The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-05-29
IDAHO NEWS.

IDAHO NEWS.
President Roosevelt remained two
hours in Wallace.
Beginning May 81, the steamer Geor-
gia Cakes will make Sunday trips
around Lake Occur d'Alene to accom-
modate excursion parties and camp
ers.
A rate Of one fare and third is an
nOunced to Lewiston on the occasion
of the Red Mems carnival there, June
I-6.
In the Nez Perce prairie 1t is be-
lieyed the aggregate yield OF grain this
year will be fully Is per cent greater
than ever before.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company will make improvements in
the telephone system at Wardner to
the extent of $1,000 or over.
The souvenir presented to President
Roosevelt on his visit to Wallace was
small pyramid consisting of galena,
copper, silver, gold and gold quartz.
. Three sales of this years wool clip,
aggregating $4,000 pounds, were made
last Saturday at Lewiston to F. E.
Green, representing Boston manufac-
turers.
Petitions have been circulated and
have received 1000 signatures asking
that daily mail be established be-
tween Lewiston and Cottonwood and
Grangeville.
Charles A. Dunn of Wallace, who
received the appointment to Annapolis
by United States Senator w. B. Hey
burn, has received word that he passed
the examination.
The body of Charles Miller, who
was drowned in Salmon river on De-
cember 8, 1902, has been found. It is |
now thought that he committed suicide |
while Respondent.
George Forester, a veteran of the
civil war, 60 years of age, died at
Orofino. recently after a lingering ILL
ness. He served in Company E, Forty.
eighth Wisconsin infantry, during the
rebellion.
During fight Sunday afternoon
efter the baseball game between Boise
and Nampa at Nampa, James F.
Quarles, colored, of Boise shot Special
Officer John N. Grogan through the
shoulder. Henry Williams, q Boise
bartender, went to the assistance of
Quarles and was attacked. The fight
started over an attempt by a Boise
player to apologize to Nampa player
for spiking him.
f. e. JohnesSe, superintendent of
the Thunder Mountain road, has let a
contract for building it to the North
western Bridge & Construction COM
pany of Boise, for $4,000.
A new passenger boat is being built
to ply on lake Couer d'AIene and to !
the head Of navigation on the ST. Joe
and the st. Maries rivers. 1t is ex- Z.
pected she will be able to make Is l
miles an hour. She will be completed
in about two months.
Work on construction of the tram !.
way from Summit to Lenore will be =
commenced in June. This tramway /.
will be over $4,000 feet in length. .
The result of voting for queer of the =.
at Lewiston resulted in the :,
election of Miss Nyda Mounce, NOM ;,
mated by the Artisans, receiving 5572 :.
votes.
The ferryboat on the North Fork ;,
of the Clearwater at Ahsahka, which
broke loose week ago. is still out.
Announcement Is made that the Ket-
tenbach Grain company has completed .
arrangements for taking over the grain .
and warehouse business of Kerr, Gift
ford & Co., in the Clearwater country, 6
and that the transfer will be made at
once. .
Seventy-five thousand acres Of arid .
land will be reclaimed and opened for r
settlement in Idaho as the result of
deal which has been consummated
in Salt Lake, when the American Falls I
Canal & Power company concluded ar
rangements for completing its canal |
in Idaho. The contract was awarded
to Lyman Skeen of Ogden for the con-
struction of the entire canal system.
The cost of this work, exclusive of ,
headgates, ETC., will amount to $685. !
600. More than 100 men will begin
construction work this week. and with
in 80 days it is believed water can be
delivered upon 5000 acres. The COM
pany's canal is taken out of the Snake
river, about IL miles above the town
of Blackfoot, in Bingham county, and
runs southwest So miles. It terminates
Just below the American falls, where
it discharges it's surplus water back
into the Snake river.
KILLED BY EXPLOSION.