Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-09-04
WASHINGTON, IDAHO. OREGON
AMI MONTANA ITEMS.
rew Interesting Items Gathered
Ram Our Exchanges of the Sur
.urdino country-Numerous Acct
s.rts and Personal Events Take
pIace--crop outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

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.ole of the Gawley Mill company, {
cross the bay from Tacoma.
While operating his threshing ma
obine near Pullman Friday John Stein
Nurg was probably fatally injured.
The death of Nathan Keith, aged S6l
,,oors occurred at Waitsburg recent
IL He was a pioneer of the west.
The Spokane bartenders' union has
purchased large burial plot in Fair
mount cemetery, paying 5000 for the
plot.
H M. Ludlow, 6S years old, fell to
,is death down the elevator shaft OF
tbe Oriental building in Seattle Sun
DAY.
lanes Ragsdill, aged about 60
wears. was fatally injured near
snringdale Saturday in wood haul
ing accident.
The hardware store of McClintock
g. Simpson at White Salmon was en-
tered recently and about $500 worth
of cutlery carried away.
Harry Long and an unknown assist
ant groundkeepers of the Seattle Ten
mis- club, were asphyxiated in their
room at the clubhouse last Sunday.
The Hazelwood company, ltd, has
sold its cattle to John L. Smith, the
veteran superintendent of the live
stock department at the Interstate
fair.
A harvest hand giving his name as
James Bovard was given jail SEN
tence at Oakesdale for being drunk.
Soon after he succeeded in hanging
himself with a towel and breaking his
neck.
e. f. DAILY has been arrested at Sc
attic on the charge of stealing about
$4,000 worth of jewelry from a trunk
in the room of Mrs. Carrie S. Ernei
PROPRIETOR of the Ertyl hotel, fash
ionable rooming house in Seattle
Joseph A. Bloch, a rich Pacific
coast banker and real estate broker
wanted in Portland on the charge Of
deserving his wife, who is destitute
with Mrs. Y. Weiss, an attractive
brunette, with whom he eloped, were
arrested in Seattle.
Fire early Saturday morning a
Starbuck destroyed property valued
at 100000, two stores, the odd Fee
lows hall, and other buildings beinI
a complete loss. The blaze starte
near Sprout & Barnhart's store, pre-
sumably from a match thrown int
the rubbish.
Eight thousand dollars was pal
Saturday to the 500 Indians comprl'
ing the Occur d'Alene tribe, by India
Agent c. o. Worley, at Tekoa. Fac
person, including men, women an
children, received SIG. The none
is a payment due on reservation lane
sold some years ago.
A recent statement made at was
ington, d. c., by the surveyor ge
erals office shows that on July
there were 2,347,S25 acres surveye
and 2,2S7,176 acres unsurveyed, una
propriated and unreserved publ
lands in Washington and S6S,O2l,5'
acres left in Alaska, all unsuryeye
Spokane, Columbia & WEBSTER
Railway company is the name OF Il
new electric and steam road whl'
the Graves interest will build FRO
Spokane into the Big Bend countr
Articles of incorporation for the ne
railroad were filed recently at t
county courthouse, the capital sto
being $3,000,000.
The Protestant Episcopal chur
has IS bishops, including the presldl
bishop, in the United States; TWO
China, two in Japan and one each
West Africa, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil
Mexico. The Methodist Eplscol
church has 10 bishops and seven n
sionary bishops The Methodist III
copal Church South has IL bishops.
While T. J. Maynard was threshl
at the Ranch of H. A. Spills, west
Cotton, in moving from one setu
to another, along a steep hillside
separator overbalanced and roi
down the hill 1t turned complet
over three times. Mr.. Maynard
charged his crew, left the wreck ~
where it was and gave up thresm
There are more than 25O,OOO c
dren of school age in this state
cording to the census taken in j.
This is a gain of about $4,000 o
the previous year. The 1850 sen
houses in the state in July, 1905
Sites Iihrariac ond other school ~