The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-12-22
STATE AND COUNTY news
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rvents and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

Latah county expects to be entire
" out OF debt by April l.
Cluster street lights are being 10.
stalled In Moscow.
A school OF horticulture Is to be
opened at Lewiston January /.
George r: Barker. proprietor Of the
Pend d'Oreille Review at Standpoint,
has purchased the Clarkfork Times.
Cougars are reported unusually
nlentiful on the North Fork Of the
Occur d'Alene river.
Salmon City has voted $50, 900
bonds to buy aud improve the private
water system.
The Kootenai County Poultry
association will hold it's frst annual
show at Occur d'Alene Dec n to 81.
Three hundred dollars in premiums
are offered, besides four silver cups.
The ii an Der sales in the Pend Oreille
forest reserve up to the present time
are so per cent heavier this year than
In the same period last year.
A. D. Mckinley of Twin Falls,
pioneer Of Idaho, and once prominent
as politician Of Shoshone county.
was recently killed in a railroad acci.
dent near Pendleton, Ore.
An effort Is being made to induce
Mayor E. Fl. Dewey of Nampa to be.
come candidate for governor on the
republican ticket.
The supreme court has sustained
the decision of Judge Dunn Of the
district court awarding Ezra Knauf
$i95O damages against the Dover
Lumber company for injuries received
by a fall through the floor Of the mill.
"A woman named Eff1e Keyser is
serving a 60-day sentence in the
county jail at Occur d'Alene for con-
tributing to the delinquency Of young
girls.
The supreme court has denied the
writ Of habeas corpus asked for by
Vera Hendershott of Kootenai coun-
ty, now in Jail at Occur d'Alene for
selling liquor in violation of the law.
Having been advised that there is
no law In Idaho under which a
municipal saloon could be operated.
the council at Coeur d'Alene has
passed an ordinance allowing eight
licensed saloons 10 that city.
The McCorkle family at Boise was
left destitute when the state food
inspectors destroyed their entire flock
OF 225 turkeys, chickens and guinea
fowls, which were badly infected with
tuberculosis aud a menace to the
health Of the people. A subscription
has since been taken for the benefit
OF the destitute family.
Records Of the KOotenai county
auditors ofiice show that during thu
year ended December Is, 645 mar
1iage licenses were issued, 81 mor'
than the year before. The numbe
OF divorces granted during the yea
were 72, as compared with "a durini
1910.
The supreme court has announced
the dates Of its regular terms for tn
coming year. 1912, as follows: A
Boise, the ffth Monday OF January
second Monday of May, the secon'
Monday of September and the four;l
Monday Of November. At Lewiston
fourth Monday OF March and the frs
Monday Of October.
Summit local of the Farmer:
educational Cooperative union wa
organized at Athol last Saturday b
III. McCorkle Of Greenacres, Wash
ihere were 81 charter members, thre
of whom were women. Followin
were the officers elected: Charles Bul
lows, president; D. Mccall, vice pres
aent; c. L. Skeel, secretary. Treasures
Harry Kaye, conductor: w. F. Barrel
ooorkeeper; Anton Busk, chaplair
Harry Kaye, NJ. L. Root and r. /
Butler ovorntivn oOc,utftoo