The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-08-27
STlM AID COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

One feld Of Is acres Of oats neal
Nampa has made record yield OF
1880 bushels.
The University Of Idaho expects to
open the new year with 700 students
and a faculty OF go teachers.
The highest point In Idaho is
Mount Hyndman and the altitude is
l2,o7s feet.-Ex.
The six northern counties Of the
state pay Al per cent of the taxes for
the entire 90 counties. es.-Lewiston
Teller.
Ex-Governor Gooding has been ap-
pointed road overseer in one of the
districts in Lincoln county.
P. r. Lang, q saloon keeper OF
Harrison, has been pronounced by
Judge Dunn guilty Of selling liquor
without license.
Two convictions for gambling were
obtained ia the justice court at
Grangeville this week.
The highest priced lands in the
state are 10 Ada county where the
board of equalization places the
average value at $2l.5O per acre.
Governor Brady has issued quar-
aptine proclamation against sheep
coming into Idaho on account of
scab that is reported ia the surround
ing states.
Dreaming that he was on train
that was about to collide with an
other, Ed johnson jnmped from
third.story window OF a Wallace
hotel. He was not seriously injured.
Two pleasure seekers, P. J. Burns
and Maud Parker Of Spokane, were
drowned IN Liberty Lake last Sunday
by the row boat capsizing.
The Aberdeen Gazette Is the name
Ct newspaper just started at Aber-
deem, Idaho, a new town growing up
in the "center of the valley of the
Nile Of the West"
Theodore Epling. farmer of East
Greenacres, while driving spirited
team last Saturday, fell from his seat.
striking on his head. Neighbors car
ried him home where he is reported
recovering. He sustained several
cuts and bruises about the head and
face.
The ordinance against riding bl.
cycles on the sidewalks is being
enforced at Nampa. A large num-
Der. including some prominent people.
have been arrested and fined for the
offense. Some OF the offenders tried
to justify themselves by saying the,
thought the ordinance a very unjust
regulation.
Careless railroad laborers at Camp
No. between Rockford and Lock
port started a FIRE last week while a
high wind was blowing, which is
estimated to have burned 1900, 600
feet Of standing tamarac and yellow
fr timber. The fire swept eastward
across the state line and toward the
COeur d'Alene Indian reservation,
burning q strip through the forest
three miles wide. Crews of fire fight
ers came from the nearby towns and
by hard work building trenches and
back firing made some headway to-
ward checking the rush of flames
into the virgin forest of the reserva-
tion.
George A. Day, state land commits
sioner; Senator Freehafer of Wash
inRton county and Representative
McHarris of Fremont county, the
committee named by the last legIs-
lature to investigate the rights of the
Marble creek settlers are at St Joe
to begin the investigation. Many
Wallace persons are interested in the
lands. The committee was organic ID
at Boise August 3. Day teine chaie-
man and Freebafer secretary. The
committee will be in session in the
Farrell hail until tho "a SaS ara hua ri