Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-03-11
IDAHO NEWS.

serves rs Ine pictures
Sol Barnett Of Weiser has probably
made deal TO sell his whole band Of
5000 sheep, at S. % all around, includ
ing lambs.
The Snake steamer Mabel has been
placed in the water and the machinery
Is being put in. The little 7ofoot
craft is beauty.
John +. Yost. chosen as temporary
secretary OF the Republican state
committee, is the editor of the Silver
Blade, paper which is published
at Rathdrum.
William X. Davis has entered suit at
Boise against the Idaho Mining and
Milling company for s32il. which
plaintiff alleges is due him for wages
at $3.50 per month.
c. H. Olds Of Weiser. 10 avoid paying
alimony. made an affidavit that he had
but $40 when he had 81, 500 in the bank.
He was arrested for perjury. and re-
leased on bonds, and skipped out the
next day
At meeting OF the farmers at
Franklin, IL was decided TO erect n beet
sugar factory on the cooperative plan
and If this Is found impossible, boz
nus will be offered TO outside capital
TO establish such plant,
There were ninety members Of the
Boise Soldiers home on Feb. 20. Two
applications entitled to admission are
waiting for vacant beds. The cost for
maintaining each inmate for the first |
two months of the year was s23.34,
against seo o. in s07 and $40. son eth
year 1896
The snow is from eight TO twelve
feet deep IN the timber surrounding
the Colwin on Sunset, while out on the
bare spots It is almost any depths
man might ask for AS yet there have
been no slides, though they have been
expected during these last rains
lot Of large slides are looked for.
NJ. r. Doyle, head brakeman on a
freight train, was killed at Rathdrum
March g. He was about TO uncouple
the engines. when the link broke. The
jar threw him TO the ground, he fall
ing across the rail in front OF the
trucks Of a car. which passed over his
body. Death was instantaneous. He
was married and his wife resides at
Moscow.
Chris Nelson, a prosperous farmer
living near Sucker Lake, Idaho, had
w. l.. Wiley, his brother-in-law and
neigh boring farmer, arrested, charg-
ing him with rape on the person of
Dora lite, sometime last August. Re-
alizing a husband was needed for his
victim, Wiley selected Nelson, who
readily consented. Dora was threat
ened with death II she told of Wiley's
guilt. She first accused woodchopper :
Of the crime, but finally confessed the
truth.
The irrigation law passed at the
third session being declared unconsti :,
suit has been filed at Boise
inder tho common law To determine =
What Is reasonable rate to pay for
water. u is claimed that under the
common law, courts of equity have "
power to fl tolls not regulated by sta q,
tie, and that this matter comes under o,
hat classification. The point is made is
hat IL the canal owner can fix the ie
ate he could make II prohibitive il he ~
'ished aud thus destroy property de- al
endent upon the canal for water for
.rigation.
Ex-Gov. Mcconnell is In Boise, IN v.
with the proposed opening
the Fort Hall reservation. There
re number OF the Indians at Bliss On
nd some at other localities that he I'M
ill endeavor to send back TO the res no
walton, so that they will be entitled ed
} the annuity In case the pending TIN
eaty with the Indians is ratified by 70
le senate. The Bliss Indians, the XII
overnor says, are the remnant of 10
ibe that was nearly all murdered at ua
hereDt times On one occasion a
imber OF men who had ferry wi
IT into dispute about how many In or,
ans could be killed with large swi. mi
j gun they had. To settle the dis. we
lite they got the Indians in bunch toe
ider the bank attracted by some IN,
ing shown them, aud then discharg- leg
the gun into the crowd. Both bar mi
Is were loaded with pistol balls, and va.
e slaughter of the harmless tribe nit
as fearful. or
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