Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-03-18
IDAHO NEWS.


The record at Murray shows a pre-.
eipitatiop for February OF $40 inches,
the highest since record has been
kept.
Some twenty or thirty men have
gone mp the river 10 join the forces
employed on Major Reeds great placer
enterprise at sheep creek.
The Blackfoot Creamery company
has been organized at that place with
capital Of $50, 900. OF which amount
$4,000 has been subscribed
Thomas j. sutton, the veteran news
paper man, at one time one Of the pro-
prietor and editor OF the Idaho World,
Is dangerously m in Boise.
There Is much activity at Nampa
Many settlers are coming ia and the
prospect IS that the immigration dur
ing the season viii be heavy.
o. r. Smith Of the Blacisfoot nur-
sery will plant so. 900 trees in nursery
this year and will also plant ten acres
in hardy apples In orchards.
sheriff Henri OF Wallace offers si5,-
DOC reward for the arrest and convic-
tion OF one or more men concerned in
tho murder Of Frederick d. Whitney
at Gem last December.
Geiger g. ZabrislSie, who have the
contract for extending the Northern
Pacific from Juliaetta to Lewiston, are
said 10 be building spur from the
mouth Of the Potlatch, up the river to
Agatha.
Fred n. Hallett has been bound over
at Lewiston. lie is charged with sub
stituting. while connected with the
Juliaetta bank, certificates OF deposit
by which Indians are alleged TO have
been defrauded of sii 900
Some excitement was caused on Main
street In Boise by man who chad
EN-. lie was armed with large club
which he swung vigorously at the rep
tiles. Everybody scattered. giving a
clear right-of way 20 the gyrating pro-
eossion OF imaginative snakes and im-
aginative man.
The new steamer Mabel of the Seven
Devils Transportation company made
her initial trip from Huntington. Ore,
to wciscr and Payette fast week with
seventy-hyc cxcursionists on board.
She will ruu regularly 70 point eight |
miles from Huntington, where couuec-
tion viii be made with new railroad. |
Jacob Sites made an Interesting
archaeological discovery recently. He /
was engaged with others In rolling
rocks of the hillside at Stuart for tho
Main street I'LL when he unexpectedly
found himself staring az ghostly relic
IN the shape OF yellow human skull.
Several skeletons were found. Inquiry
among the Indians brought out the
fact that II was once the custom OF the
Ncz Pcrees 90 bury their dead In the
masses Of small, broken lava rocks.
The cattle case against w. + Ket-
tenbaeh OF Lewiston has been settled
out Of court, the Indians having re-
ceived full satisfaction OF all their
claims and expenses In the matter.
The Indians have also joined in state
mcut 70 the district attorney express
ing their fun satisfaction In the prem
ises, and declaring that they now had
no intention or wish 70 20 into court
Ia the case. This Is therefore, prob.
ably settlement and termination OF
the entire affair
Complications have arisen in the al.
vision OF the estate OF Nelson, the
HALEY suicide. He left considerable
property aud the children claim that
Alice Nelson Is not the lawful wife;
that there was fatal defect in the
serving Of the summons in the divorce
case instituted by Mrs Nelson against
her former husband, aud that she IS
not Legally divorced from him
The GraHgeviIle Free Press says IL
has been decided 10 abandon the cam.
paign Tor the county seat. ut would
cost us more % get the county seat
than Il is worih from business point
OF view, anG that the amount of money
expended IN buying land. building
courthouse and conducting the cam
paign can be used to better advantage
in promoting the prosperity Of the
town in ether ways.
A committee from Wallace IS at work
al over the county soliciting sigma
lures TO a petition asking that the