Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-12-24
Lah.oh County o.

'oSioioeoie, "HiCi was Held AT Lewis
ton, in Nez Perce county, in lS64-'65, I
an act was passed creating the coun-
ties of Lahtoh and Kootenia. The
region covered by these two proposed
counties adjoined Nez Perce county on
the south and Shoshone county on the I
east, and together extended to the ,
British line on The north, Lahtoh be-
ing the southern division and kootenia
the northern. These districts have
never been organized as counties, but
have continued to form part of Nez
Perce for judicial purposes. During
the misaAministration of the late
doubly defunct, whom Il mysterious
providence permitted to atiiict the
people of Idaho for a season, the
sparsely settled region of country ccv
cred by the proposed counties chanced
to attract the attention of Idaho's
evil genius, and he took upon himself
the task of appointing three citizens
as county commissioners for the So
called county of Lahtoh. There be
ing no pressing need of county or
ganization these citizens gave no heed
to the unsought honor and did not
qualify; so the proposed county was
not organized. Its organization was
assumed nevertheless to have been
completed, and it was so placed and SO
appeared in the census returns which
formed the basis for the apportionment
made by the commission, and it was
in this way that Lahtoh appears in the
list of counties.-B. Statesman.
Tho blackmailer who runs the
Statesman has a double object in pub
fishing the above at this time, to wit,
to cowardly assail ex-Gov. Brayman,
and to throw doubt upon the legality
of Joint Councilman Cowan of the
north. The creating of the two coun-
ties above named took place as stated;
but at subsequent Legislature i'll 1867
(see statutes of 4th session, page 1867
the county of Latch was abolished and
the boundaries Of Kootenai and Nez
Perce changed, and since that time
! Kootenai has remained attached to
Nez Perce for judicial purposes. This
last change in the laws published in
the 4th session la Ms had but a very
limited circulation in the northern
district. In fact, we do not think
more than three or four copies of the
laws of that session can be found in
all North Idaho. The people gener-
all never saw them, and two yesrs
ago the people about Moscow, having
the I'd session laws before them, and
ignorant of the 4th session laws, as
sembled and determined to apply to
! the governor for the appointment OF
county commissioners, and to have
county organization. They suggest ed
the names of the persons for appoint
ment to the governor, referring him te
the law of the session. The governor
+, supposing the application was made IL
good faith, and the law referred to 10y
the applicants authorizing the act, al
r We learn, issued the commission
When it was received here in TIL
n north the movement of organizing La
toh first became known us. We the1
e were consulted upon the matter, an
'e we having the 4th session laws, re
- ferred the parties to the act repealln
" Latch. and we afterwards published /
J the TELLER the substance of the tW
acts. and the whole matter of the o
"a "a eanization was dropped. Gov. Bra.
Us man did not take upon himself tn
sa oa appointment, but he was solicited an
urced as before stated, and the parti'
ns did not fail to qualify because the
was no pressing necessity for so doh
1t, nor because it was all "unsous sht ho
oy or" but because they had discovers
lie that repeating act had been passed
Die which they were wholly ignorant wh
o, they made the application, and
or which the attention of Gov. Braym
had never been called. The Stat
We, i'"" r
ase man editor well knew these fa'
IN when he penned the foregoing quo
in, ton aspcrsins Gov. Brayman. No
ali the present governor ahd the other {
50, 50, commissioners were at Boise @