The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-05-26
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANs.
Events and Industrial Progress
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VI tine week.
A destructive wind storm visited
Boise one night last week, blowing
down many shade trees In the nor
them part OF the city.
Judge Dietrich Of the U. S. district
of Idaho, convened the drst session
OF the federal court at Occur d'Alene
Monday.
The Indian school at Lapwai is be-
Ing lifted with sanitarium to &C.
commodate 100 tubercular Indian
children.
Harvey Milford, Mexican, is in
the county jail at Occur d'Alene
charged with assault with q deadly
weapon. He is accused of having
stabbed Doc Phelps at Rose Lake.
D. G. Corbin has placed his new
$4,000 cabin launch on Pend d'Oreille
lake. It is q 48-foot keel. S.foot
beam and equipped with l0o.horse
power engine. It has berths to ac-
commodate eight persons.
John A. Platt. q wealthy stockman
Of Forester, Idaho, Indicted by the
federal grand jury for unlawful en-
closure of public lands on the Salmon
river. entered plea of guilty and
was fined $3.50 and discharged.
Governor James H. Hawley is
visiting the cities OF the southern
part OF the state, explaining the ad-
vAntaRes and feasibility of the assess
ment of property at actual cash value,
as provided by law.
Occur d'Alene is rapidly becoming
a mecca for young couples seeking to
be. united 10 marriage. In one week
recently 81 couples obtained licenses
there and were married.
James Manley, colored man ar
rested for manufacturing and selling
an alcoholic beverage near Lewiston,
has pleaded guilty to bootlegging,
saying he thought he had right to
sell liquor OF his own manufacture.
Damages to Kellogg riverside prop
erty Inflicted by the lead waters Of
the altered Occur d'Alene river are
made the basis of suit for $1,000
axainst the Federal Mining company
aud the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
Mining aud Concentrating company
In the district court at Wallace. The
plaintiff Is Pete Albinola.
The Pacific States Telephone CON-
pany will assume control Of the lines
aud exchanges of the Bell Telephone
company In oine counties OF northern
Idaho June l. During the last week
party Of officials Of the Pacific
States company have been through
this county on tour OF inspection.
Elk 10 Idaho will be extinct in ten
years according to report from the
southern part of the state. 1t IS
claimed the winter feeding grounds
are being occupied by ranchers, and
the range Of the elk when driven out
OF the mountains by deep SHOWS Is
becoming smaller eyery year. Many
elk were fed by farmers last winter
but hundreds died of starvation, and
unless some way is provided for feed
Ing the animals In the winter months,
1t Is feared they will soon disappear.
It will soon be possible to take
long auto drives into the white pine
belt OF the North Fork of the Clear
water II the plans now being worked
out by Theodore Fohl. chief fire
wardeu for the Clearwater Fire Pro-
tectlve association. are carried to
completion. Although during the
forest .6res last summer the Clear
water association lost but little tim
Der in the area under its control,
regardless OF the fact that number
Of blazes originated 10 different parts
Of the North Fork district, the loss
would have been materially less had
there been more and bette.
roads and trails.