Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-07
IDAHO NEWS GLEANINGs.
A Low River Killed by Lightning.
Thrown From a Wagon While Drunk.

It is said by old settlers that the Snake
river has never been SO low for thirty-fve
years as it is at the present time.
HALEY ''Times," %: A tramp stealing a
ride in a box car was killed on the Oregon
Short Line yesterday evening. No one saw
him get into the car, but when it was
opened he was fonnd jammed under the
ties.
The Eagle Rock Register" of the Gath
reports that on the Monday previous Ju.
lirs Maulrop, aged eighteen or twenty, Yves
killed by stroke of lightning nea Grache's
RANCH. He was alone at the time n is
supposed to have been instantly killed. He
has a brother in Huntsville, Utah.
Ketchum keystone" Gath: Last Mon
day morning, August 10th, the mountains
at the head Of Trail creek, and those at the
head of the north fork of Wood river, were
white with snow. While the valley was
visited with a little OF the longed for and
welcome rain, it was showing on the noun
tain tops where the wintry covering fell to
the depth of two inches. On the divide be-
tween Galena and Sawtooth the snow was
three inches deep the same date.
At Sawtooth on the 10th Thomas j.
Reid, saloon-keeper, and Henry Schwartz,
son oil the trapper and hunter, got into a
fight, Schwartz being the aggressor. He
began beating Reid about the head, and
Reid drew q pistol and shot Schwartz in
the side. The wound is not necessarily
dangerous. Reid went to Ketehum, gave
himself up, and was held in $500 bonds.
The Ceur d'Alene Sun" of the 22d re-
ports the sale by Joseph G.. Hunter and
Frank A. Moore OF their interest in the
Yolande lode, west extension OF the Hun
ter, and their interest in Fraction No. 1
and 2 north Of the Yolande; also a five acre
mill site; to Thos. j. KavanaCgh, for $4O,-
900.
Bellevue "Press:" Hon. J. G. Fox says
that the mines OF Custer county never
looked SO we'll as they do O w. The Bay
Horse and Clayton smelters are running
full blast, and a contract has been let for
100, 900 feet of lumber Tor a new mill at
Custer, to be put in by a st. Louis COM
pany, to work ore from the Fourth OF j uly
mine, and also to do custom work.
Pocatello "Republican," 22d: Mr.. s. g.
Rodes, the surveyor of the townsite of Po-
catello, informs us that he expects to COM
plete the survey in g. few days. 1t will take
q month to complete the reports and for
ward them to Washington. It will be
more than q month before the maps
are r turned from Washington. Then
the appraisal has to be made and ap-
proved before the lots can be advertised
and sold.
HALEY News Miner" Gath: The dead
| body OF James v. Edster of Lost River was
found lying in the road about two miles
from Era, on the morning OF the Goth. An
inquest was held before Hervey Brooke,
Justice OF the peace at Era, who acted as
! coroner, on the evening OF the goth. and
| the Jury rendered q verdict to the effect
| that the deceased came to his death from
wounds and bruises sustained by being
| accidentally thrown from q wagon while
in a state of in~toxication and from ex.
posure. The deceased owned a ranch on
Lost river.
Boise statesman" 23d: DR.. Collister
and Probate Judge Prickett have five men
at work budding prune buds into young
peach trees. They have about 16, 900 OF
these young trees now growing on q block
liz this city. DIR. Collister intends when the
proper season arrives to set out q young
orchard OF prune trees, which will cover
some forty acres on his fine tract OF land
three miles below the city. This is one o.
several similar enterprises now in process
OF being carried out. Prune culture is
destined soon to be one OF the leading
farming industries OF Boise Valley, and o.
this section of Idaho, and prospectively
the most profitable OF any. The prune il
one OF the few fruits which can always bs
safely shipped as soon as partially ripe
and it always commands a fair price II
New York City and other markets.