The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-01-26
Idaho State News Items.

Oliver Wilson, master OF the Ma
tional grange, speaking Friday before
the Idaho legislature, pleaded for
good roads and school laws that would |
give the boys and girls Of the state IA |
practical education.
The public building bill passed by
tHe National house Friday appropri-
a. tes $65, 900 for public building and |
site at Blackfoot, and $S8, 200 ad
ditional for Coeur d'Alene, making
the total for the latter place $3.50, 000 |
A peremptory writ of mandate has
| been asked for 10 the state supreme
court by Harry @. Clark in an effort
to wrest the assessors office in Koot-
enai county from Fred K. Wonnacott,
the present incumbent. The appica
tion for writ was urged in the court
| Wednesday of last week.
| The Milwaukee company is hauling
out about "a cars of ice day from
the Hazelwood plant at Blanchard,
, shipments being made to fll the
various company ice houses ia this
territory. The big Hazelwood ice
house at Blanchard is already filled
Several hundred men have been given
employment there.
The coolest weather n the history
of Fremont county was recorded at
ST. Anthony last week. Friday night
the mercury registered 81 below zero,
Saturday l9 below, Sunday % below,
Monday SO below, Tuesday 81 below,
Wednesday 36 below, and Thursday
26 below. For only one hour on one
day did the temperature moderate to
above the zero point.
One hundred dollars is the price
receatly paid for a ton Of hay at the
mining town of Jarbidpe, across the
Nevada line, according to A. j Iuker,
a Buhl farmer, who was in Jarbdge
last week. Mr.. Iuker says hay is
scarce at the camp. Jarbidge is out
of potatoes which sold for cents a
pound when they wIre 10 stock. Slow
transportation caused by heavy SHOWS
is responsible for the high prices.
Rumors from Boise that the state
, legislature is to consider a measure
providing the formation of an educa-
tional unit out of the whole state OF
:. Idaho 10 which it is proposed that all
school taxes shall be LEVIED and col.
ected by the state and the SUN aD-
portioned among the several countie.
according to The per capita of schoo
children 10 each county, is causing M
little opposition to the movement
! especially in the panhandle Of Idaho
the view being held that the northern
counties would .uuiustly suffer. say
the Wallace Press Times.
o "A saving. of 100000 in, interest: ol
q the $1,000, 900 road ~bondp issue aske'
J. for by the state highway depaftmen
, can be effected If the Legislature vii
enact a measure permitting the stat
W banks of Idaho to invest per cent c
= reserve funds in this paper. That, i
brief, is the suggestion of John "
a, Eagleson, state TREASURER, who says
or would mean the sale in Ida4fi, of a
ae state bonds and reduce he rate !
ct interest on them from 4. To i3R ,p'
te cent lie has written letters ITO I'll
). 1870 state banks asking their oplnio
J.. of such Plan.
es The Idaho Society of Engineers,
its closi0g convention sessions, Satu
he day, passed resolutions opprsif
u legislation that would make wat
re rights distinct property, independel
Tn of the land, saying that "soil ar
ler water are joint agents of productit
: Wherever Irrigation is necessary al
We the divided control of these agenci
-, encourages speculation, tends iowa
ra- a monopoly of our natural resourc
lrd and stands in the way of obtaini
'nt the highest duty of water 10 irrig
Tor tion."