Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-06-01

enter into this enterprise among the |
property owners in town. Ii all would |
try to improve their places at least as
much as their means warrant. the |
sidewalk question would he speedily |
settled and the result would be vast
Improvement in the general appear
ance OF the town.
Memorial Day was quite generally
observed by the people of Rathdrum.
The principal business houses were
closed in the afternoon. \ number of
our citizens went to Post Falls in the
morning to witness the memorial eX-
ercises by the Knights Of the Macca-
bees at that place, and all pronounced
the same exceedingly interesting and
appropriate. OF those who remained
AT home many were visitors To Pine
Grove cenetary in the afternoon and
the graves OF loved ones were gencr-
ously decorated
County Physician Wenz today am
putated the right leg of Elisha Lock
wood, county charge. The member
was amputated midway between the
knee and ankle. The surgeon was as
sisted by DR.. ID. r. Holiister and VIC.
Rogers. More than a year ago Lock
wood cut his foot severely with an axe,
and owing to neglect at the beginning
the wound could not be healed. The
patient is quite an old man and has
been greatly weakened by his sore foot.
but Dr. WenZ believes he will survive
the shock caused by the amputaiion.
Samuel Green, George S. Titus and
{. NJ. Trgg three prominent farmers
of State Line. were in Rathdrum Tues
day. They report that crops in that
neighborhood have never looked so
well us at present, and that AN abund
ant harvest is practically assured. Mr..
Green owns a fine young orchard and
the prospects for an abundant yield of
fruit are most excellent. In speaking
of the outlook for the farmers in that
locality these men grew quite enthus-
! iastic and declared that one must see
the growing crops to fully appreciate
| the conditions upon which they base
their hopes for a record breaking har-
vest.
f. =. Manor's general merchandise
store and Shetlield's saloon, which adj
joins, were both entered by burglars
Monday night The intruders were
| frightened away by Manor's boys.
who sleep above the store, and othifg
Of value has been missed, but three or
four bottles of whiskey were stolen
from the saloon. Entrance into the
saloon was gained through Il window
which the burglars smashed, and the
store was entered in the same manner,
except that the place of ingress was
through the glass portion of front
door. 1t is thought to be the work of
hoboS, and as usual there is no clue to
the perpetrators.
The walking Interrogation points in
the shape of census enumerators have
been turned loose all over the country
this morning, and the work of taking
the twelfth census so far as the
enumerators are concerned-will be
completed on the Oth of this month.
The enumerators for this county are
as follows: Santa district. ID. w. Gar
wood: Occur d'Alene district. j. y.
Larson: Harrison dist rict 4. S. Crane:
Rathdrum district. Miss .Addie T..
Smith: Standpoint district, lgnatz
We'll: Hope district,J. Il. Russell, vice
}. L. Picard. resigned: Bonner's Ferry
district, John Seehaver: Spirit Valley
district. Frank f. Howard J. L. Pie
ard who had accepted the appointment
ment as enumerator in the Hope dis
trict, was forced to resign on accoun,
Ief failing health.