Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-05-12
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
And OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding County-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Outlook Is Bright.
IDAHO souIeRs.

IDAHO soUlBBs.
One of the new laws which wen
into effect in Idaho May 4, provides
for a juvenile court.
From present indications at leas
100000 will be spent for new build
ings or additions to old ones at Poca
tello this season.
Monday morning at 1880 the cadets
of the University of Idaho left fol-
their annual encampment, which this
year will be held at Occur d'Alene.
James Wing, an employee of the
Morning mine at Mullan, was killed
Sunday by falling down an ore chute
How thee accident occurred is not
known.
Horticultural Inspector j. r. Field
says that the prospect for a good
crop of fruit in the Payette valley of
Idaho mas never been better than at
this time.
More large buildings will be built
this year at Wallace than any year
since the fire of 1890, which wiped out
the business section. The volume of
the building indicates the prosperity
of the district
The Bunker Hill 4 Sullivan mine
at Wardner, Idaho, for the second
time this year has raised it's monthly
dividend to $150,000 and distributed
that huge sum last Thursday among
its stockholders. That makes total
dividends of $525,OOO paid since Jan
uary 1, and $2,796,00O to date.
Burglars entered the postoffce
building at Kellogg and rifed three
tills, securing between $50 and $40.
The greater part of the money be-
longed to d. Price, who conducts a
store In the building. The exact
amount of the postoffice loss is not
known.
The council at Twin Falls has fixed
the license for saloons ST $4,000 each
per year.
Drexel Van Arsdale, the Ia year old
son of c. c. Van Arsdale, was drown
ed late Sunday afternoon two miles
below the mouth of the Clearwater
river. He was caught in a whirlpool
Nearly 5000 men are now employed
in the great producing mines of the
Occur d'Alenes and in the prospects
of the various sections of the district
1t is doubtful II ever in the history
OF this silver-lead region there has at
one time been so great a number of
men employed.
II. ]. Rice, former treasurer of Sho- |
shone county, has returned from To
nopah and Goldfleld, New, where he |
and several other mining men from |
the Occur d'Alenes spent three months |
examining and prospecting the gold
fields Mr.. Rice was greatly disap-
pointed in the country and says that
he is satisfied to remain in the Occur
d Alenes, which far surpasses the Ne
vada mining district.
The first bounty on cougars, under
the new law, was paid at Rathdrum
to Patrick Fox of Laclede, who
brought in large cougar hide and
was paid SIS by warrant on the cur
rent expense fund. The animal meas
ured almost nine feet from tip to tip.
1t was accidentally caught in bear
trap, and is the first one that Mr.. Fox
has seen in that neighborhood.
OF the several railroad projects in
the northwest, that which contem-
plates a line from Palouse, in Whit
man county, toward the east and into
the timber belt of Idaho, is one of
notable importance. According to
present plans, 1t is to be only 45 miles
long, but it will tap an unusually rich
and as a result of its con-
struction there will probably be man
nfacturing and agricultural develop
ment fully as important as any that is
now tributary to any piece offroad of
equal length.