Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-08-08
IDAHO NEWS T

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. 1t is said
brewing barley was never of better
quality.
To build a pipe line capable of serv-
ing the city of Lewiston built from
Lake Waha to the city would cost ap
proximately $150,000, according to esti-
fates recently made.
Deputy Sheriff Harvey Sawyer of
Occur d'Alene city has gone to st. Ma
AlCo olu oL. JUG " lnNC6LlSdIG lno
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
him, and sank to his death in the ST.
Joe river, about a 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 slips 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
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 it's 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
istop amounting approximately to
$4,000. Much of the land was re-
duced to a cash valuation of $500 per
acre, formerly assessed at $3.50 per
acre,
Senator Brady has undertaken a
task that will be far reaching in re-
suits for citizens of Idaho. Upon as
suffing the duties of his office he
started an investigation on Idaho I'M
surveyed lands, classification of alb
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 109,
Boise 50, Lewiston 35, HALEY 81, on
petition, no office given, 1.
The work of getting these cases
properly before the department Is
now in progress. The next is to-
nave every acre of land in Idaho sur
veyed. Senator Brady insisted that
Idaho was as much entitled to have its
land surveyed as Pennsylvania OF
Ohio. He will ask for a continuing
appropriation for this purpose.
The unsurveyed lands in Idaho total
l ,231 800.
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.