The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1912-02-23
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

0vVU0 anu A0OUOA A0A EAVkA Voo
Of the Week.
The city council at Wardner has
passed an ordinance allowing theaters
TO open on Sunday.
Chief Justice George H. Stewart Of
the Idaho supreme court has an
nouncad that he is a candidate for
renomlnati0n and reelection.
A report from Occur d'Alene Feb.
16. states that 1.-THE county commits
sioners have appropriated $4,000" 70
aid 10 the construction of $50. 900
auditorium at the county seat.
Fire 10 Grangevllle last Saturday
morning destroyed property valued at
5000, 900. The flames started from
an unknown cause in a vacant res
taurant.
At the Lincoln day banquet at
Boise representative republicans from
all over the state attending, a straw
vote for president gave Taft 1874,
Roosevelt So and La Toilette 8.
A company OF the national guard
Of Idaho Is to be organized at Boise
this week. The medical corps. con-
s,stiog of l6 enlisted men. is also to
be organized at Boise.
Company "F" of the National
Guard OF Idaho was recently mus
tered in by Adjutant General Mccall
At Moscow. 1t will form part of
the nrst battalion.
Ordinances have been passed At
Wallace not only prohibiting sale of
liquor to minors but making it un-
lawful for minors to attempt to buy
liquor. An ordinance excluding boys
under l8 from pool halls has also
been eoacted.
Professor Shattuck of the forestry
department.. 10 recent address at
Moscow. said Idaho has 100 billion
feet of standing timber, and that IS
per cent Of the $32, 500, 900 invested
10 Idaho manufactures is invested 10
over 256 lumber mills and factories.
Standpoint has secured the annual
moving agricultural school for Bon.
ner county for one week during the
winter OF l9l2-l3. Two hundred
farmers signed the petitions to have
the school held at Standpoint. A
similar school is to be held 10 one
town In each of the other counties in
the state.
Much interest Is being aroused
among both mining men and agri
culturlsts by the rumors of the early
organization OF State Geological
Survey 10 Idaho It would be Tho
duty of this survey to make maps
showing the distribution of the soils
1Qineral products and artesian water.
o,,n.- state, and to answer questions
concerning 1en'.
A Joint institute = seaone's -
Kootenai and Shoshone I. .'unC'es VII
be held in Occur d'Alene durl."g 'n'
flrst three days of the month Of APP
County Superintendent Emma A.
Rauch of KoOtenai county and Fran
ces Wilson OF Shoshone have complet.
ed the arrangements for the meeting
In the probate court at Occur d.
Alene last Friday. Everett Black wa'
bound over to the district court unde
$4,000 bonds upon the charge of mur
dering William Whiting at Harrison
February 10. The deed was com
mItted with knife dur$Rg fight y
which the testimony at the hearin
showed Black to have been the az
gressOr.
Byron Detfenbach of Standpoint
who has been mer toned as a possibl
RubernatOrial can didate on the re
publican ticket. has issued a stat
ment that he does not want tt
nomination unl ess he has the unite
support of his own county. He say
''1f I have the support and the fa'
can be demons rated to the republ
cans of the ST. ate, l can be nom
nated."