The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1908-05-08
STATE and COUNTY news.
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

Business men of Newport have sub
scrbed about $3.50 per month for the
support Of the ball team just organ.
ICED there.
Petitions are being circulated in
Caldwell asking the city council to
refuse saloon licenses after January
lst, 1909.
The largest single shipment OF
fruit trees ever received in tnis state
recently arrived at Mountainhome,
when land company there received
a consignment Of $4,000 apple trees.
The Nez Perce county commission.
ers have established a herd district in
the Lapwai and Spaldlng districts,
although the Indians Of the Nez
Perce tribe entered vigorous protest.
Representative French has secured
q favorable report on his bill granting
q section OF land to the state Of Idaho
near Yellowstone park for fish
hatchery, the state to pay ST Is per
acre for the same.
While hunting ground squirrels on
the foot hills near the penitentiary al
Boise May 2. Sam Horner accidentally
discharged his shotgun, while at
tempting to rise from sitting
position on the ground, blowing of
his right foot just above the ankle
He died 10 the hospital day or two
later.
A deposit OF clay and sand bas been
located on the banks OF the Clear
water river, near Spalding. The
sand Is claimed to be Of quality
that will make the finest quality Of
plate glass, while the clay deposl,
contains the necessary ingredients II
manufacture the finest Havilant
porcelain and other high class articles
Lieutenant Smith, commandant o.
cadets at the University Of Idaho, |,
planning to recommend to the wa
department the establishment at thu
university Of troop Of cavalry
Some of the cadets now own thei
own horses. The war department
would furnish the other equlpmen
and arms.
Horace E. Neal. former cashier 0
the Capital State bank Of Rolse, ha
been called to answer to the charge o
forging check for $500 on th
Chase National bank of New York
The forgery is alleged to have bee'
committed by him while he wa
Cashier of the Capital State bank
which has been In the hands OF a re
ceiver for some months.
On April 30, the supreme cour
reversed the judgment entered b
Judge Woods In the Kootendi distric
court, In the case OF O. B. Ross, ap
pelIant, vs.. the Gold Ridge Main
company. The appeal was FROM a
order dissolvlng an attachment, an
the order is reversed.
Arthur Church ard Ira Roy, tw
buys who have been of much troubl
to the authorities Of Occur d'Alen
and of Kootenai county in the pas
were recently arrested in BIRTHS
Columbia for housebreaking at Nelso
and have been sentenced to two yea!
10 the B. G. penitentary.
The supreme court, In decisio
handed down last week, written
Justice Sullivan and coDcurred in 1
Chief Justice Ailshie and Judl
Stewart, sustained the motion to di'
miss the appeal In the case of Edwi
Doust VS.. Rocky Mountain Bell Tel
phone Co., ct al, case from koo
email cuunty, appealed from Jud,
Woods, who denied motion for
new trial.
The beautiful island in Lake Per
dOreille lying opposite Hope, abo'
one mile from shore, formerly know
as Warren's island, has passed In
The hands OF several Of the wealttie
capitalists of Butte, Mont. This
one OF the most handsome spots