The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-07-07
STATE and COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
or INTEREST TO IDAHOAyS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

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OF the Week.
Nearly 1000. 900 native trout left
the Standpoint hatchery last week fol
the trout streams of northern Idaho
Between 1900 aud 1000 Indians
assembled for religious campmeet.
ing near Winchester last week. 1t is
an annual AFFAIR.
The body Of r. j. O'Donnell. the
aeronaut drowned In the Snake river
near Weiser two weeks ago while
making an ascension for an amuse.
ment company has been recovered.
The Occur d'Alene electric line has
formally been taken over from the
Graves interests to the j. j. Hill
lines. The s. P. 4 S. have now con-
troll and will push the proposition.
The Grangeville city council has
voted to allow motion picture show
to be opsn on Sundays. the only con-
dition being that the shows are not
open during the hours of The regular
services ct the churches.
After visit to Hepburn park and
Lake Chatcolet. Governor Hawley
last week expressed enthusiasm over
the black bass and perch fishing. He
believes the park should develop into
one OF the most famous Fairgrounds
in the nation In another year.
The petitions circulated in Canyon
county praying the county commits.
sioners to call special election to
vote on the saloon question have
nearly all been died with the county
clerk. 1t requires 40 per cent of the
voters to call the election, and the
petitions now on flle represent over
so per cent. At the last election the
total vote cast 10 the county for
secretary Of state was 6,058. The
signatures to the petitions so far filed
number more than $500.
A controversy has arisen between
the city of Boise and Ada county as
to who shall collect the road poll tax
10 Boise. The county commissioners
insist that the collectors whom they
appoint shall do the collecting, while
the city council, by advice of the city
attorney, appears to feel that under
the law the road poll tax Ia Boise
should be collected by the road over
seer OF this district, who is Street
Commissioner Burnham.
The possibility that a test case may
be taken TO the supreme court to at
tack the new road poll tax law on the
grounds OF uOconstitutionality has
arous d considerable public interest,
aud 1t appears from what various at
torneys say on the matter that there
are a nuinber OF dne legal points
which have arisen 10 the interpreta-
tion Of the statute, especially with
regard to its relations with the exemp.
tion provisions OF the state revenue
law and the law governing exemptions
from execution for debt.
Az a result OF the crusade for better
sanitary conditions being carried on
1t SALMON by Deputy Food and Sani-
tary Inspectors Parker and, iSmith,
there is only one eating place running
In Salmon. and that Chinese res
taurant which recently opened for
business and had not been running
long enough IL the new place to be.
come as dirty aud insanitary as the
rest Of the places of that character
there. This Is the only thing that
saved 1t, ard it may be necessary to
close its doors yet. It is none too
Fclean. n.-Statesman.
That northern Idaho Is having one
OF the most prosperous years 10 its
history is the opinion Of State Immi-
grafton Commissioner S. j. Rich. who
has returned to Boise from a trip
Through portions Of that section. He
went tosSandpoint, then took trip
10y gasoline yacht to the state fish
hatch"ry. He stated that he intends
Is soon as possib to fln 'sh inspection
Pf the country ia the north not SO
Ar visited.