The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-10-29
ATE AID COUNTY news
bms Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
! INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

1omhi county holds its local option
ovembe, "a. The petition was
yned by 81 per cent Of the qualified
oters.
Alfalfa prices have been boosted In
no soutbern portion of the state till
"a and $40 per ton Is offered for the
roduct baled.
A farmer In Malad valley now
laIms the crop record Of the state for
bats threshiog from a tract of little
oore than three acres at the rate OF
az bushels to the acre.
There we're only two contestants
Ior the Rhodes scholarship in the
recent examination at the Idaho
University. The winner will get a
erm at oxford with expenses paid.
Buyers are already Ia the field 10
khe counties of southern Idaho trying
10 contract the wool clip Of 1910 and
many have already disposed Of their
clips for next May and June delivery
at prices ranging from % TO % cents.
Sixty bushels Of corn to the acre is
the claim Of Barnum brothers, Of
Mica bay, about nine miles from
Occur d'Alene. The cOrD is OF the
yellow Dent variety and some Of the
ears are nine inches long.
The steamer Harrison, built by the
O r & N. company to run between
Harrison and the mouth OF Lake
creek on Windy bay, to connect with
the new cutoff to Spokane, made her
trial trip last week.
The money spent by the southern
Idaho league OF commercial clubs and
by the Individual clubs combined In
advertising will total $40. 600 for the
year 1909 and campaign is on tt
make it $lOO, 900 for next year.
District Judge Wood at Boise has
ruled that social or Commercial
club cannot dispense liquor to it,
members without taking out license
as a saloon, where saloons are mo-
prohibited.
On Monday Mary Elizabeth Whit
ley filed a damage suit at Occur d.
Alene against the Spokane & Inlant
Electric Railroad company, asking
for $25, 900 for the death of her hus
band A. p. Whitley, killed 10 tn
wreck at LaCrosse July 81.
Six boys aged 7 to Is wears, charges
with malicious mischief In placin
distractions on the Blackwell rail
road near Bellgr0ye, we're arresLe
Monday and brought to Occur d
Alene to appear before the probat
Judge.
The county commissioners at Lewis
ton, after having contest undt
adyisement for several days, reiecte
the Nez Perce county local optic
petition last week. The contestant
alleged that many OF the names wei
not those of bonadde voters.
Governor Brady has guaranteed Il
def:it of $500 to complete the su
of $50, 600 donated by the people
be j"ined with the $4,000 appr
Prlated by the legislature for II
erection of the state children's hou
at Boise. Construction work is
start without delay.
A petition is being circulated
Harrison and up the St. Maries al
eoeur d'Alene rivers asking that I
FRANCHISE of the Washington Wat
rover company be revoked on accou
OF the land along these rivers bel
damaged by high water backed up
the dam at Post Falls.
Last Sunday night the jury in I
case OF P. 9. Mashburn against I
81 Joe Improvement COMPANY. ALT
lng $40, 900 damages for overflow
lands, rendered verdict uf S37i
Ihree other property owners alu
santa creek assigned their claims
Mash0urn. Out of Il e $3.50 tn
men received: Healing $1,000, Robe
$500 and Devins $3.50.