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STATE AND COUNTY NEWS Items of Interest Gathered From Exchanges. OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS. Events and Industrial Progress Of the Week. Orchardists in the Lewiston country are busy pruning and will soon start spraying. The Blackwell lumber mill at Coeu d'Alene is to open in about 10 days with a full force. The Bonners Ferry Lumber company started its big sawmill Monday with a crew of 300 men employed. A woman at Sandpoint has been fined $25 for displaying a revolver during a dispute with another woman. Frank Barl of Wallace has been sent to the penitentiary for from one to 14 years for stealing a gold watch from his roommate. Judge Flynn of the district court has appointed Ignatz Well receiver of 8 the Traders' State bank of Sandpoint, which has been closed for the last five years. A city ordinance is being drawn at Sandpoint to pay the mayor a salary of $150 a year, nnd the aldermen $75 each. Sandpoint councilmen have heretofore served without compensation. Wm. Nanney of Grace, Bannock county, has paid the county $43 reimbursement and penalty for having cashed a county warrant which, although made out in his name, did not belong to him. The proprietors of a pool hall in Bannock county have been arrested c for allowing young boys to frequent t the place all day long, and many S cases of truancy from school are said u to have resulted. T W Thirty-four carloads of elk from It the Jackson Hole country are being G shipped by way of Briggs, Ida., to t various points in Wyoming. The d shipments are being made by State s Warden Soreoson of Wyoming. H The new St. Maries drawbridge, S built by the state and county for $18,000, is claimed to be the highest drawbridge in the world, being a few inches higher than the one at Chatcolet. One hundred teams crossed on T It the first day of its completion. A jury 10 the district court at c Coeur d'Alene Monday refused to r award Dr. J. Richardson $2999 p a damages against the Milwaukee rail S road for a broken ankle alleged to fi have been caused by alighting from a c train at St. Maries and stepping on a with switch rail. a County Superintendent R. C. EgV bers announces in a circular letter to e o school trustees of Kooterai county tl that a trustees' meeting will be called in to convene at Coeur d'Alene some o time in April, prior to the time of e the annual school meeting. The puro st pose of the meeting will be to discuss plans looking to the improvement of . school affairs In general. A b On the Minidoka Irrigation project p in southern Idaho there is a move t ment on foot to organize the local B e banks for the purpose of advancing T funds to purchase a limited number o of dairy cattle to be sold to the farmlo ers at cost. It is planned to purchase stock from Utah, and in the spring e li ship cattle in from Wisconsin or Oreta gon. The settlers are beginning to r realize that the dairy industry means success, and that to get the greatest tl t profit from their products they should h be fed to stock on the farm. le Through the raising of the quaranci tine placed upon Idaho alfalfa and v alfalfa seed by the horticultural com th mission of California this state will h be permitted to ship to the Golden h state over 5000 cars of alfalfa each t o year besides selling in the neighborh hood of $300,000 worth of the seed b annually. The quarantine which m California placed upon the Idaho P
