The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1917-07-06
Idaho State News Items.

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DR.. E. H. Lindley OF Indiana is the
newly elected president of the Univer.
sity of Idaho.
Ole Peterson, cook, was burned to
death when boarding house. was
completely DESTROYED by Ire at Kel
logg
The superdreadnaught, Idaho, !"
sister ship Of the Pennsylvania, was
launched June 80. at Camden, N. j..
1t is said to be U. boat proof.
John Schmidt, convicted of bur
glary, escaped from the county jail at
Moscow by digging a hole through
the wall. Schmidt was sentenced to
one to Is years in the penitentiary.
G. o. Broxon, for the last two and
half years secretary to Governor
Alexander, has been appointed state
insurance manager and manager of
the state insurance fund at a salary
Of $4,000 per annum. The manager
is required to give a bond of $50, 900.
Harvey Alfred, director of the state
farm markets bureau, was the princi
pal speaker Saturday at the annual
convention of the Farmers Union of
North Idaho at Hayden Lake. Mr..
Alfred S been in the Panhandle
country for week. 1t is his d hrst
trip into this section since he took
charge Of the marketing department.
Alfalfa growers in the Twin Falls
district are not being menaced by the
aphis this seas IN, according to H. W.
Hochblum, director of county agents
10 the agricultural extension depart
ment of the state university, but the
alfalfa weevil is reported working iD
Tdukllu CUuuIY'
Lula Damron, l3, and Grace Webb,
IA, while wading in the Portneuf
river near Inkom, stepped into a
deep hole and were drowned. The
bod; les were quickly recovered but the
glrlS could not be revived. Both
were daughters of well known people
in Inkom.
Boise bank clearances for the month
of May exceeded the financial bust
ness volume for the same period In
1915 by 6S.7 per cent, according to
figures published n the Coast Banker
The May, 1917, total was Sc, 4O7, ,775,
while the sum announced II months
ago was $3,797 400.
Sergeant c. F. Clark, connected
with the regular army as an adver
tisirg and publicity expert fol. Utah
and Idaho, arrived in Boise to CO.
operate with the Second Idaho regi-
ment officers 10 an effort 10 stimulate
recruiting for the guard aud bring 1t
up to war strength.
Lieutenant Roy w. Ashbrook of
Boise barracks, examining officer for
the second officers reserve training
camp, has received from Idaho men
155 requests for application blanks
From the total number of candidates
VINO file applications before July ID
the lieutenant will choose 81 to rep
resent Idaho at the Presidio and X
alternates, numbered from one to six
Litigants trying cases in the minor
courts OF Idaho cannot be forced to
make deposits sufficient to pay Jurors
fees, in the opinion of the attorney
generals office. and the jurors cannot
collect from the lltlRanIs uuless VIC
cases on which they set are carried
into the district courts and judy
ments result.
Residents of the proposed Selway
county voted, Monday, to renal n
with Idaho county, which is said TO
be the largest county in area 10 the
United States. Most of the votes
fayoring the new county were cast IN
the vicinity of Kocskia, the proposed
county S at
The Agricultural College of ihe
University of Idaho will open 10 the