The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-10-07
IDAHO BRIEFLETS

week of farmers school in Occur d.
Alene about January 1, 1911.
The Lewiston Commercial club has
refused to indorse the movement
started by the Boise Commercial club
for a railroad commission in Idaho.
The anti-saloon league of Idaho has
secured the services of Sam Small.
Temperance orator, to campaign the
ftate until election time.
Eugene V. Debs, labor advocate, So
cialist of national prominence, will
lspeak in this city October 18 under
the auspices of Nez Perce county So
cialists.
Marshall Crawford, another pioneer
of Custer county, is dead at the age
of nearly 80. He had lived in Idaho
since 1862, and was one of the best
known citizens of Custer an Lemhi
counties.
One of the largest cattle shipments
ever made from the Salmon river
country was made by Henry Elfers,
Charles Bentz and Gotzinger Broth
ers The shipment consisted of some
400 head of fat cattle and brought the
, owners close to $4,000.
! The survey of the Nez Perce &
: Idaho, for an extension from Vollmer
f to Forest, distance of 241s miles,
: has been completed. The terminus OF
; the road will be near Forest, where
the Northwestern Lumber company
h will construct big mills.
t The fuel market at Lewiston has
e opened with fir wood at $3.50 per core
y and coal from $3.50 to 50 per ton
J. The price of wood is equal to TIT
highest charged last winter and Goa
- is within so cents of last seasons rec
"a ord price. Dealers predict materia
advances.
An attempt on the life OF John +
IN Garrett, former president and genera
- y manager of the defunct Great Yves
~ ern Beet Sugar company of Mountai
- Home, under indictment for conspl
10 acy to defraud the government, wa
lg foiled by the Boise police. An anSr
e- and brooding Greek, Gus Anton, Wa
Tx the would-be assailant. -
LIS Lurens H. Johnson, one of the ear
pioneers of Challis, is dead. He can
to Challis in 1873 or 1879, and has r
sided there ever since. He was
rt- old soldier and also a prominent
raj ttorney. During his career in Gust
re- county he held various positions
III trust, such as probate judge, coun
nc attorney and school superintendent.
~ Large reservoirs will probably
as constructed through national a
ch. state aid in the burned-over distrie
to | of Northern Idaho to save the burn
Ids timber by preserving it in the wat
lie according to the announcement ma
ice by State Land Commissioner Di
The new idea of preservation is me
ing with encouragement from timb
the men, as well as from the national a
has state governments.
but New orchards to the amount of
AIN 500 acres will be planted in the LIE
cav iston valley this season by two &C
ona panIes, while the planting by In
sa,t yidual owners will propably increi
one the new acreage to at least g.,
jar acres. The Lewiston-Clarkston CT
) in pany is now preparing 1000 acres
lme be planted in the spring.
iien Secretary of the Interior Balm
'aou n designated 5,224,9O0 acres of land
saa- Southern Idaho which may hereai
the be entered under the enlarged ho
mix stead law whose provisions were
tended to Idaho at the last sess
of congress. This land may
homesteaded in tracts of 800 acres.
report following an examination
geological surveys says the land
not susceptible of successful irriga'
at a reasonable cost from any kn'
~ source of water supply.