The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-01-14
IDAHO NEWS.

Der 30, OF exhaustion, IoIloWlng w.
phoid fever.
The following postmasters were APP
pointed last week: Beemau, Nez
Perces county, Seth Clifford vice Rach-
ell Phillips, resigned. Steele, Nez
Perces county, B. f. Basher, vice NJ. J.
Steele, resigned.
Senator Shoup succeeded, on the last
day of the session, in passing his bill
to pension Flora Stanton Kalk and her
children. Mrs. Kalk is the daughter of
General Thaddeus Fl. Stanton, and
widow of Lieut.. Frank G. Kalk, Fifth
cavalry, killed in railroad accident.
The civil service commission has
refused to certify for appointment as
superintendent Of the Boise public
building, Mr.. Simon, chief draughts-
man in the surveyor generals Office at
Boise who was recommended by SEN
ator Shoup.
1t is now positively asserted by those
in a position to know that before Sep
TENDER of next year the ores from the
Seven Devils country will be finding
outside markets by rail. When the
railroad has been finished the world
will hear from the Seven Devils coun-
try in a manner that will open the
eyes of the increduulous to the rich
ness of the country.
The recent strike in the Checkmate
mine at Willow creek proves to be
much more rich than at first reported.
At depth of $50 feet from the surface,
the vein has been opened from the
shaft that is being sunk, and it shows
ore worth 500 in gold per ton. The
body is far better than found above,
though the mine has made large ship
ments of very high grade ore. The
nature of the discovery is such that
indicates that the district win develop
into one of the best in the state.
The committee that has been ap
pointed to examine the laws passed
since statehood, has reported that 30
stitutional, and will not stand the
test of the fee bill decision. The plan
to railroad through the legislature a
perfect avalanche of bills to correct |
constitutional defects in the states
laws, and give Idaho legal status she
has not enjoyed in eight years, is
meeting much opposition. Unless this
plan prevails, little will be accom-
plished outside of curative legislation.
A company is being formed in Dem
yer to work abandoned placer claims
on the Payette river from which sew
eral million dollars of gold have been
taken in the past BY means of a
tunnel 700 feet in length, cut through
solid rock, it is proposed to drain the
bed of the Payette river for a distance
of two miles, leaving the gravel that
forms the bed of the stream accessible !
to the miners. Governor Adams of
Colorado, is one of the members of this |
company, and the capital stock is
placed at 100000.
The Indian appropriation bill as it
finally passed the house of represent
atives carried with it the following
appropriations of interest to Idaho: |
Pay of agent, Fort Hall, 81, 500; pay of
agent Lemhi, $1,000; pay of agent. Nez
Perces, $1,000; for Fort Hall Indians
(annuity), $4,000; for civilization and
instruction of Fort Hall Indians, $780,
600; for civilization and instruction of
Indians at Lemhi agency, $4,000; for
support and civilization of Keababs, |
$500; for support and civilization of
Nez Perces, including physician, IS, 900. |
Portable steam sawmill on Nez Perces |
reservation.
Congressman James Gum, Governor !
Frank Steuneuberg, Colonel George A.
Williams, b. r. L. Poston and Martin |
Jacobs received the third payment on
their placer ground on Moore creek, be- |
tween Cold Springs and the mouth of |
Grimes creek. The payment was a
very large one. The next will be the |
final payment. They have eighteen |
and one-half claims, each 15OOx6OO feet, |
On the first of next March between
seventy-fve and one hunered men willI
be put to work on a bedrock flume. |
This Is all good ground that pays with |
the old primitive method of working
by means of small sluices, and, with
q hume, the only way to work to Sc
cure large profits, but which method,
however, requires capital, an immense
fortune will be made by the pur-
chasers. The ground has been pretty
thoroughly tested by member of the