Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1881-07-21
sHOsHONE COUNTY.

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Pierce City announces the partial dis
organization of Shoshonc, leaving the
people Of that county without any exc
cutive qelicers. For some time past
ofices3 that county have been com
PEELED to go begging for men to fill
them, and after being once filed, sew
eral substtutions have been made af-
ter leaving periods of interregnum
which have been very perplexing
The whole number Of white residents
in the county seldom exceed seventy
Eve persons. and is more often less
than that number. Hence the bur
dens Of supporting county organiza-
ton have been qui g large upon each
individual for some time past. A nat
ural county pride has induced the cit
liens to keep up the organization in
the hopes that immigration would
soon reach them and swell their num-
b,rs. But their increase if any has
been principally among the Chinese,
who have gone there for mining pur-
poses and bought up the larger por
ton of the mining ground, that had
been partially worked by the whites,
and but little new ground having been
discovered that offered sufficient in
ducements for whites to remain IN the
county, the latter having gradually di
unfinished in numbers till they are now
reduced to what we have indicated
above. 1t is true that on the north
fork Of Clearwater in said county,
large number of men each year are
engaged there temporarily in the
lumber and timber business, but they
do not require bona .fde residence
there as citizens Of the county. There
are about dozen men in the coun,y
whose business is agricultural, and
they are principally engaged in fur
nishing supplies for those who are
mining and have no ready market for
any surplus they could raise, and
hence there is at present but little in
ducement for persons to take up resi-
dence in the county for agricultural
purposes, notwithstanding. several
towrsb fps of the best of agricultural
land lies within the borders of the
south western portion of the county,
adjacent to the Nez Perez reservation,
which has no outlet save crossing said
reservation. We are of the opinion
that the time is not far distant when
this land will become utilized and be
of1great value, and no doubt this hope
has hitherto inspired citizens of that
comfy to keep up their organization
till that period arrived when they
would 6nd the organization much cas-
Ter to maintain. Terms of the district
court are fixed for that county once in
each year. But they are very expen-
sive both to county and to members of
the court and bar, and there is seldom
but little business and when there is
business to require a grand or petit
jury, tho number of citizens in the
county who are disinterested in some
way is too small to make it practicable
to secure an impartial jury to consider
cases. Several of the citizens Of that
county have heretofore expressed
themselves as DESTROYS to abolish the
county organization and become at
tached to Nez Perce county, while
others have expressed themselves
against the change. AS matters now
stand, the condition of things is any
thing but pleasant, and the perplexi
ties that arise arc constantly becoming
much more perplexing. But we can fore
see no legal relief till the meeting of
the next Legislature. II Washington
should be admitted as state including
US then there would follow at the first
state legislature complete reorganiza-
ton of county boundaries suited to the
condition of the people. All the ad,
wise we can give to this people at pres
ens is to suffer on as best they can till
legal relief comes.