Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-06-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

Soda Springs on the 18TH inst
The Chinese Masons have erected .
neat hall Of modern design at Silver
City
Joseph Bergier Of TilSura reports
crickets are worse than ever in that
vicinity.
Pack trains are already being put on
tho Wild Horse trisil from Bonnera
Ferry for the Fort Steele country.
Boise City hes just paid $3.50 to
Charles Owens for damage done his
cab by striking a rock ia the street
The Star group of mines has been
attached by the j. O. Swift company
to secure an indebtedness of siIs4.59.
A c. Debold, a Pocatelio citizen, was
held up by masked men opposite the
postofiice and relieved OF $40 and
rifle.
John Noble sold $4,000 pounds OF
wool recently 10 an eastern buyer. 1t
is said that he received o. cents per
pound.
Gov. steunenberg OF Idaho has ap
pointed twenty-eight delegates TO the
Denver gold mining convention. The
list includes ex-Congrcssman Sweet
and ex-Gov. Mcconnell.
The proposed sugar.beet experiment
has been somewhat married by the
cloudburst that occurred near Mcri-
dian some weeks ago. A large tract
Of five acres had just been seeded when
the flood occurred
Two men were drowned at Leonia
while repairing rope cable across the
river at the new town. Their boat
swamped while holding TO the rope.
One was Alex Larson. The bodies
have not been recovered.
Joe barnes OF Salmon cut his left
arm quite seriously last week. He had
knife in his hand and horse kicked
him aud drove Il into his arm, sever
ing the main artery, and he nearly
bled TO death. He is out again.
f. tIhlHt VI INC
department Of the United States geo
graphical survey has arrived in Ketch-
um from Washington city. Mr.. Per-
says they will expend between $50, ooo
and $40, 900 in work in Idaho this sum
mer.
John A. Wood, who was employed
by the salmon Gold Mining company,
was precipitated into the big fiume al
Rohsnnon bar by the breaking of
cap on which he stepped, and suffered
a compound fracture of the left leg be-
tween the knee and ankle.
II. T.. Hershey Of Gibbon, Neb., has !
driven 200 head Of sheep from En-
NETT, Idaho, this season. The sheep :
will be trailed through to the winter
feeding grounds and win not reach
their destination until late in the fall.
The price paid will average about Sc
per head
Frank shuster, an oldtime resident
Of Lower Reynolds, Owyhee county,
was attacked and seriously injured by
a vicious bull. lie assaulted Mr.. G
shuster with great violence, jamming
him against corral gate and breaking
three ribs. The ribs were not only
broken, but apparently forced through
The lungs, creating frightful depres- I
sion in the right side.
Another fatal accident has occurred
"a Cottonwood valley, near oxford
As John Dccs and his son, aged 81,
Ncre Telling trees 10 make them loads
II dry logs. tree fell on the young '
ran, killing him almost instantly "
rhe deceased had come up with his II
ather from Weston, Ida, where they y
eside, 10 get two loads Of timber, with Q
he result above stated. II
The regents Of the State university II
ave issued a statement to the public n
n which they say they have been un-
BILE 70 find any evidence 70 substan- {
late the charge that the university
1ns conducted on political lines, 60 al. d
ance the interests of the Republican NJ
arty. THE University OF Idaho" Is
hey declare, cannot be made a POI u
tieal machine while we are in con- p'
rol" m
Henry Mcsper, who works for Thorn. u
$ Davis on his ranch about two miles
Glow Boise, discovered the body Of a
ian in the river near the ranch. The n,
"'s h"n peeh IN 'he water Tor some 70