The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-04-25
IDAHO GLEANINGS.

IDAHO GLEANINGs.
j. H. Bruce has received his com
mission as postmaster at Weiser.
Surveyor General Perrault has sent
plats of the ceded portion of the Fort
Hall reservation to the Blackfoot land
office
The Lewiston council has appointed
a committee to correspond with An
drew Carnegie, asking donation of
$4,000 for a public library building.
There is considerable activity in
real estate and timber lands in Occur
d'Alene City, and the business of the
town is experiencing quite an impetus
in all lines.
The surveyor general has been in
structed to file the plats in which the
Harrison townsite is included. He was
advised by the department that the
surveys had been approved. The plats
were sent to the Occur d'Alene land
office.
Fruit dealers and orchardists have
received notice that the price of fruit
boxes has advanced fully % per cent
over the prices prevailing last year,
the raise in price being due to a COM
bination among northwestern box
makers.
The farmers in the sections near
Kendrick will construct a barbed wire
telephone system, to include the Pot
latch, American, Texas and Big Bear
ridges, with a central exchange in Ken
drick, and telephones at all points
through the field covered by the sys-
tenn.
An interesting game of ball was
played between the normal school dor
mitory girls and the Lewiston girl
nine last week. The game was wit
messed by 400 people. Five innings
were played, the score at the close be
ing % to "a in favor of the town girls
Articles of incorporation of the
American Ditch association, to take
water from the Boise river in Canyon
county and to use same for irrigation
purposes, have been filed with the sec
rotary of state.
Work is going on in the construc
ton of the new ferry across the Sal
mon, on the state road, between Flor
ence and Warren. The old state bridge
went down three weeks ago, and since
then all travel has had to cross the
river in rowboats.
The body of Horace Rich, a quarter
blood, was run over by an Oregon
Short Line train nine miles north o
Pocatello, and ground to pieces. A
first it was thought Rich had falleI
from a train, and so met his death
but later developments offer conclu
sive proof that he was murdered ant
his body placed on the track with thu
hope of concealing the crime.
There is considerable stir about thu
agency at Spalding over the receipt o
letter from the commissioner of In
dian affairs announcing that congress
had failed to make the usual allow
ance of $4,000 a year for the salary o
agency clerks and employees, and as
consequence the leasing of Indial
lands would cease with the end o
the present official year, which close
July 1.
Five townships of white pine timbe
land lying east and north of Pierc
City were filed in the land office
These lands will not be open to ger
eral entry and settlement until the e,
piration of 60 days, the state havin
the exclusive right of selection an
entry during that time. Despite this
entries have been offered and are nov
held suspended for 1000 acres of thes
lands, only two of the suspended o
fered filings being homestead entries
the remaining being entries under tn
stone and timber law