Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-06-19
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
a Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country--Numerou Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place--crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

which are now well developed.
In the superior court at Seattle re
Gently Guy G. Stratton, secretary an,
treasurer of the Acme Single Mil
company, was sentenced to serve
sentence of from one to five years il
the state penitentiary and to pay
fine of $500. He was convicted o
manslaughter in running down Hen
rietta Johnson with his automobile an,
killing her. ,He gave notice of appeal
While playing hockey from schoo
John Weddle and Walter Moe, aget
8 and 10 years, respectively, were re
Gently drowned in Lake Union, in Seat
tie. The bodies were recovered.
The recent fire in the Stone, F'isheI
company's department store at Tia
coma caused $4,000 damage, due prin
cipally to the automatic sprinkler
flooding two of the floors.
While playing about the house al
Spokane 3 year old son Of Mrs
Campbell found a loaded revolver and
pointing it at his mother, pulled the
trigger playfully. The weapon was
discharged and the ball lodged in Mrs
Campbell's leg.
The water of the Columbia river has
risen so high that Wenatchee's tenn.
porary pumping plant is in danger of
being carried away in the flood.
The artificial ice manufacturing
plant which has been built during the
spring at Prosser has been put in oper-
alton for the first time, and the test
was satisfactory. The ice machinery
and the cold storage plant represent
an expenditure of $4,000.
William Jarvis, who was recently
convicted of horse stealing at Con-
conully, was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for an indeterminate term of
from one to ten years.
Mayor John F. Miller of Seattle has
announced the appointment of Captain
Irving Ward as chief of police.
j. w. Culton, a pioneer resident of
the Palouse country, died at Palouse
City recently.
The funeral of Mrs. Nancy ]. Rem
shaw, a widely known Whitman coun-
ty pioneer, who died at the house of
her son, Moses A. Renshaw, in Seattle,
took place from the house of Charles
Scriber in Colfax last week.
Teh town of Chelan has a population
of 721, as against 61S two years ago.
State Superintendent Henry B.
Dewey has commissioned former Prin-
cipal II. M. Shafer of the state normal
school as sole delegate from Washing
ton to attend the national congress in
Cleveland, Ohio, in July, to unity and
codify school laws. Mr.. Shafer will
leave June 20.
The department at Washington has
notified Postmaster Hugh Eldridge of
Bellingham to Immediately secure
proper data on the site for the new
federal building there, that the gov
eminent architect may have a basis
on which to prepare plans.
Fire, which originated by the over
turning of kerosene lamp early Sat
urday morning, destroyed $4,000
worth of property in the restricted
district and caused the death of IA
horses stabbed in the Home Comfort
livery barn, which was destroyed also
After having by a heroic effort
saved a younger playmate, Teddy
Simpson of Spokane from drowning
Saturday afternoon, Felix Zilka, aged
IA years, became exhausted and sank
to his death, laying down his own
young life in order to preserve that of
his friend.
Several hundred union laboring men
of Walla Walla will ask the board of
education to submit to the people of
Walla Walla school district at the next
election the proposition of free text
books.
The Commercial club of Pullman is
perfecting plans for the installation
of a denatured alcohol plant there.
According to State Grain Inspector
John w. Arrasmith, all indications
point to a wheat crop this year that
will fully equal that of last year. 40
100000 bushels.
Tacoma's fire losses for 1907 we're
$461, 9S795. Insurance, $3.50. 4S4.65.
Applications for grain bags are be-
ing received at the state penitentiary.
A commercial club was recently or
ganized at Issaquah.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
has begun laying its 90-pound steel
rails in the eastern part of the state
The milk dealers of Seattle now sell
IL quarts of milk for 81.
The Hayes brothers are planting on
their farms 10 miles east of Ellensburg