The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1910-01-07
STATE And COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANs.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

OF the Week.
Articles of Incorporation of the
Methodist church at Hayden Lake
have been flled at Occur d'Alene.
Isaac Myfick, hauling logs near ST.
Maries, was struck on the head by a
log Monday OF last week and instant
ly.
The 6rst white settlement IN Idaho
was located at Fort Hall, near Poca-
tello, where Nathaniel Wyeth located
q fur aud trading post in 1892.
The Bunker Hill s. Sullivan mine
is rated as the richest lead property
10 the world. It's mills have already
handled ore to the value of over $l2,-
100000.
Fred George, charged with the
murder Of J. H. Billings al Occur
d'Ale0e, has been bound over to the
district court without bond.
House robbers have been operating
at Standpoint lately, number Of
residences having been entered and
clothing and valuab:es taken.
The Bonner county local option
petition carrying 1900 names. was
fled with the clerk of the board Of
county commissi oners at Standpoint
last week.
The register Of the q. S. land Office
at Occur d'Alene last week auctioned
OF y acres OF land located near Hope
for $6s5 to John B. Hogan.
Eleven prisoners are lodged in the
KootenaI county jail, this being
nearly twice the average number of
occupants. They range in age from
Is to 35 years.
The sorting plant and ore bins Of
the Mace mines burned last Sunday,
together with sorting machinery.
heating plant, blacksmith shop and
200 feet OF expensive cribbing. The
loss Is estimated at $4,000.
In size Idaho is the twelfth state
In the union, 1t is almost as large
as Pennsylvania and Ohio together,
ia larger than New York and Maine
together, and exceeds In area the six
New England states with Maryland
included.
Joe Cenklin, an unknown young
mao, was found with his throat cut,
Dec. 81. ia al abandoned cabin on
the Bob Morris farm, northwest of
Post Falls.
The state land board. recently
passed resolution authorizing Com
missioner Day to lease all the state
lands 10 the Weiser and Payette re
serves, total of some 35, 900 acres.
In preparation for warding Off fros,
troubles 10 the coming spring an or.
chardist near Roswell. in Boise valley,
says be Ia planning TO use 100 Trout
man orchard heaters to the acre, and
estimates the cost at $25 per acre.
Laura LOTUS OF Troy Is accused Of
killing her husband, VIM. LOTUS,
one evening last week. She says he
was intoxicated, called her vile names
and put her out Of the house, where
upon she became desperate and SELF
Ing shot gun fred ten buckshot
lotto his head.
Within the past five years 20 new
towns have sprung up in southern
Idaho. The population has quad
rupled, and the taxable valuation of
the region has tripled. Irrigation is
the source OF this development.
To the last two and half years the
Kuhn brothers in southern Idaho
have built canals long enough to
reach from Pittsburg to San Francis
CO supplying water for $4,000 acres
Vt land
j. Two million four hundred ard
eighty thousand bushels OF barley
were raised 10 Idaho this year from
so, 900 acres, an average yield of 40
bushels to the acre, and at 81 cents
per bushel, worth $l,339, 900.