The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1910-09-30
STATE AND COUNTY news
items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
Of INTEREST TO IDAHoANs.
rvents and Industrial Progress
of the Week.

A porcupine was captured on the
.treets OF Boise last week.
Eighty carloads of prunes will be
ebiDped from the Maydeld packing
house. at Boise, this season.
Idaho alfalfa ia IN great demand
this season and bids fair to rival the
other staple products Of the state,
potatoes, prunes and apples.
The war department has allotted
,or the next fiscal year to the Idaho
National guard SO, ,296.l6 for supplies
and ammunition aud $ll,736.7l FOR
equipment, camp purposes and rifle
practice.
H.W. Niles, who owns farm Ave
miles east OF Volllner, valued at $50
40 acre, had so acres Of it planted to
potatoes this year, from which he has
recently gathered 81, 200 worth Of
tubers, or $40 from each acre.
Statistics have been compiled by
William Buckley relating to the
amount of fruit acreage in Kootenai
county. The figures compiled show
that the county has total acreage
Of 27l acres 10 fruit.
At Grangeville, Miss Vina Bour-
land has instituted action in the
district court against Grangeville and
Kil0er s. Moore, contractors install
INK the sewer system, to collect
$4,000 for alleged injuries sustained
by falling into one of the open sewer
bitches.
The domestic department of the
Wardner public schools will have
special entertainment days each
month, when the parents aud friends
Of the students will be invited. On
such occasions luncheon will be
served by the girls in the department.
The citize1s of lilo have organized
stock company, capitalized at $5,-
600 to install water system adequate
to the needs Of the place for both
domestic use and Gre protection, and
work has begun on q we'll half mile
south Of town, where the pumping
plant will be established.
Attorney A. A. Fraser of Boise
who has returned from a hunting
trip TO the Bitter Roots carried with
him much priced trophy, noun
tain goat, which he killed among the
craRs Of the highest bluffs. Mr.
Fraser values his trophy highly and
Will have 1t mounted.
Forest fires having destroyed the
TIMBER along the watersheds of the
Clearwater river, leaving nothing to
aold the soil on the mountain sides,
recent rains are washing the soil into
tne river, causing 1t to be filed with
. thick black sediment and rendering
IL unit for domestic use at Lewiston,
"here the Clearwater furnishes the
water supply for the city.
The Valentine. Clark company.
strong Chicago timber corporation. is
apout to open yards at st. Maries
Inc company has already entered in
va contract for the purchase of
"ear'y 200 carloads Of telephone and
Telegraph poles, and contemplates the
INSTALLING OF wood preserving out
f1t.
Aa order was placed with Gorham
y Co., of New York for a complete
'''ser service set OF % pieces Of the
"uRa design, the Idaho flower, for
"' oattleship Idaho, as the result of
Weetlng, held Of the commission
appointed by Governor Brady. Funds
~ 'he silver service. which will cost
.pp'oAlmately $1,000. will be raised
Aoue The schoul children of the
s'a'e' s. Belle Chamberlain and the
.,p''intendents of the different coun-
-. present the matter to the
school children.