Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-06-30
IDAHO NEWS.

cepted an invitation TO deliver tins
GRAFTON, Fourth Of Jnly, at Baker City
Oregon.
Surveyors who were camped ut the
head OF the Malad last week killed a
silver-tip bear that weighed 600
pounds
The Wardner Lumber company.
limited, Of Kellogg, capital $4,000, has
fled its articles OF incorporation with
the secretary OF state.
The postotlice at De Lamar will.be
relegated to the FORTH class July 1.
owing to the falling off of receipts
during the past year.
chief milling plant Of that district,
was destroyed by fry last week. Loss
$4,000; insurance 81, 1000.
One harness dealer in Weiser sold
100 pack saddles last week These go
to men Quitting for the Seven Devils
and Buffalo Hump sections.
Elmer Francis OF Moscow, gradu-
ated this year from the Colorado
school for the deaf and blind at Colo
RADIO Springs. He is IS years old and
Is blind
The snow Is still seven feet deep on
the summit between the middle fork
OF the Boise and Rocky Bar, and fully
five feet deep between Rocky Bar and
Atlanta
An immense ledge OF graphite has
been discovered in the Seven Devils
region. A ledge of asbestos has also
been located within short distance of
the graphite find.
The State Bank OF Idaho, limited, OF
Weiser, has been Incorporated with
capital stock of se5. 900, the articles Of
incorporation having been filed with
the secretary OF state last week.
De Lamar has been afflicted with
number of petty thieves recently, half
a dozen roberts having occurred in
one day. The officials contemplate
making a clean out of oil suspicious
characters.
Secretary OF the Interior Hitchcock
has denied Smiths motion for review
and rehearing In his contest against
the townsite of Hope, from the Occur
dAlene district His homestead entry
xgill a.. an ,..1.I
In the apportionment OF the annual
appropriation for the education of In
dian pupils in contract schools, Idaho
gets Sel6o to be expended for the ben
eft Of twenty children in the Coeur
d'Alene agency.
The Comptroller of the currency an
nounces that the First National Bank
Of kendrick has gone into voluntary
liquidation by resolution of its stock
holders dated May 2, 1899, to take
sifect June 20, 1909.
The Idaho sheep quarantine law,
passed by the last legislature, he's
been upheld In n test case brouglN be-
ore Judge Richards of the Fifth dis
riot, from Oneida county. A Utah
heep man instituted the case.
Captain w. w. Hart, United States
ngneer last week inspected the
make and Clearwater rivers for the
purpose Of determining what improve
nents should be made by the govern
nent on these streams, and upon the
eport will depend future appropria-
ions for that purpose.
Colonel II. w. Dewey, president of
he Boise, Nampa & Owyhee railroad,
ast week piloted o. N. Moomaw of
Va, and Thomas Nalwaj of
eel, Wash, over Boise valley, who
re looking over this part of the state.
Ir. Moomaw represents an eastern
olony which desires to secure land
ncugh for settlement.
The appropriation for reimbursing I
be subscribers to the Omaha exposition
md is now available and the certifi-
ates will be paid on presen tation to
he state auditor. Those who have $
OF yen received their certificates will
lease mail their receipts 10 the secre-
Try, r. 4. Greene of Boise. and their I
'rtificates will be handed to the aud i
or.
The governor has made the follow
u promotions In the Idaho volun- .
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