The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-06-27
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

VI Ine week.
The state board Of health recently
condemned the creek which has
furnished the water supply for Idaho
Falls. The city has since been using
water from Snake ri yer.
Chinese pheasants are becoming
numerous in the neikhborhood of the
Boise river opposite Parma, where a
few imported pheasants were liberated
three years ago.
The Lewiston police records are
said to show that, since the state law
vent into effect regulating the sale
OF alcohol and other kinds Of liquor,
arrests for drunkenness in that
city have fallen of one.half.
Preparations are being made by
Adiutant General Patch OF the nat.
ional guard Of Idaho for the forth.
coming encampment OF the guard to
be held at Boise barracks, beginning
August II and continuing for l l days.
General Patch states that this Will
be the first occasion that the present
regiment OF Idaho troops have ever
been called into state encampment as
a regiment.
From now on entrymen who have
taken up homesteads within the ma
tional forests in Idaho will not have
to pay the expense of surveying their
lands by metes and bounds, an ar
rangement having recently been per-
fected whereby these entries can be
surveyed by officers of the forest
service without expense to the entry
men.
State Game Warden o. H. Barber
has reported to the state treasurer
that the receipts OF his department
for the month of May, 1913, were
Sl2,864.60, this being the greatest
amount ever received in any one
month since the organization of the
department. OF the amount received
$4,000 was as partial payment for
timber sold on the Hepburn park,
owed by the state at Chatcolet. The
expenses of the department during
the month of May were approximate
ly $500.
c. G. Keller, the Rexburg business
man who was arrested several weeks
ago on charge of libeling officials of
the pure food department, pleaded
guilty to charge of criminal libel
and paid the fne of $l00 exacted by
the court. After pleading guilty
Keller said the libel was intended 10
the light of joke, but that reflection
had shown him the seriousness of his
O1ense.
The publication of the argument of
Governor Haines in favor of the short
form ballot in The Statesman attrac-
ted not only a great deal of attention
among the people at large, but was
received with special interest among
state of1cials. Opinion in regard to
the expediency OF such change, the
chance OF It's being brought about,
and Its effect upon the efficiency of
the governments, diverged very wide
~. There was general expression
OF sentiment that with the best pos
sible selection of governor, the new
idea would tend toward the develop
ment Of increased efficiency generally,
provided the state government was
based on the same plans as that of
The United States.
The call for young men trained in
forestry subjects has been much
greater than the Department OF
Forestry at the University of Idaho
has been able to meet, says C. II.
Shattuck, professor OF forestry. He
says this Is bound to be the case for
many years to come, since Idaho has
only just begun to utilize its vast
crop Of trees, comprising as it does
more than 10000. 900 acres OF the
finest timber in the world. High
school graduates. who are fond OF
healthful outdoor work at good
salaries, should consider forestry as