Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-06-21
A DEEP. DARK MxsrEnx
Doise County's Probate Judge Mis-.
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al ast'r' everybody trying to gel
some trace of the missing Judge. 1,
appears that no one saw him Mondax
morning. He was in his Office mos,
OF his time, but that morning. no,
that forenoon he was not seen in no,
around his Office, but two or three
parties are sure that he took Dime,
at Inc Luna House, his BOARDING
place, that day. Two or three par.
ties living on Montgomery street
saw him walking up said street tia,
day, but are not certain as to wheth-
er it was in the forenoon or afternoon
He passed around the school house
toward Main street. Others saw hin,
taking , walk on this same route. on
Sunday evening, or at any rate their
impression is that it was Sunday eve.
ming. He either took walk up that
way both Sunday and Monday, OF
soma of the parties are mistaken as
to the day. He was last seen at the
upper end Of town either on Sunday
or Monday-most likely on Monday
-as parties who talked with him at
the Luna House say they are certain
he was there for dinner on that day
F. V. Tinker took dinner with him.
and is positive thatit was on Monday
Nearly everybody in town was out
all day Tuesday, searching every
where, in town and out of town. He
had been talking of looking at a
place across Elk creek with view OF
purchasing, as his wife was to move
to this place soon from Shafer creek.
Some thought that perhaps he had
gone over there and remained owe,
night with Jas. Marsk; but inquiry
revealed the fact that he had not
been seen there. Thinking he had
probably started for his home on
Shafer creek, horsemen went on the
Boston road, and going to Eli Bur
sons place, where he would be sure
to stop over night, las he was very
feeble and could not possibly travel
further than that, a distance of four
miles, in day. inquiries were made,
but without getting any trace of him.
The town reservoir was dragged on
Tuesday, and yesterday the water
was turned off, and every nook and
corner, cut and brush patch in the
vicinity of town has been searched,
but without avail. The Judge has
been very feeble for many months,
and was liable at any time to drop
dead with heart disease. He fire.
quently took walks, but never further
than two or three hundred yards out
of town. IIe frequently visited ex'
Judge Hart, an intimate friend of his
and two or three days before his dis
appearance, told Judge Hart at the
latter's place, at the lower end o
town, that the walk from his Office t.
Judge Harris place taxed his ener
gies to the utmost, and was jus
about as far as he was able to travel
He but seldom made the trip from
his Office to the Luna House wlthou
resting on the way. Last Tuesda,
VIM. Warriner, the Judges nephew
was at the Judges place, on Shafe
creek, but did not learn of his disap
pearance until that evening, whe
he arrived in Placerville, so it is Ger
tain he never went home. The scare
was kept up "Wednesday and yesteI
day, and the mystery is more III
fatbopable than at first, for it wa
then believed that his body woul
soon be found in or near town. ID
was in the habit of taking walk
around town, across the Elk cree
foot bridge, on East Hill and oth'
, nlaces a short distance from tow
and was so weak it seems imposslb
for him to have gone more than ha
mile. but the closest search hi
been made for more than two mil
s in every direction, and no tra'
: found, and now everybody is col
g pletely puzzled, and no one has al
It theory to advance as to what has b
II come of him.
d The Judges wife is on Wood III
?. er, visiting friends.
y Judge B. L. Warmer has maj
IS friends IN this county who are all
n iously aw aiting solution of his m!
n terious disappearance.
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4 THE Gold Hill company, of GUAR
al burg, put new rock breaker IN tn
f. mill several weeks ago, and with