The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1910-08-05
STATE and COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
Of INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

Va SAAO WOS.s
forest fire set by careless campers
came very near destroying the town
OF Troy 10 Latah county late last
week
The town OF Plummer, IN the
southern part OF Kootenai county,
formerly in the Occur d'Alene Indian
reservation, has Incorporated.
A ranch, near Payette, has some
of the famous Persian fat. tail sheep,
that can 20 "forty days without
drink" or food, like the camel.
Twiu Falls is figuring on furnish.
Ing its domestic supply OF water from
the artesian belt, 25 miles from the
city, from which point it can be de.
liyered under a gravity system.
Unless it rains on the Idaho ranges
in the next few weeks sheep men say
that they will sustain heavy loss as
their spring lambs cannot be fatted
but must be sold east as feeders.
The total bonded indebtedness of
the city OF Boise is $36S,0l5 95 and
the total assessed valuation $S.70l,-
1850, while the real valuation of
the property is claimed to be $25, ,000,-
600.
Two men at Lewiston are under
arrest bound over to, the district
court on the charge Of shipping car
load Of beer into the city and storing
it. j. H. Wallis, pure food COM
missioner, swore to the complaint.
w. Clifford has withdrawn from
the race to succeed himself as auditor
OF Nez Perce county and announced
himself candidate for the republl-
can nomination for secretary Of state.
He is said to be aligned with, the
Brady forces.
The North Idaho Press club, COM
posed Of newspaper men of the SIX
northern counties, was organized at
Moscow Saturday. Geo. R. Barker,
editor Of the Pend d'Oreille Review
OF Standpoint, was elected president OF
the club.
The fires in Shoshone county are
reported to be worse than ever. The
forestry department is paying at least
$3.50 an hour to fight the fires now
raging in the Wallace district, and
the fires are costing the state, corpor'
ate aud private interests as much
more.
General Manager Earl Rogers of the
Blackwell Lumber company returned
Monday to Occur d'Alene from an
inspection of the holdings of that
company in the vicinity of the present
fires near Mica aud Lofts bay, Lake
c 'eur d'Alene, and stated that un'ess
rains within the next day or two
all the timber along the west side OF
the lake will be destroyed.
At the session Of the board of coun
ty commissioners Monday, A. }
Shaw. representing the Spokane Val
ley Land and Water company
petltioned the board to have tn
assessment of the Post Fallsand Flsl
lake bitches reduced. The asstssmen
OF the Fish lake ditch was ordered
struck from the roll. All land Of tn
company along the Post Falls ditcl
was reduced from $50 to $40 per acre
while the assessment OF the ditch wa
left the same as usual.
The lands on the Occur d'Alene In
dian reservation that remain untake
Will be subject to selection and ehtr
oy the last half of the 5000 numbe
holders who obtained their number
az the reservation drawing held a
occur d'Alene last August. Begir
n'ng September /, SO numbers will b
called, on the next day so more, an
on'each succeeding day 100 name
VIII be called until the entire list
exhausted.
A petition for q writ of prohibitin
10 restrain Robert Lansdon, secretal
VI state, from certifying to a list
candidates for state aud county o