Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The lodge of the Knights of Pythias
at Bonners Ferry has definitely decid-
ed to build a $4,000 brick building on
it's lodge site.
e. d. Griffin of Lewiston is engaged
in moving his plant to Charleston,
where he will operate a daily paper,
beginning May 10.
Richard Damrow, a brakeman en-
ployed nearl Clarksfork, was perhaps
fatally injured recently when a log
rolled off and crushed him beneath it.
Senator Borah denounces the tariff.
He says proposed legislation duplicates
reciprocity. and declares the real fight
on schedule changes is now between
the east and west.
A scarcity of laboring men is affect
ing the Occur d'Alenes, according to
report. Approximately $500 men are
employed in the various mines and
prospects throughout the district.
The Grangeville Electric Light and
Power company has a deal on for new
territory, including the towns of Gro
fino, Peck, Kamiah and Nez Perez and
power sites on the Salmon river, Lolo
creek and at Orofino
A state demonstration farm, in con
nection with the state university at
Moscow, will be established in Sand
point, is the report Funds for the es-
tablishment of the farm are available
if the site is acquired by the state.
A complaint was filed in the court
at Boise demanding the removal OF
Mayor Arthur H. Hodges of that city
from office because of his alleged re-
fusal and neglect to enforce the laws
of the state and the ordinances of the
city in reference to number of saloons.
The people in the eastern part OF
Bannock county, in the vicinity OF
Bancroft and Chesterfield, have made
application to the interior department
for the purchase of sufficient water
from the Blackoot reservoir to irri
gate from 10000 to 10000 acres OF
land.
The Plummer new water works sys
tenn has been put in operation. The
water is furnished by several large
springs at an elevation of about zoo
feet above the town The pressure
of the water at the highest point il
the village is about 60 pounds to the
square inch.
1t is planned to gridiron Nez Perez
county with q network of highways
with laterals serving every section
the whole to be planned to coordinate
with the state highway systems o
Idaho and Washington and the grea
national highways from the Atlanti
to the Pacific.
Ed Pulaski, chief ranger of thu
Occur dAlene forest, has just an
nounced that as soon as weather con
ditions will permit the replanting o
approximately 700 acres of the are
burned over in 1910 on Placer creek
near Wallace, will be commenced
This area will be planted to yellow
pine and red fir seedlings.
Major Fred r. Reed, appointed b
the governor as commissioner of in
migration, labor and statistics and col
firmed by the senate, but left with
long title and without a salary, ha
petitioned the supreme court for
writ of mandamus to compel the stat
auditor to pay his salary of 5000 pc
month, since the auditor refused to
So
The department of agriculture ha
begun advertising two large tracts c
timber which aggregate $50 millio
feet on the Payette river within tn
Boise and Payette national forests
Idaho The district forester at OgdeI
Utah, will receive bids upto and il
Guiding June 1, 1913, and for an add
tional month if intending purchaser
wish more time to examine the tin
Der before deciding on their bids.
One of the largest ranch deals i
the history of Nez Perez county wa
concluded recently when Henry THE
sen, the well-known farmer and stool
man of the Mccormack ridge section
secured the presumption home of Mr.
William Caldwell, located on Lapwi
creek, about midway between Lapwi
and Culdesac, and consisting of 81
acres. The consideration involved ws
between $4,000 and $4,000.
The city of Moscow, Idaho, has cor
menced work on improvements tn;
will call for an expenditure of ov'
! $150,000. The improvements include
storm sewer system, which is to |
first installed, then the laying of ne
water mains in the section to I
paved, the grading of streets and IL
, laying of 10000 yards of Dollarws
5 paving. 1t is estimated it will requi
e most Of the summer to complete II
D work.