The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1912-04-19
STATE and COUNTY news
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From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.

Ut lNlEAEOl ~ lUA0VANO
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.
Latah county is out of debt and
has $3S95 cash on hand.
A new sawmill to cost $3.50, 900 is
to be built soon at St. Maries.
Street paving to cost $4,000 is
contemplated 10 q proposed ordi-
nance at Moscow.
Judge R. N. Dunn of the Eighth
judicial district has called for trial
jury at Occur d'Aiene April 20.
The Kootenai county commissioners
spent some time last week inspecting
roads 10 the southern end of the
county.
Fifty cases of smallpox and 100
cases of measles aud mumps have
been reported in Wallace 10 the last
three months.
w. n. johnson, who committed
suicide by hanging himself 10 his
cabin near Medimont, was buried at
Occur d'Alene last Friday.
Snow fell In the mountains of Ida.
ho and 10 northern Montana last
Friday. Snow six inches deep was
reported at Chinook, Mont, and at
Fort Benton, Glasgow and Great
Falls.
!: The commissioners Of Kootenai
county have let the contract to build
the new steel swing bridge across the
St. Joe river at St. Maries to Carscal.
len Bros. OF Occur d'Alene for SIG, 700.
The inclusion In this years budget
by the Bonner county commissioners
OF an appropriation of S25,o0o for the
construction OF road between Sand
point and the Montana Idaho state
line at Cabinet makes available the
state appropriation Of similar
amount for that purpose.
Nitroglycerin. leaked from sticks
OF dynamite placed in the oven te
thaw, caused the stove 10 the cabin
Of William Corcoran at Clarksfork te
blow up April 13, injuring him sc
severely that he was taken to the
hospital at Standpoint.
Judge W. W. Woods of the district
court at Wallace granted reloearinf
in the case Of Charles Baillie against
the city OF Wallace. The plaintiff
was granted $4,000 damages for injur-
les alleged to have been received
when he struck low oyerhangini
sign. The city in its request for
new trial rseadso soinsut1iciency Of evi
dence.
Bannock county April 13 con
tributed her usual quota to the priso'
population Of the state when Distric
Judge Bulge sentenced II m en- foun
guilty at the present term of; distric
court at Pocatello to varying terms
-Four of them were sent to the stat
penltentiary.
A son, the main reliance OF hi
widowed mother, lost his own LAM
10 Washington county last wee
because he spent most of his da
working the farm from which hi
mother was trying to make livin
aud did not have time q dough left t
establish legal residen ce on his ow
fling. The entry was cancelled.
The county commlssi oners Of Bo1
ner county have been " orking on th
annual budget. The eport of Cour
ty Treasurer Andrew c ;hristenson an
County Auditor r. S. McCrea for tn
quarter show the inf fiebtedness Of tt
county to be SIC 1856. as again'
Slo3, ,469 10 April, 1911, and $7O,l7
In 1910.
Two Bannock County com n,issl one
are cited into court at Poca tell
April 70. to answer to charges
malfeasance in office. They are a.
cused by the I county assessor vii
collecting illegal fees from the coun
10 the aT4ouDt OF sseveral hundr'
dollars, Charging for expenses whe
no exp1nse; are incW red, riding on