The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-11-10
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.


A night school has been opened at
Wallace TO teach five courses,
stenography, tYpewriting, bookkeep-
log, commercial arithmetic and
German.
Lee Wedell, a Boise hack driver,
who backed his rig into a Chinaman's s
WAGON and then beat the Chinaman
In q tlght that followed, was given 30
days in jail aud fined 500.
Because OF the recent holdup and
murder at Eeeler & Moran's saloon,
90 Pine Creek, near Wallace. settlers
aud prospectors have joined in an
effort to have the owners license re-
voKed. A petition is being circulated.
-Four juvenile delinquents from
Mace. Mullan and Wallace were sent
from Shoshone county to the state
reform school at St. Anthony last
week. Al: are said to have been
persistent offenders 10 their several
communities.
Claiming that motorcycle ridden
by Myrtle Hubble along the Doust
highway, near Bonners Ferry,
frightened mare belonging to the
plaintiff so that it ran away and re.
ceived Injuries from which 1t died.
A. s. Caldwell has f1led a damage
suit for $275 in the district court at
Standpoint.
BY officially placing bis signature
t. the deeds issued by the state con-
veying to the Potlatch Lumber com
pany certain lands In Latah and Nez
Perce counties. l7.842.40 acres In all,
Secretary Of State Clifford added
$3.50, ,l64. 50 to the Golfers Of the school
fund OF the state.
With a charter membership Of 40,
the Idaho Single Tax league has been
formed at Boise. 1t is the intention
Of the league to have vice president
In every county In the state and to
carry on an active campaign OF edu-
cation.
A great many farmers at Reubens
are threshing over the timothy straw
stacks and are getting from SIS to $40
an acre for seed secured at the second
threshing. One farmer reports 5000
worth of seed from his straw stack.
Bids for the construction of one Of
the largest wagon bridges 10 the state
and the third structure to be built
under the provisions OF the bridge
bills passed at the last legislature
will be opened at Mountain Home on
November 25. This bridge. 5l7 feet
In length, Is to be three span struc
ture, built entirely of concrete and
steel.
Don H. Bark, water Investigator
for the federal government in southern
Idaho, estimates that 100000 tons OF
alfalfa hay IL going to waste on the
Twin Falls tract on account Of no
market for 1t 10 the state, while 1t is
impracticable to ship 1t to the Chica-
60 market on account OF high freight
rates. Mr.. Bark believes the solution
OF the problem lies in the raising OF
cattle and hogs 10 Idaho.
Several little children were pain.
fully injured and the lives Of many
endangered when dynamite, supposed
to have been placed in the stove, at
Powder Horn school house near Har-
rison, Nov. 2, by disgruntled pupil,
exploded blowing the stove into a
thousand pieces. The explosion took
place shortly after 20 children under
Miss Edwards of Spokane had started
The days work at the school house.
Alice Hall, age 8, and the little
daughter of Steve Marlette were
severely injured. 81
Justice Ailshie did not concur Ia
the decision by Chief Justice Stewart
sno Justice Sullivan Ia the school tax
levy case when the majority of the
supreme court ruled that the school
'eVY must not be less than 5 mills
Toe minimum named in the consti'