Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-10-15
IDAHO NEWS.


60 St. Anthony.
Twelve cases Of typhoid are reported
at Oxford, due 10 impure water
An original pension has been grant
ed John Brasch, Nez Perez City, Ida
The Boise city council has changed
the official time from Pacific to noun
tain time
Blaine countys revenue from sheep
tax this year will amount TO about
80, 500.
Leopold f. Marchand has been
commissioned postmaster at Pitcher,
Idaho
The construction OF a new road
from Idaho Falls to Teton Basin will
begin at once
The Boise Nampa & Owyhce rail
road bridge across Snake river is com
pleted and track is laid three-fourths
Of a mile beyond.
At a hearing held in Challis. Elmer
Hulford, deputy sheriff charged with
being an accessory TO the killing of
Frank McLaren, was discharged
Directly after the late rain near
HALEY, the alfalfa became frosted and
the stock ate it, and several head of
horses and five Gown are dead from the |
effects
George Cook, living near Caldwell,
while riding across slough was
seized by nervouA TT, fell from his
horse and was drowned. The water
was but six inches deep.
Frank Massey who has mined in
the Boise basin, on Wood river, in
Smoky and Owyhee for a quarter of
century, has gone to ruolumne county,
Cal, where he viii make his future
home.
Boses first piece of street paving,
five blocks on Main street, was COM
on the ith inst. with appropriate ex-
ercises IL is wood block pavement
laid on six inches of macadam, upon
which there is cushion.of sand
AZ Moscow last week Bert Vickery
engaged in a family row with his n
brother-n-law, George Woods, and /
shot Woods in the side. lie then ac- d,
cidentally shot himself through the
foot. The wounds are not serious. l.
DR.. Norris left Boise Sunday for h
Salt Lake. While there he expects TO c
meet c. 4. Johnson of Greenwood, Ne 7
brasLa, the doctors old home, and f. u
S. Stetson of Kansas City. The party b
will then go to San Francisco, and r
within the next thirty days take pas e.
sage for Juneau :,
The receipts of the Boise assay office d
for this year already sceed those of Il
last year by 10000 shipment of
about $1,000 has been received from
Anaconda, which is the first large
shipment that has ever been sent from q
that place TO Boise. IL assayed $50
fine -
The record OF the Boise land office 80
for the past quarter shows there have ev
been $50 acres sold. / 200 acres taken +h
ip by original desert entry and 5,543 ~
taken up by homestead filings. The -,
AMOUNT of homestead entries for the 49,,
month of September was l,705, and ho
he number of acres taken up in desert in,
'ntries was SCI. H.,
Mr.. Mcdonald and Louis HERES, fu
living at Peck, had a thrilling expert
nee in trying 10 kill bear in Big
anyon Both men had emptied their
-pns into bruins hide without fatal IN
eSuit. and being at close quarters, IA
icDonRld grabbed the bear by the en-
ind legs, and HERES bv the ears, and tee
own the steep hill they rolled. The ~
ear recovered first, and suffering from COY
,ss Of blood, made for the timber apl
Sneak thieves got in their work in -,
novel manner on the granary of An
erson Bros, OF Idaho Falls, but struck
n empty bin and left empty handed /
heir method was to bore augur holes wn
the floor from beneath expecting vo,
he wheat TO pour through but nothing st.
AZ empty air met their augur points. mil
measures have been Gag
ken against future attempts by the eng
oarding up OF che sides of the gran int,
y. oil.
Work On the High line canal near
ampa is progressing nicely and when ~
'mpleted it will irrigate large tract
valuable land. The ditch is from ~
-, 800 VIC p''se"' mis-
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