The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1910-03-11
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

OF the week.
The loss 10 the city OF Caldwell,
occasioned by the recent food is
estimated at $40, 900.
H. H. Barton of Occur d'Alene has
an nouuced himself candidate for
state superintendent OF schools.
The records show there will be
l59, $50 head OF horses and cattle and
1,760, 900 sheep on the forest reserves
ia Idaho during the coming summer.
All saloons have closed at Ferrell
and at st. Joe. Con Peoples closed
last week, leaving VIM. Lynch's sa-
loon the only one running in all the
upper country. 1t closes May /.
The ice is said to be from l6 to 20
inches thick around the booms at the
boatlandings at Harrison, thicker
than ever before known 10 the history
of the town.
Hogs by the carload brought 1926
per hundred at Vollmer last week.
Shipment was made to coast firms.
An advance Of 25 cents per hundred
is expected there this week.
The big American Falls dam will
cost SIS, 900. 900 when completed and
water from Snake river at that point
will be diverted to irrigate 900, 600
acres of land.
The area of the Jarbridge gold
field, so far as discoveries have gone.
is flve miles square and the section is
fast filing up with prospectors from
all parts OF the country.
Conservative estimates place the
loss on account of floods In Whitman
and Asotiu counties in Washington
and Latah and Nez Perce and Idaho
counties in Idaho at over $1,000, 900.
The commission appointed to ap-
praise the lands 90 the Occur d'Alene
reservation has completed the work
1t Is reported that the values viii
range from ST to 81 an acre.
The war department has decided te
establish a training school 10 Idaho
with headquarters at Boise for th'
training OF National guardsmen. Ma
ior G. B. Harding, U. S. A., has beef
detailed as instructor.
1t is reported that five men from
Elko. New, on the way to Jarbridg
were frozen to death on the trail afte
their provisions had given out. Th
wind and cold was too much for tn
party OF gold seekers who fnall
perlshed.
Sheridan Post, G A. R., at Boise
has adopted resolutions commendin
the stand taken by Senator Heybur
in the senate against placing tn
statue of Lee in the federal hall {
fame.
The total amount of state fuDt
earning interest in February ";
87,634.34, and the treasurer hi
calculated that It earned IL cents
minute during the month or near
$l63 per day.
Feed is higher 10 the sheep raisir
districts 10 Idaho than ever know
before and the feeding season Is full
month longer this year. Hay
$40 per ton aud corn $l.6O per hu
dred weight.
In Bear Lake county, $4,000 acr
o! state land Is advertised for So
March Is, which has been apprais
at $40 per acre. There is gre
demand for state land sales in t
several counties of.the state.
Following the avalanches at Ma
and Burke in the Occur d'Aler
more than week ago. the Fede
Mining company contributed $l,t
for the relief of sufferers.
Hundreds of miners in the Coz
d'Alenes who assisted in clearing
Burke CANYON following the av
anches have completed their task q
mines which we're temporarily 81
down started operations again Sat
day.