Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-05-13
IDAHO NEWS.

Idaho Falls, one day last week.
The State Sunday School association
of Idaho will hold It's second annua
convention in Boise the 25th-27th o
May.
Alfalfa and range grasses are doing
well, and stock is in good condition al
general thing throughout the entire
state
A suit has been commenced in the
federal court at Boise to foreclose &
mortgage on the Pocatello opera house
for $5OOO
Bingham and Fremont counties fur
nished a company of recruits, at the
head of which w. r. Hammer of st.
Anthony was placed as captain.
In an oratorical contest at the Idaho
university for the Watkins medal
Jennie Hughes, the only colored stu
dent in the institution, was the win
ner.
The adiutant general has directed
that one of the troops for Colonel Mel
vim Griggsby's regiment of mounted
rifemen shall be recruited in this
state.
Wardner organized full company,
eighty-four men, in less than two days
and offered them for service. They
were accepted, and are now in camp
at Boise.
All fruits, with the exception of the
western portion of the state, where
frost did some damage, are prospecting
and and an abundance of fruit is ex-
pected in Idaho this year.
The weekly mail service from Grange
Vile to Columbus, on Cottonwood
creek, is to be discontinued, owing to
the fact that there is no one to act as
postmaster at Columbus.
1t is reported that parties have re-
Gently captured and purchased about
200 of Dorsey's wild donkeys running
on the Snake river bottom, and are
driving them to British Columbia.
Reverardo Diego, who died at Lees
burg recently, came to California in
1S4S, Boise basin in 1866, and came to
Lemhicounty in 1867, and had been
working on a claim near where he
died since 1868.
A Shoshone wool buyer, representing
a Boston firm, secured one consign-
ment of 81, 800 pounds, the clip of the
Bros. The buyer will ship
fifteen cars of wool by special train
from Shoshone.
Mrs. Caldwell, separated from her
husband recently at Boise, one night
last week took some friends to
see fair play and with an AK broke in
he door of Caldwell's abode, sprang on
him like a wounded animal, despera-
ion lending her strength, and soon
vrested her 2-year-old child from his
yrasp and left with flying colors.
The supreme court has rendered an
opinion that establishes the status of
he Nez Perez Indians in the state
ourts. An Indian brought suit to
iect parties from land allotted to the
'laintiff. In the district court the de- ,
endants offered demurrer, claiming
hat the state court had no jurisdiction .
he demurrer was overruled. That
ecision is affirmed by the supreme
curt.
The supreme court has handed down +
decision reversing the action of Judge
Iayhew in the matter of the employ
tent of w. B. Hepburn by the COM
lissioners of Shoshone county. Mr..
[eyburn was retained to test the ,,
aidity of certain bonds of the county
Scott Anderson appealed from the
elton of the board, on the ground that
lie work should be done by the district
5torney, aud the appeal was sustained
Y the district court.
John Sparks, the cattle king of
laho and Nevada, has sold 5000 head 4
yearlings and 2-year-old cattle
Nebraska parties. The purchase =
ice for this stock was S25 per head. :
T. Sparks considers the price now
i'd for cattle as abnormally high. o
e says there has been a gradual dim u
ution of the herds of the west for C
lmber of years, and the present de- v
and is enormous. The low price of
few years ago, he says, was respon t,
ble for partial cessation in cattle h
eeding on the western ranges. 81
Seven hundred strong, Idaho volun- u
ers are camped on the Boise mill
ry reserve. The boys have COM E
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