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Governor Issues Proclamation to Protect Chinese from Attack [otd 04/27]
Gov. Stevenson. City of Boise photo.On April 27, 1886, Idaho Territorial Governor Edward A. Stevenson issued a proclamation that said, in part, "The life and property of our citizens, and those of the...
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Portland Merchants Try to Divert Gold Prospectors to Their Stores
On April 27, 1863, the Oregonian, in Portland, carried the following advertisement:“Ho! for Boise, John Day and the Powder River Gold Mines!"Through without detention! The only sure way for miners to...
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Sportsman and Idaho Dentistry Pioneer Edward Maberly [otd 04/28]
Boise dentist Edward H. Maberly was born April 28, 1853 in England. Apparently his father and part of the family lived for a time in Illinois before 1855-1860. However, Edward did not arrive in the U....
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Angry Union Men Blow Up Wardner Mill, Kill One Non-Union Worker [otd 04/29]
On April 29, 1899, a train packed with perhaps a thousand angry union members rumbled along the tracks leading from Burke and Wallace into the Kellogg-Wardner area. They were headed for the...
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General Connor Plans Fort and Town Near the Soda Springs in Idaho
On April 29, 1863, the Deseret News in Salt Lake City reported, “For some time past rumors have been in circulation that is was the intention of Gen. Connor to establish a new military post at or near...
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Railroad Touts Plans for Larger Passenger and Freight Terminals in Idaho...
On April 30, 1909, the Oregon Short Line announced that they would soon begin a substantial upgrade to the railroad facilities in Idaho Falls. This notice followed several years of steadily rising...
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Investor, Political Operative ... and Alleged Smuggler ... Alonzo Cruzen [otd...
A. R. Cruzen. Family archives.Boise capitalist Alonzo R. Cruzen was born May 1, 1858 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, about fifty miles southeast of Des Moines. In 1886, he opened a small town bank in southwest...
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New York Newspaper Trumpets the Vast Lands Available in Idaho, and the West...
On May 1, 1863, the Evening Post in New York City published an article titled “The Great West.” It said: “Our territorial domains in the far West may truly be characterized as great. This a few facts...
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Ninety-One Miners Killed in Sunshine Mine Disaster [otd 05/02]
On the morning of May 2, 1972, workers deep inside Idaho’s Sunshine Mine, 4 to 5 miles southeast of Kellogg, noticed smoke drifting in some of the tunnels. Not much concerned initially, the miners soon...
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North Idaho Rancher and Businessman Chester Coburn [otd 05/03]
C. P. Coburn. [Illust-State].Pioneer businessman and rancher Chester P. Coburn was born May 3, 1832 in central Vermont. He spent three years working in New York before, in 1852, he caught a boat for...
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Civil War News: General Sedgwick Captures Fredericksburg, Virginia
One of several telegraphic dispatches sent from the front on May 3, 1863, said, “Two miles below Fredericksburg, Sunday morning… Fredericksburg is occupied by the troops of Cocoran’s and Olds’ brigade...
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Versatile Southeast Idaho Architect Frank Paradice [otd 05/04]
Long-time Pocatello architect Frank C. Paradice, Jr., was born May 4, 1879 in Ontario, Canada. Not long after, the family moved to Denver, Colorado. Frank Jr. graduated from high school in Denver and...
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Government Appoints Postmasters and Creates Post Offices in Idaho Territory
On May 4, 1863, the Evening Bulletin in San Francisco published the following brief item: “Post Office Matters. … The following appointments have been received: Charles Welsh, Florence City, Idaho...
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Prospector Files Original Claims for Today’s Hecla Mining Group [otd 05/05]
According to the Illustrated History of the State of Idaho, “The original claims comprising the Hecla group were the Hecla and Katie May lode claims, located by James Toner on May 5, 1885.” The...
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Placerville and Idaho City Mines Thriving. New Finds on the South Boise
On May 5, 1863, The Dalles Journal interviewed a miner named Reuben Reed who had left Placerville about a week earlier. The resulting article, later reprinted in the San Francisco Evening Bulletin,...
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Owyhee Mining Investor and Developer John Scales [otd 05/06]
John Scales. Commercial Directory.Owyhee silver mine developer John Scales was born on the 6th of May, 1840 in County Clare, Ireland. The family moved to the U.S. and settled in Maine when John was a...
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Irrigation Pioneer and Twin Falls Developer Ira B. Perrine [otd 05/07]
Ira B. Perrine.Grubb & Guilford, The Potato, 1912.Twin Falls area developer Ira Burton Perrine was born May 7, 1861 in Indiana. He followed relatives to the Wood River Valley in 1883 and briefly...
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Idaho City & Placerville Mines Thriving, Building Boom On
On May 7, 1863, The Oregonian reported (May 7, 1863), “The miners are doing well at Bannock City and Placerville. Gold and silver quartz have been discovered in the Boise mines.”Of course, (West)...
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Idaho Woolgrower, Businessman, and Legislator Fred W. Gooding [otd 05/08]
Fred Gooding. H. T. French photo.On May 8, 1856, woolgrower and state legislator Fred W. Gooding was born in Devonshire, England. Fred began work in a factory there at the age of eight, laboring in the...
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Grand Opening for Owyhee Hotel in Downtown Boise [otd 05/09]
On May 9, 1910, the Owyhee Hotel in downtown Boise opened for business. Naturally, managers touted their new establishment as the best, with the most modern features and richest décor in all the...
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