The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1906-08-24
STATE and COUNTY NEWS.
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOAyS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

Shoshone county's taxable wealth
this year is over $4,000
Bannock county's assessed valuation
this year IS So, 901 900, an increase of
'sl65, 900, over. last year.
From bulletin recently issued by
the state pure food commission. out
of 100 examinations Of food products,
3s were pure and 81 impure.
The attorney general has rendered
an opinion that all Idaho school
teachers must be residents of the
United States, either by birth or ty
naturalization.
James Graham passed away last
Wednesday OF paralysis at his home
IN Coenr d'Alene He served as lieu
tenant of the Idaho volunteers who
served in the Philippines during 1898
duu IOO0. VII ulS ICtulu uC Vas
elected county attorney. His remains
were buried at Occur 'Alene last Sun
day.
The SawtOoth forest reserve gives
PROMISE of soon becoming one OF the
chief revenue producers among all the
reserves Of the country. There are
now pending sales aggregating about
$4,000, 900 feet of timber, at pur-
chase price of about $l50,000. The
timber is paid for according tn The
actual scale OF the logs. or "haIk
scale,"
M. d. Wright recently purchased
700 acres of land on the shores OF
Hayden lake Of G. B. King. Mr..
Wright states that he will install
camps the coming winter and put IN
an extra large crew with the purpose
in view of removing all the timber.
All of the tamarac and fir will be
converted Into ties and pine will b,
shipped from the lake over the cleo
trlc road .-Coenr d'Alene Press.
~.
Friday, at Harrison. before Judg'
Morgan, r. r. Mcfarland, attornt.
for Susan Ross, Of Ross, secured al
on order granting her $50 per monll
alimony, $50 for court costs aud 500
attorney fees, which B. NJ Ross, th'
defendent, will have to pay. Tn
Russes are old residents of KOotenal
county. The object of granting th'
almony at this time was to provide
the plaintiff with the. necessaries ii
life and to alle~ her to proceed Will
her case. e.-Press.
The Malad opera house and the
office of the Malad Enterprise were
totally destroyed bv fire about l
o'clock, Aug. Z. Both buildings were
of frame and adorned each other.
Clyde Hanson. owned both. He
estimates his loss, at $500, th'
insurance being $4,000. The fire
started In the.opsra house and quick,
communicated to the newspaper Office.
Citizens formed bucket brigades anu
prevented its further spread. The
origin of the fire is unknown and
there IS some suspicion that 1t was
started by an incendiary. Mr.. Han
son will rebuild his newspaper otfic'
and buy new plant.
According to a Grangeville special
to the Portland Journal, following
close on the heels OF the fabulous
strike made in the old abandoned tun
mel of the Old Residenter mine, hall
mile from Florence, comes the news
of second strike, last Thursday
in the Florence camp, 10 an old tu'''
mel, opened up on the Hiyu nlne'
located in 1876, and IA paystreak that
assays $4,000 to the ion has been en-
countered. H. K. Moore, a well-kEown
mining man Of Moscow Is the dlscoV'
erer of the new ledge, which Is lO4
miles from the Hrst discovery, ana Is
thought to on b. s,nl 'e''. ~
Is of ,h- same haia' u '"in'
postd Quar'z aud u free miilihe
Flakes Of gold as hie as peas can he
m0rtared from IT,