The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1915-07-16
Idaho State News Items.

Ane Liberty DELL was eXnlDlteu al
Boise last Monday on its trip west to
the exposition at San Francisco.
The total enrolment at the Lewis.
ton normal school for the summer
session is 246-44 men and 202 wo-
men.
N. Jenness, register of the state
land board, will be relieved this
week by Wlford L. Clifford, former
secretary of state.
R. H. Kleinschmidt of Helena.
Montana, has purchased the Hot |
Springs near Council, Adams county,
for SIS. 900.
The county of Gem was officially
organized Monday, when the new
county officers were formally iuducted
into Office at Emmett, the county
seat.
Three men caught and speared
several barrel of salmon in the Lemhi
river near Leadore, recently. The
fish ranged IN size from Is to As
pounds.
Robt. w. Spangler. publisher OF
the New West magazine at Twin
Falls, has moved the publication to
Salt Lake City. Utah, where 1t will
be published in the future.
Two convicts were freed by the
state board of pardons at Its meeting
last Friday. They were A. P.
Rutherford, Nez Perce county, and
DR.. Q. M. Powell, Blaine county.
The town OF Plummer intends to
celebrate its fifth anniversary Satur-
I day, July II with sports OF all kinds
including base ball, horse racing,
and roundup sports. The Plummer
band will furnish the music.
The Washington county jail might
lust as we'll be converted into a hay
barn, according to statement of
Sheriff William B. Walker, since 1t
has not been used in four months
time.
Miss Margaret Reed who was en-
ployed for a number OF years In the
auditors office of Kootenai county,
has been appointed chief deputy Ia
the auditors Office at Bonners Ferry
in the new county of Boundary.
Leading business men of Namps
are arranging to convert the Crescent
brewery of that place into a plant fol
the making of grape juice, when th'
prohibition law goes into effect OF
January l, 1916.
Two bandits held up FIVE coache
of eastern tourists In the Yellowston
national park, July 8, near the juno
tion of the Gibbon and Firehol
rivers. Senator Brady of Idaho, wa
with the party. No clew has leeI
found.
According to bulletin Just issue'
by the U. S. Geological Survey, tn
highest point in Idaho is Hyndma
Peak, one of the SUBMITS OF tn
Wood river-Salmon river range wit
l an elevation of l2,078 feet. Th
lowest point is the city of Lewiston
the elevation at the court hous
t there being TAI feet.
D. A. Utter, U, S. surveyor gener'
for Idaho, has filed his annual repol
+. in which 1t is shown that the tot
n area of Idaho is 56,6l8,560 acre
d The area of surveys accepted an
d plats filed to date aggregates 81, 7O4
L 2s4 acres, and the area surveyed b'
!. not plated amounts to l27, $3.50 acre
!. The unsurveyed area is 20, 3O5, s.
" acres.
" G. w. Antill and associates OF Sp'
" kane have completed deal with
It c. Beach of Lewiston whereby a 2
IS year lease was secured on 55 fe
a. front at Main and Sixth street
% 70 with a depth along Sixth street
w 1875 feet, on which puollc mark
o. building will be erected at cost
It approximately $50, 900.
" The owners of the Idaho Fa
NJ Brewing company have conclud
sh plans to convert the several buiidin
re of that plant into cold storage a
IN ice manufacturing plant to be rea
V for business Oct. /. The plact v
have an output OF 26 tons OF Ice