The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1904-12-23
STATE and COUNTY news.
Items of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

The town OF Troy in Latah county,
whicn was burned recently, is TO be
rebuilt.
The state penitentiary has 16l con-
victs-the largest number in the his.
tory of the "pen".
VIM. Balderson, editor OF the
Boise Statesman, has been summoned
to Washington as a witness in the
Reed Smoot case.
Boise butchers are after farmers
who sell meats on the streets at lower
prices than the butchers can sell and
have arrested two inen. The city Or
dinance on the question will be test.
ed.
Edwin Hyde, missing brother OF
Miss Rose Hyde, Of London, EnglaLd,
who has been advertised for by her,
has been located in Boise, where he
is we'll known character.
Idaho's efforts at the St. Louis fair
were so successful and so productive
OF good that the people Of the state
should feel encouraged to rcdouble
their efforts n connection with the
states display at the Lewis & Clark
exposition in Portland next year
Lewiston Tribune
The Oregon Short Line and the o.
r. s. N. railways have granted one
fare and one and One-thlld fare, for
round trip, for teachers wishing to
attend the annual meeting of the
Idaho State Teachers association
which meets in the high school build
ing, BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 26, q and
%.
i The Idaho Wool Growers assoc ia.
tion. which met 10 Pocatello, Dec. l3,
voted not to appeal to the United
States Supreme court on the Two.
mile Limit law, but to accept the
law as valid. Resolutions were adopt
ed asking the Federal government tt
assist the state officials 10 the eradi
cation Of scab. The association
elected Fred Gooding Of Shoshone
president, and j. E. Clinton of Boise
| secretary.
II James Connors ascended the scat
fold Dec. 16. at the Boise peniten
Tertiary and paid the penalty for th
murder of Deputy Sheriff +. r. Swee
of Bingham County, at Blackfoot, OF
the evening OF September %. Swee
was about to place the members un
der arrest for robblng the members Q
japanese section gang when Con
nors shot him dead.
Governor Morrison has received
cordial invitation directed throug
:, him to the ladies CT Idaho, askin
them to visit the Lewis and ClaT
g fair and to become the guests OF tn
Portland Rose association. The as
\ ISOLATION, the letter states, will ha,
headquarters on the grounds whic
will be open to the ladies Of ldat
and their friends.
= The board of trustees OF the Levi
J. ton State Normal school, have q
:, cidcd to ask the legislature for
" appropriation Of $4,000 for perma
ent improvements to the institutio
More buildings are needed, IT is sal
= or additions to those now in use,
= make the school the pride OF I
state.
Or Miss Alice Slec, OF Wallace, got I
10 highest rating 80 aud a fraction p'
cent, In the recent examinations
=, stenographcrs In the United o'a'
70 civil service. There were 1000 app
I'd cants at the examinations, OF VINO
in between 800 and 400 were successt'
re -.
Governor Morrison, at the exp
alton of his term, will practlce III"
Boise. State Auditor Turner !"
move upon his ranch eight MI
y from Bannock, and Attorney Gene
he Bagley will practice law at Montp
Ter.
ew - r.,
g Troy, the small town IN La'
- conuty, which was burned recen'
=, was destroyed by incendiaries.
Dec l6, Fred W. Hanping and ~