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Livery, Feed and sate Stable it " " __ ~ ^ ^ / _ [ Finest turnout« in the city. Splendid accommodation* for transients. Telephone connections. J. W. Jones Pr ®p Wm.Duthie Buys and Sells Fruits, Vegetables and Wood. FLOUR and FEED. By wagon load and car load, and pays cash or trade. FRUIT BOXCS I During the 28 months we have been in business six new competitors have come and gone. Did you ever stop to reason WHY Our customers have always been given a square and honest deal— T 11A T'S W 11 Y ? • Thanking you for the pat ronage given us in the past, and assuring you dur motto will in the future be as it Inis been in the past—A CLEAN and WHOLESOME MARKET-A DOLLAR'S WORTH FOR A DOLLAR —we are here to remain and build up, and cherfully so licit your patronage. JOHNSON & SON. J - L, Something New! i tT * ,,ew nmnngcment. of the Rictnulnu Hotel everything luis been placed in a clean, sani tarv condition newly papered and new furnishings installed, A trial \\itl convince you that T ,il 'l'"** H iice 1° D"t l, p at while in 1 roy. Robt, Woods, The New Proprietor. Announcement —o 1 desire to announce that 1 have opened a first-class meat market in the Wallner building next to the Broman •lore, where you will find a complete line of everything in the line of meat. Your patronage will lie appreciated. DRT WGOD on Hand Zue Kresher. E. E. Cooper & Co. Draying and Trausfering HIE TROY NEWS P. L. Orcttt; Editor and Publisher. Entered at the postoffice at Troy as Second-class matter. tubscription, U-dO per year, in advance. THAT MObCOW BRIDGE. The Moscow Post, in its efforts to excuse, justify or condone all things, right or wrong, done by republican office holders, has stubbed its toe against the very law it quotes. Post, in justifying Hagan, Cook and Stillinger in, voting public money for a new bridge at the south end of the Moscow Main street, which says the county must construct and keep in repair all bridges on public highways within incorporated towns, where a bridge is over SIXTY FEET IN LENGTH. Then Editor Fields stops, leaving his readers to conclude that the Moscow bridge, being paid {for out of county funds, is of tire re quired length to make it a county charge. Did the Post examine the [record? The specifications on file in [the auditor's office at the court house show that Latah county is paying for a bridge, specified to be only FIFTY FIVE FEET long. Commissioner Lamb orotested, but voted for it when County Attorney Stillinger insisted and stated positively that the Moscow bridge was a county charge. It is an outrage that should not be tolerated in spite of the assurace of Editor Fields and his Post to the contrary. The board should be enjoined, or, if they pay it, sued on their bond for the amount. The Post may be under obligation to defend every action of Stillinger, Hagen and Cook, even to the questionable appropriation of county funds, but the taxpayers out side of Moscow will never feel that such action is either just or honorable. The gives the law OUR POLITICS. "What is the politics of the Troy News?" asks a reader. Frankly, let us say that we are republican. We be lieve in the principles of republicanism as interpreted by President Roosevelt, We believe in political honesty and party fidelity. We believe that a polit ical promise or a party pledge is sacred and binding, and that party dishonesty and political trickery are most repre hensible of human conduct. We hate a liar, but a liar is a gentleman beside a political organization that makes a pledge and then repudiates it. We believe public interest is of more con cern than the job of any office holder, and if the Troy News has criticised the republican party it is because, as a republican, we care more for the people than for a few politicians whose only concern is their political positions. AN APOLOGY. The News is going to apologize. We have discovered that the bill for I detective hire has never yet been paid. The detectives were hired, came here at the request of the county authorities, worked under instructions of County Attorney Stillinger, it is asserted, and furnished the evidence that convicted I the gamblers. The News editor asked the detectives, when in Spokane, why they made no arrest in Moscow and other towns outside of Troy and Prince ton, and was told ihat their instructions were to keep out of Moscow and other towns. It was asserted that Commis [ sioner Hagan was opposed to law en j forcement in Moscow, and that Stillin g (r was agreeable. Af'er the detectives 1 had done their work, and had fulfilled their contract, the bill was turned down. The Thiel agency, through j one of their men, approached the News editor in Spokane about the time the News roasted the authorities for the rotten attempt at law enforcement, We were j and begged us to "let up." {informed that the detective bill I turned down because "the board was now afraid to pay it." Three months later it came up, and, somehow, we got the impression that the bill was paid. But a careful examination I of the minutes on file in the auditor's I office shows that the bill was "dis allowed " was And in stating that it paid the News was mistaken. But I this is really immaterial. The fact still remains that somebody hired these detectives, and the Post will hardly attempt to endorse or excuse the erable piece of dirty, unfair work done, for which somebody in the court house is responsible. It was done under the instruction of Hagen or Stillinger, both. V . IS mis ot And the record shows that, in refusing to pay the bill, the board i repudiating a bill Latah county traded and that somebody ought to pay- The trouble is that, because of the protest made by the Troy News, those responsible are afraid to complete J the job. The county still owes the bill. IS con The surest sign of spring is the small boy and his marbles I INSULTS LATH COUNTY. C. J. Munson, while in Boise at the recent meeting of the republican state committee, is quoated as saying that there is an overwhelming Brady senti ment in Latah county. Yet Mr. Mun son had been out of Latah county for over three years and his sentiment shows that he knows absolutely noth ing as to sentiment here. If correctly quoated Mr- Munson is guilty of p'ay ing the cheapest kind of corrupt poli tics, and making a statement he had no right to make. As republican com mitteeman from Latah county Mr. Munson was expected to represent the republican voters of Latah county, and his "hot air" about Brady is nothing [ short of an insult to the people here. It looks a good deal like a lack of man hood and has too much the appearance of a keen desire for public office on the part of our committeeman. Latah county republicans will endorse the manly stand of its representatives in the last legislature, and they cannot do that and consistently support Mr. Brady for any office. WHERE WE STAND. The News, in criticising the hiring of detectives, does not wish to be un derstood as OPPOSED to enforcement of the law against gambling, contrary we favor the strictest enforce ment of this law. We believe that On the gambling is, by far, the worst form of vice, and favor any measure looking to its elimination. What we oppose is the enforcement of law in Troy while County Attorney Stillinger or Commis sioner Hagen winks at the same crime under their very noses in their own town. We are opposed to having Troy singled out and held up as the mo t immoral town in Latah county when, as a matter of fact, other towns are much worse. For the impartial enforcement of every law the Troy News will give the officials its earnest support. BEING A CHRISTIAN. The world admires a real Christian. The man or woman who, taking Christ as an example, goes through this world living and practicing the pre cepts of the Master, caring not for the world's scorn or the certain trials of patient endurance, is a postive power for good. And it is our opinion that it is more a lack of the Christ spirit on the part of pretended followers that hurts Christianity than the combined influence of doubt, disbelief and booze with its kindred vice. Evange list Tlewbeny, in his talk to Christians Friday evening, expressed this thought clearly, and if we had a copy of that sermon we would print it. MUNSON IS FOR BRADY, Munson showed his color when he 'Of course we are all said in Boise: for Brady for governor, suit to the republicans of this county, and absolutely false. Munson has fed so long at the public trough that his only idea is how best to hold his job. £ nd now that Brady is slated for the It was an in Editor Fields being a lawyer can possibly explain why Stillinger, Hagen and Cook turned down the request for an appropriation to help open a much needed road that would shorten the distance from Taney to the seat seven m les. next pie dispenser at the capitol it is necessary that Mr. Munson deliver this county to the boss. If you are willing to swallow the disgusting mess of dirty politics dished up by the Brady crowd in the last legislature; if you believe in being betrayed and outraged; if you favor continued disregard of republican platforms, then Munson told the truth. county The farmers east of Trov would like to know WHY. The News urges every republican in Latah county opposed to the repub lican repudiators and ring rule corrup tion to get to work. Organize your precinct and see that anti-Brady dele gates go to the county convention. The Moscow Post might also give us the law justifying the county board paying rent and furnishing fuel for Moscow's city attorney. Did Com missioner Lamb, in protesting, come under the ban? President Roosevelt's recent mes sage to congress was the greatest state paper ever presented to a national governing body in the world, says the Pocatello Advance. Brady has announced his candidacy for governor. And it's machine-made warranted not to rip, and if elected' will belong to— But why waste time? in As a republican citizen are you go ing to make no protest when the poli ticians attempt to force you to Brady for governor? support [ WILL IT PA Y TO PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY ???? J We find that during the year 15)07 we paid out for labor and salaries about |'3f»,000.00. Is this not a a convincing fact that a dollar spent with us means « dollar left at home? And a dollar spent at homiTig surely easier to get hold of again than if it were sent away. Don't forget to let us figure with you on building material. Special reduction on doors and For good work and reasonable prices your windows. see The Troy Lumber & Mfg. Co. All parties having unpaid counts with the undersigned will 0 please call and settle same either by cash or note prior to Feb'y 1st, as I am desirous of having all accounts settled by that time. ac Very respectfully, OSCAR LARSON, \ V. TIMS TABLE W. I. & M. RAILWAY WEST BOUND EAST BOUND Daily No. :< Daily No, 1 Daily No 2 |..i:j5B Distance from Dalouse to 0 STATION I ... Ar Palouse Lv 8:30 A M 3:40P Kennedy Frd. 1 8:30 Lv Potlatch at 9:00 At Potlatch Lv 9:10 I 9;22 I 9:42 j10:04 [lOtlO 110:22 Ar ( 10:35 I10:55 A M ' 11:20 3:10 P M 7:35 A M 7 2:48 7:17 11 2:39 7:10 1 4:06 11 2:23 14 2:12 Princeton Harvard Summit Stanford Avon Lv Deary Cornell Bovell 20 1:57 25 1:40 29 1:26 31 1:20 34 1:06 P M 12:46 12:20 39 47 WINE I have just received a shipment of Caliornia Wine and quality is fine, which I am going to sell for just 1 ha J.?, Cla ;1- P ° rt . Sherry, Angelica, and Riesling. ^ Mil satisfy the most exacting that this wine is No. It's fine. Try a gallon. i c. W. TOMPSON.