Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-08-08
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The peaches are coming to Genesee
and are OF excellent quality.
Ada county has a school district
containing 324 square miles.
Standpoint gets the state demonstra
ton farm station. President Gray OF
the Great Northern Railway company
agrees to donate $1,000.
Grain Is being cut. Most of the bar.
ley is already cut and much wheat
There are several threshing machines
which will start the first of the week.
The harvesting of barley and early
fall-sown wheat was started In the
vicinity of Moscow Monday. It is said
brewing barley was never of better
quality.
To build pipe line capable of serv.
Ing the city Of Lewiston built from
Lake Waha to the city would cost ap-
proximately $15O,0OO. according to esti-
fates recently made.
Deputy Sheriff Harvey Sawyer of
Occur d'Alene city has gone to st. Ma.
ries and st. Joe to investigate the
robbery of the Milwaukee Lumber
company's safe at St Maries.
Fred Hooper, aged 10, a student al
Spokane, lost his hold on the COM
panion who was bravely trying to save
MIN, and sank to his death In the ST.
Joe river, about mile above st. Joe.
According to notice received at the
United States land office at Lewiston
applicants purchasing isolated tracts
will not be compelled to pay the regu-
lar $1.25 per acre fee. BY the new
regulation the payment of fees is held
up until the applicant purchases the
land.
Chief Of Police James F. Rice of
Lewiston has personally visited every
place in the city in which it has been
believed that gambling In some form
has been carried on. He informed
the proprietors of the establishments
that If such violations did exist and
were continued that prosecutions
would follow
One Of the biggest reductions made
in assessments In recent years has
been made by the county commission.
ers Of Nez Perez county at its present
session. A reduction affecting approx.
imately 1000 acres Of orchard lands
has been made in favor of the Lewis.
ton Land and Water company of Lew.
iston amounting approximately to
$4,000. Much Of the land was re-
duced to cash valuation Of 500 pei
acre, formerly assessed at $3.50 pei
acre
Senator Brady has undertaken a
task that will be far reaching in re-
suits for citizens of Idaho Upon as
Stunning the duties of his office he
started an investigation on Idaho un
surveyed lands, classification of all
lands, and cases pending before the
department of the interior. The sec
rotary of the interior has said that as
soon as he can secure sufficient as
sistants properly to handle the mat
ter he will have all Idaho land cases
on appeal disposed of. He has fur
nished Senator Brady with a list OF
all cases now pending. There are
259 of these cases, classified under the
following districts:
Blackfoot 80, Occur d'Alene 1O9
Boise SO, Lewiston 80, HALEY 81, on
petition, no office given, l.
The work of getting these cases
properly before the department is
now in progress. The next move is to
have every acre of land in Idaho sur.
veyed Senator Brady insisted that
Idaho was as much entitled to have its
land surveyed as Pennsylvania or
Ohio. He will ask for a continuing
appropriation for this purpose.
The unsurveyed lands in Idaho total
21.2S1.S6O.
AS the land is surveyed it will be
classified by the geological survey. so
that the homesteader before he enters
his homestead will know just where
the lines are and just how the land is
classified by the government