The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-11-03
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHoAys,
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

OF the Week.
Troy Is installing water system.
The supply is from three springs west
Of town. The system will cost about
$4,000.
Saturday morning the mercury
stood at 16 degrees above zero at
Ferrell, and the channel Of the St.
Joe river was almost covered with ice
at the Ferrell dock.
The amount Of money collected 10
the odice Of the auditor Of Kooteua,
county for the quarter just ended is
as follows: Recorder, $263O; auditor.
sl47; clerk. $e7l; total. $3449.
The "drys" are at work with yigor
At Coeur d'Alene and many meetings
are being held. Captain w. G.
Dntton Of Kentucky has been en-.
gagged to remain through the cam.
psign and will deliver addresses 10 all
parts Of the county. 10 favor of
prohibition.
A Jockey at the Alan races, which
closed last week, caused sensation
by claiming he bad been promised
$500 for "pulling" race on which
large bets were at stake. The track
association is being blamed for much
alleged crooked" work during the
eleven weeks meet.
The business section OF Cambridge
was swept by tlre last Friday night,
and only valiant Gre fighting saved
the entire town from destruction.
Eight business houses are now in
complete ruins, and the town is cut
OF from all telephone communica-
tIons. The loss is about $40, 900.
At the session of the board Of re-
gents OF the University of Idaho held
at Moscow last Friday, E. H. Moffitt
of Wallace was elected president,
succeeding NJ. E. Lewis, resigned
from the board, and Geo. r. Barker
Of Standpoint, the newly appointed
regent, secretary. Mrs. Sam Hays of
Boise and E. s. Sweet of Grangeville
were present. with Regent Worth
Clark OF Pocatello absent.
According to a report published in
the Lewiston Tribune, o. M. Van
Duyn, assistant attorney general,
who Is now Ia the north country on
business connected with the office,
has virtually announced his candidacy
for the Republican nomination for
attorney general at the primaries next
year. The Tribune says that Mr..
Van Duyn's home county will make
a hard dRht to land the plum for him.
The transfer of the states stone
quarry at Boise over to the peniten-
tiary. the purchase or lease of 1000
acres Of tillable laud, the passage of
a law enabling the warden to cut off
10 days . month OF the convict's
sentence II he works on the roads,
the use OF more convicts on the pub.
lie roads OF the state, and many other
reforms that have not yet taken
den0ite shape, are some of the things
that Warden John w. Shook of the
and Wilford L. Clifford,
secretary of state, will ask the legis'
lature to do at its next session, as a
result of the trip TO various penal
institutions Of the east, from which
they have returned.
In line With the policy to Introduce
Instruction 10 agriculture in all the
common schools of the state and 10
order to more thoroughly familiarize
the teachers with the system to be
employed 10 the teaching OF this new
addition to the course of study, a
'rles OF lectures by W. H. Olin,
director OF the agricultural extension
work At the University Of Idaho, has
been announced. The lectures are to
De Correspondence lectures" and will
oe issued every two weeks during the
school year.