The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-04-18
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Events and industrial Progress
OF thu WAA1e.


Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.
Nine arrests for bootleRg ing were
made Ia Twin Falls one day last
week.
Two dray loads Of whisky and beer
were seized 10 q cellar at Lewiston
last Saturday, IN raid bv the sheriff.
The man In whose possession the
liquor was found. was arrested.
One Of the new Idaho laws effecting
the salaries Of county commissioners,
is said to raise the pay OF the men,
bers Of the Kootenai county board
from $500 to $500 year apiece.
A man Ia Boise. charged with
threatening the life OF his wife while
under the influence Of liquor, is being
prosecuted under a new Idaho law
which permits that man charged
with being chronic drunkard may
be committed to 40 insane asylum.
Commissioner James H. Wallis Of
the state pure food department. is
paying q heavy penalty for the cam
paign he recently inaugurated against
the fly. His Office is literally swamped
with requests from all parts of the
country. even from far of Alaska, for
the circulars he issued last year
against the fly.
The forest service has announced
that 1t will begin, as soon as the
weather conditions permit, the re-
planting of approximately 700 acres
Of the area burned over ia 1910, on
Placer creek, near Wallace, Idaho.
This 100 acres will be planted to
yellow pine and red tir seedlings.
The Citizens State bank at Priest
River was robbed Thursday morning
OF last week by lone bandit, who
entered the bank at about 9:30 a. M.
BY the front door, covering the cash.
Ter. Lee Berry. and taking nearly
$4,000 10 currency from the till. The
baudit locked the cashier in the vault
aud escaped.
'.Starve the fly" is the slogan
which Is to take the place of "swat
the fly" slogan OF last year, by the
members of the woman's clubs OF the
State Federation. The enormous ca.
pacity OF flies for multiplication
single pair may produce billions OF
their kind-made even the general
'.swattinR" campaign OF last year
show little effect on the number; but
II the 6rst flies, those which appear
10 May, are literally starved to death,
think what a saving there would be
Ia the number of flies all summer
Statesman.
]. H. Gipson, chairman OF the pro-
gressive state central committee OF
Idaho, announced state progressive
conference to be held at Lewiston
May "a. This is 10 pursuance OF the
plan previously outlined by the state
chairman OF holding conferences In
different sections of the state. While
the. coming conference is designed to
especially accommodate north Idaho
progressives, 1t is planned to also
have some south Idaho leaders in at
tendance. The flrst conference was
held At Boise January 6, and the Sec
ond at Pocatello February 10.
Idaho has not yet heard the last of
the Marble Creek timber land cases II
one may Judge from the food OF let
ters coming to state ofiicials from
settlers on the lands. These settlers
do not propose to be brushed aside
and deprived OF their holdings by q
ruling Of the department OF the ln-
terror when the legislature, the state
land board and the supreme court has
upheld them 10 their contentious.
II IL considered certain that his
matter will be brought before the
state land board again in short
time. Every day members of the
board and the state land commissions
ers are getting letters and messagts
from s0me of the settlers demanding
TO know their status since the recent