Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-09-24
IDAHO NEWS.

~old springs bridge. below hetchum
has been awarded 10 r. r. Warren
His bid was s0ic.
special train OF ten double-decisec
carloads Of sheep belonging to the
Gooding Brothers was shipped from
HALEY last week.
The Samaria Water & Irrigation
company proposes to establish large ir-
rigation works at Samaria If the re-
port of State Engineer Mills is favor
able.
If the Pocatelio correspondent Of the
Butte Mercury can be identified he
will be given a coat Of tar and feath-
ers for slandering the young ladies Of
that city.
James H. Wallis. editor of the Paris
Post, has received word from Blackfoot
that he had been appointed United
States Commissioner for the district Of
Idaho, by Judge Realty.
Frank Bell ana Frank Martin emil
grants on their way east from Oregon,
were arrested near HALEY on charge
of horse stealing. They are now in
the HALEY Jail. awaiting hearing.
Last week northern Idaho reported
the wheat crop damaged 10 per cent.
This week the reports say the damage
is insignificant Latah, Kootenai,
Nez Perez and Shoshone county farm
ers report the best prospects Of getting
il all harvested and TO market. Two /
weeks Of clear weather will clean up
the fields.
The search for the Pocatello Jail
breakers is without results. The last
party of searchers came ia today un-
successful. IL has just been discovered
that William Matthews, the colored
man who saw Monroe. Kendall and
Hogan break into the McCammon sta
ton, and who was the only witness {
against them, has also disappeared. !
A lot of sharpers in north Idaho are
engaged in settling home-seekers on
State land selections. These lands are
very valuable, and the sharpers charge
the home-seekers from 500 to 5000 to /
place them on homesteads of their
own selection. The homesteader soon
finds himself without home aud o
without his money b
The wheat crops in Oneida valley, 7
or in the country lying tributary to u
Preston, will fall about one-fourth a.
short of that of last year But the ~
nd vance in price more than makes up &c
Tor this loss The shipments from az
here last year were between 100 900 Oh
md i95, 900 bushel while the estimate a'
'n the shipment for this year can be
placed at about $4,000 bushels o
IL is reported that Oxford has the
worst set OF hoodlums in Bannock
ounty. The other night they were
mt painting the town red, turning
yer wagons, robbing orchards and
espoiling hen roosts. They have -
either II justice of the peace nor con ~
table living in town, so the hood ~
ANS take advantage of the situation.
hey are not only a nuisance. but -
isgrace to any well regulated com
iunity
party of Caldwellites attempted TO N
orral the burros that roam in the
make valley below Grand View ferry, '
18th view to shipping them to Klon- Al,
yke. The attempt was failure The tod
urros, when cornered, would turn loo
nd break for the horses, braying as III,
lly frightened beast of that char an,
ter can. and the horses becoming Car
manageable at such an onslaught, the
,came uncomfortable. There is re- :
'rted 70 be some 800 of these aui- tod
ais in that locality. and the only way fou
which 10 secure them seems 10 be will
T using the lariat. son
Il. +. Green completed the exhibit OF cini
ait recently for the homeseekers' the
invention at Chicago and Skinned IL lief
the afternoon. The exhibit en- tina
aced all the different varieties of trai
ait grown in the valley and made a acc'
city showing One of the features
the exhibit was four boxes of W
'awberries grown by George Crane, Gen
10 lives across the river in south ion
Use. These berries are the second the
'p that his vines have produced this that
ar. When the first crop was ex- Uni
listed Mr.. Crane let his vines dry thro
'vn for couple of weeks and then jet
ned the water upon them again. per
is caused them TO sprout up afresh gooC
in the spring and they blossomed thar