The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1904-11-25
STATE and COUNTY news.
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

The Mormons of Rexburg in FIRE.
mont comfy, will soon commence
work on a tabernacle that will cost
$25, 900. 1t will have seating ca
pacity of ] 800, with a basement.
George Smith, of Boise, was fined
one dollar and costs for expectorating
on the floor of the theat,r at that
place under an ordinance prohibiting
expectorating in public places.
The county superintendent of Owy-
hee, Elniore and Bingham counties
are complaining OF a shortage OF
teachers. SUmc of the schools are
not In session because teachers cannot
be secured.
| A large amount of pine timber on
the Payette river Is being destroyed
by small beetle. The leet!e eats
its way around the tree under the
bark, and the tree eventually dies.
A company has been organized TO
build railroad into central Idaho,
beginning at Lardo on the Big Pay
cite lake and running mol oitherly to
Roosevelt, a distance OF 1870 miles.
A strip Of territory in which is 10
Gated the Seven Devils mining section
) is in dispute, being claimed hy both
Idaho and Washington counties.
Owing to the uncertainty the people
. living in the territory do not know
what county they reside in and have
: never paid taxes. But the commits
sioners of Idaho county have passed
; resolution claiming the ground ant
ordering the assessor to assess ant
collect taxes thereon.
l.. The voters of the eight southern
precincts of Shoshone county hav
voted upon the question OF anneXin
that portion Of Shoshone county I
Nez Perce county and it has carrie
~ by majority of l29. There wer
1926 for and 297 against annexation
+ The area of the segregated terrltor
$ is 2200 square miles. 1t is separate
from northern Shoshone county by
= mountainous and uninhabited area.
The annual meetsng Of the ldal
z, State Teachers Association will
r., held at Boise in the new high scho
building, Monday, Tuesday and We
es nesday, December 26-2S. Superi
tendent +. b. Cooper of Seattle, W
X, address the association Tuesday al
Tuesday evening. The association
. to be favored also by an address fro
*; Governor Morrison aud by Sta
ID Superintendent Miss May l.. Scot
ez- Al the state institutions and nu
Der of schools will be represented
'"' the program.
A strange discovery was ma
80 recently at the Moscow water wo'
by the workmen who are engaged
~ sinking well as an auxiliary WA
pc supply. Alta depth of % feet u
a." encountered solid log about
:. inches in diameter. The tim
seems to be tamarack and is perfet
''N sound. A section of the log was
u,oved and pieces preserved al
curiosity There is no explanation
ID. tn how the timber may have come
ling he where it was found. Eight
welt wears ago, similar discovery
rnes made at the corner Of Main and y
r to streets. but it was at depth OF
OF feet. Some claim that in ages =
nv this valley was covered with
be Der and that the present surface j
mail alluylal deposit resulting from ~
at dation for possibly centuries SD
o,eut to a subsideuce in the !"
fol- territory, and more recent uphe
lper, brought the surface above wafer.
lton, ------
reed ~, Are.