Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-05-21
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

James McCord OF Boise has been adj
judged insane and sent to the asylum
at Blackfoot
Idaho's fruit crop promises an album
dant yield. Particularly is this true
Of small fruit.
The Weiser murder case has been
ended by the discharge OF Mat crump,
the suspect
The iron for the bridge over the
Snake near DcLamar Is on the road
from Pittsburg.
A test case has been instituted at
Boise TO determine the constitutional
ity of the new county fee law.
Prospectors are warned TO keep out
OF the jackson Hole country, as the
snow will not disappear till July.
Not less than 100 car loads of freight
from Camas prairie have accumulated
at Lewiston waiting for the roads to
dry up.
The Hickock Mercantile company OF
Boise, with assets of sl4, 1000 against
claims of $4,000 is in the hands of a re-
ceiver
A string OF coaches will be run into
the Seven Devils country from Baker
City, crossing the river at Billiards. !
landing.
A creamery at Mendon was opened |
last week by appropriate ceremonies.
The plant cost $4,000 and is owned by
farmers.
NJ. u. Parma, Boise valley rancher,
lost twelve acres of land by the food.
IL went at the rate of half an acre
day during the highest water.
A well is being bored at Boise bar
racks TO obtain hot water. AT depth
of 500 feet the temperature was very
promising, being about 1850 degrees.
Miss Della Couey of Mount Idaho,
whom j. Martinez is charged with as ,
saulting, has been committed to the
insane asylum mental and physical $
wreck I
The telephone line running from Red {
Rock 10 Salmon city will be extended {
20 Gibbonsv!lle. The contract speci- a
fees that the work must be completed l
about July list.
The new town OF Gufy is now con "
nected with Boise by telephone and
may now be called up by all towns on
the Central Idaho system of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company. h
Superintendent George w. Hall of s.
the Boise county poor farm has been N
sentenced 20 three months imprison- r,
ment and to pay a fine of $3.50 for NAL il
treating a iG-year-old boy under his a
care. l.
Charles White, witness for the de- m
tense in the trial of Geo w Hall OF n
the Boise poor farm. has been arrested d'
for perjury. iIe confessed that he had re
been fixed by Hall to testify that the I'll
boy was not severely injured. lie
l.. l.. Ormsby, one of the leading
sheep dealers OF Idaho, has contracted
for so, 900 sheep, 70 be driven to his n,
Teeding grounds in Nebraska. They
viii be divided into bands and trailed
dong, reaching their destination in r,
bout six months. de
The compilation and publication of IN
he laws of the last session has devel- of
ped a serious blunder in the horti- fo
ultural bill The law contains no &c
PROVISION for collecting from owners fu
he cost of eradication OF pests where in,
he same is done by the state Gle
Hayball & Co, of Lewiston are thank
nj 20 the thoughtful burglars who
obbed their store for putting out the
re started by the explosion that Gil
'reclSed the safe Several thousand th'
ollars were thereby saved to the firm, wi
ompared to which the goods stolen ing
ere but tribe, fal
Complaint comes from Cassia county "'
iat haif OF the funds OF the cuunty eV'
re being used to prosecute couple OF o'
runlSen cowboys. The county is near sh'
ankruptcy. 1t is claimed that the $40
gislature should devise some means
y which the state should stand the
Spense OF criminal prosecutions. +
Lincoln county sheepmen claim TO Lo'
ave discovered simple but effective der
preventative to keep coyotes from at fun
lcking small lunches OF ewes and Of
mbs that are left at distance from by
le main herd. II consists of firing arr
~ firecraclSe-4 near the bunch. The of .
nell of powdSv F,eps tho wary crea- con
res AWAY. eyi,