The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1910-12-09
STATE AND COUNTY news
items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

VI tine week.
Two men were fined $35 last wee
for killing two prairie chickens O
their farm near Grangevllle.
urhe population Of Boise, Idaho,
1889, compared with 5,957 In 100
according to statistics of the thir
teenth census.
Two snowslldes are reported o.
Placer creek, four miles above Wal
lace No damage is done, except th
hIndrance Of traffic from the dec
snow covering the roadway.
The Idaho State Automobile asso
citation has made application fo
membership 10 the American Auto
mobile ASSOCIATION.
The Harrison high school basket
bail team defeated the Wardner high
school team 10 game at Harrison
last Saturday; score IS to "a.
Governor Brady has accepted the
resignation Of William 6. Cruise as
state bank examiner. 1t becomes
effective Immediately and the Office
placed in charge Of Deputy II. S.
GeerY.
The off3cial censas report gives
Boise q population Of 1883 instead
Of 10. 700 reported by the enumerators.
The census 0filcials eliminated 2425
names on alleged grounds Of padding
the list.
M. D. Wright has closed contract
with the Northern Pacific for 500, 900
ties, to be delivered by Julyl. 1911.
Wright owns and operates two tie
mills, one At Hayden Lake and one
At Atlas, on the Inland system at
Atlas.
At the Middle Mountain mine
across Pend Oreille lake from Sand
point, Archie O'Donnell, an old min.
er Of that district has rediscovered an
eight foot vein of copper in an old
tunnel 800 feet long.
The Lewiston State Normal school
Is perhaps the tirst institution 10 the
state to adopt sanitary drinking cups
aud towels throughout the buildings,
these articles having just been 10
stalled under an order issued by
President George H. Black.
Large shipments Of hay are being
made from Grangeville, daily. at $l4
a ton. Many of the ranchers are
holding their crop until spring, be-
lieving $50 will be offered at that
time.
The fact that both ballots and
stuos were numbered does not in
validate the Nez Perce county local
option election, though the number
log was In direct violation of law and
violated the secrecy Of the ballot, &C.
cording to an opinion rendered by
the supreme court at Boise Dec. /.
Chas. 1sinstein, homesteader
who lives at the mouth of Beaver
creek, on the Occur d'Alene river,
has new gasoline boat which he
proposes to use 10 carving freight up
the saltwater section OF the Coeur
d'Alene river, from where the Idaho
s. Northern railroad leaves the river
bank at Pritchard creek.
At the recent meeting of county
school superintendents at Boise, Miss
S. Belle Chamberlain, retiring. state
school superintendent, was presented
with a beautiful pearl pin asa tOker
Of the regard the superintendent
had for her following their associa
ton with her for the past two years
Twenty-one per cent of the wome
OF the University OF Idaho are mem
bers of the Y. w. C. A. and 20 pc
cent Of the men are allied with tn
Y. M. G. A. Twenty.e GIT per cen
OF the men OF the institution al
enrolled IN Bible study classes unde
the direction OF the Y. M. 9. A.
The dairyiny dep; rtment Of tt
University OF Idaho has taken ov'
the business of the Hazelwood Cream