Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-08-14
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
o.vI.w of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hsm'sphsres
.,.o the Past Week-NationaI,
historical, Political and Personal
Events.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

n" choice bluestem and Turkey red
-.Soot sold at "a cents a bushel in
pomeroy Saturday
Egro started by a threshing engine
,nrned over nearly 900 acres of wheat
near Endicott recently.
saturday was payday at Camp Stan
,or American Lake, and $4,000 was
naid to the national guardsmen.
1ouis Grosjean, an employe of the
nanny pottery works at Seattle, lost
10Th arms in the live rolls recently.
barnard Saunders of Aberdeen, Al
roors old. a widower with one son,
was killed in Coats logging camp.
Gustav Johnson, a well known
to;or was drowned while bathing at
rainier beach, near Seattle, recently.
The body of an unknown man was
found beside the tracks of the North
orn Pacific. two miles west of Key
stone.
II mdge William H. Smell of the SUI
nerior court, Tacoma, has announced
4 his candidacy for the United States
senate.
n The Northern Pacific light and pow
or pant at Pasco was destroyed by
fire recently. The plant was valued
at $4,000 and was partly insured.
Alfred M. Miller, a Wenas valley
farmer, died recently, aged rs years.
\ Miller was a pioneer, crossing the
plains in a prairie schooner in 1851.
Four hundred of the 1000 railroad
men making Seattle their headquar-
tiers have organized the Railway EN-
ployes' Club of the State of Washing
ton.
The Washington Forestry associa-
ton was organized Saturday in Seat
tle The purpose of the association
is to preserve the natural resources
Of the state.
The Walla Walla Commercial clut
will install a permanent exhibit OF
the products of Walla Walla county
as soon as possible in the new rooms
in the city hall.
Judge M. M. Goldman, formerly O
Dayton, but now resident of Seattle
has filed his declaration of candidac.
for the senatorial nomination on thu
democratic ticket.
John Green, an old resident Of Che
Ian county, was killed instantly Sal
urday by falling from a large rock
above Stehekin, down a precipitou
cliff distance of rs feet.
With but a few feet of water in tn
supply tank, and with the complet
destruction of the city's power plan
Pasco is experiencing a situatio
which will no doubt be long remen
bered.
While returning from picking hui
keberries near Hunters, Miss Berth
Sewell, aged 10, was thrown frol
the wagon and the wheels passed owe
her chest, injuring her so that 81
died in a few minutes.
A stirring plea for the observan'
Of Memorial day along the lines /
tended when the day was first startt
was made by William Goodyear
Colfax, democratic candidate for co
gress, at the reunion of the veteran
at Spokane.
Orders have been issued from Il
state fire warden's Office upon Il
requests of the Washington Fore
Fire association that no more burnn
permits be issued by county fire We
dens throughout the state until fl
Their notice.
The payroll of Spokane for all
partments of the city for the mon
Oh July reached the grand total
s6S,S96.6S, as compared with $49,52S.
LOT the same month of last year, sho
ing an increase of $19, 3OS.23, or neal
40 per cent.
The combined harvester belongi
}. N. and George Jacobs, brothe
residing two miles east of UniontoV
view up recently. The huge mach
was literally blown to pieces a
hurled in all directions, and two n
narrowly escaped being injured by
ing pieces of iron and steel. The o.
plausible theory as to the cause
ue explosion is that someone dur
uuring the night placed nitroglycer
III the machine and the friction eau
ny starting set it off.