 | 1877
 | The Nez Perce War is fought between the Federal troops and the Nez Perce Indians lead by Chief Joseph. The Nez Perce are defeated and forced to move onto the Lapwai Indian Reservation. |
| National
Desert
Land
Act
passed
by
Congress
for
reclaiming
land
by
irrigation. |
|
Nez
Perce
Indian
War:
Warriors
under
Chief
Joseph's
command
went
on
warpath
after
the
government
opened
to
settlement
the
Wallowa
Valley
in
Oregon.
Battles
fought
at
White
Bird
-
June
14th
through
29th.
Battle
of
Clearwater
fought
July
11
and
12.
Fighting
then
moved
into
Montana.
The
war
ended
on
October
5
with
the
surrender
of
Chief
Joseph
and
the
Nez
Perce. |
|
Duck
Valley
Indian
Reservation
set
aside
by
President
Hayes
for
the
Shoshonis
and
Paiutes. |
| 1878
| The Bannock War between the Bannock Indians under Chief Buffalo Horn and the federal troops, is fought. They are also defeated. |
| Bannock
Indian
War:
Bannocks
led
by
Chief
Buffalo
Horn,
and
Paiutes
led
by
Chief
Egan,
went
on
the
warpath
when
the
United
States
Government
opened
the
Camas
Prairie,
which
had
been
reserved
for
the
Indians.
Battles
fought
at
South
Mountain
and
Bennett
Creek.
|
| 1879
| The
Sheepeater
Indian
War:
Renegade
Bannocks
and
Tukuarika
Indians
go
on
warpath.
Indians
hide
out
in
the
hills
of
central
Idaho
subsisting
on
sheep
they
kill
during
their
raids.
Battles
fought
at
Big
Creek
and
Loon
Creek.
Indians
surrender
September
1. |
|
Utah
Northern
railroad
completed
within
Idaho
on
its
path
from
Salt
Lake
City
to
Helena,
Montana. |
|
Cassia
and
Washington
counties
created.
|
|
| 1880
| Idaho
population:
32,619. |
|
Discovery
of
lead-silver
lodes
in
the
Wood
River
area,
the
rush
to
Bellevue,
Hailey
and
Ketchum
transforms
southcentral
Idaho. |
|
The
Boise
and
Lewiston
Independent
School
Districts
created. |
|
North
Idaho
Annexation
political
party
forms
to
counteract
the
powerful
"Boise
Ring".
|
|
| 1881
| Historical
Society
of
Idaho
Pioneers
forms
to
collect
and
preserve
a
reliable
history
of
the
early
settlement
of
the
territory. |
|
The
Hailey
Times
begins
daily
publication. |
|
Wells
Fargo
office
established
at
Challis.
Custer
County
created. |
|
Earthquake
centered
20
miles
east
of
Mount
Idaho
August
9.
|
|
| 1882
| Northern
Pacific
railroad
completed
across
the
northern
part
of
the
Territory. |
|
Construction
began
on
the
New
York
Canal
in
Ada
County.
|
|
|
1883
|
First
telephone
service
in
Idaho
commenced
at
Hailey
October
1. |
|
Rexburg
is
founded. |
|
Oregon
Short
Line
completed
through
southern
Idaho.
|
|
| 1884
| One of the worlds richest silver (and lead) deposits are found in the Coeur d' Alene Mountains.
Coeur
d'Alene
gold
rush,
followed
by
Tiger
and
Polaris
mines
opening
lead-silver
operations. |
|
The
Oregon
Short
Line
arrives
in
Ketchum
August
19. |
|
Freight
and
passenger
service
begins
on
Coeur
d'Alene
Lake. |
|
Oregon
Short
Line
reaches
Weiser,
connecting
Idaho
to
the
Pacific
coast. |
|
Wallace
is
founded.
|
| 1885
| The
legislature
approves
construction
of
Territorial
Capitol
building
at
an
expense
of
$80,000. |
|
Test
Oath
Act
adopted
by
legislature,
designed
to
bar
Mormons
from
voting
and
holding
public
office. |
|
Legislature
locates
insane
asylum
at
Blackfoot. |
|
Famous
poet
Ezra
Pound
born
at
Hailey
October
30. |
|
Bingham
County
created. |
|
Bunker
Hill
and
Sullivan
mines
begin
operation.
|
|
| 1886
| Utah
Northern
merges
with
Oregon
Short
Line
and
joins
Union
Pacific
system. |
|
Separate
bills
to
annex
north
Idaho
to
Washington
Territory
pass
each
chamber
of
Congress,
but
are
not
reconciled. |
|
Construction
on
the
Territorial
Capitol
completed. |
|
Nampa
city
platted.
|
|
| 1887
| Electric
light
plant
goes
into
operation
at
Hailey
to
supply
power
for
territory's
first
electric
lights. |
|
Wardner
miner's
union
established
after
wage
reductions
at
Bunker
Hill
and
Sullivan
mines. |
|
Compulsory
education
law
passed. |
| A
bill
to
annex
north
Idaho
to
Washington
Territory
passes
Congress,
but
is
not
signed
by
President
Cleveland
and
does
not
become
law.
|
|
| 1888
| Ricks
Academy,
now
known
as
Ricks
College,
established
in
Rexburg. |
|
Latah
County
created
by
U.S.
Congress.
|
|
| 1889
| The state constitution is written in Boise. |
| As
a
conciliatory
move
to
keep
north
Idaho
from
seceding,
the
Territorial
legislature
locates
the
University
of
Idaho
at
Moscow. |
| As
a
conciliatory
move
to
keep
north
Idaho
from
seceding,
the
Territorial
legislature
locates
the
University
of
Idaho
at
Moscow. |
|
Constitutional
convention
composed
of
sixty-eight
members
meet
at
Boise
July
4
and
after
laboring
twenty-eight
days,
forms
and
adopts
constitution
for
the
state
of
Idaho
August
6.
Constitution
is
ratified
by
the
people
on
November
5
by
a
vote
of
12,398
to
1,773. |
|
Fire
in
Hailey
causes
$750,000
worth
of
damage. |
|
Elmore
county
created. |
| 1890
| Idaho enters the Union as the 43rd
state,
July
3,
signed
into
law
by
President
Benjamin
Harrison. |
| |
| Population grows from 32,610 in 1880 to 88,548. |
| Great
Northern
Railroad
completed
across
the
northern
part
of
the
state |
| Congress
passes
Federal
Forest
Reserve
Act. |
| First
legislative
and
statewide
elections
held. |
| First
session
of
the
Idaho
Legislature
meets.
|
| 1891
| Great
Seal
of
the
State
of
Idaho,
a
design
drawn
by
Miss
Emma
Edwards,
with
the
Latin
motto
"Esto
Perpetua"
adopted.
 | Her
Flag:
A
silk
flag,
blue
field,
five
feet
six
inches
fly,
and
four
feet
four
inches
on
pike,
bordered
with
gilt
fringe
two
and
one-half
inches
in
width,
with
state
seal
of
Idaho
twenty-one
inches
in
diameter,
in
colors,
in
the
center
of
a
blue
field.
The
words
"State
of
Idaho"
are
embroidered
in
with
block
letters,
two
inches
in
height
on
a
red
band
three
inches
in
width
by
twenty-nine
inches
in
length,
the
band
being
in
gold
and
placed
about
eight
and
one-half
inches
from
the
lower
border
of
fringe
and
parallel
with
the
same.
|
|
| Idaho
forest
reserves
created. |
| Boise's
electric
street
railway
commences
operation
on
August
22. |
| College
of
Idaho
opens
in
Caldwell
October
9. |
| Canyon
and
Alta
counties
created |
| President
Benjamin
Harrison
plants
Water
Oak
on
capitol
grounds.
|
|
| 1892
| Violence and labor disputes break out between the miners and the mine owners in Coeur D' Alene region. Mines are dynamited, and martial law is declared by the governor, N.B. Willey.
Martial
law
commenced
in
the
Coeur
d'Alenes
on
July
14
following
the
dynamiting
of
the
Frisco
Mill
near
Burke. |
| Hundreds of miners are arrested in Shoshone
County |
| High
freight
rates
and
low
silver
prices
close
Coeur
d'Alene
mines
January
16. |
| The
Farmers
Alliance
and
the
Knights
of
Labor
organize
the
Idaho
Populist
Party
in
Boise
May
26. |
| University
of
Idaho
opens
October
3. |
| Idaho
Education
Association
organized. |
| Timber
and
Stone
Act
passes
Congress,
paving
way
for
commercial
timber
industry
in
Idaho.
|
| 1893
| The
"Panic
of
'93"
lead
and
silver
prices
collapsed,
Coeur
d'Alene
mines
shut
down. |
| Western
Federation
of
Miners
formed. |
| Office
of
State
Mine
Inspector
established. |
| Idaho
State
Medical
Society
founded
September
12. |
| State
Wool
Growers
Association
started
at
Mountain
Home
September
25. |
| First
state
game
laws
enacted. |
| State
Normal
Schools
(Colleges
of
Education)
established
at
Lewiston
and
Albion. |
| Legislature
enacts
state
wagon
roads
to
connect
north
and
south
Idaho. |
| Bannock
and
Fremont
counties
created.
|
|
| 1894
| The Carey Act is passed,
makes
possible
reclamation
of
Snake
River
Valley,
which will lead to over 200,000 acres of land in Idaho being irrigated by 1909, and tremendous help for farmers and ranchers. |
| Albion
Normal
School
opens
January
8.
Nez
Perce
Indian
Reservation
allotted
to
the
Indians. |
| Gold
discovered
in
the
Thunder
Mountain
country.
|
| 1895
| Comprehensive
irrigation
law,
providing
for
uniform
use
of
public
water,
enacted
on
March
9. |
| Lincoln
and
Blaine
counties
created.
|
|
| 1896
| Lewiston
Normal
School
dedicated
June
3. |
| Idaho
becomes
first
in
the
nation
in
production
of
lead. |
| Montpelier
bank
robbed
by
Butch
Cassidy
August
13. |
| Idaho
Legislature
calls
on
Congress
to
extend
the
right
to
vote
to
women. |
| Idaho
Republicans
split,
Silver
Republicans
endorse
William
Jennings
Bryan
for
President. |
| Clashes
between
sheep
and
cattle
industries
culminate
in
the
murder
of
sheepherders
allegedly
by
"Diamondfield"
Jack
Davis |
| Cassia
County
created.
|
|
| 1897
| President
Grover
Cleveland
establishes
Bitterroot
Forest
Reserve
which
includes
much
of
north
Idaho. |
| Legislature
acts
to
protect
bison
within
the
state. |
| State
Board
of
Medical
Examiners
established
to
regulate
the
practice
of
medicine. |
| 1898 |
| First
Idaho
regiment
of
military
volunteers
called
into
service
for
the
Philippine
insurrection
of
the
Spanish-American
War. |
| Fort
Hall
Indian
Reservation
allotted
to
the
Indians
in
parcels
of
160
acres
each,
with
the
balance
to
be
sold
for
the
Indians'
benefit.
|
|
| 1899
| More violence occurs in the mines. Most of the mine owners now recognized the Western Federation of Miners
(WFM) Union. Union organizers call for a strike against two companies (Bunker Hill and Sullivan) who refuse to pay union wages. Another mine is blown up. |
| Governor Frank Steunenberg calls in the federal troops to arrest
and
suppress
riot
in
the
Coeur
d'Alene
mining
district
following
the
dynamiting
of
the
Bunker
Hill
and
Sullivan
concentratorthe miners. Hundreds are arrested and kept in large outdoor prisons called bullpens. The WFM is broken by this by the time the Coeur D' Alene mine reopens. This caused the governor to be hated by the miners, and was killed in 1905 by a bomb. |
| Position
of
State
Fish
and
Game
Warden
created. |
|
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