State Land Board Shows Strong Reorganization Gains
The Idaho State Land Department reports a businesslike reorganization under the 1905 law. From 1891 to 1905 the department selected 638,474.89 acres of special grants and 6,175.80 acres of indemnity lands. In the three years to Jan 1, 1908 selections rose to 223,301.63 indemnity and 30,496.70 special grant acres, with total land sales of 1,128,327.65 and timber sales of 473,134.27, while investments and receipts reached over 1.17 million dollars and the department maintained exact accounts.
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State Board of Land Commissioners
Boise
Idaho
State Land Department
Land Department
Congress
Alumni 10 to raise money for hall at College of Idaho
The College of Idaho alumni association plans to raise 10000 dollars toward an alumni memorial hall. Graduates will pledge at least 50 dollars each, paid over five years, with 126000 dollars also to be raised by others. The campaign aims to place the college among the Wests leading institutions.
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Alumni Association of the
College of Idaho
Northwest
Sheepmen Claim Salt Plant Ownership Debate
A circular letter clarifies that salt plant ownership lies with members who have paid salt assessments, excluding nonpaying members. The executive committee plans to issue stock certificates reflecting paid amounts and aims to resolve the dispute amid expectations of another moral spasm from the Statesman.
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Statesman
Earnings and investments rise for church register prior years
The report details receipts from rentals interest on land sales and investments over fourteen years ending January 1 1905. It notes a total receipts of 1 404 152 06 and an investment growth from 2 278 199 26 to 3 609 715 81 by January 1 1908. It specifies warrants bonds loans and deferred payments as major components.
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Land Department
Frougri
Invest- Mons
Ciess Vie Vieignee
Carey Act
M, I
Church. Register
Homesteaders May Get Leave Proposals debated by Senator Heyburn
A letter from Senator W B Heyburn to J H Lowell discusses an Act of Congress to grant leave of absence to bona fide settlers under the national reclamation law. The draft law aims to aid those who have made substantial improvements while clarifying who qualifies as bona fide. The letter notes difficulties in defining good faith and substantial improvements and suggests the bill’s potential value despite issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ator W. B. Heyburn
J. H. Lowell
Congress
Senator Heyburn
the Tribune
Caldwell
Idaho
Lowell
Boise-Pagetts
Leaves of absence for settlers on irrigated lands act
The proposed act grants leaves of absence to qualified entry men who have made bona fide entry on lands slated for irrigation under the 1902 National Irrigation Act. Applicants must show substantial improvement and lack of water, with absence not deducted from residence requirements. Senate passage dated January 28 1908. Signed by Secretary Charles G. Bennett.
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Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Charles G. Bennett
Central Committee Meeting Called for March 4 1908
The Republican County Central Committee of Canyon County Idaho is called to meet in Caldwell on Wednesday March 4 1908 to set times and places for county conventions apportionment and other business. J L Davis secretary dated February 27 1908 Caldwell Idaho. Boise dull with no activity noted in Tribune dispatches.
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Central Committee
Republican County Central Committee
Canyon County
Caldwell
J. L. Davis
Idaho
Doctor J E Simpson Arrives in Middleton Practice to Start
Dr J E Simpson and family arrived in the city this week locating in New Pittsburg Tennessee. He has bought property at Middleton and will practice medicine there. Dr Simpson is a brother of H D Simpson of the Western National Bank.
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J. E. Simpson
New Pittsburg
Tenn
Middleton
Dr. Simpson
8. D. Simpson
The
Western Naional Bank
Caldwell Physicians Meet Over Contagious Disease Quarantine
Caldwell doctors convened to enforce quarantine measures for smallpox and chickenpox. County physician Dr Waldrop conducts investigations and may arrest violators. School board to require vaccination. unreported cases of scarlet fever near the experiment farm prompt enforcement.
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Caldwell
Dr. Waldrop
Fatal shooting on Whitney ranch near Fruitland shocks community
W G Whitney was shot and killed at eleven o clock Monday fore noon by J M McGrevey on a Whitney rented ranch near Fruitland where haying was in progress. Three eye witnesses testified including F D James Basil James and Frank Gott. McGrevey surrendered after the coroner ordered a preliminary hearing charged with manslaughter. Whitney, a Canyon county nurseryman, leaves a wife and adopted daughter. His estate is valued around 200000 with life insurance noted. Funeral services were held then the remains shipped to Walla Walla Oregon.
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W. G. Whitney
J. M. McGrevey
Mr. Whitney
McGrevey
Fruitland
F D. James
Washoe
Basil James
Frank Gott
Whitney
James
H. M. Suffin
Hin
Mgrevey
HH. M. Laffin
Frank Goff
Chap Williams
I. Woodward
Williams
Woodward
Justice Driscoll
Coaman
William Ireton
Seaside
Oregon
Boise
Captain Irwin
Walla Walla
Heyburn letter clarifies dry farming stance in Idaho lands
United States Senator Heyburn writes from Washington on February 18, 1908 to M I Church Register State Land Board Boise Idaho clarifying his position on dry farming and nonresident ownership. He supports liberal land terms for cultivation or residence but opposes nonresident takeovers and resists extending land ownership to nonresidents while stressing residency not required for certain lands. Continued on page S
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Heyburn
Register of the
State Land Board
United States Senate
Washington, D. C
M. I. Church
Register
Boise
Idaho
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Sam Ballantyne
Sen
W. B. Heyburn
Tribune
Philadelphia
W. Grant Whitney
Layer
Sen. Heyburn
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