The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-01-03
STATE AND COUNTY news
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or INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Evsnts and Industrial Progress
.4..f OF the Week.

..4.ss OF the Week.
The Occur d'Alene lumber company
has closed its mill at Occur d'Alene
until March l.
Village prisoners at Bonners Ferry
are required to work out their fines
and sentences on the streets.
An avalanche at Mace destroyed a
number OF homes Dec. 20 and caused
the death Of Jim Flaherty, miner
whoswas buried.
The Star mine at Mullan it is re-
ported will soon pass into the posses.
sion of the Federal Mining company
ata purchase price uf s75o,ooo.
Governor ELECT Haines believes that
. great number Of extra clerks and
stenographers In the statehouse are
not needed and can be dispensed with.
Beginning with January all dogs
which are checked on the 0. S. L.,
must be muzzled. This was the rule
originally and then was revoked, but
90 many baggagemen have been bit
ten BY vicious dogs of late that the
rule will be put into force again.
Senator Borah has requested the
department. OF agriculture to deslg-
nate one of its officials to 70 to Boise
during the coming session Of the
legislature to assist Commissioner
Wallis and the legislative committee
10 framing state pure food law,
meat Inspection law, etc.
The Hunter mine at Mullan, has
recently disclosed what is reported to
be the richest body OF ore ever dis
covered IN that property. The dis.
covery Is said to consist OF nearly 40
iuches Of high-grade lead.silver and
an immense quantity of milling ore,
q oss.cut having opened face ap.
proxlmately 300 feet wide.
Something akin to panic has bro
ken out among the "wets" OF the
state as the result Of the plans on foot
TO create dozen new counties out of
.'dry" territory. The danger from
this seemed to strike number Of
.swet" leaders in Boise with the result
that counter movements we're at once
started to save the situation.-States.
man.
1t is announced that English pheas
ants and wild mallard ducks have re-
Gently been sent to all parts of the
United States by the American Game
Protective & Propagation association.
The birds were distributed freely to
members Of the association who
agreed TO protect them.
Governor James H. Hawley has hon.
ored Mrs. N. D. Wright Of Hayden
Lake BY appointing her as delegate
70 the international suffrage convex
lion which Is to open its sessions June
10 at Budapest, Austria. Mrs
Wright will accept providing her hus
band Is able to accompany her on th.
trip.
Judge w. W. Woods OF the district
court Of Shoshone county last Frida.
ordered b. F. O'Neil, former presi
dent OF the State Bank of Conn ,erc'
Of Wallace. reincarcerated in th,
Snoshone county jail. O'Neil is in
dicted on nine counts charging th,
issuance OF false reports. The prison
er was taken from Occur d'Alepe t.
Wallace and arraign ed before Jt,dg,
Woods Dec. %.
Committees have been appointed a
BonDers Ferry to urge the division, O
Bonner county by the coming lexis
lature, making Bonners Ferry tn,
county seat Of the proposed q ev
county. The people of St. Mar lie
also wish q division of Kootenai cou q
ty with the same result IN the fay o
of that town.
Chief Justice Stewart of the su.
preme court announced last week
that the opinion Of the court and Its
Judgment In the CO ntempt of court
proceeding against, r. s. Sheridan.
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