Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-10-28
IDAHO NEWS.

home, has been granted an origina
pension OF 50.
Mrs. T. Is. Lessiner has been mp
pointed seamstrcss at the Lemhi In
dian school, at $500 per annum.
Original pensions OF So per montl
each have been granted to Herman
Dreehoss of Pocatello and Robert b
Balwin OF Emmett
George X. Marshall OF Boise, Edward
+. Allen Of Soda Springs and Rcuber
4. Shaw OF New Plymouth. have been
appointed clerks In the railway mai
service.
The Utah g. Idaho branch Of the
Hockey Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany will soon have reached Idaho
Falls. Men are engaged In setting the
poles and a connection between Idaho
Falls and Salt Lake City, including all
intermediate points, will soon be es
tAblished
Conductor Frank Ball of the Oregon
Short Line. running between Hunting
ton and Pocatello, while trying to
swing himself TO the platform lost his
balance and fell, one leg being caught
by the wheels. The leg was so badly
crushed that operation was necessary.
Ball was to have quit the road at the
end Of his trip on which he was in
jured.
Judge Thomas j. Curtis, once a
prominent citizen of Boise, was found
dead In his room by policeman who
had heard him grooming while passing
by on duty. Heart trouble was the
immediate cause of death, though 1t is
suspected that the man starved to
death. His straitened circumstances
were not known to the community at
large.
1saac w. Garrett, ex-secretary of
state, is dead, succumbing to compli-
cation OF diseases. Mr. Garrett was
prominent In this state for many years.
He was twice elected TO the legislature.
He was auditor and recorder OF Alturas
county for two years by appoin tment,
and four years by election, and was
elected secretary Of state in 1894.
John w. Kidder and his wife Han
nah have been convicted at Butte,
Mont, Of stealing 81 900 worth of goods
from q store where Mrs Kidder was
Employed rs clerk, Kidder being
as an accessory. Kidder
vas formerly resident OF Idaho and
has served five years in the Idaho state
'enitentiary for horse stealing.
When Dan Common, shift boss
i the Big Standard mine, near Wal
ace, came out TO eat his midnight
unch, he was met by four armed
masked men. who told him II he did
lot leave the country within three days
he would be summarily disposed of.
'onnor viii comply with the request.
I Is thought he was ordered to leave
because he had discharged certain en-
'loyes Of the mine.
report is current that contract
as been closed for the construction of |
he proposed branch railroad into the
even Devils mining district in Idaho.
he story Is that NJ. ii Z. Kcere of Helena
nd Messrs. Winston and Parker OF
Minnesota have secured the contract
nd will place a large force of men at
'ork in very few days. II is said
bat the bonds have been floatcd In the
ast to raise the money to build the
BAD.
Governor Steunenberg, at the re.
uest of the state board of pardons,
as granted reprieve to Diamond
ick" Davis, who was under sentence
} hang on the Goth, for the murder OF
Awnings and Wilson, the sheepmen.
he reprieye is TO last until December ,
!, and further consideration of the
'se wxs postponed by the board until
eeember l. at which time the investi-
alton viii again be taken up, for the
irpose Of ascertaining whether Davis !,
lied the sheepmen or JEFF Gray and
lmes 4. Bower, the latter of whom
ed an affidavit in support of Davis ,
Ca for clemeney, that the shooting 1
as done ia his presence by Gray In
lf-defence, but that he allowed Da-
5 TO go To the foot of the scoffold be-
re revealing the truth. II is one of
10 most remarkable cases throughout
er recorded in Idaho criminal an
lis
At Wciser, Enos smith was acquitted