
received was 90 cents at Seattle, being
the highest price received in the Big
Bend for years.
All railroad property in the state II
assessed at $119, 1925, 433, telegraph com
panies at 1922, 1874 and street railwa,
companies at about $25,000,000 by tn
state board of tax commissioners, ac
cording to figures given out by the com
missioners.
Upon a petition filed in behalf o
the Dubois faction of the democratic
party, the Idaho supreme court has Is
sued an alternative writ of mandat
directing Secretary of State Lansdo
to appear at Boise Wednesday an
show cause why he should not file tn
Dubois ticket and certify it to the cou1
ty clerks as the legal democrati
ticket
"The action of King county comml
soners in making a horizontal cut
20 per cent in the assessment will NJ
reduce their state taxes one penny
declares Tax Commissioner J. e. Eros
The next sale of state school an
granted lands and tide lands owne
by the state of Washington takes pla'
on the first Saturday in October. III
lands to be offered, exclusive of tic
lands are appraised at nearly $50O,Oo
shark between ten and twel'
feet long which has been swlmmll
about the beach at Stones landing
Tacoma for several days past, n
Produced such a panic among q
campers that bathing in the sound
been abandoned.
There is a marked decrease in t
number of head of live stock in Wn
man county as compared with the
sessment Of last year. The report
1907 shows 29,715 horses owned in t
county and they were valued at $9l
llO. This year there are but ~
horses, valued at 1891, $40, a decree
Oh $500 in number, but they are oil
better class and more valuable.