The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-07
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHoANs.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.


A hotel valued at $l25, 900 was
destroyed by fire at Burley, 10 south
ern Idaho, Jan. 81.
On account Of the deep snow, Muir
ray. IN the Occur d'Alene mining dis
trict, was without mail for nine days.
The regular February term OF the
federal court will open at Boise Feb
ruary 10 and it is expected to con.
tinue for several weeks.
In meeting at Caldwell, Jan. 28.
the Canyon County Taxpayers league
went on record as being opposed to
the creation OF the Eleventh judicial
district.
r. Z. Stevens was arrested in Boise
last week for selling elk meat to no.
tells and restaurants. He claimed he
bought the meat from a private re.
serve 10 Wyoming.
Petitions prepared at Occur d'Alene
last Saturday are being circulated in
Kootenai county asking the legisla-
ture for a $25, 900 appropriation for
the ''apple way".
1t is reported that Shoshone and
Kootenai counties will ask the Idaho
legislature to appropriate $685.
each to help complete the "apple
way" across the panhandle.
The escape OF IL prisoners from the
Bonner county Jail at Standpoint was
narrowly ayerted one day last week.
As 1t was three got away before the
TAILOR discovered what was on foot.
The sheriff's daughter aided In get
ting the others back into their cells.
The justices of the supreme court
of the state last Friday forwarded to
President.e Woodrow Wilson an
Endorsement of Ex-Governor James H.
Hawley for secretary of the interior
under the incoming Democratic
national administration.
A passenger train was snoWbound
near Grangeville for more than two
weeks on account Of snow packed In
the big cut near Fem, on the Camas
prairie road from Reubens to Grange
vile, where "wedge" pillow and two
big locomotives got stuck. Dynamite
had to be used before rotary could
make headway to clear the drift and
open the track.
In an effort to secure better prices
for the products of the farms and
ranches OF Idaho, go representative
men of the southern part of the state
met In Boise last week and formed
tentative plans to organize the South
Idaho Producers association. Every
thing from the ordinary foodstuffs
that are raised upon the farms to the
blooded cattle and horses of the large
ranches will be disposed of through
the selling agency created by the pro-
ducers' association.
Upon receipt OF telegram from
Lieutenant Hall of Occur d'Alene
stating that the national guard
armory at that place had collapsed
causing loss Of perhaps most of the
S2500 worth OF government propert,
besides the building itself, which Is
said to be worth $500, Sergeant G.
F. Bennett OF the adjutant generals
Office left Boise for Occur d'Alene to
investigate the loss and to make ar.
rangements for housing the undam
aged property.
Governor Haines will not call q
meeting Of the assessors Of the vari
Gus counties in the state until after
the legislature has adjourned and
will not then II the new revenue bills
do not pass. The asses sors have beer
meeting In Boise every January anG
listening to short addresses upon tht
tax problems and then returning tt
their homes. Their experiences while
there sometimes did good and some
times did not aid in securing better
assessment roll than had been turned
into the board of equalization pre-
vious to the meeting.