Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-12-11
NEWS OF IDAHO, MONTANA.
WASHINGTON and OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges OF the Sur
rounding Oountry-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaIl Trade Good
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

nudi iouBe Oh SOrrOW cunuay.
Royal W. Raymond, head of the anti
saloon league Of the state Of Washing
ton, has resigned.
In the superior court at Dayton, Les.
ter Atwood and Archie Lindsey have
been acquitted of the charge of stealing
cattle.
February 2, 3, and are the dates
fixed for the annual meetings of the
Western Retail Lumbermen IS associa-
tion in Spokane.
Five thousand sheep, blindly follow
ing the leader over low bank in the
Mckee coulee, resulted in smothering to
death of $40 of them recently.
Oliver v. Linn, superior judge of Ma
son and Thurston counties, died at his
Olympia residence Sunday night. He
leaves widow and one son, Donald,
aged 9.
The celebration Of the fftieth ami
iversary of the organization of the
Masonic Grand Lodge in this jurisdic-
ton took place Monday and Tuesday at
Olympia.
The city council of Prosser has unani-
mousiy decided to raise the liquor
license to $1,000 per year, but by vote
of one to three rejected the proposition
to limit number of saloons.
Motorman Gus Olsen and two others
were fatally hurt, 20 seriously injured,
when an eastbound university car rush
ed into an inbound at Roanoke street
and Eastlake avenue at Seattle Satur-
day morning, owing to the fog.
Mrs. Frank Eggleston Of Bellingham,
who shot her husband in self-defense
last July, has commenced suit in the
superior court against the Order of
Maccabees to recover $500, for which
amount the deceased was insured.
James Devlin, a prominent young man
of Centralia, was accidentally shot and
Instantly killed recently by Robert T.
Ready, painter. The two men, in
company with two others, were shoot
ing at target and Devlin was mark
ing the shots.
y. b. Palmer, former law partner of
Judge Milo A. Root, who has become
deeply involved in the Root scandal by
testimony given in Spokane to the in
vestigating committee, now faces a
prospective investigation by the state
legislature, which may result in his ex-
pulsion from that body when it con-
venes in January.
Confined to his room, with the excep-
ton Of the two trips that are made
daily in a wheel chair to the adjacent
bathhouse, where he takes the treatment
that has been prescribed for him, with
no one save the physicians in attend
ance, his wife and two close friends per-
mitted TO talk with him, the exact con-
.dition of Governor-elect Cosgrove of
Washington is largely q matter of con-
lecture.
There was in the state treasury 1914
463.65, as compared with but $433,-
1910 December 1, 1907, according to
a statement prepared by Treasurer
George G. Mills. The deposit interest
paid by the banks on average state de-
posits has already reached the sum of
$11,2s5.so since January 1 last. Inter
est for the current quarter will bring
this amount up to about $4,000, which
will be apportioned the first of the year
to the several state funds.
James Odgers, editor and publisher
of the Davenport Tribune, died Satur-
day morning from perfOration of the
bowels. James Odgers was born in
CORNWALL. England, January IA, 1s49,
and came to America in 1867, settling
in New Jersey and later in Nebraska.
In 1888 he came to Ellensburg, Wash,
where he engaged in the real estate
business. Later he went to Coulee City,
where he entered the newspaper bust
ness. He came to Davenport in 1900.