The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1912-03-15
STATE and COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
DF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

OF the Week.
There are now twelve artesiau flow
<1ng wells in Boise valley, some II
Ethem being over 400 feet deep. This
kwater is used for irrigation.
A smallpox epidemic at BOISE has
not vet been entirely eradicated,
three new cases being reported one
Eday last week.
s. D. Taylor, state auditor and
epublican candidate for governor, is
In the northern part Of the state on
ten day trip to Bonners Ferry, Sand.
point and other points.
Richard Sunby was shot and NOR
tally wounded Ia Latah county last
Friday by man named Dahl, who is
said to have mistaken him for a
coyote.
Gambling with cards at Coeur d.
Alene Is to be stopped at once accord.
iog to an announcement made by
Mayor Wood.
The Washington county republican
central committee elected delegates
March 6, to the state convention
which meets at Lewiston. The plan
was decided on to save expense of
holding primaries. The delegates
are pledged to Colonel Roosevelt for
president.
Thousands of acres In the Nez
Perce. Weiser and Payette forest re-
serves we're thrown open to entry by
President Taft March 6. The in.
structions to that effect came by
mail to William Balderston, register
of the federal Office at Boise from the
commissioner of the general land
office In Washington.
Creditors OF B. F. O'Neil. former
president of the defunct State Bank
Of Commerce Of Wallace. met at
Wallace March IL, their claims ag-
Rregating over 1925, 600. O'Neil has
been adiudged bankrupt with assets
of only $4,000 listed. Just before the
failure OF the bank 1t is said O'Neil
stated that his assets totaled over
$500, 900 and his liabilities over $500,
900.
In the Boise basin, from which
$500, 900. 900 had previously been
taken, company using dredge
costing $240. 900 has been working
the sand all winter and cleaning up,
according to conservative estimate.
$40, ZOO month Ia gold dust. The
dredge works 5000 cubic yards of sand
a day, the yield Ia gold being from II
cents to so cents per yards
Copies of the list OF questions for
the eighth grade examinations over
the state are being sent out from the
of1ce OF Grace NJ. Shepherd, state
superintendent of public instruction.
This examination is for students who
have completed the eighth grade and
is their tlnal test. The dates desig.
mated for holding the examination
are announced as March q, % aud
20.
The Oregon Short Line and the
Union Pacific have ordered $500
worth OF sample portfolios of Idaho
scenes taken hy Horace Myers, to be
placed In the principal ticket Offices
Of these roads 10 the east and tht
middle west. The scenes represent
every industry of the state, as well al
many beautiful city scenes and resi-
dences.
The new assessment rolls beinl
compiled at the Office of State Audi
tor Taylor are prepared In form
rather freakish when compared witt
past methods. This roll is upon /.
strip Of paper about 1S feet IN length
such unusual proportion being neces
STATED by the IL different classiflca-
tioos Of patent lands which ar
required, and also the notation o
assessed and cash value OF all property