The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-07-21
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS,
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

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ST. Maries has let contract for
sewer system to cost over SIS, 1000.
Farmers are paying. So per day to
get harvest hands in the Clearwater
valley.
Plans are on foot to reclaim 4500
acres of land 10 the Kootenai valley
by drainage. A ditch miles long
and 10 feet wide is to be dug.
Leo Resenau, II years old, was
drowned In a pond near Genesee last
Saturday. He was seized with cramps
while swimming.
/. w. Brag, 40 years old, was
drowned July 16 while swimming in
a lake below Bonners Ferry. He was
a farmer OF the Kootenai valley.
Andrew Carr OF the Boise Creamery
company, charged with selling butter
which was under weight, paid fine
of $50 and costs into the state treas
ury, July Is. 1t was his third
offense.
The Milwaukee Hospital assocla-
tion is building two hospitals on the
St. Maries- Bovill branch OF the Mil
waukee at Fernwood and BovilI.
Bids for the new hospital at ST.
Maries are now under consideration.
Owners of automobiles at Occur
d'Alene are demanding a higher
speed limit, and an ordinance is con-
templated fixing speed Of 8 miles
turning corners, IL miles on straight
roads and 20 miles outside of the fire
limit district.
UnheedinR the warnings of COM
panions, John Gillis, q lumberman,
attempted to swim the Occur d'Alene
river at the mission below Cataldo,
Saturday evening, and was drowned.
He had been complaining of heart
failure.
Clerk OF Court d. f. Danny ol
Kootenai county reports he has
turned over to the county treasurer
$3562 OF which $268O was for re-
corder's fees; $l6O for auditors fees,
aud $50 for clerks fees.
Three girls, Lucy Bitterick, aged
20, her sister, Elsie Bitterick, agef
l6, aud l0.year-old Nora Robinson o.
Standpoint, met death by drowning il
Chuck. slough, not far from thei
homes. last Sunday afternoon. The,
s went swimming. No one witnessed
the drowning.
The state land board has authorized
Governor Hawley to enter into al
agreement with the secretary o
agriculture whereby the state will b
permitted to fl!e on timber land II
compact bodies. in lieu of sections II
aud 80 contained in the nationa
forests. About 400, 900 acres are 10
volved.
Professor o. NJ. Osborne of th
agricultural college, University o
Idaho, advises owners of new orchard
to utilize the ground between tn
trees fpr poultry raising, vegetabl
gardening or bee.keeping, while wait
ing for the fruit trees to begin bear
log.
Thescoming year OF the Lewisto
state normal school promises to {
the best 10 the history Of that stat
Institution, according to Dean Hallt
well. who is quoted in a Spokau
paper. The student enrolment !
1901 was 1892, and in 19li.l2 1t
expected that 1t will be at least 4o'
Several new instructors have bee
added to the faculty, which no
numbers twenty-eight. OF the seve
normals Ia the Pacific northwes
Lewiston leads, from the point
view Of equipment, efficiency
faculty, courses offered, and studel
ollinent. It Is expected that u
senior class which will graduate
June. 1912. will number at lea
flftY. No normal school in the we
has grown SO ranidly as the one