The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-08-04
STATE AND COUNTY news
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From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHoANS.
Events and Industrial Progress

Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.
Three companies of the national
guard from Rexburg, Idaho Falls
and Twin Falls are camped at Boise
for ten days target practice.
Forest hres near Port Hill destroyed
the sawmill and large amount Of
lumber belonging to d. H. Chisholm
last Saturday night.
The timber companies of Clear
water county have demanded flfty
percent reduction In the each value
assessment placed on their holdings
for taxgtion purposes.
Lewis Udick, 13.year.old boy,
was drowned In swimming hole 10
the Boise river near Caldwell one
evening last week.
Mayor John T. Wood of Coeur
d'Alene has been expelled from the
socialist local Of that place for nom
attendance At meetings and refusal
to obey the mandates Of the local.
Jahu Dewitt Miller of New York,
q noted thinker and lyceum lecturer,
died at Boise July 20, after months
illness with typhoid fever. He was
on lecture tour Of the west.
Gurley Shaul and Charles Thompson
Of Boise have been arrested for horse
stealing In that vicinity and 10
Owyhee county. They are believed
to be members Of gang that has
been operating 10 I've states.
w. Z. Taylor OF Austin. Texas, is
superintendent of the state school for
the deaf, dumb and blind located at
Gooding. Idaho. He succeeds Paul
H. Martin who resigned the position
because Of i'll health.
A Mexican prisoner, P. Suenta.
serving 5-year term for burglary, es-
capped from the garden gang coming
10 to the state penitentiary from the
Noseley ranch last week. He had
been working on this gang since
early. spring and had become known
as model prisoner. This was his
drst attempt.
The production of gold 10 Idaho
this year will be Is per cent greater
than 10 1910, according to present
Indications, says Joseph Pinkham,
the assayer In charge at the United
States assay Office in Boise. DredRes
are. at work In Boise basin, Idaho
City, Warrens aud Pierce City.
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Justice OF the Peace Manning OF
Lewiston has ruled that q wooden
Partition Ia card rooms, billiard halls
and soft drink establishments does
not constitute violation OF Idaho's
new Law prohibiting "b!inds, screens
and like distractions.
Failure OF the Timothy crop In the
central and eastern states has caused
the agents of seed houses to make
their purchases 10 the west. In
some parts Of Idaho the demand has
sentfthe price of timothy seed from
s to 10 cents q pound and many
thousands Of acres of timothy are be-
ing LETT to ripen for seed instead OF
being cut for hay.
State Dairy, Food and Sanitary
Commissioner J. Fl. Wallis compelled
Geo. Langlois, a butcher at Marion
In cassia county, to pay a flne OF $75
for conducting a slaughter house un-
der, unsanitary conditions, and will
prosecute him further for buying
lumpy jaw cattle and selling the
diseased meat to workers employed
on construction at the Oakley dam.
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Kootenai was the fourteenth coun-
ty in Idaho. Itwas organized Just
tharsy years ago and Messrs. Rankin.
Martin and Garfield were the first
commissioners, appointed BY Govern
or Neil. The commissioners met at
Westwood, now Rathdrum. and COM
pleted the county Organization os
appointing the county officers.
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