Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-05-27
IDAHO NEWS.

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Two young ladies, the Misses Pier
son, are soon to start drug store a
Teton.
Six new families have recently set
tied in Lund and the place is growing
rapidly.
T. =. Wood recently took carload
Of mules to Grand Junction, where he
sold them as pack animals.
The malpractice case against Soda
Springs doctor is attracting great in
terest throughout the state.
Warren limerick, prominent stock
man and rancher near Boise, dropped
dead OF heart failure one day last week
The past month has for the most part
been favorable for farming operations.
The season is about two weeks earlier
than last year
John Smith, sent up from Ada eoun-
ty in 1894 for eight years, for breaking
into a saloon and stealing bogus
gold brick, has been pardoned.
sixty-three mules were shipped from
Ketchum to the Kansas City yards for
government purposes last week They
will be used In the Cuban campaign.
A bolt Of lightning knocked two
cowboys senseless and killed several
head of stock on Burks ranch, near
American Falls, one evening last
week
In the case of Alonzo Heath and wife
against DIR. w. 4. Wilson of Soda
Springs for malpractice, the jury rem
dered a verdict of $500 damages for the
Heaths
The shooting of Jack Smith at Burke
near Wallace, by Joe Turner. is likely
to prove serious matter TO the latter
as the attending physician reports
there Is no hope of the victims re-
coyery.
IL Is reported that n teacher In the
state normal school, G. h. Reaves by
name, has been rendered colonel's !
in the Cuban army by GEN
eral Gomez, and that no has gone to |
the island to accept.
Work on the big Bear river dam,
near Hawley, is about to begin. |
Some trouble was experienced and
much time consumed In finding a suit
able place for reservoir. Ii is the
desire OF the contractors 10 make IL
second 10 none In the west.
The proprietor of gambling house
n Pocatello, while going from his
'lace of business TO his room one night
asst week, was held up by two masked
men and relieved of 5000. The robbers
overlooked $50 which he had in his
'istol pocket.
The men of Murray celebrated tho
ictory at Manila .; the explosion of
numerous sticks of dynamite, and now
he housewives are indignant, claiming
hat the embryotic life has been de-
troyed in every egg that was in the
own when the shots were fred.
Frank Kettenbach Of Lewiston pur- O
based ia one day 500 bushels of wheat I
rom Jansee Warren and 700 bushels '
ON John Schatz, paying so cents per q
ashel. This sale will remove about b
I the wheut in the vicinity, except I
200 bushels Hank Trimble Is holding, t
II is the purpose of the governor and
ljutant-general 10 reorganize the Ma
onal Guard OF the state at once. The :
llistment of members of the guard In r
e volunteers has wiped out all but =,
70 companies, those being company !,
OF Kellogg, and company IL, of II,
ardaer. IL is desired TO have the {,
ard recruited as quickly as possible, ~
II may be uniformed and equipped N
thout unnecessary delay q,
Perhaps the tallest man In the ranks CO
the Idaho volunteers Is Ned Green, u
ivate in the Grangeville company, 81
) height being six feet six and one m
II inches, military measurement He Is
aid not secure a suit from the ord cd
nee stores at Grangeville and the
Is had quite time fitting him out
Is anxious to measure himself with
'paniard and declared he would go c"
the front II he had to without any
thes at all
re-
:. W Hooper Of Caldwell. In conjunc. =.