Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-12-04
MINIS of IDAHO, MONTANA.
WASHINGTON AND OREGON.
Few Interesting Items Gathered
r~o,n Our Exchanges of the Sur
raunding Country Acct
aants and Personal Events Take
place-Fall Trade Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS


building.
The organization of state bank at
colfax is authorized.
W V. Tanner, Seattle man, is now
assistant attorney general.
The Palouse flour mill, owned by the
potlatch Lumber company, is being re-
aodeled at an expense of $4,000.
Township organization carried in the
allowing counties at the recent cleo
son; Clark, Lewis, Skagit and Spo-
kane.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
.omnany has made cash donation of
5000 to the National Apple show at
Spokane
Hosea Wise and Joseph Stennaker,
,-;soners. and Private Adolph Sprunkel
baye deserted from Fort Wright, near
Spokane.
With most impressive ceremonies the
new Catholic church, Our Lady of
Iourdes, at Spokane, was dedicated
last week.
terrible beating was administered
nv three armed thugs to II. E. Kirk
n,triek. a plumber of Latah, Wash, at
Spokane recently.
Leo Bezemer, accused kidnaper of E.
p English, will not be tried for the
alleged offense until the February jury
term in Skagit county.
Hugh Mcmahon, manager of the
American cafe and well-known bust
ness man. was found Saturday, muir
dered. in the front yard of his home in
Seattle.
With her pumps keeping the hold free
Of water from the leak in her bottom,
the steam schooner Northland of the
Ketchikan Steamship company has ar
rived in Seattle.
North Yakima, Wash.-J. H. Barnard
vas struck by freight engine early
saturday evening. He not only escaped
Death, but two panes OF glass ne was
anying were not broken.
The official county of Washington fol-
resident is: Taft 106,310, Bryan So,
III SS, Debs 14,t77, Hisgen 248, ChanI
MA 400. For governor: Cosgrove, repup
lean. ITO, 100; Pattison, democrat, So,
1875.
Recently Fred Mailloux, North Yak
ina grocer, placed 1915 in checks, pape
money and gold in the stove with vast
paper. He was able to recover IN
gold and portion of the paper. Ill
loss will amount to about $35.
The affairs of the state insuranc
Office will undoubtedly be investigate
at the next session of the Legislature
owing to J. FL. Shively's connectio
with the defunct Spokane Livestock ~
mrance company at Spokane.
As the result of an investigation Q
the records of County Treasurer West
Wahkiakum county that official az
been arrested on a charge OF empe
fling sums aggregating nearly $2oo
He is now under $4,000 bonds.
representatives of the companl
owning 90 per cent of the oysters
Wllapa bay have organized sal
agency, to be known as the North +
dfc Oyster Agency, through which
the oysters will hereafter be sold
A gain of $2,o23 ,72s, or 81 per Ger
&c SHOWN Dy the spokane udhn SiS"A
Tor last week over the corresponds
week of last year. For the week end
Saturday the cleariDgs were $5,SS5,4S
and for the same week last year, $500
7O1
George Brown, alias West, and W
liam Brown pleaded guilty at Tacor
70 holding up saloon recently a
we're sentenced to to 20 years
prison. They were the men who NJ
up the streetcars at Portland and
coma.
Varelessness on the part OF m
cnants and others in cashing checks
strangers has made forgery so easy Il
'ne Washington State Bankers asst
aeon has sent out warning adyis
patrons to cash no checks or drafts
unidentified strangers.
'eaious-c raxed Fred Swindle, ia
r usna formerly employed on the ia
s VI Mrs. Rose Huffman, a widow liv
g 10 miles from Vancouver, riddled A.
= aomeil, who married Mrs. Huffman
e lays ago, with bullets and attempte
eide,
u me Pacific Coast Elevator compaI
% ~afehouse at Tilma, three miles cas-
;.0AOa, was destroyed by fire with
contents. The building contai