The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-01-17
STATE AND COUNTY news
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO lDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
OF the Week.

OF the Week.
Idaho woolgrowers are going to the
convention of the National Associa-
tlon Of WoolRrowers at Cheyenne de-
termined to bring the national meet
ing Of the organization to Boise in
1914.
B. F. O'Neil is again in the county
Jail at Occur d'Alene awaiting an 9TH.
er trial on the charge of making false
reports Of the condition of the de-
funct State Bank Of Commerce of
Wallace. of which he was president.
Senator Borah. Jan. s. introduced
a bill giving settlers on government
reclamation projects 80 years 10 which
to make payment for water rights and
exemptinR them from payment of
interest OF twenty million dollars
loan. authorized year ago.
Gambling flourishes in Boise ac-
cording to results Of police investiga.
ton and arrests made. Games, In.
Guiding faro aud roulette are being
conducted in cigar stores, pool halls
and hotels.
The first official appointment OF
Governor Haines after becoming a
public Official was the selection of
Frank n. Smith OF Boise as notary In
aud for Ada county. The governor
promised Smith several weeks before
that he would make his appointment
tue first official act after taking Office.
The Academy of Idaho, located at
Pocatello, is asking the present leg.
islature for an appropriation of $2lS,
900. This is one of the institutions
that claims to have suffered severely
by the trimming down of the appro-
prlations Of the last legislature by
Governor Hawley.
Idaho raises too much fruit and
not enough grains and grasses, ac-
coYdinE to the statements OF Professor
w. E. Taylor Of Moline, H.. at the
Idaho Retail Hardware & Implement
Dealers convention held at Boise last
week.
:. An inheritance tax of $4,000 was
paid to the probate court of Ada
county last week on the estate O
John Lemp, deceased. The estate
free of encumbrance, amounted tt
$500, 900.
Charles L. Heitman of Rathdrum
former chairman of the Republican
state committee and one Of the bes
known politicians of north Idaho, ar
rived 10 Boise last week and Is regis
tered at the Owyhee. Mr.. Heitma
is understood to be staunch backe
Of Chief. Justice Ailshie in his rae
for the United States senate, says th
Statesman.
In their fourth biennial report tn
directors of the Northern Idaho II
sane asylum ask for an appropriate
of SIS, 900 to carry that institutio
through the next two years. This
for current expenses. In addition
this they ask for Sis. 900 for improy
ments including fruit and vegetab
canning plant, covered pav!lions Il
the patients, a sanitary slaught'
house and the purchase Of addition
land for farming.
Although he had nearly $500
cash at his elbow, Harvey Glass,
former sheep herder, died slowly
Weiser, of starvation, rather tn;
spend his money for food. This "
the conclusion reached when the boz
OF Glass was found cold in death
the cheapest rooming house in Weiss
where he had been sharing quartz
with a companion, at cost Of ST..
a week.
Former United States Senator He
ry Heitfeid OF Lewiston has be
promised the assistant secretaryst
OF agriculture, providing that Co
Rressman Burleson of Iowa is appoil
ed secretary Of agriculture by Pre-