The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1910-05-13
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
Of INTEREST TO IDAH0ANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

Of the Week.
The road overseers Of Bonner coun.
ty met at Standpoint May 6 and
organized good roads association.
The number of teachers who this
year will receive diplomas and Ars'
grade certificates from the Lewiston
Normal IS over sixty.
There will be over so bootlegging
cases heard at the session OF the
Federal court which opened at Mos
COW Monday. The defendants are
charged with selling liquor on forest
and Indian reserves.
The SALARY OF the county superin.
tendent OF Shoshone county has been
raised from $1,000 to $1,000 a year
under authority of an act Of the last
legislature permitting superinten-
dents salaries to be fixed at not to
exceed $4,000 per year.
The ne: profits Of the Snowstorm
Mining company Of the Occur d'Alene
district for the last year amounted to
$3.50, ,966, according to the annual re-
port fled with the assessor Of Sho-
shone county. During 1909 the mine
produced 96, ,O99 tons of copper.
United States Marshal J. e. Greene
seized the Park hotel at Occur d..
Alene last week, belonging to John
Tlllet. who was recently convicted in
Seattle Of being implicated ia the
white slave trafflc, being sentenced
to three years In prison and $1,000
fne.
The county commissioners on Mon
day took steps to form drainage
district in the St. Joe and St. Maries
river districts, the area embracing
about 5000 acres. The election has
been set for June IL when the settlers
of the district will vote on the pro.
posed organization.
Thomas Keys, an old soldier 10
years Of age, who came to Occur d..
Alene from Pennsylvania to file on a
piece Of land in the Indian reserva-
tion, was turned away from the land
Office and his application was can
celled, Monday, because the train
was late and did not permit him to
: arrive on the day his name was called.
Owing to the fact that the new
manual arts building at the Lewiston
Normal will not be completed until
August, there will be no spring ses-
sion OF the Normal. The usual sum-
mer session OF the Normal will be held
however, at Occur d'Alene, beginning
July 13 and continuing for six weeks.
Fred Gruber, who was convicted q
Few months ago OF the murder of
9ohn II. billings In daylight on a
street 10 the east part of Coeuf d..
A'ene, has received stay Of execution
pending an appeal to the supreme
court. Gruber was sentenced to hang
May 20, but 1t is said he will now be
Drought back to Occur d'Aleue from
Boise to be resentenced.
Another political forecast from
Lewiston says the democrats express
.ounaence OF electing the governor
'h's fall. l. c. Hattabaugb, who
was prominently mentioned as
prospective candidate, refuses to run:
1ormer United States Senator Henry
Heltfeld also refuses to run, and the
Illumination, 1t Is said, may 70 to
Moses Alexander Of Boise.
= Ine decision of Judge w. w.
woods Of Shoshone county ia the case
VI Dahlstrom vs.. A. H. Featherstone,
involving the collection OF attorneys
ices OF about $4,000 for services
ienoered 10 connection With a mining
ue"'' which the judge decided 10
favor OF the plaintiff, has been re.
sersed by the supreme court 10 a
oecislon handed down last week.
Inc 1910 edition of the year book
puoiished by the Anti Saloon league
VI america just out IS filed with
u'eiest'ng statistics in regard to the
"o"oerlul anti saloon sentiment.
onaded maps Of every state 10 the