The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-17
Idaho Men and Matters.

The Idaho City World has the fol-
lowing concerning a gentleman who is
well-known in Boise, which, if true.
will be read with. pleasure by all his
friends:
1T is rumored here that Rev. Joseph
d. Wilson, formerly superintendent of
the Edna mine, but now in British Co.
Iumbia, gets $4,000 from the estate of
ms brother, T. j. Wilson, who died in
Newark, N. j., about a year ago. The
family Of 7. ]. Wilson not only made
no objection to this provision of the
Will, but approved of it,
The DeLamar Nugget says that sec
ton was visited last Wednesday by
one OF the most severe rain storms
ever experienced there. In many in
stances mud was washed into houses
IN DeLamar by the torrents that swept
down the hillsides and gulches Con-
tlnuing the paper says: AT the small
gulch just below the mill the force of
the flood was greatest and it washed
hundreds of tons of rock and dirt down
on the small fiat at the end of the mill.
"A large dump at the mouth of the tun-
mel above the mill was cut in two and
one-half of it washed away. The ag-
gregate of damage done by the storm
was considerable in cutting out roads,
ming bitches and carrying mud into
houses; but the damage done by the
storm at any one point was not very
great. The strangest effects of the
storm were the freaks played by light
ming in the mines and a long distance
from the surface. The men in the
mine, who, of course, could not see or
hear the storm, were in several in
stances the victims of severe shocks.
Joe Wilson, who was on the fourth
level, was knocked down upon catch
ing hold of a bell-wire; and four or
five men, including Foreman Davey,
on the eighth level, fully 1000 feet from
the mouth of the tunnel, were severely
shocked by currents carried into the
mine by the track rails. The storm
was scarcely two miles wide, and did
not reach more than a mile above or
below the center of the town. There
was very little wind accompanying it."
The Nampa Leader says Calvin Nc
Fate came near drowning while swim
ming with other boys in Lake Ethel.
He was rescued by w. H. Traver.
Salmon City Recorder: Judge Giles
is in town from Yellow Jacket. He in
forms US that the Yellow Jacket prop
erty started up Monday with a full
force, every man in town being en-
ployed. The president of the miners
union and Superintendent Cirkel both
signed an agreement to leave all exist
ing differences to be settled by Presi-
dent Boyce of the Western Federation
of Miners. This is virtually a victory
for the strikers, for of course they are
certain to get all their rights under
any decision he may render in the case.
The Grangeville Free Press saws
Mrs Thomas Surridge was thrown
from buggy while riding from Buena
Vista to Grangeville. Her left leg was
broken in three places and her flesh
was Shockingly lacerated. The injured
woman crawled from a lane in which
the accident happened to the main
road, where, after lying for several
hours in the broiling sun, she was dis
covered by Len Bickford.
Salmon City Recorder: e. S. Thurs
ton, an eminent mining engineer of
New York, who arrived here about ten
days ago, has been looking at some of
our gold mining resources. He was ac-
companied by Bob Bell and spent a
week looking over the Shoe Fly, Hal
dee, Italian mine and others in the
vicinity of Leesburg. We understand
he is quite favorably impressed with
the mining outlook here and that he
will stay several months and look into
the properties thoroughly
Judge Piper at Moscow has dismiss
sed the actions commenced against two
eX-treasurers of Latah county, r. S.
Browne and l. G. Hattabaugh, to re-
cover the amount paid out in redeem
ing fraudulent warrants issued by
George N. Hinkley while he was deputy
auditor. The court held as the war
rants were regular on their face and
the certified list from the auditor
showed they were regularly issued, the
treasurers and their bondsmen could
not be held responsible. The Moscow
Mirror, in speaking of the case says:
The court also indicated that the
proper course for the county to pursue
was to bring an action against the
auditor whose deputy issued the fraud
ulent warrants and certified lists. The
decision is one of considerable import
ance and in all probability will not be
appealed as it is based on law directly
bearing on the CASE