The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-12-31
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
Of INTEREST TO lDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

n,o Great Northern Railway com
,.ny has paid its taxes 10 Bonner
conn,v, amounting to s4s,sls.
Governor Brady has appointed Ut.
= Moody Of Standpoint major sur.
osoo for the First Battalion. nat'ona'
guard Of Idaho.
The dividend earning mines OF the
coopr d'Alenes have paid to date the
magnigcent sum Of S3S'ooo'ooo %
their stockholders.
Congressman Hamcr has introduced
ah,,l 10 congress for the appropr,a-
zion of 500, 900 for the purchase OF :
s,,e and the erection OF federai
building at idaho Falls.
While working on small barn a.
g. Maries last week, Geo. B. Johnson
fol, distance Of eight feet, breaking
hIs neck and dying instantly.
The supreme court has set January
Aas local option day. Appeals IN
yolyipQ the constitutlonality OF that
act from the courts OF Canyon ano
Idaho counties will be heard.
The Idaho Wool Growers associa-
tion will meet in Caldwell on January
i Az this meeting the railroad rate
question, the grazing situation ana
the minimum speed limit will be
discussed.
Marriage licenses to the number OF
72l have been issued by the recorder
Of Kootenal county during 1903, the
largest number in the history of the
county.
Idaho IS the only Northwest state
that has made selection for statuary
hall at Washington D. c., and the
statue OF Former Senator George L.
Shoup will be the first dedicated fOi
the Pacific Northwest.
The value OF the land submerged
by the proposed dam at Post Falls te
be erected under grant Of the govern
meut to the Washington Water s
Power company is estimated at $500,
900. Settlers are working to hay'
the permit revoked.
Idaho Is seeking to establish
home for feeble minded children ant
the several counties will open schoo
on a cooperative plan. 1t Is esti
mated that there are from IS to l0
u these unfortunates in the state.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & PuRe
Sound Railroad company has incol
porated a subsidiary company a
Occur d'Alene, to be known as th
Idaho & Western Railway company
The road is to be IS miles long fiou
Piummer, Idaho to Spokane, with
stub to Occur d'Alene.
I. 7. Crooks OF Wallace has bee
awarded the Cecil Rhodes sch0larshi
TOT Idaho, emitting him to ent,
oxford university ln England, tuitio
!fee, and receive $500 a year Z,
toree years to pay hi; expenses viii
tneFe. Crooks is a graduate OF u
University Of Idaho class Of 'Os.
Idaho county with its II .074 squa
n'i'es OF territory will be the wor
'ot TIE census enumerators to cauya
0~'ne TO the fact that the enumera
WIS Will 10 some instances have
e'asel 100 miles to get four or A
names.
1ue famous wheat belt of Ida
comprises three counties, Nez Per,
Latah and Idaho and they rank
production 10 the order named
's territory there is produced nc
M wan 10 the acre than in any ott
section Of the United Sta,ss
'e'ase this year being 20 bushels.
,h,,, ,ane a'st legislature 10 idaho pass
:. WI creating ten new counties !
IN M, lust sixty days congress came
,.,a a nef sweeping territorial orpa
,s. 'ou and made the states of NJ,
'sna and Wyoming out Of those :,
D0 cou'ties.-Lewistou Teller.