The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1906-04-20
STATE and COUNTY NEWS.
Items of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

near Westmond, is reported to have
burned with all its contents, Monday.
| The books of Idaho county have
| been exported by Frank Burke who
spent twelve months on the work.
The work cost the county $1T53.
The Big -Four sawmill at Lacrosse,
resumed operations this week with 20
men employed and with capacity in
creased to so, COO feet of lumber each
10 hours.
Colonel Joseph Lane of Juliaetta,
this state, is the possessor Of a relic
IN the form of sword captured Ia
the Mexican war, by his father, Gen.
eral Joseph Lane, from Santa Ana.
commander in-chief of the Mexican
army. !.
a. j. Jones, aged 73 years, died at
Bonners Ferry last week. He was a
pioneer and moved to Bonners Ferry
in 1888.
5. B. Carson, aged p years, brake
man on the Great Northern, fell be-
tween the cars near Bonners Ferry,
Saturday, and was run over, his right
leg being severed at the hip. The
injury was fatal.
John Stevens, about SO years old
and single, was drowned April 12 in
the Spokane river near the Big -Four
mill. He was opening up a boom
when he slipped into the river and
sank.
Z. IL. Jackson, chairman of the
democratic state committee of Idaho,
has issued call for the committee
to meet in Boise on May 81, to fix
the time and place for the state con-
vention.
A gang of about twenty lumber
Jocho iCio AibSolou, ldou IIludy
morning, for the upper waters of the
Occur d'Alene river, to start drive
of 5000, 600 feet of logs to be used at
Harrison.
Lee Crisp, the young son of M. S.
Crisp of Cedar creek, near Hope, was
buried at Hope in the Foresters'
cemetery April y, Rev. w. +. Sharer
preaching the funeral sermon.
The body of Edward Schrieb,
drowned in the river at Clarks Fork
on February %, was found last Sat
urday by a party of fishermen, float
ing mile and a half below where he
was drowned. Woodlnen had charge
of the funeral which was held Sun
day.
Joe Garno, captain of the steam
tug Rob Roy, owned by the Post
Falls Lumber & Manufacturing COM
pany, was thrown headlong from the
boat upon a heap of scrap iron, April
II, while attempting to reverse the
engine at the log Doom at Post Falls.
lie escaped with a few bruises
A young man named James Liray
fell from a Northern Pacific freight
train near Lenia, this county, one
day last week, and was killed
The funeral of Mrs. L. NJ. Nicker-
son took place April 12 in the Forest
ers' cemetery at Hope. Rev. Y. w.
Roth preaching the funeral sermon
Mrs. Nickerson was born in Nyack,
n. Y, and was 50 years of age. She
leaves a husband, exJu1sc Nicker-
! son.
After an examination of the wheat
fields of Idaho and Nez Perce count
les and Asotln county, Wash, L. w
Eaves, manager of the Nolmer-C Clear
water Grain company of Lewiston,
estimates that fall sown grain was
damaged 25 per cent by the March
freeze. Mr.. Eaves places the per
centage of fail sown grain at so per
cent of the wheat acreage.
Colonel D. P. Jenkins of Spokane
| has bought Cougar point on Spirit
lake from Thomas Hooker 1t tcovers
| 160 acres and he paid so an acre.
The colonel expects to put a small
steamer OH the lake aud, although