Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-11-26
IDAHO NEWS.

The school property Of Latah county
Is valued at $50, 100.
The Red Cross association proposer
20 erect 4 hospital at Pocatello.
George D. Stafford sold TO the Cald.
well Butcher company recently two
hogs weighing i,Os5 pounds.
The Soldiers home at Boise has re-
ceived 200 volumes for It's library.
They were purchased with the Carney
fund.
In a quarrel over a horse trade, near
Moscow, Lee Guy stabbed George sho-
walter three times, innictiug serious
injuries.
Masked robbers raided a laundry al
Pocatello last Wednesday morning
They secured $3.50 aud then held up
gambler, relieving him of slO.5O.
The name Of the postofice at Fort
Hin, Kootenai county, has been
changed TO OckonocS, aud Joseph 1.
Barnes commissioned postmaster.
Three OF the four men who stole
eighty-two head Of cattle from near
HALEY last summer, are now in the
penitentiary The fourth is still at
large.
Three winter radishes, each weigh
ing lO't pounds, and eight potatoes
weighing sos pounds are on exhibition
In Grangeville, having been raised
within the Incorporated limits OF that
town.
Hon. A. j Green OF Moscow was ex-
hibiting black bear recently, which
he brought from the Klondilte Tho
animal Is much larger than the same
species OF bear found in the mountains
OF this part OF the country.
John Reagan Of Reagan Bros OF
Emmett, the well-hnown stoclsman,
shipped sixty carloads OF cattle last
week 10 Nebraska for feeding pur-
poses Mr. Reagan says feed on the
range is poor and that as matter OF
fact the time has arrived in these parts
when those who expect 10 make "A sue
cess Of stock raising must be prepared
TO feed the cheap hay that can be
readily raised here
A little girl, aged II, who resides In
Boise, was last week beateo and drag
ged in the mud by some hoodlum boys.
She was sent out on an errand by her
parents and the boys pursued her and
maltreatcd her. She was SO used up
that she Is confined 10 her bed. This
is only one OF the long list of offenses
committed by hoodlum boys recently. |
Two weary veterans Of the army OF |
unemployed broke into bridge gangs /
car at Nampa recently and carried /
away quantity Of plnuder. They /
took "a rifle, a watch, "a number of ar
ticles of clothing. some dress goods 4
and other articles. The veterans en-
deavored 20 dispose of their pluneer,
even offering 70 sell the watch TO the
town marshal. The perpetrators of
the deed were soon run down, but the
plundcr had been disposed Of.
A. J. sage a well known rancher
living few miles west OF Sand Point
was shot and instantly killed one day
last week while out hunting. An old
acquaintance named John snyder, who
went out with him hunting, and who
became separated frota him for a short
time, seeing what he supposed TO be n
deer moving around the trees. fred at
il, and upon reaching the spot was
Mortified 70 find that he had shot his
friend dead
James Riley was shot one night last
week at neLamar and instantly killed
by J r. Stewart The shooting oc-
CURED In a saloon. Stewart, il is said.
had some trouble with a couple Of
gamblers aud attempted 10 shoot one
OF them Ills bullet went wild aud
struck Riley Riley was "a miner aud
worked In the same property with
stewart, the men being fast friends.
The jury ia the trial at Idaho City OF {
n. q. ST. Clair for the murder OF John
Decker brought in a verdict of murder
ia the first degree. Before the reading
OF Instructions by Jude Stewart, the
prisoner showed signs Of fainting and
was removed 70 the judges room where
he had a spell of vomiting, and it was
over an hour before he could again APP
pear.
The robbers who held up a store at
Bruneau recently and compelled the
70 give them $3.50 from the
snfe have been captured and held fer
trial. The amount recovered was but