Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-05-22
WASHINGTON. IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Seattle high school boys and girls
are to be educated separately in fu
ture.
The buildings at Charleston of the
Snake River Canning company are
now complete and the machinery is
being installed.
Renewed trouble at the state train.
ing school has resulted in F. G..
Thompson resigning his position as SUI
perintendent.
When the Atlantic battleship fleet
arrived off Grays harbor Wednesday 1t
was presented with 16 Teddy bears
Give ones" The gift was from the city
of Aberdeen.
A section of five blocks in Seattle
was flooded for two hours Saturday
night by the bursting of an 18-inch
high pressure water main on Melrose
avenue
Navigation has opened on the Okan-
ogan river for the ensuing season.
Authorities of the naval academy
announce that Midshipman o. Wilson
OF Seattle, member of the graduating
class, is the winner of the handsome
sword presented annually by the class
of 1871 for general excellence in gun
merry.
Marie j. Candy, whose husband,
Clinton Il. Candy, was sentenced to a
year in the Pierce county Jail for
Handwriting his wife, was granted a
decree of divorce.
The Rosalia public schools have
closed for the summer.
This week will mark the graduation
of the first class from the Kennewick
high school,
James p. Goodhue, one of the Oldest
Odd Fellows in the northwest, pio-
neer steamboat man and railroad
agent, died recently in Walla Walla.
The water has been turned into the
new nighttime ditch on the East We
natchee land. This means that 5000
acres more are now under water in
the Wenatchee valley
An extra freight train was wrecked
three miles from Cheney recently and
40 cars loaded with coal were com
pletely wrecked, being smashed into |
kindling wood.
Recently Jay Barnhart aged 10 |
years, was drowned in the Spokane |
river while fishing with his brother on
Mitre rock.
Owing to the illness of Mr.. billiard, |
Hilliard & Co., bankers, of Cotton, |
have closed their bank. Accounts will |
be liquidated until May 81 and all |
notes, etc, will be transferred to the |
First State Bank of Uniontown.
A package containing $500 in silver
was stolen from the Great Northern |
depot at Elk recently.
"Old Man" Wheeler, a track walker. |
has confessed that he was the man |
who made off with the money pouch |
1t is reported that the Northern Pa
cific is preparing to begin work on |
the 100000 Point Defiance water |
grade route out of Tacoma to Port |
land.
Ceremonies for the dead were held |
over the body of Theodore Galland. |
who died in Spokane recently was laid |
to rest Friday.
April reports from the superintend- |
ems Ol Ine SJaIe institutions TO the |
state board of control show increases
in the number of inmates except at
the school for deaf and blind
Five thousand dollars in currency
represents the loss to the Great North
ern Express company in the robbery
of the company's strong box by two
bandits in the Great Northern tunnel
in Seattle recently.
Guy c. Stratton, secretary-treasurer
of the Acme Single company, was
convicted of manslaughter in the SUI
perior court of King county for the
death of year old Henrietta Mar
garet Johnson, who was killed by an
automobile.
The steamer Yakima, which has
been a freighter between Lewiston
and Riparia, on the Snake river. will |
be put into service between Pasco |
and Priest Rapids.
Fred L. Shaft, a wealthy retired
lumberman, died suddenly in Spokane
Saturday. He was owner of the horse
Sherlock Holmes.