Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-05-04
IDAHO.

The Boise chamber Of commerce is to
be incorporated.
Weser now has five mails pes day, as
the four daily trains on the Short Line all
carry mail.
w. A. Wright's Touring mill at
Fletcher burned last week. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $1,000.
The annual encampment of the G. A.
r.. department Of Idaho, will be held
In Weiser, June 6, and s.
The tenth annual convention Of the
State Christian Endeavor will be held
in Caldwell from June 5th to 7th.
Two hundred and ninetv-two ranch.
ers in the Lost River country are In
volved In q water suit In the Challis
court.
The spring term Of the district court
will meet in Moscow June 4. Judge
Steele held court at Lewiston last
week.
The lawsuits now pending between
politicians will cost Nez Perce county
not less than $4,000 before they are
adjudicated.
At the state school land sale at
Weiser George Lindsay disposed Of
12SO.58 acres for $13,255.S0. The land
is in the valley of the Snake in the
vicinity OF Weiser. One piece brought
SIG and another $14, the remainder
going at $40.
At Moscow the body Of an infant was
found in a plain pine box, which had
been smuggled into the cemetery and
buried without the knowledge OF the
sexton. Evidence was produced that
A bludgeon had been used by the un.
known murderer.
The sawmill Of L. A. Porter was to-
tally consumed by fire at Lewiston.
The plant was under lease to Charles
F. Allen for 20 years. More than 49,
600 feet of lumber burned, besides a
box car belonging to the Northern Pa
cific. The loss Is about $4,000, with
no insurance. The origin OF the f1re Is
unknown.
Postmasters have been appointed Tor
Idaho as follows: j. H. Brown. Lees
burg, Lemhi county, vice William n.
Brown, resigned; Ole H. Torgenson'
Park. Latah county. vice Nelson Requa'
resigned. and B. Barnard Hartwell'
Roseworth, Cassia county. Vice Z. A.
Owens, resigned.
Jarret Bolin, farmer In the Clear
water valley, was killed recently by
train. He was crossing a bridge near
the mouth of the Potlatch when the
train overlook him. He stepped asloe
an the trestle to a safe position, but
inst as the locomotive reached him the
cprrent of air took his hat on. In
reaching for his hat he was struck py
, the train and thrown from the oridge
, A distance Of Is feet.
Tho rural mail delivery will be estab
,ished over a route running from ths
MOSCOW postofflce south to north lins
o,JH Hibbs' ranch, a distance OF ~
niles thence east to Ingwalis smith
nlace four miles, thence nortn u
p,a,ne thence to Moscow. The rout'
viii accommodate 230 families, or al
estimated population OF 1000, win
mail delivery every day except sun
n davs and holidays. Persons desirint
e the service, though they may not Nv
d,ractlv on the route traversed, can D.
e served by putting up a mail oox al
I noint ON the route most convenient u
n them. All persons desiring the serve serve
= uust nroyide a mail box, so situate'
o =, the route that the carrier can flo'
e ar drive up to it. The boxes can .
bomamade or purchased for IS cent
!. sniece a, local hardware stores II y
n ernected the service will be institutes
;. Ws~ 10. Caleb Ayers has been recon-
n - mended a. carrier and J. H. Hioos y
z substitute. 4