Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-08-07
WASHINGTON, IDAH0, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

husbandry department of Washington
State college, has resigned.
The town of Davenport held a mass
meeting Friday to boost for trolley
project of Jay P. Graves of Spokane.
~ Forest fires in the vicinity of New
port are threatening to destroy mil
lions of dollars worth of standing
timber.
Eighty men who have been doing
time in the state penitentiary were re-
leased, some being pardoned by the
board of pardons.
New wheat is coming into the Walla
Walla warehouses in quantities, espe-
cially in the district south of the city
and toward Eureka fiat.
Spokane men won first prize at
Everett Saturday in the drilling con-
test held between the various drill
teams of the Redmen throughout the
state
Washington State college is dark"
and will remain so until September 20,
when the school year begins. The
summer science school f0r teachers
closed Friday.
George w. Ferguson, fruit inspector
for Asotin county, has decided to
place a packing establishment in
Asotin on account of the great variety
of fruit grown there.
G. A. Graham, secretary of the state
fair commission, has issued the pre-
MUM list of the fair, which will this
year be held the week of September
% at North Yakima.
Fifty thousand bushels of bluestem
and Turkey red wheat were purchased
at La Crosse Saturday from Dormand
& Soaring and a number of other
farmers by Kerr, Clifford & Co.
The city of Walla Walla has pledged
100000 toward establishing there
great college and school of engineer
ing, on a basis of 100000 being
subscribed for the buildings and equip
ment.
Grieving over the loss of his aged
wife, who died three months ago, A. p.
Spillman, aged IS years, a well-known
resident of Puyallup, committed sui
eide on his wife's grave by shooting
himself. %.
The state supreme court has sus-
tanned the constitutionality of the act
of the last legislature exempting
credits from taxation, but held invalid
that portion of the act which proposed
to exempt moneys.
A spark from a passing railway
engine recently set fire to the hay
field of c. R. Mcmillan, near Colville.
The flames spread to the stacks and
destroyed about 200 tons of the new
cut There was no insurance.
There are $4,000 less cattle in Whit
man county than last year. the num-
Der now being 24,O72, valued at $780,
1856, as compared with 1881, valued at
$234,590, last year, thus showing a
marked increase in value as we'll as a
decrease in number.
1t is reported that the railroads of
Washington are collecting data and
preparing for a bitter legal fight in
case assessments of public service cor
porations, of which they are the most
are raised higher than they
think equitable by the state board.
Two bids for the construction of
the Washington state building at the
Observation-Disclosures exposition were
opened and rejected by the state COM
missioners recently because they were
in excess of the architects estimate
of $4,000. One bid was for 5000
and the other $4,000.
During July Coroner F. M. Carroll
of Seattle and his deputies have in
vestigated nine suicides, two homi-
cides, four drowning, II, deaths from
external violence and eight deaths
from natural causes, where a physician
was not in attendance. In addition to
the suicides there have been six at
tempts at Suicide.
Before a large assembly composed
chiefly of Olympia people the corner
stone of the executive mansion. au-
thorized by the 1907 Washington legis-
lature, was laid Saturday afternoon
with Masonic rites by the officers of
the grand lodge, F. and A. M. of Wash
ington. The ceremonies were impress
I've and the speechmaling accompany
ing the exercises interesting.
AT a meeting at Granger recently.
the government reclamation service
announced the completion of plans
Tor the irrigation of 5000 acres of
now arid OR sar,ni-nrid 1n.a l,