Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-11-13
NEWS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
WASHINGTON And OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
Prom Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Trade Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


The Now Ridgeway theater at Col
fax wRi open December 16.
William II. Taft's plurality in the
state Of Washington reached total of
44,1,e
Wenatchee apple growers are ship
ping at the rate of 200 barrels of apples
per week.
The emily hotel at Elberton was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday morning. 1t will
be rebuilt.
The carpenters union of Spokane has
voted to contribute 800 to the National
Apple show.
Sheepmen in Douglas county are re-
Joicins over the fall rains and the
warm weather.
The teachers of Whitmsn county held,
an interesting educational meeting in
Palouse last Saturday.
Glen, the 4-year-old son of Charley
Jones of Dayton, was kicked to death
by a mule Saturday evening.
William L. Webb of Everett. aged 55
years, committed suicide Sunday at San
Diego, Cad, by drowning himself
The big &C. G. G. c." farm near
Lind has been sold to W. j. bennington
of RitzviIle. The consideration was
5000 for the 1000 acres.
A searching party is out to look for
M. C. Ormes, the timber cruiser who
disappeared TIVE weeks ago from the
homo Of Carl Engfer, near Puyallup.
Mr.. Leonard, who runs the Garfield
roller mill, -four mill with a capacity
OF 80 barrels a day, states that ship
ments to South Africa and South Amer
lea are to be made.
Construction work is in full blast for
the big irrigating plant being installed
by the Northern Pacific Irrigation COM
pany to water $50 acres of the rich
highlands adjoining Kennowick on the
west.
1t is expected that the immense Nab
ton siphon, which will bring the water
from the Sunnyside canal, under the
Yakima river to the level fields of Nab
ton, will be completed some time this
week.
Early in the spring another industry
will be started in Columbia county
which promises to develop a phase of
farming that has heretofore been neg
lected. The Hopkins dairy will then
manufacture cheese.
G.. A. Draper Of Elberton, breeder of
red polled cattle, will leave for the east
soon and will add new blood to his herd
before he returns. The last two years
his cattle have won him in cash prizes
$4,000, besides making sales amounting
TO several Thousand dollars.
Special trains are being planned to
carry visitors to the educational con-
gress to be held at Walla Walla No
vember II and 18. The transportation
committee has secured from the railroad
companies an open rate of one and one
third fares for the round trip.
Wenatchee Is postofIice has gained in
receipts 20 per cent during the year,
the office business amounting to $40 ,526,
as compared with $13,615 for 1907. The
census Of the city is now being taken
by directory men and they state that
it will run close to 5000 people.
Albert P. Gill, ex-printer, ex-railroad
man and a former evangelist himself,
has arrived in Spokane to make final
preparations for the visit of Billy Sun
day, the converted baseball player, who
has been secured by the ministerial as
ISOLATION of Spokane to. hold a four
weeks revival service in this city COM
mencing December 20.
Judge Clifford has rendered a de-
cision in the suit brought by the West
ern Union Telegraph company against
Pierce county and Assessor H. V. Rails
bach to prevent the assessment of its
franchise in that county. The court
decided that the plaintiff should not be
assessed $4,000 for its franchise, as at
tempted, by the assessor.
Work will be started this week on
the reclamation of an additional 1000
acres on Brewster fat and the project
is unique in that it will include nearly
all of the engineering feats known to
the larger irrigation projects. The
work now undertaken win mean an
expenditure of approximately $4,000,
the land being portion of that sold
on the fat by the state last June.
IDAHO NOTES