The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1910-01-21

The county commissioners of Nez
Perce county have granted the new
petition asking for local option
election in that county, and have set
the date Of the election for March 3.
The heaviest taxpayer in Latah
county Is the Potlatch Lumber COM
pany whose taxes this year amounted
to $4,000. The Northern Pacific
railway added SIG, 900 to the county
Golfers.
Acting Governor John w. Hart
was in Boise recently, attending to
his duties. He appointed 10 delegates
from the southeast part of the state
to attend the Good Roads convention
at Salt Lake the latter part OF this
month.
The Day-LuellwItz Lumber COM
pany has sold its lumber business and
plant at Fish Lake to the Idaho Pine
company for $65, 900. Harry Day of
Wallace Is president OF the company.
The company will retain its sawmi.l
and holdings at Athol, however, and
will increase fhe output OF that plant
by the installation of additional ma
chinery.
Judge Wood Of Wallace has placed
the ban on prize fighting and boxing
bouts in the First judicial district
and announces that fights which are
scheduled to occur at Wallace will
not take place. He has ordered The
sheriff to suppress this kind of sport
10 his district and any violations of
the state law 10 this respect will be
vigorously prosecuted.
O. M. VanDuyn of Caldwell has
been appointen assistant attorney
general OF the state of Idaho to sue
coed John f. McLane, who has been
appointed dean of the law course at
the state university. Mr.. VanDuyn
was county attorney Of Canyon county
at the time of the assassination of
Eek. Governor Steunenberg.
The supreme court has declared
unconstitutional the law enacted by
the tenth session of the Idabo legis-
lature providing for the taxing of d
grazing fee Of Ave cents per head on
all sheep brought into the state from
adjoining states. The decision was
10 the case of the State of Idaho VS..
the Butterfeld Livestock Co., and
was instituted in the Washington
county district court.
Judge Fremont Woods at Boise has
called for special grand jury in Ada
county for January 81 to begin the
probe on Illegal combinations in re-
straint of trade said to exist in that
county. The recent exposure of an
alleged coal combination in Boise
with murmurings that beef and milk
trusts held residents of the county 10
their grasp are said to have been the
incentives behind the movement.
| Gambling dens and dance houses
operated in connection with saloons
10 Shoshone county must close. The
county board has issued an order t.
the effect that saloon licenses will be
revoked wherever such conditions eX.
ist. The board was aroused over a
letter received from woman at
Burke telling Of the ruin of many
young men OF that place as result OF
the gambling halls.
On Monday afternoon Joseph Vigue,
wife murderer, who was convicted at
Standpoint of murder Ia the second
degree, and sentenced by Judge Dunr
to Imprisonment from 10 to SO years
was resentenced to SO years in prison
at hard labor. The second sentence
was given to prevent Vigue from re
gaining his liberty on possible
technicality.
John Fleming will be hanged b.
the neck until dead as penalty for tn
murder of Frank Langford near Ru
pert, Lincoln county, July 8, 1908
according to an opinion OF the suprem
court denying his last appeal. Unde
the statutes of the state. unless tn
state board Of pardons should inter
cede, his execution must take plac
within so days, the date to be dc
termined by the district court t
which the case is remanded, an
where the condemned man must b