Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-09-18
-u. interesting Items Gathered
our Exchanges of the Sur
.undlnq country-Numerous Acct
&c and Personal Events Take
o,.oe-crop outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

arrive III h9ROO W.
y september % for visit.
uorold +. Curtis has been appointed
..,otary of the Washington state fair
'mmission to succeed George A. Ora
nam, deceased
r. Ronguet has been granted a
s,orse to operate ferry at Bossburg
"S5 q L. Maynard license to open
saloon at Camden.
burning straw stack caused the
,..s Of the barn and several outbuild-
:"n. on the w. S. Peddicord farm, two
niIas north of Palouse, recently.
n C. Reed, superintendent of the
No,tb Yakima schools, reports an at
,sndauce of 14OO pupils in the graded
.,boos and BIG in the high school.
movement is under way on the
.ort Of Fruitvale ranchers to abandon
tbe Horticultural union at North Yak
IN, and build a warehouse of their
own.
ID. Harkins, who resides on farm
two miles from Waitsburg, will shortly
harvest one ton of popcorn which he
has raised this year for market in
Portland.
The biggest shark ever reported in
Sound waters was seen by about 81
MANNERS of the Mountain Climbing
Climb at Spring Beach, near Tacoma,
few days ago.
Victor Shafter, aged IA, native of
Switzerland, died recently in Walla
Walla of senile decay. Mr.. Shafter
was civil war veteran and had resld-
ed there 40 years.
The store of the Harper Hardware
company of Prosser was entered by
burglars recently and several guns and
mnknives taken. Some $50 In the
money drawer was not disturbed.
As the result of a sudden breaking
Of the steam shovel chain, Chris Neil
son, laborer employed by the Spo
kane, Portland g. Seattle near Pasco
was struck by the chain and instantly
killed
A meeting of the hotel men OF tn
state has been called to meet at tn
Savoy hotel in Seattle, September 1t
for the purpose of completing the OF
ganization which, it is held, IS muc
needed.
That Yakima can grow corn as we
as fruit was demonstrated recent
when merchant placed on exhlbltio
four stalks brought in from the ranc
of George Mitchell. The stalks are
feet high.
Thomas A. Edison, the noted invel
tor who is taking vacation on u
Pacific coast, says that neither u
acceptance nor the dirigible balloon WI
SUCCESSFULLY solve the question OF nav
eating the air.
Governor Mead is in Portland
hold a conference with Governor Chal
berain of Oregon, to adjust wnae
pears to be conflict between was
ngtOn fishermen on the Columbia nv
and the Oregon authorities.
That the day of mystery in the pr'
tice of medicine and of fear IN
practice of surgery is past was
expressed sense of the Washingt
Medical association, which was IN
sion at Walla Walla last week.
Edwin, the year old son OF D.
Day of North Yakima, was shot IN
eye by boy friend, Willard BryS
recently and will lose the use OF
eye The boys were playing lndli
and the weapon was an air rifle.
Under circumstances which aim
seem to Indicate deliberate suicide
Nelson, laborer, of whom little
known, was killed by the locomo'
Of a special train on the hals
branch of the Northern Pacific railN
oear Vancouver.
Harvesting in the Palouse section
the Palouse country is at an emo
the last thresher has been pulled
Never in the history of the coui
mas the crop been garnered so early
the season and never with so little
lay from unfavorable weather.
The Fidelity Lumber company,
Kane, is preparing plans for II
milling plant to be built shortly on
sOmpany's property, across the
nom Newport, in Idaho. The P
when completed with sawmill and
ing mill will cost in the neighbour
or Sl5O000 The mill will have
pacity of from $4,000 to 100000
In ten hours.
In a densa foo 81 Seattle Satin