The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-20
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interes 1 Gathered
From E1cha nges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHoANS.
Events and Industri rial Progress
Of the Wee L.

Of the Week.
The assessed valuation Of St.
Aarlss ID reported ct S44l, 500.
The total amount Of taxes to be
raised 10 Latah county this year is
s$3I5.62y.
The warrant indebted ness OF Bon
ner county is now $l53. boo and in.
creasing.
On the drst day OF the postal sav.
inRs bank at Spirit Lake sos were
deposited.
The water company at Kamlah
offers their plant to the city for
$ll, 900.
John A. Steiolein. q prominent
attorney Of Standpoint. afhicted with
cancer, committed suicide October II.
John L. Fodey Of Cocolalla is suing
the Northern Pacific for $3.50
damages for timber destroyed by fire
two years ago.
A Joint teachers institute for Nez
Perce, Clearwater and Latah counties
: Is TO be held at Lewiston Oct. 80 to
Nov. S.
Associate Justice John NJ. Harlan
OF the United States supre eme cou rt
died at Washington, d. O., October
~. aged 7S years.
A number OF boys clubs ia Moscow
have been discovered In tho habit of
buying liquor from Portland whole
sale houses. One or two ar rests have
been made.
After q countrywide search lasting
IS years Mrs. Nellie Freeman, 80
years old. of Stoneham. Mass, has at
last succeeded In her quest for her
son, Joseph Corey, now prosperous
citizen Of Boise, Idaho.
A joint county institute is to be
, held the week Of October % at Poca.
tello. The following couu ties will
unite: Bannock, Bear Lake, Cassia.
Bonneville, Bingham, Blaine, Custer,
Fremont, Lincoln, Oneida and Twin
Falls.
The Bonner county commissioners
. have authorized the organization Of a
drainage district in the Kootenal
, valley embracing 10000 acres, which,
when drained, it is estimated will be
worth $l00 an acre.
Melton Thomason, who lives three
miles east Of Winchester, had 300
acres In timothy. He sold the seed
at I cents pound. The 300 acres
uetted him $4,000. II he had held
to the present date he wou ID have
received IA cents. or $40, 900.
Two prisoners, John Supple, held
on \ charge of shooting two foreign
efs at st. Maries, and Jesse Whilke'
charged with forgery, escaped from
the Kootenai county jail at Coeu'
d,Alene last Friday night. Sheriff
Mcfarland has offered $50 reward fol
their rccapture.
The copies of the state constl tuition
prepared by Secretary Of State W. l.
Giiford, which have Just been printed,
are exciting very favorable comment
throughout the state, and are causing
that of1cial to be the recipient Of
many compliments. The book Il
very Systematically arranged. and re-
nects the systematic and schoiari!
tendency OF the secretary of sta te.
The city council at Occur d Alen'
recently issued $4,000 municlpa
bonds to take up the outsta andin'
....ec4 ,ndehtedness. and the bonds
800 ..nt "a an eastern col npan.
without any money being paid oVe
for them. The warrants are SUI
outstanding and drawing7 I per cen
interest and the legality OF the oon'
sale is being questioned.
Football elevens supported DY tn
high schools OF Boise, Nampa, Caid-
we'll, Payette, Weiser and En- mme'
III, ,h,s fo,, contest on the gridiroI
-. ~. ,n,erscholastic championship