Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-05-14
BRIEFLY TOLD.

1T is thought bnaL bne Wllu un brand
: ed horses that are eating the grass or
the public ranges of Nevada will b,
killed by Wholesale this spring.
At a rough estimate, seventy-fve
thoroughbred horses now racing in Cal
ifornia, will be shipped to Montana ir
the course of the next month.
| At Winnemucca. New. the Humboldt
F river looks like an immense lake. II
has spread and has covered the land
that has not been under water for
years.
James Clark struck two more veins
in the Sulphides claim last week, aver.
aging from one foot to eighteen
inches. and assaying Sl3 per ton in
gold.
Commissioner Hermann has recon-
mended to the attorney-gtneral the
suspension for the present of legal pro
ceedings growing out of sheep pastur.
ing within the Cascade range forest
reserve.
Chief Natchez invites all Indians of
Nevada to banquet on the shores of
Pyramid lake, commencing on the 18th
and lasting a week. A big dance and
games will furnish enjoyment aDd
poker will be winked at.
John Bittendorf and Gus Bucking
ham, Union Pacific brakemen, have
been arrested at Cheyenne. charged
with misplacing a switch and derai-
ing an engine in the Cheyenne & North
ern yards. The case excites wide
spread interest among railroad men.
Virgil, the 4-year-old son of O. r.
Austin, a farmer living four miles
northeast of Greeley. Colora 20, was
burned to death in an old stable tits
supposed the child was playing with
matches and ignited the hay in the
building.
The Cree has returned to his old
stamping grounds on the banks of the
Missouri in Montana. and a camp. com
posed of about thirty of the thieving
redskins. is located on the west side on
precisely the same spot where year
ago Uncle Sans soldiers took them
captive for deportation.
Jim Parker, the notorious train-rob-
Der who held up the Atlantic & Pacific
train at Rock Cut in February. added
another chapter to his history of crime
On the 10th by escaping from the
jail at Prescott. Arizona, in
with two other desperate
criminals.
The three-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hanson of Shelley was seriously
Kicked by a horse Saturday, the result
# which is badly fractured skull.
The little boy was in the farmyard
laying. The SKULL above the right
ar is crushed to such an extent that
he brains were oozing out.
Settlers on the upper Tongue river
4 Montana are greatly excited con
erning a suspected Indian outrage. 4
Dung man named Hoover, who works
n Barringer's sheep range near Miles
ity, has been missing and strong cir
lmstantial evidence points strongly
} Cheyenne Indians as being respon-
BILE for his disappearance.
f. b. Keyes of Annabella. found his
IN. Edison E. Reyes, lying dead in
ED just outside the town. where he
ves on the eth inst. The corpse was
ing face downward across an irri-
lting furrow. 1t is the theory that
lie man was seized with fit and fell
one and unconscious with his face
the furrow, into which he had turn
small stream of water, and only
inch or two deep.
The La Cigale property at Mercur
ntinueS to improve. The vein has
own larger and richer as depth is
tanned until now the width of the
in in the lower levels is not known
will not be until it is crosscut
e assays taken during the week
enty-siX in number. ranged from
10 to Sl7.2O, and gave an average OF
% per ton for the new ground drift
into during the week. which amount
to 2l3 feet
Nord has been received at Anaconda #
the suicide of j. b. Fisher at Ross
d, Is. {. Fisher was elected county
TX here in 1892. He stood for re-
'tion last year but was defeated
examination of his books revealed
portage of Sl95s. No action was
en- to prosecute him or collect from