The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-02-26

the guard are no greater this year than
last A. j. Seligman, chairman of the
committee appointed by the Helena Bus
mess Mems Association to raise a fund
to defray part of the expense of the en-
campment, has secured $500 and expects
to raise $500 or $1,000 more.
Idaho.
There is talk of creamery at Boise.
Idaho.
The state land board has determined
to sell the remainder of the school lands
in Bingham county.
Several bridge men will arrive in Lew
iston about March lst to inspect the site
of lewiston Concord bridge, and bid on
the contract for building the structure
The estimated cost of the bridge is be-
tween 100000 and 100000.
AT meeting of the state land board
held recently 23S forfeitures of school
land were declared. The purchasers have
failed to maintain their payments and
the board will now take possession and
endeavor to realize on the property. The
land forfeited is in ii counties, Latah,
Ada, Canyon and Nez Perez having the
largest acreage in the order named.
Two Mormon elders are at work among
the people in the vicinity of Weiser, with
view of locating Mormon colony in
that neighborhood. The elders have spent
a number of months in the northern part
of the county and it is about settled that
a colony will locate on Bear creek and
probably one in Indian valley
A map is being made in the surveyor
generals Office that will be presented to
the war department at Washington by
Senator Shoup, together with other infor-
nation relative to Boise Barracks. The
map shows the outline of the states OF
Idaho, Oregon and Washington with the
railroads, principal cities and Indian
reservations. The Umatilla, Fort Hall
Lemhi and Duck Valley reservations are
shown to be Immediately tributary to the
barracks here and more easily accessible
than any other point where the army is
or may be stationed. This information is
to be presented to the department in an
appeal to be made for an enlargement oil
the post here.
The recent rise of the waters of the
Clearwater has enabled the steamers to
make the run to the Lapwai agency, and
two trips were made to that point yes
terday for wheat. There are over 10000
bushels stored in the warehouses on the
river above Lewiston. The wheat is tho
product of the reservation lands recent
ly opened to settlement.
The first quarterly teachers examina
ton for 1898 will be held at RathdruH
on Thursday and Friday, February "a anC
25. Applicants will be examined for al
grades of certificates. On Friday evening
Professor Gault of the state university
will deliver lecture before the visiting
teachers and the citizens of Rathdrum anC
vicinity on the subject, "a Word to tn,
Youth of Idaho" The Kootenai Count,
Teachers Association meets ON Saturday
the following day. An excellent program
has been prepared, and large number o
teachers will be present.
Kendrick reports that high water ha
interfered to such an extent with the rail
road work that instead of concentratin,
the men at any one section they have di
vided them into crews and are worllin;
them along the route to the Clearwater
Track laying has been suspended for tn
present, owing to the depth of the mu,
in the newly made grade, which is almos
impossible. The surveyors have com
pleted their work to the Clearwater, AM
are now establishing grades. Between tw
and three hundred men art at work. an
the changes in the gangs occasioned b.
men having become dissatisfied or worke
"their allotted time keep the track
lined with men tramping both ways.
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