The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1902-04-26
IDAHO GLEANINcs.


]. 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 a donation of
$4,000, for public library building.
There Is considerable activity in
real estate and timber lands in Coeur
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 Is 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 central exchange in Ken
drick, and telephones at all points
through the field covered by the sys.
TEN.
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 Is 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
retary 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 of
Pocatello, and ground to pieces At
first it was thought Rich had fallen
from a train, and SO met his death,
but later developments offer conclu-
sive proof that he was murdered and
his body placed on the track with the
hope of concealing the crime
There Is considerable stir about the
agency at Spalding over the receipt of
letter from the commissioner of In.
dian affairs announcing that, congress
had failed to make the usual allow
ance of $4,000 year for the salary of
agency clerks and employees, and as
consequence the leasing of Indian
lands would cease with the eni OF
the present official year, which closes
July 1.
Five townships Of white pine timber
land lying east and north OF Pierce
City were filed in the land Office
These lands will not be open to gen.
eral entry and settlement until the ex-
piration of 60 days, the state having
the exclusive right of selection and
entry during that time. Despite this,
entries have been offered and are now
held suspended for 1000 acres of these
lands, only two of the suspended Of
fered filings being homestead entries,
the remaining being entries under the
stone and timber law.