Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-03-24
IDAHO NEWS.

1of tho w SincF-St'tu bcfiin Ihftrodti
Robert P. Chattin of Mountain HON,
has been named as state sheep in
spector.
The governor has vetoed the bill pro
viding for terms OF the supreme court
at Pocatello.
Snyder the postoffice robber who es.
capped last September from the Bear
Lake jail, has been captured in Butte.
A handsome new building, costing
$4,000. will be erected at Boise by the
Bell Telephone company in the near
future.
The owner OF the Tip Top mine, on
the HALEY gold belt, has just refused
an offer OF a million and half dollars
for that property.
Captain Edward Smith, OF company
ID, Idaho volunteers. was wounded in
the leg during slSirmish with the fol-
lowers Of Aguinaldo on the I3th inst.
The fruit growers are patting the
weather man on the back and hoping
for continuation of cold weather,
which prevents the buds from starting
prematurely.
The jury In the case against Ira
Harder for the murder of Sam Brun-
bridge, at Weiser, on December 10,
1893, brought In verdict OF murder in
the second degree.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company will commence the construc-
tion OF line from Weiser to the Seven
Devils and the Buffalo Hump country,
just as soon as the weather will per-
init.
The district court clerk OF Nez Perez
county has asked Attorney General
Hays II a docket fee is to be collected
on cases appealed from lower courts.
The reply is that no fee is required in
such cases.
The various rooms in the capitol will
be supplied with new carpets. The
occupants have been having some of
the dirt cleaned out, but they will not
be rid Of all OF it until the old carpets
are taken away.
Attorney-General Hays has received
an inquiry as to the status of slot
machines under the anti-gamblinR law
He has replied that slot machine is
, gambling device and comes under
the operation OF the law.
John lyman, brakeman on the
Northern Pacific Burke branch was
killed at Wallace last week while maxi
Ing coupling. The draw-bars sprang
past each other and the unfortunate
man was crushed to death.
Parma county farmer will this
rear put in twenty acres OF canta-
oupes, which he believes will find a
rood market in the east. He expects
o ship twenty-five to thirty carloads
u fruit from his ranch this season.
1t has been discovered that Johan
lellner, the soldier who was found
ead In the garden shack at the Boise
'srracks, died from strychnine poison
ng He had been using medicine con-
aiming the drug, and probably took
n overdose.
There is to be meeting of the coun-
y assessors of the state on the 27th
nst., for the purpose of securing the
o-opertion Of the assessors with the
lew OF raising and equalizing the as
sssment OF property in harmony with
be spirit of the new law.
The Inland Empire Teachers ssso-
alton, composed of educators of
'ashington, Idaho and Oregon, will
eet at Walla Walla this week. Miss ,
rench, state superintendent, will at
nd and respond on behalf of Idaho !
the address of welcome.
The governor has appointed James {
Sovereign, formerly master work.
an Of the Knights of Labor, member
the board Of Cancellation and arb !
alton. His nomination was sent 10 i
y senate and rejected, and the gov
nor now names him in recess.
William Abb, the Italian who killed b
ines HALEY in gambling hall in
'okane three weeks ago, was captured
au Italians cabin near Priest river, !,
aho, lsst week. He rcsisted arrest :.
lth Winchester. but was finally =
'rsuaded by his countrymen TO sur. :
nder. 8
John H. Young. who has . ranch =
AR Boise, recentlv advertisaa fcra