The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-09-05
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHoANs.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

:, Members of the Farmers Union in
Kootenai county and their families
and friends joined in an all.day pic.
nlc at the City park, Occur d'Alene,
Labor day. which was last Monday.
Boise is to lie thoroughly cleaned
up before the fair opens. The clean.
up will be moral one. Chief of Po-
lice Reeves announced Saturday that
II there are now in the city any unde-
sirables they will be chased out be.
fore the fair starts.
The body of Mrs. Henry Spalding,
which for 81 years has been inferred
10 the Brownsville. Oregon. cemetery,
was reinterred, yesterday, beside that
Of her husband, Bishop Henry Spald.
ing, at Spalding, near Lewiston.
Telegraph companies In Idaho had
the assessed valuations OF their lines
in the state Increased over the valu-
ations placed on the same property
last year, by the state board of equal
ization, with the exception of the
Postal Telegraph company, which
shows decrease.
The annual sale OF property for
delinquent taxes In Kootenai county
is to be held at Occur d'Alene October
6. Heretofore the sales have been
held in July, but later date is
necessitated this year by reason of
the property not becoming delinquent
until after the second payment of
taxes Ia July.
State Engineer Frank L. King is
on his way to look after the construc-
tion of the road from Standpoint to
the Montana state line. Work on
this road is now under way and there
is $685. available for its construc-
tion. State Engineer King represents
the state highway commission 10
looking after this work.
Idaho school authorities and bet
terment organizations Of all kinds
are taking deep interest in the
fourth annual meeting Of the Ameri.
can Association for Study and Pre-
vention of Infant Mortality to be
held In Washington, D. c., Novem :
Der l4.17, and efforts will be made to
have this state we'll represented at
the convention.
According to deed filed with the
clerk and recorder the Great Northern
Railway company has taken over the
Kootenai Valley Railway company
with its 26 miles of railroad between
Boomers Ferry and Porthlll. The
Great Northern had previously con-
Quoted the railroad but it had been
under a separate stock company with
Great Northern stockholders as the
owners of Its stock.-Herald.
H. @. Hale. chief clerk of the state
land department at Boise, has beer
checking up on the acreage of lane
leased by the state and has uncovered
some startling figures. Up to th'
first of last December there was LEASED
BY the state S3l, l,8l5 acres. Since
December l there has been taket
under new leases or renewals of ole
ones 139, ,28l acres, making total o
almost !, 200, 900 acres that the stat
has now leased. This vast area Il
leased as agricultural, dry farming
and grazing lands with the grazing
lands fully seven times that OF th'
agricultural land. Grazing land pay
from u to 25 cents an acre rental
The agricultural land brings consider
ably more. Since December l tn
state has received SIC, LOG from tn
rentals on land. Commissioner Geo
A. Day Is especially active 10 hi
efforts to get revenue in the way o
rent from the states vast domain o
upward Of 5000, 900 acres.