Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1922-05-25

nihil1sm a nd so-called, "IndustriaI
Democracy - us exampliied in Rus
sian bolshi evism. which would confis-
cate railrt 'ads and all other property,
bringing ruin and dcsolation in iti
wake sho uld their program be permit
ted to e ontrol the destinies of thes
United tates.
TE RRITORY ORGANIZED
Phone ers are proverbially reticent lin
their ersonal adventures and renin i
scenes. of tie days ante-dating the
advent of railroad construction in the
P acihtc northwest, and so / will simp-
ly, brief the great facts upon which
Il le foundation of Idaho history is
b ssad. The organization of the Ter
ri tory of Idaho was effected by u. s.
c congressional enactment of the Organ
ia. law approved March 3, 1868, with
{ aleh Lyons, of Lyonsdale, as its first
Q pvernor. In making his first repor'
t o the honorable secretary of the il /
t erior department at Warrington, ] }
G., he referred to the climatic co n
{ 6tions of Idaho as being made Up OF
Italian winters and arctic summers ~
here were only six counties at D hal
time, Nezperce, Shoshone, Id; Tho
Fsoise, Alturas and Owyhee with . to.
t al population of $1,000. Three in.
hciaI districts were created by the
6rst territorial legislature of Idaho
assembled at Lewiston in 1868, the
first comprising Nezperce, Sb oshone
AMI Ida no counties; the second. con
!. fined to Boise county alone, with ju-
| risdietion in all the rest of what is
now the state of I'd aho, and the
| third judicial district; embraced all
4 - h. r.
tana and Wyoming.
~ acer mining was then the great
imdI istry of the territory, and it is no
| hgu re of speech TO say that the wealth
del lived from these mines furnished
| the U. S. government with the sinews
W hich enabled it to conduct the civil
war to a successful issue.
4 AS time progressed and the pla-
\ GERS became exhausted no notable
y change occurred in Idaho affairs ur r
til the outbreak of the Chief JOSEF N
Indians in 1877, followed by the an
4 mack war of 1878, and the Sheepe liter
campaign of 1879, which bro Grght
peace to the territory and led to great
increases of immigrant popu fation
! Then came the discovery and tevelop.
ment of the Wood river min mig dis
trict, followed in quick succ fsssion by
the great stampede into t re Occur
d 'Alenes in 1883. Meantu gte, railroad
construction was rapidly progressing
giving a new impetus tc 4 Immigration
and development of the irrigation sys
TENS in the southern counties, and
| quick. settlement of tAe agriculture
| land 5 throughout the territory.
IMMIGRANTS FROM EAST
7 ALLOWING the In fran wars the ter.
rit sn.y was rapidly, settling up with
| in migrants from Missouri, Kansas
N e5braska and other mid-western ssstes
c srssing the pl aims with wagon and
| ] mill trains, lab eleNa "Palouse or @st. y
ssl 1881 was appointed deputy assess.
ar for all the territory north of the
Clearwater river and from that ex-
fperience learned what hardships pio-
4 neer settlers have to undergo, One
family had a span of horses, another
a set of harness, another a few ag-
II ricultural implements and another a
n wagon or plow, and the total assess
able value of personal property was
i then mighty small in my official ter
ltr1fory.
II With the development of the Pa
house country there grew demand for
new county with Moscow ms its
I county seat, and in 1888 congress
created Lasah county, which thus
fhas the distinction of being the only
4 county IN these United States owing
its pareatage to the national congress.
h For some years a bitter sectional
/ fight arose in the territory for the
annexation of the northern counties
/ to Washington. The division measure
tyassed both houses of congress but
Twas killed through the medium of
pocket veto by President Cleveland.
As an aftermath of the annexation
movements the territorial legislature
created the University of Idaho, at
Moscow, and through liberal appro
LIMITATIONS of fund, supplemented by
A United States land grants for its main
a tenance, has expanded into an edu-
cational institution with record of
" which every citizen of the state of
idaho should be proud.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
| Tn 1889 Edward A. Stevenson, then
territorial governor, issued procla-
nation calling for an election of dele
gates to a constitutional convention
TO he held at Boise City, July A. 1899.
to make a constitution for the state
of Idaho. to be submitted to the peo-
pie for adoption or rejection.
Idaho was admitted TO the sister
hood of states on July 3. 1890. and
| since obtaining the right of self
Government and self determination as
n SOVEREIGN state. and under its Just