The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-11-05
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

Twin Falls has voted $40, 900 bonds
to erect a high school building.
A Roman Catholic church is soon
to be erected at Spirit Lake +. A..
Blackwell donated a lot.
Nine new store buildings have just
been completed at Grangeville, at a
total cost of $3.50, 900.
The state of Idaho got the grand
prize for general honey display ut the
Alaska. Y Yukou. Pacific exposition.
Albert Short, OF Rathdrum, has an
apple tree that produced seedless and
coreless apLles. He will have ex-
perts examine the fruit and may
propagate it in great quantities. h
The University OF Idaho team lost
the football game at Spokane last
Saturday. The University OF Wash
ington won by score OF 500.
The two sawmills at ST. Joe are
being operated day and night, the
lumber cut averaging 100000 feet
per month. The payroll is more than
$4,000 per month.
Approximately 544, 900 acres Of
| land, withdrawn several years ago for
the Dubois irrigation project In
southeastern Idaho, have been re.
stored to public domain by the secre-
tary Of the interior.
An electric line from Burley To
| Albion has been financed in Chicago
The project will cost $250,O00. The
funds are available as soon as the
corporation is perfected.
The city Of Nampa is practically
without milk because the state pure
food inspector, James H. Wallis, has
closed the dairies on account Of sani-
tary conditions.
Four counties in Idaho will hold
local option elections ON November
II; Washington, Kootenai, Boise and
Lincoln, and one on November "a,
Lemhi. Blaine and Nez Perce reject.
ed the petitions.
Judge Wood, Of the Third district.
has ordered that the receiver of the
Capital State bank pay to the state
treasurer the sum OF $l3Il2, this be
ing the interest on the $24, 900 claim
which was preferred one.
A committee OF the Lewiston com.
mercial club is planping a semi-cen.
tennial celebration for 1913 to honor
the tftieth anniversary Of the first
territorial legislature and the grant
ing Of the drst city charter.
Since July Sam Cone, special agent
for the government to enforce local
option on the Nez Perce Indian reser.
vation, has captured over $1,000
worth OF liquors and has taken $3.50
worth from people on trains crossing
the reservation.
The Caldwell library board has de.
clded to ask Andrew Carnegie tt
build $4,000 library building IL
mat city. The people are now pay
Ing about $1,000 to support tn,
present library, and are willing t.
pay $500 more.
The potato crop on Camas prairie
Idaho county, is very large this year
Dut at 40 and SO cents sack the,
cannot be shipped prodtably o,
account Of high freight rates. Hun
dreds OF tons viii! be harvested ant
fed to hogs.
henry Lee, caught at Sandpoin
recently. was indicted for counter
le'ting by the federal grand jury a
MOSCOW last week. Lee confessed hi
guilt and was sentenced to Is mon th
10 tne U. 5. prison at Leavenworth
Kan.
Inc commissioners Of Blaine count
'as1 week rejected the petition to cal
special election to take a vote OF
'ne local option proposition. Th
man contention was that it vas no
ilied within 10 days.