The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-03-14
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHoAyS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

VI sA0 "VOAs
The average annual precipitation
In Kootenai county for severa! years
past is 25 inches.
The Jury in the district court at
Occur d'Alene has been excused until
April IA.
A. e. Robinson has retired from
the Office Of state engineer OF Idaho.
Frank P. King is his successor, and
entered upon the duties Of the office
March 6.
All signs point to more active
season in the Seven Devils section
this season than for several years past.
The big copper section may come IN.
to its own as the result Of 1918
developments.
The U. S. land Office at Occur d..
Alene has been a busy place this
week. ding being received for home.
stead lands, 88, 900 acres of which 10
Shoshone county were thrown open
for settlement Monday.
A Dane named w. F. Mortensen,
while attempting to cross Pend d.
Oreille lake on the ice with hand
sled load of whiteflsh, broke through
and was drowned, March 8, before
friends who heard his cries could
reach the spot. He leaves widow
and three small children.
Joseph Grigg, a young man OF
Granite. was found guilty BY jury
10 the district court at Standpoint, Of
the charge OF assault with intent to
commit murder. Clarence Franklin
was the complaining witness. In an
alteration with Grigg 10 a saloon at
Granite last January, Franklin was
severely stabbed in the neck with a
knife.
State Veterinarian V. c. White
has had a corps Of assistants 10 the
Geld examining sheep for scabbies
aud other diseases. There will not
bc any further inspection until after
the shearing season is over. There
has been an inspector appointed fo1
each county in the state, and the 10.
spection was concluded last Saturday.
The eyes of all the potato raising
states Of the country will soon be
turned upon Idaho, which has bad
the good fortune to he made the ex'
pertinent station for the study Of 20
tato diseases, with an appropriation
from the government Of $4,000 an
nually for the work. The credit fol
the appropriation Is due, Dean Car
lyle says, to Senator Borah.
Governor Haines has vetoed senate
bill No. 38. which provided for STATE
purchasing agent to purchase tn
supplies for all state institutions
Governor Haines advocated this offic'
be created In order that the expens'
of running the different department
might be materially lessened. Afte
an vestlgation the governor becam
convinced that supplies were bein
purchased at rockbottom prices.
The general situation In the Coeu
d'Alenes Is more promising than a
any time since the boom OF 1906, an
everybody is predicting greater &C
tivity the coming summer than eve
before. The big strike recently i
the National copper mine at Mulla
has Injected new life into the situa
ton and residents OF that part Of th
district predict that the property wi
soon become one OF the big producer!
Major Fred r. Reed, 1daho's In
again.out.again commissioner OF Ia
migration is a self-satis6ed individu'
these days even II the job to whic
he has been appointed has bee
abolished by the legislature by tt
simple means Of refusing to make a
appropriation for the coming tW
years. The major, instead OF bein
grief stricken over the cannibalist
action Of the legislature, is actual
extending the "booster" hand ar
smiling.