The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1907-12-20
STATE and COUNTY news.
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHoAys.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

Va t0O WCCks
Scarlet fever has broken out s
Wardner and a number of house
have been placed under quarantine.
Hope defeated the Standpoint higl
school basket ball team at Standpoint
Saturday night 81 to Is. A larg,
crowd witnessed the game.
The Occur d'Alene high school de-
batting team won Dy vote of two tc
one at Wallace last Saturday night.
Robeat Groucher, Spalding saloon
keeper. found guilty of selling liquor
to an Indian, has been granted a new
trial because the jury found verdict
by dipping ctin.
r. H. Hobson and Jay J. Parker of
Occur d'Alene have filed suit In the
district court against Z. P. Welch
and wife tor SIP, 100 20, which they
allege to be due on breach OF contract
concerning the sale of town lots.
1t is claimed that the o. R. & N.
railroad has taken steps to construct
a railroad from Rockford to Rockford
landing, on lake Occur d'Alene, a
distance of about Is miles. 1t is
said the cutoff has already been sur
veycd and that active construction
work will begin April %.
Judge DIETRICH Of the federal court
has not granted the motion for new
trial of the Kester- Kettenhach land
fraud case. He holds that he has no |
jurisdiction to hear the motion at |
chambers, the court term at Moscow
having adjourned. !
Coeur d'Alene is having some trou. !,
BILE over the sewer system being In !
stalled. No protlles have been !:
furnished, the sewers have not been
put down deep enough and the cost !,
to property owners is So a running |
foot, double what 1t should be.
At Standpoint one day last week
Lee Hyatt, who appealed from a
30-cent judgment IN favor OF the de-
fendant from the justice court of
Algoma precinct, was awarded $35 by
jury In the district court against
the defendant, III. II. Williams.
Judgment was for board and services
rendered.
None of those who, In Boise, violat-
ed the Sunday rest law, which has
been declared by the supreme court to
be constitutional, for the purpose Of
testing its constitutionallty, or who
for other reasons have not in the past
complied with its provisions, are NOT
to be prosecuted, but in the futureyall
violations will be vigorously prosecnt-
ed. Il
M. Shea, the man arrested at Nc
Cannon southern Idaho who had san
outfit Of dies and molds for counter
feiting, was given an examination att
PocatellO before the United States
commissioner, upon the charge of
having Ia his possession '.dies and |
molds of the likeness and similitude
of the coins of the United States"
He was bound over to the federal
court and his bond was fixed at $500. |
Shea's mother furnished the bond,
thus allowing the defendant to secure
his liberty.
An opinion was handed down last
week In the supreme court in the
matter of the Kootenai county |
case of A. R. Miller, respondent VS.
j. j. Donovan, ct al, appellants,
affirlns the judgment Of Judge W. w.
Woods 10 holding that the plaintiffs
injunction bond is obligated for at
torney's fees. to which expense a
defendant had been put, 10 case the
court decided that the plaintiff was
not entitled to the injunction.