The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-01-15
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
Of INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

president GeO. II. Black or the
Lewiston State Normal school has
gone to Boise to ask the legislature
for an appropriation of sos, 900 to
build . gymnasium.
Ed Riggs was so badly frozen
last week while walking 32 miles
from the Little North Fork to Occur
d'AIene, that one foot had to be
aDputated.
The Idaho State Bar association
met at Boise last week. Officers were
elected. 1t Is said to have been the
FIRST successful meeting of the associa.
tion for eight years.
Congressman French's bills passed
the house Jan. I, providing for the
sale of isolated tracts Of land in the
Neg Perce reservation and the sale t,
the University of Idaho of $40 acres
for the biological laboratory aud four
sectious to the north Idaho asylum
for the insane.
e, The Idaho presidential electors,
Edgar Wilson,, A. A. Crane and John
Lamb, met in Boise Monday. pur-
suant to law, to cast their electoral
votes for Taft and Sherman for presi-
dent and vice president. Crane was
chosen to carry the votes to Washing
ton, d. G.
Ap appeal was filed in the supreme
court Jan. 8 involving the "coIlection
account" of State Treasurer G, A.
Hastings with the Capital State bank
at the time that institution closed
its doors, aggregating $25, ,28s.77, no
part of which has ever been paid to
the state.
State Superintendent of Public In.
struction Miss S. Belle Chamberlain
has announced the first semi-annual
appOrtionment Of state school funds
to the various counties OF the state,
the total amount being $43,618.41,
derived from general school fund in-
vestments during the past six months.
OF this amount Kootenai county gets
$2,656.48
Sheriff Moffat of Shoshone county
has announced that he will allow NJ
gambling. Such course was wholly
unexpected and the announcement is
said to have caused CONSERVATION
among the saloon men and gamblers
OF Wallace where games OF chance
have fourished since the earliest days
The project to form new judicial
district out of the first, to consist Of
Kootenai aud Bonner counties has
brought three candidates out for the
appointment to the judgship-one,
Herman Taylor, from Bonner and
two, r. N. Dunn and r. T. Morgan.
from Kooteuai. The formation OF
the new district, as proposed, would
leave Shoshone the only county in the
frst district, with w. w. Woods as
Judge.
Clifford Pinchot, chief Of the fores.
try bureau, declined the invitation tt
meet with the National Wool Grow
ers' association at Pocatello this
week, saying he would not do SO un
til the sheepmen showed desire tt
discuss forest matters on broader and
more unsel6sh grounds than hereto
fore. The sheepmen demand thai
greater privileges be granted then
by permitting more sheep to Craze II
the national forests. They regarf
Mr.. Pinchot's reply to their invita-
tion as an insult.
A comparatively small cabinet
probably 10 feet wide and six fee
high, containing written notes from
surveys representing no less. thai
Sl,5OO,0 900, can be found in the offic
Of Chief Clerk John d. Bell OF tn
surveyor generals department. Fil''
n in book form and written in the yer
best penmanshi the small collection
Of papers represent many thousand
a Of hours Of hard work after surveyor
had tranped over hundreds Of miles
II dragging with them camp outfits