The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-08-11
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHoANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

6ve0W ana 400uSUlal Progress
Of the Week.
Two Spokane men were fined Mon
day at st. Maries, for fishing without
q license.
The Spirit Valley Irrigation com.
pany has been organized at Coeul
d'Alene with capital Of $45. 900.
Z. f. Goldner aud Joe Marshers
we're arrested at Occur d'Alene last
Saturday for bootleggiog.
Hall storms in Nez Perce and Idaho
couutles destroyed several sections of
standing grain, beating it into the
ground.
The city Of Standpoint Is economic
iog, reducing the tax levy to 10 mills
aud doing away with some Of the
salarled positions.
The city tax levy for Twin Falls is
10 mills which Is expected to raise
$4,000, the valuation being five
millions.
Bosses city tax levy this year is to
be dxed at 8 mills on q valuation of
$22, 600, 600. Last year the levy was
l53 mills on a valuation of 1884,.
$40.
All reports Of the last two weeks
indicate that the crop Of buckle
berries in the mountains this year is
the best ever seen. Many are still
ripening.
George r. Barker, editor of the
Pend d'Oreille Review OF Standpoint,
has been appointed regent Of the
University of Idaho to succeed M. Z.
Lewis Of Moscow.
An alarming shortage OF water is
reported at Pocatello. The reservoirs
have gone partly dry and are filled
with decaying organic matter. The
people have appealed to the state for
help.
In Bannock county the assessor has
raised the total assessed valuations
from four to seven million dollars.
The value of land is raised from $4.O9
to $7.9 per acre; common cattle are
placed at $20.l0, milch cows $25.l6,
sheep s., hogs So.
Over eoo,o trout from the Sand
point hatchery have been placed IN
the streams aud lakes OF the northern
COUNTIES OF the state, and 1t is an.
n0unced a million more will be dis
tributed from the same source In the
next few weeks.
Companies d, X and M Of the
national guard were reviewed by
Governor Hawley on the parade
ground at Boise barracks last Sunday
afternoon. The ten days encamp-
ment of the battalion closed Wednes,
day.
1t has been ascertained that Hugh
Whitney, the young desperado who
escaped from Utah Jail after being
convicted of murder, and then held
up a train on the O. S. L., June II,
killing the conductor and making his
escape, is an Idaho product, his
parents residing on farm near
Council. Governor Hawley offers
$500 reward for Whitney's capture.
Members OF the Modern Woodmen
Of America of Occur d'Alene went to
the home of Mrs. j. H. Jarrett,
whose husband recently died at the
hospital 10 Spokane and whose home
burned accidentally few days before
his de atb, and helped rebuild the
structure for the widow and her
family Of IL children. They worked
the greater part Of Saturday and
Monday ana accomplished inclosing
the house for the family.
An automobile. driver in Boise,
who hurried q doctor to young man
who was bleeding to death just IN
time to save the patients life, was
Immediately placed under arrest for
exceeding the speed limit. The po'
lice judge, however, while commend
log the police for arresting the driver