The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1919-05-16
building. The lmnds carried by
vote Of 1929 to Al.


With the fruit trees all in bloom,
Priest River residents awOke Monday
morning to find a thick, heavy snow
falling and the ground covered to a
depth of an inch.
The Idaho Reclamation association
at Pocatello is organizing the com.
mercial clubs of the state nto an
efficient unit for the purpose OF
inducing congress to develop agrjcul-
tural resources of The state by irri
cation.
the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Min
ing & Concentrating Co, at Kellog is
using one furnace and producing 80
tons Of bullion daily, production
being limited by shortage of expert
enced miners.
A strike developed among the men
at the sorting works of the boom
company at Priest River, May IL.
The men, in their "breaking out" of
the logs jammed at the mouth of the
Priest river, have worked to a point
above the Great Northern bridge,
and for this reason demand rivermens
wages, which are $6 a day. The
bo0m men arc maid e.
Idahos winter wheat came through
the winter with but per cent loss,
leaving 224, $50 acres for harvesting.
A condition of 100 per cent forecasts
production of 8,798, 300 bushels.
The crop is making satisfactory
progress in all sections of the state,
SAYS the bureau of crop estimates.
The record price for the present for
wool, according to Hugh Sproat,
president of the Idaho Wool Growers
association, was received by N. Turn
bull of Moorevile, Ore, when be
lCSclfcu W CCuUo u pouuu ioA mig u
grade wool. Considerable wool is
being sold at from 45 to As cents a
pound in southern Idaho, Mr.. Sproat
says.
Postmaster General Albert S.
Burleson is cited to appear in person
or through counsel, together with the
Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph company, before the Third
judicial district court of this state to
show cause why permanent injunc.
tion should not be issued against
them prohibiting the order of the
postmaster general increasing tele-
phone rates for that company IN
soutsern Idaho from going into effect
The Long Range Sniper, the paper
of the Goth Artillery Brigade pub
lished at Hohr-Grenzhausen, Ger
many, says the l46th and 148tt
Field Artillery regiments, making vi
the brigade, fred SO per cent of th'
total of all the G. 2. +. ammunition
expended on all fronts by al
regiments of the A. L, E. The CRANE
total fired by the American force
was 264, 900 rounds.
Governor Davis cabinet member
found themselves confronted, the,
said, with a deficiency of $1,060, 00
Inherited from the last administra
tion, whereas six years ago th
deficiency was but 500, 900. Stat
Treasurer Eagleson said that tn
state would realize premium o
$4,000 from the ST. 200, 900 worth O
bonds authorized by the last legisla
ture and that within 10 days the frs
iustalment on the $900,000 capitt
building bonds would be received
attorney General Black held tha
, this money can not be invested j
government securities.
Prof. n. B. Reed, Of the depart
ment of psychology at the Univers!t
of Idaho, has made an intelligenC
test of 225 men and 159 wome
students during the past winter, an
D finds that the men are more INTEL
gent than women. Women II yea
D old average ten points higher tina
men of the same age, but men cate
0 up the next year and men % yea
old average s points higher. TT
students were not tested IN knowedg
= Lili4.1 n Mt h Cnl 1,1.