The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-10-03


articles of Incorporation showing that
the capital stock Of the company has
| been increased from $3,000,000 to
"a, 900, 900. The last issue is of 49,.
| 600 shares at par value of 500 to
be designated as accumulated pre-
ferred stock and to bear interest at
the rate Of 6 per cent.
Mrs. Phoebe F. Wood, who shot
and killed her husband on farm
near Granite recently, was found In.
sane at Standpoint. Monday. Her
actions have been the subject of re-
marks for some time and she has had
the halluncination that her husband
and son were strange men, and not of
her kin. The son, Charles Wood. is
former well-known Standpoint bust.
| ness man.
Homer Edwards range rider near
Blackfoot, southern Idaho, was
chased recently for half mile by a
band of seven large gray timber
wolves. He said they were not
hungry enough to attack him. Gray
wolves had not been heard of In that
country for number of years and it
is thought that this band was chang
ing range from the newly settled
desert west OF Blackfoot.
The history of old Alturas county
is being revived IN a dispute between
Power and Blaine counties over the
pportionment of the old indebted.
ness. Alturas county was abolished
years ago. In the early days it con-
tanned the greater part of southern
!. Idaho. Property values were light
and deficiency warrants issued to pay
salaries and expenses of county Off
cials are not all paid yet. The
sheriff's salary and travelling expenses
at 80 cents a mile cost as high as
$50, 900 year.
C. X. Macy, the new state horti.
cultural inspector, is having bis
hands full these days trying to make
it plain to fruit growers that 1t is a
direct violation of law to dispose Of
wormy or diseased fruit to anyone
but licensed manufacturers. The
penalty for such violation is fine Of
$500. This is the new law and
differs from the old on this point
Hence the trouble of Mr.. Macy. He
Is sending out notices to about 1000
apple growers of the state, quoting
the law on the subject.
The Bank of Nampa, Ltd, capital
lied at 100000 and with reported
deposits aggregating $290,O0o, sus
pended business Saturday morning
and is now in the hands Of the stat'
bank commissioner. The closing o
) the bank followed an examination o
the books of the institution b.
Deputy State Bank COMMISSIONS
Record who, it is said, found tn
reserve fund below the legal limit
Officers of the bank claim that th
embarrassment is only temporary
that there are sufficient assets L
more than balance all liabilities ant
that depositors will be paid In full.
According to recent dispatches fron
/ Wallace Edgar S. Wyman, cashier O
. the State Bank of Commerce of tha
place at the time of its failure,
] free from criminal prosecution arlsin
+ out of the tangled affairs of the de
funct bank. Four indictment
against him for making false report
as to the condition of the bank to th
commissioner have just been missed
| Inc uIStIliSSdl VI Utlc dCUlOus dSaius
Wyman brings to light an agreemen
between him and the prosecution !
the b. F. O'Neil cases whereby Wy
man was not to be prosecuted in tn
event that he went on the Wltne,
stand and told truthful story
transactions.
e Claude j.. Studebaker and his 81
i associates secured decision from | b
n state supreme court on Thursday
It their controversy with the NorLher
/ Pacific Railway company for damas
:, caused by forest fires alleged to ha,
I, been started by sparks from Norther
|. Pacific engines. Studebaker inst
tuted suit to recover damage IN b,
half of himself and six Others WI
e had previously assigned their CLAIM
= to him. The case went to trai b
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