The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1912-11-22
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
!
Of INTEREST TO lDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

President ]. N. Mclean Of the
University Of Idaho has been offered
the presidency Of the University at
Manitoba at salary Of $4,000 per
year
}C..W. Beale; an attorney of Wal.
lace. who was defeated as Republican
c&pdidate for congress 10 the last
primaries. has Issued q statement
announcing formally his candidacy
for United States senator to succeed
the late Senator W. B. Hepburn.
With the arrival Of q, complete
triple combination auto chemical
truck Caldwell Is equipped with most
complete and smodern fre lighting
apparatus maintained by q city Of its
size In the northwest. The machine
andtlooo feet OF hose cost $4,000.
Three special trains Of 80 cars each.
al(loaded with potatoes. with over
. 1000, 900 pounds Of potatoes to the
train. left Idaho Falls, Nov. Is. for
Omaha and Kansas City. They will
be sent to eastern and southern mar
kets.
Governor Hawley has frowned down
an attempt to institute an election
contest 10 Fremont county for the
purpose Of testing the legality Of the
vote cast there Nov. S. The COVER
oor's attitude blocked the plans and
the contest proceedings were dropped
Tuesday.
Notification was received at thu
governors office at Boise Nov. l6
from the treasury department a.
Washington, d. c., to the effect tha
Idaho would receive more thar
$4,000 as the states share In tn
proceeds from the sales OF publ
lands In Idaho during the past year
Four prisoners were received at tn
state penitentiary Nov. Is registere
as follows: w. H. Smith aud 9.
Gritf,n. from Elmore county, ft
grand larceny, each under sentence
from one to IA years; Lyman Jones
murder 10 the second degree, Ere
mont county, 10 to 40 years; I
Kraus, burglary, second degre
Oneida county, six months to o.
years.
Sena tor porah will be elected
the frst ballot II the expressed WI
Of the people Is carried out. A
suggestions OF combinations at val
ance with the popular verdict 10
case, 10 association with the electi
Of successor to the late Seua'
Hepburn, may only be crystailz
through political turpitude. It IS
no moment how any may regard
outcome or any feature of the conte
Any analysis of the returns sho
that the people of Idaho want Bol
returned to the senate. e.-Statesm'
According to authentic reports
Moscow group Of mines 10 ld'
county have been sold by M.
Smith to Los Angeles capitals
Z sl50,OO0 In cash having already b
x paid and other substantial payne
are to follow, the exact price
being known. The Moscow mine
situated on Logan creek. q tribu'
Of Big creek In the Big Creek mir
district, and is 80 miles from
nearest railway station at
Meadows. The lode presents one
the largest bodies OF paying gold
ever discovered In Idaho.
On account Of the inferior qua
of{the Colorado apples this year,
BsMoss OF Payette, Idaho, has
'certained from commission men
the time is now ripe for the 10
dpction Of Idaho apples into sout
california. The southern Calife
market imports 300 carloads OF
pies annually from outside the S
Ine time to create demand
Idaho apples 10 that market for
come is now believed TO be at b