Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-03-11


the counties Of southern Idaho. The
loss has been less than per cent
Bingham county claims the LARGEST
area Of irrigable land Of any county
IN the state, with total area Of oas
miles OF irrigating canals and bitches
The health department Of the city
OF Boise is urging the establishments
ct erematory in that city, to be used
IN destroying the refuse gathered M
The officials Of Latah county declare
that the anti-cigarette law viii he en-.
forced and the officers have notified the
cigar stores that sales to minors must
stop.
Ihe ban has been placed on the pub.
he 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 win cost
$5,0oo,OOO when completed, and water
from Snake river at that point viii
be diverted to irrigate 100000 acres
Of land.
Wren q Greenough of Spokane, who
own Subsection farm near Fem. have
let a contract to William Steinhouse
Of Grangeville for the boring Of six
inch well.
ldaho's rs per cent of the money
collected from the forest reserves in
the state amounted last year to $4s,-
S92. This has been apportioned among
the counties.
State Land Agent CLANCY Wallace
estimates that the state has 1920
acres Of land in Bonner county open
for lease, 73,5o0 acres of this being in
the forest reserves.
Fire recently Quilted the Motter-
Wheeler Mercantile company's store
at Boise, causing loss of 100000,
partly covered by insurance. The origin
Of the fire is unknown.
Over $1,000,00O has been invested in
new buildings at Gooding during the
past 1S months and municipal improve
ments include the laying of over 10
miles Of cement sidewalk.
A movement has been started for the
purpose Of creating sentiment for the
erection of national park in the
vicinity of Priest lake, including part
of that body of water in the reserve.
According to the Occur d'Alene re-
port Wallace and that city may be
placed on the main Line Of the North
ern Pacific by the extension of its Mis-
soula Wallace branch to Occur d'Alene
There will be 254 census enumer-
ators appointed for Idaho this year, !"
states Joseph Perrault, census super
visor for Idaho, who is in the Occur
daAlenes. Shoshone county will be di-
vided into Is districts with an enumer-
ator for each district.
The controversy between the North
ern Pacific and the Idaho & Nez' Perez
Railway companies over the right of
way from Vollmer to Nez Perez, which
promised for time to get into the
courts, has been settled, the former
company relinquishing all right to the
disputed land for $4,000, which has been
paid.
A verdict of acquittal was returned
in the case of the United States against
William F. Kettenbach, George IL.
Hester and William Dwyer, charged
with conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment of valuable timber land along
the Clearwater river in northern Idaho,
the jury requiring but four minutes
for deliberation and reaching its CON
illusions upon the first ballot, marking
the close of what has been a sensa-
tional and vigorously contested trial
at Boise.
While c. E. Bell and two companions
were prospecting on high mountain
many thousand feet above sea level, al
the extreme head Of Bruneau river, last
Monday they came to the mouth OF the
huge volcano on the crest of the ridge,
and Bell, who started across on the
bridge of ice toward the edge of the
crater for the purpose Of peering over
lit, slid off with bank of snow, diving
headlong into the awful abyss and fell
distance of 1900 feet to the bottom of
the great hole.