The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1915-08-20


Falls to commit suicide by taking
carbolic acid. The stories told to
MRS Lowe by nelghbor woman are
said to be without foundation.
Sheepmen whose lambs have gone
east up TO the present time have had
no fault to find with the railroad car
service ttis year, according to Gus
Harvey, one of the heavy shippers of
the Boise section.
= Roy Miller of Addie, near Bonners
Ferry, while handing a % rifle to a
girl In the party he was with caught
the trigger on some brush causing the
weapon TO be discharged, the bullet
piercing his left lung. He was taken
to hospital.
The L Lewiston board of education
made total tax levy of 81 mills this
year Of which u mills is for the
sinking fund. The levy was made
one mill higher than last year to off
set the lower valuation of property
aud the $500 loss from the closing of
the saloons.
Accou ntant James S. Bogart made
a report last Saturday showing au
additional shortage OF $1l,17l.5O
chargeable to former State Treasurer
Allen. 1t is said this money was
stolen by Allen during Governor
Hawley's administration. This
raises A Hens total shortage to nearly
$l04, ,oOd.
The laws of Idaho, governing the
conduct of street or interurban rail-
ways, do not vest the public utilities
commission with authority to require
the Idaho Traction company and the
Boise Railroad company to enter in
to an agreement for the transfer and
exchanges of passengers, or to show
cause why such agreement should not
be made.
The total assessed valuation of all
property In the state of Idaho exclu.
sive of common carriers, public utili-
ties, telephone and telegraph lines
and private car companies for 1915 as
reported on abstracts of the 81 coun-
ties in the state to the auditor, Is
shown th be $299, 6l5,914, as against
a total valuation OF 1926, COS, OILS re-
ported last year, says report in the
Boise Capital News.
Two Chinamen, Wong AK and
Wong joe, who have been conducting
the Bon Ton restaurant at Idaho
Falls, were arrested Friday of las'
week on the charge OF selling mar
cotlcs. The officers who ralded thu
place found some $500 worth o
opium and also about sixty grains ot
cocaine. 1t Is said that pr0minen1
physician q of the city is involved IL
connection with the sale of tht
cocaine.
Idaho beavers have their own idea'
| on irrigation, and when the flow of ,
canal on ditch runs contrary To thei
views they change 1t without per
mission from the ditch company, th'
courts or the state land board. A
I four footed, flat.tailed engineer tun
neled through the bank of the Capi
tai Water companY's canal about
mile above the penltentiarY on Mon
day night, causing break that car
ried out 40 feet of the embankment
The break was promptly repaired. -
StatesnI ian.
| The farmers, stock interests ant
dairy i'd terests of Twin Falls county
through petition to their county com
mlssIoners. have secured the service
of cou nty agriculturist or farm ad
visor who will be selected by II. w
Huchba um, who has charge of tha
work ia the state for the agriculture
departnl rent. The salary paid will b
S2500, of which amount $1,000 Is pai'
ly the federal government under III
Smith Lever act. Any county IL
the stale OF Idaho may aVa'i iCseil 0
the san Ie opportunity.