The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-04
AN ANCIENT TRAGEDY.
A GruesOme Find Near Payette.
Idaho.
Lost in the sIountains-wyoming Elk for
England-Breezy Bits from
Neighboring States.

On Monday last W E. Redington, who
resides on the bench about five miles
south of Payette, made a discovery that
unquestionably points to one of those
dark tragedies that made this portion of
Idaho dangerous ground Tor the white
man to traverse few years ago. In the
bank of large gulch short distance
this side of his place, says the Independent,
Mr.. Redington saw prctruding from the
Eand what he took to be human bone,
aud curiosity lead him to make an inves-
tigation. On removing the earth he
found three skulls and portions OF three
human skeletons. They were all laying
face downward, as If they had fallen for
ward while ascending the hillside from a
spI 7g near by, and had evidently been
covered by the sand and soil which the
wind had drifted over the bank year after
year. Mr. Redington advanced the
opinion that they are the skeletons of
people who were killed By Indians
in years gone glimmering, while at the
spring after water. The positions occu-
pied by the skeletons indicate that they
may have been attacked at the spring and
been massacred as they attempted to run
up the steep hillside. The bones, which
the skulls prove beyond a doubt to be
those OF white people, believed tc have
been two males and one female, were
buried by Mr.. Redington and a head
board erected TO mark their last resting
place.
MORE MEN EMPLOYED.
The Black Jack company has put on
more men this week and are getting in
wood to keep running all winter. The
company is milling eighteen tons per day
of ore that averages S63 per ton, and saw
Ing nInety-rhree per cent. There is ore
enough in sight to keep up that lick for
years. Great mine that.-AcGlGnche
IDAHo's FRUIT CROP.
From accounts in the papers from all
parts of Idaho the fruit crop is most pro-
life, and the quality never finer. More
extensive shipments than ever before are
being made out of the state and still fruit
everywhere is going to waste. We up
here in the mountain mining camps don /
see much of the orchards, but the guam
tity and quality of the fruit shipped in
here gives us a fair conception of its
abundance and character. The ship
ments now being regularly made to the
Worlds fair must do much for Idaho s
reputation abroad.-ET.
OUR sPUDs.
1t seems probable that the potato crop
will bring more money into our valley
this fall than any other produce. Already
our potatoes have good reputation and
it is to the interest of every farmer TO
keep it up.-1inles.
THE BRUNEAU CANAL.
Lon Richards, bookkeeper and man.
ager for Tautphaus at the Bruneau canal,
was in this place Tuesday. Mr.. Richards
says he has forty-two teams and fifty
men now employed on the canal and the
outlook is good for doubling the force
wide and will carry eight feet of water in
depth. Three miles of the most difficult
ahd expensive portion of the line of the
canal has already been completed.-El-
more Bulletin.
SNAP SHOTS.
The Custer county Graphic has sus-
pended.
Five Cinnamon are in jail at Boise for
smoking opium.
Footpads are holding men up in the
Wood river country.
John Tharp, a pioneer of Washoe
Bottom, died last week.
The regular weekly shipments of the
DeLamar and Trade Dollar mines amount
to S2S. 900.
The most extensive lumber Yards in
north Idaho were burned at Rathdrum
last week.
A company has been formed at St. An
thony to work placers on the upper South
Fork of Snake river.
Placer ground on Ruby creek, twenty
eight miles from Kendrick, is said to pay
S. per day TO the man.
The Grangeville Free Press learns that
Jay Click has mine near Warrens
which is believed to be the richest in the
state.
Grangeville has new paper, the Idaho
Gold Miner, published by Edinunson &
Co. Mark Musgrove is the silent part
ner in the enterprise and the power be-
mind the throne. Four papers in Idaho
county is OVERRIDING the business.