The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-09-29
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of. Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
Of INTEREST TO IDAHoANs.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

6VV0O 00O AuUUSU Ma kIO&IeSs
Of the Week.
The board Of county commissioner
Of Clearwater county made the lev,
for this year 81 IS ror all purposes.
At the school election at Genese
to vote $50, 900 bonds to build a new
school building, the plan carried by a
vote of 100 to 81.
Probably the most valuable car o.
freight ever shipped out of Reuben.
was billed TO Chicago recently, tn,
car containing 10000 pounds O
Timothy seed, which, at the pres en-,
price Of IL cents per pound, is worth
90, 800.
A petrided tree-roots, trunk,
branches and all-has been found ia
Glover creek 10 Lincoln county and
portions OF the mammoth curio sent
to the state historical department ia
be placed on exhibition.
The grand jury at Wallace is in.
vestigating the State Bank Of Com.
merce failure. f. S. Wymau, former
cashier, and Gary @. Burke, assistant
cashier, we're before the jury Monday.
A number Of other witnesses, chiefly
depositora, were also summoned.
Three new additions to the agri.
cultural department OF the Universi--
ty Of Idaho have been announced by
Dean w. L. Carlyle. They are G. E.
Temple. assistant professor of botany;
E. T. Baker. professor of veterinary
science; and E. w. Hamilton, assis.
tant professor of agricultural engi.
neering.
Farmers Of Peck are getting fabu.
lous prices for timothy seed. One
man sold six sacks of the seed for $50,
another four sacks for $50. In one
instance $l60 worth Of seed was
threshed from four and half acres.
Ben CLANCY took the biggest single
load Of seed to the warehouse, re-
ceiyinp $1,000 fnr IT,.
Lewis county commissioners have
fixed the tax levy for the year at 10 s
mills, which, on an assessed valuation
Of Sc, ,80l,l7l, will make the total tax
$73, 1895. With the exception of
Fremont county, where the levy was
dxed at 8 mills, as against q mills
last year, aud Kootenai which has a
levy OF only 9.8 mills, Lewis county
has the lowest levy 10 the state.
A telegram was received recently
by the Moscow -four mill relative to
purchase Of 5000 barrels OF the
Moscow -four, and it read as follows:
"Hoag Kong accepts your offer five
thousaDd barrels" This will mean
that 30 carloads of Moscow -four
made from Palouse grain will be
shipped to China 10 dlling this big
order.
With pay roll which closely ap.
psoaches 500, 900 q month, and that
means 40 approach to million aud a
quarter . year, the Mullan district,
which Is the, eastern side of the Occur
csrtainly holds Its own
with any mining section In the west.
Conservatively estimated, there are
900 men on the pay rolls, In the
mines. mills aud about the town.
With few exceptions the wages are
$3.50 and above.
The finest flour mill between Den
yer S00 SPOKANE Is now 10 OpeTatiou
10 Twin Falls. All Of the necessary
has been Installed IN the
new yellow brick build
inx adjoIning the elevator across
from the Oregon Short Line depot,
and sacks are now being filled with
Twin Falls -four. The present
capacity Of the mill is 400 barrels per
day.
H, II. Barton of Occur d'Alene has,
through his attorney, w. H. Plum.
mer Of Spokane. filed an AMENDED
10 his case against J. Z.
White, Z. NJ. Rogers, H. B. Tren
and f B. VIM, for damages 10 the
ii N ~ san On0 The cOmDlaiUt sets