The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-03-24
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

OF the Week.
Council has been made the tenn.
porary county scat of the new county
of Adams.
Two tickets are Ia the field for the
Occur d'Alene city election, a socialist
ticket and peoples ticket.
Much building is being planned at
st. Maries this year, including a
moving picture tbeater to cost $4,000.
Adjutant General F. A. Mccall is
expecting to receive orders at any
moment from Washington to put the
Idaho militia on war footing
Judge W. w. Woods OF the First
judicial district has declined an offer
from Governor Hawley Of the appoint.
ment to the state supreme court to
succeed Justice Geo. H. Stewart.
The hardware store OF w. E. Nc.
Kinney at Spirit Lake was entered
last Saturday night by robbers who
escaped with about 5000 worth OF
razors. knives and pistols.
Twenty eight farmers 10 the Sites
community, owning 24O cows and
representing $500 paid in capital
have organized creamery station
that will cost $4,000.
William Montgomery and Ned
Rube were each fined $3.50 and costs
amounting to $26 for taking elk
illegally in the Middle Fork country
above KoOskia. The arrests were
made By Deputy State Game Warden
r. L. Pennell.
The Star. Mirror Publishing COM
pany Of Moscow has begun suit
against f. L. Sewers of Caldwell,
member Of this years graduating
class at the University Of Idaho, to
recover $3.50 for publishing the 1910
junior class annual.
Approximately 1000, 900 bushels of
wheat, oats and barley, principally
wheat, are yet stored in the ware
houses tributary to Lewiston. Prac-
tically all of this amount is wheat,
and the most of it is being held by
the growers foi rise.
A 'ssnow" snake, SIX feet long, was
recently killed 10 the Bitter Root
forest reserve. The snakes, which
are almost perfectly white, are native
OF the region but are very rare and
are only found when there is snow on
the ground. They live on squirrels
and rabbits.
Moscow is preparing to entertain
many thousands of Idaho citizens on
April and 10 when Ex-President
Theodore Roosevelt visits that city.
Colonel Roosevelt will deliver an ad-
dress at the University on the morn
Ing of the 10th.
j. NJ. Flynn OF Occur d'Alene, re-
Gently appointed as additional Judge
Tor the Eighth judicial district,
which Is composed of Bonner and
Kootenai counties, has gone to Sand
point to take up the work there.
The spring term In Bonner opens
April 3, and the fall term in both
Kootenai and Bonner will open Sep.
tember Is.
According to Charles A. Hastings,
former state treasurer, the plan to
assess all property at full cash value
Will result In the creation of a school
fund that will be more than double
The actual needs OF the schools of the
state, as the existing statute govern
log the levying OF school taxes says
the county commissioners must each
year make levy of not less than or
more than 10 mills.
Congressman Burton L. French,
VINO will leave at once for the nations
capital, asserts that one of the tasks
ne has set before him is to work out
means by which Idaho schools may
receive the advantage of the 1,00O..
ooO acres OF land which he says be.
long to the schools but are included
10 the forest reserves now.