Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-03-05

the counties of southern Idaho, the
loss has been less than 2 per cent.
Bingham county claims the largest
area of irrigable land of any county
in the state, with a total area of 1888
miles of irrigating canals and bitches.
The health department of the city
of Boise is urging the establishment
of crematory in that city, to be used
in destroying the refuse gathered up.
The officials of Latah county declare
that the anti-cigarette law will be en-
forced and the officers have notified the
cigar stores that sales to minors must
stop.
The ban has been placed on the pub
lie drinking cup in the public schools
of Boise and the school board has or
dered hygienic drinking fountains in
stalled.
The big American falls dam will cost
$5,000,000 when completed, and water
from Snake river at that point will
be diverted to irrigate 100000 acres
of land.
Wren & Greenough of Spokane, who
own subsection farm near Fem, have
let a contract to William Steinhouse
of Grangeville for the boring of a six
inch well.
Idaho's 25 per cent of the money
collected from the forest reserves in
the state amounted last year to $4s,-
1872. This has been apportioned among
the counties.
State Land Agent CLANCY Wallace
estimates that the state has 115,72C
acres of land in Bonner county open
for lease, $500 acres of this being in
the forest reserves.
Fire recently Quilted the Motter
Wheeler Mercantile company's store
at Boise, causing a loss Of 100000
partly covered by insurance. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Over 81 5000 has been invested il
new buildings at Gooding during the
} past IS months and municipal improve
} ments include the laying of over II
miles of cement sidewalk.
g A movement has been started for thu
= purpose of creating sentiment for thu
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vicinity of Priest lake, including par
/ Of that body of water in the reserve.
=. According to the Occur d'Alene re
n port Wallace and that city may b
placed on the main line of the North
/. ern Pacific by the extension of its Mis-
soula Wallace branch to Occur 'Alen6
r ''There will be 254 census enume1
| III 4.
states Joseph Perrault, census super
n visor for Idaho, who is in the Coeu
q d 'Alenes. Shoshone county will be d
8 vided into Is districts with an enumel
. ator for each district.
The controversy between the Nortl
ern Pacific and the Idaho & Nez Perc
n Railway companies over the right Q
+, way from Vollmer to Nez Perez, whic
v promised for a time to get into tn
IS courts, has been settled, the formC
a company relinquishing all right to tn
p disputed land for $4,000, which has bee
paid.
,e A verdict of acquittal was returne
81 in the case of the United States againi
# William f. Kettenbach George
i Kester and William Dwyer, charge
10 with conspiracy to defraud the govern
o. ment of valuable timber land alor
re- the Clearwater river in northern Idah
is the jury requiring but four minute
for deliberation and reaching its co
" illusions upon the first ballot, markiI
ID the close of what has been a sens
ID tional and vigorously contested tri
ID at Boise.
rs While c. E. Bell and two companion
IS were prospecting on high mounta
NJ many thousand feet above sea level,
an the extreme head of Bruneau river, la
,e Monday they came to the mouth of Il
ID huge volcano on the crest of the ridg
and Bell, who started across on t
n bridge of ice toward the edge of t
o. crater for the purpose of peering ov
90 it, slid off with bank of snow, divii
~ headlong into the awful abyss and fl
at distance of 1900 feet to the bottom
lie the great hole.