Community News for Nez Perce County, ID

Community News for Nez Perce County Idaho

INDIANS IN TRIBAL DANCE
Lewiston, Idaho, Jan. 30- Two hundred Nez Perce Indians are engaged in a tribal dance on Lapwai creek, fifteen miles from this city. The dance is the result of a council that convened last week to discuss the proposed abandonment of the Lapwai agency and the transfer of the same to the superintendent of the Lapwai Indian industrial school. The council expressed disapproval of the acts of Superintendent Voorhies, in charge of the school, and who has enforced the attendance of Indian children at school. Resolutions were passed condemning the superintendent and asking that the agency, remain separate. A delegation of Indians was also appointed to visit Washington to make their wishes known. The council met five days ago and the excitement of the discussion gradually resulted in the wild, weird dance of the chiefs of the tribe. George Moses, Philip McFarland and Peo-Peo-Kalip, chiefs of the tribe, are participating in the dance. Guards have been stationed to prevent the Indians from receiving whisky and precaution is taken to prevent depredations. A party arriving from the scene reports that the canyons are echoing with the yells of the dancers. Superintendent Voorhies addressed the council during the early deliberations, but, it seems, was unable to influence the Indians.
Source: Des Moines Daily Leader, Des Moines, IA - January 31, 1902
Submitted by Shauna Williams

FIRE KILLS 700 SHEEP
Lewiston, Idaho, Aug. 15-Advices from Grangeville stated that the carcasses of 700 sheep owned by Charles Munham, of Lewiston, have been found in the Adams Camp forest tire zone on the Nez Perce reserve.
Source: Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA - August 15, 1919
Submitted by Shauna Williams

The January term of the district court opened here yesterday with Judge Miles Johnson presiding. Citizenship was granted to Mrs. Annie Falk, Lewiston; Mary Alice Love, Peck, and Edward B. Bettison, Forest. They were former English subjects.
Source: Spokane Daily Chronicle - January 8, 1936
Submitted by Sandra Davis

Dan Favors, of Lewiston, Idaho, has a snuff box which he purchased from an old Nez Perce Indian, that, as shown by the date inside, was made in the year 1710.
Source: Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV - June 22, 1881
Submitted by Sandra Davis

LEWISTON, Idaho, Aug. 7 - Estates of Mrs. Louise Kinzer, who died last December 31, were evaluated in papers filed in Nez Perce and Asotin county courts yesterday. Mrs. Kinzer left $45,500 in property in Nez Perce county and $53,007 in property in Asotin county. She was a resident of Clarkston at the time of her death at the age of 75. A son, Henry Kinzer of Genesee, is executor for the estates in both counties.
Source: Spokane Daily Chronicle - August 7, 1959
Submitted by Sandra Davis

Marriage Fraud Alleged
Lewiston – Believing that he was defrauded and that the woman he married was misrepresented to him, Michael Quigley, a well-known farmer residing south of Lewiston, through his attorneys, filed an action to annul the marriage between himself and Fleta C. Quigley, formerly Miss Fleta Kelley.
Source: The Ontario Argus (Ontario, OR) - July 10, 1913
Submitted and transcribed by Jim Dezotell

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