The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-09-10
STATE AID COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHoANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

Of the Week.
The Spirit Lake toard Of education
has decided to dispense with the free
text book system.
The supreme court OF Idaho met al
Lewiston Monday for the regular fall
term.
The four millions appropriated by
congress for the militia has been al
lotted and IdahU's share is $4,000.
Game Warden Stephens will ship
$4,000 trout from the state hatcheries
Sept. 10 TO Shoshone county. Most
OF them will be placed ia the North
Fork.
A Boise grocer was arrested last
week and fned $l5 and costs for sell
ing spoiled raisins 10 violation Of tbs
provisions of the pure food law.
Fire OF unknown origin destroyed
the mill at the Hercules mine near
Burke September 6, causing a loss of
over $4,000.
Richard S. McCaffery. of Salt Lake,
has been appointed Professor Of Min
ing and Metallurgy in the University
Of Idaho to ill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Professor Terrill.
Twin Falls has voted $35, 200 worth
of paving and sewer bonds assuring
the paving of eighteen blocks OF that
city as soon as the details can be
complied with.
The fruit growers of Payette valley
are preparing to use smudge pots next
spring II necessary to save the fruit
buds from late frosts. They will
burn crude oil.
Governor Brady claims that prohi-
bition in BannOck county will cost
him personally $500 month in loss
of business 10 furnishing lights to
saloons but he hopes to gain it back
III year from new legitimate sources.
Idaho riflemen stood 46th in the
national rifle match at Camp Perry,
Ohio. Of the 49 contestants. The
United States navy ranked first;
United States infantry second; Mass.
achusetts third.-Lewiston Teller.
The land commissioners of Idaho
were successful in obtaining the bonds
of the Spirit Lake public schools.
They were bought at par value at 5
per cent interest The face value o!
the bonds is $1l 900.
Lemhi county is larger than the
state OF Connecticut, Is fully as rich
10 natural resources, yet it only has
about 5000 inhabitants, a less nun.
ber than Connecticut has school
teachers.
The Idaho State Life Insurance
company has been organized aud in
corporated at Boise with capital
stock of $3.50, 900, and a surplus of a.
much more. 1t is estimated that
there is going out of Idaho annual,
$l,OOO,0OO to other insurance com
panies.
Messrs P. A. Day. Fred Smith and
William Bell, were arrested on Sat.
urday by Deputy Game Warden J. V.
Brown for fishing without license.
They were arraigned nefore Justice
j. f. Russell and fined $40 each and
costs.-Coeur d'Alene Press.
A dre in the slashings on some
logged over land near Hayden lake
got beyond control last Friday after
noon, threatened the Best sawmill
and drove several ranchers and camp.
ers from its path. In the evening IT,
was burning toward Rathdrum
prairie and 200 men were out fighting
IT,, but IT was sion under control.
The public schools Of Harrison
opened Monday with the following
teachers: Professor J. D Huston,
principal: Miss Ethel Oderlin, assis-
tant; Mrs. J. D. Huston, fifth and
sixth grades; Miss Goldie Adkins,
fourth grade; Miss Ethel Hunt, third
grade; Miss Mary Stelninger, second
grade, and Miss Lulu Hepburn, pri.