The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-07-28
State AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHoANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

OF the Week.
A session Of the federal court wa
announced to open at Occur d'Alen,
July q, Judge DIETRICH OF Boise pre-
siding.
Boise people have paid license or
529 dogs so far this season. sufflcien,
sum being collected to pay the pound.
masters salary.
Rangers of the Occur d'Alene
national forest are kept busy coping
with incipient fires several OF which
have been reported since last week.
The Bonner county board Of equal.
izasion made but few slight changes
In the full cash value assessment OF
that county as reported by the
assessor.
Senators Borah and Hepburn OF
Idaho were among those who voted
against the Canadian reciprocity bill
when 1t came up for 6nal passage In
the upper house Of congress July %.
A Kootenai county fair is to be
held in Occur d'Alene the week be.
ginning September Is. William
Buckley, deputy horticultural in
spector. has charge. Exhibits OF
fruit, hay, grain. livestock, ETC., will
be displayed.
The skeleton Of a huge prehistoic
animal, believed to have been a
mastodon. were found July 10 near
Montpelier, southern Idaho, at a
depth Of II feet. The discovery was
made on the farm of Chris Kunz
while digging canal.
Bannock and Canyon counties will
each vote on the local option question
September 8. Both are now in the
"dry" column, aod the elections are
to be held for the purpose of attempt
ing to restore the saloon.
Conservative grain dealers, farmers
and merchants, in north Idaho pre-
dict that there will this year be the
heaviest yield OF cereals 10 the Lewis.
ton district ever harvested and the
quality Is certain to be the best ever
produced since the country was
opened to settlement.
It has been discovered that frogs
have been the cause OF the disappear
ance Of many ducklings at ranches on
the Boise river. Whole broods have
been missed but what had happened
to them was not known until, one
day, frogs were seen catching and
eating them.
+. J. Hunziker shot aud killed a
burglar in the act of breaking into
his hardware store at Kootenai on
the night OF July 20. Hunziker fred
two shots from his revolver. The
store had been burglarized twice
recently, the robbers each time es.
Gaping with their booty.
The Inn hotel at Occur d'Alene
was raided last Saturday by Jailer
Knowlton and Deputy Sheriffs Berry
aud Nogle and five barrels Of beer
found. one kept on ice ready for
serving. James and W. L. Rowen,
who were running the place, were
arrested and the liquor condscated.
Lake Pend d'Oreille Is one OF the
six deepest lakes Of the United States,
according to Prof. George Kemmerer
Of the government bureau Of fisheries,
who took soundings of the lake last
week. usins deep sea apparatus, and
nnding depth of 1900 feet, out from
Granite creek. At Occur d'Alene
lake he found the greatest depth was
2o5- feet.
Farmers Of Nez Perce. Latah and
Idaho counties no longer summer
fallow their grain lands, but grow
beans and corn on alternate years.
the soil being left In better condition
than II summer fallowed. Beans
Yield 1000 to l4O0 pounds to the acre
and sell for 3 to s cents pound.
Corn Yields SO to 60 bushels.