The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-08-20
STATE ND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

VI tne Week.
The sugar beet crop around Nampa
has heen a failure this year and as
result the sugar factory at that place
will be closed until next year.
Governor: James H. Brady has
offered y gold medal to the member of
the Idaho ride team who makes the
hest Individual record at the Camp
Perry national shoot.
The Commercial Club Of Boise was
recently made defendant 10 a test
case to determine its right to serve
dtinks To its members without
license.
II Is expected the total assessed
valuation Of all taxable property Of
Idaho this year will aggregate $llS,-
900, 900. as compared with $ll5.ss0.'
O56 10 1908.
In the abstracts to the state board
Of equalization only twelve Of the %
countie; in the state reported valua.
tions on wines and liquors. Four.
teen report money on hand, and only
eight report having watches aud
jewelry.
Senator BOrah, who has returned
to Boise after the adjournment OF
congress, has stated in an interview
that he voted for the tariff bill as II
now stands to protect Idaho indus
tries and Idaho products and it was
to save them from reduction that he
did on ~
Judge Fremont Wood of the Third
Judicial District for Ada county, has
pronounced the local option law
constitutional, and the saloon inter
ests have appealed the case to the
supreme court.
Under the direction Of Forest Su-
pervis0r WeiRle, flre which broke
out recently near Osburn, Shoshone
county, was gotten under control
early Saturday morning after hours
of stubborn fighting. A total OF
about 20 acres were burned.
Major Robert Lansdon has been
elected colonel Of the regiment. Ida
no national guard to succeed Colonel
L.v Patch. appointed to the posi-
tion OF b-igadier general by Governor
Brady.
Charles Roth, eldest son OF former
county commissioner Of Bonner coun.
tyy. w. Roth Of Clarks Fork, wa
blown to pieces by dynamite Lass
Friday morning while blasting rock.
90 the couuty road. He had ap
preached to examine blast 10 which
he thought the fuse had gone out.
According to the Statesman o
August IL, First Lieutenant A. II
Allen Of Standpoint. for several years
battalion Quartermaster on Majo
Edelblute'ss stan has been cOul-
missloned csptain aud promoted tt
the position Of regimental quarter
master ON Colonel Robert Lansdon''
stan, National Guard OF Idaho.
Receiver. NJ. p Meholln Of the Car
ital State bank Of Boise, last weel
paid $24, ,434 into the state treasury
the sum which was unlawfully ol
deposit at that Institution when !
closed its doors January 20, 1908, an,
on which the state Of Idaho new.
received any Interest.
Through the efforts of Congressman
Hamer theARurehead Of the battle
ship Idaho has been placed at tn
disposal Of the state of Idaho, and n
az early date will be carried to Bots
to be placed In u corner OF the capito
bulldog. TIE navy department ha
ordered the femoval OF ali flgurehead
from warships, aud Colonel lIame
secured this relic for bis state. n
IN communicating with GOvernu
Brady relative to transporting tn
nRureheads from the PhiladeIphi
shi inva ri m ROiSo