The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-03-31
STATE AND COUNTY news
items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.


a. Of the Week.
The state Of Idaho sends one mill.
lon dollars east every year for ire
Insurance.
Boomers Ferry has new band OF
II pieces. Concerts will be given
every Sunday.
A company Of Iowa men is being
organized to take white6sh from the
lakes aud streams OF northern Idaho.
1t is said plants will be established
to prepare the fish for the market.
Governor Hawley will be one Of the
committee to receive Theodore Roose.
velt on his arrival in Moscow on
April Q. The Moscow celebration
promises to be one OF the best OF its
kind the state has ever seen.
A year ago the farms Of Idaho
were assessed at $42. 100000. The
last census 6xes their value at $244,.
. 600, 900, and the actual cash value.
which 1t Is predicted the assessors
will Ok upon them this year, will be
$500, ,oo0. 900.
Robert Worth, the ex-coDvict who
murdered w. v. Mclaughlin at
Lewiston March s by cutting his
throat with a razor, has been sem
fenced to life imprisonment. 1t was
at frst reported that he was sentenced
to hang but this is said to have been
an error.
That the capital stock Of banks
should not be assessed to the banking
corporation but to the individual
stockholders, at Its value, the same
as any other property, Is the opinion
OF Attorney General McDougall,
given last Friday 10 response to an
inquiry from Herbert A. Ellsworth,
assessor for Ada county.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, on his
western visit, is to be in Spokane
April I, 8 and 8. On the evening of
the 9th be goes to Moscow, Idaho,
where he Is scheduled to deliver IN
address at Q o'clock on the morning
OF the 10th. In the afternoon of the
10th, at 4:20, he reaches Standpoint
for q brief stop on his way back tc
the east.
J. T. Pretty, charged with engag
log Ia the white slave traffic between
Montana and Idaho, is in the count,
Jail at Occur d'Alene. He wa:
brought before U. S. Commissioner
A. w. Post OF Rathdrum last week
pleaded not guilty aud was bound
over to the federal court under $l5,
900 bonds.
Eight convicts at the Idaho peni
tentiary were paroled by the prisot
commissioners Mar. "a, with the pro
vision that they secure employment
The names Of the prisoners are with
held because of the fact that tn
commissioners believe that the mel
would have an extremely Difficult
time getting work 10 the event thei
names were spread broadcast as con
victs.
James H. Wallis, state pure foo'
commissioner of Idaho. seized 10
gallons of vinegar, 1853 pounds OF lar
and 14S pounds Of butter In stores a
Spirit Lake this week. The lard wa
of local manufacture but was adultel
ated; the vinegar and butter wer
shipped from Spokane. The vinega
was misbrauded aud the butter shoI
weight.
A colony of cougars infesting tn
North Fork region 10 the vicinity q
Big island. 40 miles above Ahsahks
Idaho, is decimating the deer 10 tina
locality, according to r. b. Hibo'
who has been hunting and trappin
along the North Fork and tributar
streams during the winter. Hut
dreds OF dead deer, bearing evident
of having fallen victims to the D'
mountain cats have been found
Mr.. Hibbs and his companions an
they finally began systematic can
paign against the cougars with tt
result that they have bagged l3 Il