Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-08-21
WASHINGTON, IDAHO. OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding CouHtry-Numerous Acct.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The new union depot at Pasco will
cost SOS, 900.
The building of new houses still
goes on in Odessa.
The state board of education granted
life diplomas to II persons last Satur-
day.
AL Hill, an old resident of Spokane,
died Saturday afternoon from an at
tack of cancer of the stomach.
James Hall, railroad lineman, was
struck by train near Sisco and re-
ceived perhaps fatal injuries.
The town of Valley had $4,000
fire last Saturday 1t started in
livery barn and swept the east side
of town.
w. T. Murphy, structural iron
worker, was accidentally killed near
Leavenworth while attempting toboard
train.
Charles Stanford, horse owner,
was robbed of $2115 and a pair of
trousers while asleep in his quarters
at Seattle.
j. l.. Layton, a rancher near Vernon.
'",H ohCt INSTANTLY hlllcU ldSI
week by John Anderson in dispute
over irrigation.
This years fruit crop in the Kit
titas valley will reach more than So
OOO boxes is the estimate of men in
terested in orcharding there.
Frank Bryant is in the Ellensburg
Jail charged with killing Thomas John
son, real estate dealer at Gle Elum. |
The men were fighting over bill.
Fire, caused from the sparks of a
stationary engine, destroyed 10000 |
feet of lumber at the Odell sawmill on
the Tucanon, near Dayton. last week.
The safe in the Toppenish postoffice
was blown open the other night and
the robbers made a successful get
away. The amount taken is not known.
dam across Toroda creek, near
Republican. which was constructed to
furnish water for the Byng brothers
sawmill, was destroyed by dynamite
recently.
Six million feet of high grade dress
ed lumber has been ordered in Belling-
ham from Puget sound mills to build
Seattles 20 mile new water supply
main from Cedar river.
r. Warrener. who stopped to button
his shoes when Vancouver, B. C.
rooming house in which he was living
caught fire, burned to death, and 20
occupants narrowly escaped.
Within a week it is announced over
300 condemnation suits will be brought
by the Northern Pacific railway to get
possession of property worth millions
of dollars for the Point Defiance line.
Tacoma.
Robert Mottau of Tacoma has re-
ceived notification that he has fallen
heir to an $4,000 estate in Germany.
The estate was willed to Mr.. Mottau
by his brother, who died few months
ago.
Four masked men attempted to hold
up street car Saturday on its way
to Seattle. They were frustrated by
the motorman, who saw the masks
and put on full speed. The bandits
fired at the car
The record price for wheat at Pull
man this early in the season was paid
Saturday by the Pullman Mill COM
pany which bought $500 bushels of
bluestem wheat from ]. r. Brown, pay
ing S21s cents per bushel.
Diminutive S-year-old Fred Shaffer,
known to the Tacoma police as the
baby burglar" was arrested recently
by city detectives charged with rob-
bling Otto Duevers grocery of about
800 in cash. He confessed.
Charles Peterson. a Swede, in the
employ of the Potlatch Lumber COM
pany in the woods, was killed instantly |
recently while blowing out stumps on
the right of way for a logging road at
Camp 7, 30 miles east of Palouse.