The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1907-08-09
STATE and COUNTY news.
items Of Interest Gathered From
Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

Senator w. f. Borah, special prose
cutor in the Haywood case, recently
tried. has stated that II Pettibone is
acouitted Meyer will not be tried.
Exclusive of railroads, telephones
and telegraphs, Latah county's valu-
alton this year is $4,963,O45, an in.
crease Of 5000, 900 over that of 1906.
Farmers around Lewiston have
been obliged by emergency to ignore
the Sunday law. Combined harvest:
ers continued working there all day OF
the 4th.
The editor of the Occur d'Alene
Press was arrested last week on the
charge of bill posting without a
license. The charge was not sustained
however, and lie was released.
Farmers in the grain regions Of
Idaho about Lewiston are troubled
during harvest by the Sunday rest
law. Their men go to the towns on
Saturday and often fail 10 appear
again for work Monday thus causing
serious interruption when storms
threaten and labor is unusually
scarce.
An encampment for the second
battalion Of the Idaho National
guard, comprised of the four COM
panies from Blackfoot, Idaho Falls,
Rexburg and st. Anthony, is to be
held at Mesa Siding, IL miles above
Marysville on the St. Anthony branch
of the Oregon Short Line, from
August l9 up to and including Au-
gust %.
Wearing his prison stripes, II. +.
Mallon, who was sentenced from Sho.
shone county April 80 to the state
penitentiary to serve two years. sen.
tence for burglary, disappeared from
the stone quarry on Table rock July
20 and although 1t was discovered Ia
about Is minutes that he was gone
and guards have since been searching
for him. no trace of Mallon has been
found.
Warden w. M Stevens is still on
his trip of inspection, visiting the
various proposed sites for the state
fish hatchery. He is accompanied b,
government expert and will thor
oughly Investigate all sites before q
selection Is made. The one present
lng the best merits, as to natura
food, temperature of water at various
seasons Of the year, minerals contain
ed, source, and other conditions con
ductive to health of the flnny tribe
Will be decided upon, and from which
The various streams owe: the state
will be stocked annually.
W. 5. CLANCY. state bank commits
sloner of Idaho, is en- route to ysi
The banks of the northern part of thi'
state. He states the Idaho Law
makes it crime for man to ISSUE
an overdraft or for a banker to hono
one, but despite this rigid statute tn,
practice has become SO general tha
IL seems practically impossible Il
eliminate it.
The tug Sarotta burned Saturda,
morning at her moorings in the Pent
aorielle river at Newport, Wash
Inc boat is owned by The Idaho ant
washington Northern railroad. TIL
loss will exceed $4,000, with no In
surance and is total. The crew O
ehree nen were nearly cremated.
l.. II. Gipson OF Idaho and B. B
wallace OF Minnesota are among tn
SIX American holders of Rhode
scholarships who were awarded 1rs
CLASS honors in the finals of the schoo
VI modern hosiery at Oxford, Eng
iand. Wallace won second elias
hohors and Gipson third class L. Fl
"'pson Is son OF A. Il. Gipson
EDITOR OF the Gem State Rural, pub
iished at Caldwell
Judge Steele, in the district cour
Moscow, Monday, denied the appli
atlon of Albert H. Squires for