The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-07-08
IDAHO NOTES.


Lieutenant Governor Hutchinson of !
Silver City delivered the Fourth of
July Grafton at Boise.
Burglars entered the store Of the
Moscow Commission Company and
broke open the safe recently. They
succeeded in everything except in get
ting valuables.
Jerry Callahan and M. p. Boyle, log
contractors, have started fc, the hoo
tenai lake country with tbs first OF u
RATS of logs. The RATS contain 1000
900 feet of lumber, being the largest
contract filled this season.
The summer school at the University
of Idaho is, in the words of President
Blanton, mo longer an experiment, but
an assured and triumphant success"
The enrolment up to yesterday even
ing had reached 157, and many more
are expected soon.
The first carload of limo has been
burned from the marble ledge along
the Clearwater, near Agatha, and a
thorough test has demonstrated that it.
is of superior quality. New kilns will
be built at once and the lime put on
the market.
The brick mill owned by the Moscow
Brick and Tile Company has been run
hing full time lately. It's capacity is
about 10000 brick per day This is
the first time that the mill has run
Since year ago, when it finished con
tracts aggregating 100000 brick
A prisoner on the Nez Perez reserva
ton boosted that he could give a $1O
600 bond whereupon the justice made
it $4,000, it being simply peace bond
-remarking that he had given it to
him little sleeper than he would have
done had the prisoner evinced a more
humble disposition.
Recently fire broke out in the saloon
building at Leland, owned by e X. Da
Wis, and in the absence of any freight
ing apparatus, soon spread TO the ad
joining premises. BY dint OF hard worl
the inhabitants succeeded in prevent
ing the flames from spreading to tho
opposite or north side of the street
The fire ragged until checked by lacl
of material.
The Standpoint Lumber company /.
building a new saw mill about one-hal
mile north of the present town of Sand
point and a short distance from til,
old mill. 1t is to have a capacity o
$4,000 feet of lumber day, and il
place of circular saws band saws will
be used, and other improvements vii
be made.
o. P. Saylor of Newsome, employee,
by the Montana Placer Mining Com
pany, met with a serious and perhap
fatal accident at the mine. One of
number of rifle blocks that had bee
cut some distance up the mountain
side, fell and struck Mr.. Saylor on tn
left shoulder, fracturing the shoulde
blade and throwing him into TIE race
He also received bad cut on the RICH
side of the head. a cut over The RICH
eye and lip.
, Judge c. E. Arney, chief clerk IN tn
state land Office at Boise, is visitin
north Idaho to look after the state
land business, which is heavy IN LIZ
tab and Nez Perez counties, in each @
, which it is greater than in all the res
of the state combined. In I.atah couT
ty the state has made $50 leases thi
year and in Nez Perez 125, besides hay
= ing a large number of tracts that ar
not appraised or are in a condition g
) forfeiture to the state without havir
. yet reverted. Out of these large Ian
holdings it is proposed to nave publ
sale shortly, when such tracts will b
offered to the best bidder as the count
treasurers think will be in demand