Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-04-25
IDAHO STATE NEWS.

Tho Baxter hotel at Ketchum wa
damaged by Gre 10 the amount OF $50
last week
Fifteen men shearcd e.oo7 shsep By
hand one day last week at the cleve
land sheep ranch, six miles from Boise
Lewis & Tague's pack train left
ketchum one day last week loaded
with 10000 pounds OF -four for Thun-
der Mountain.
The new telephone line has now
bees extended up the Payette valley
and is prosing great convenience TO
the bench farmers.
A tennis club has been organized and
. court laid out, at HALEY, and the
members are now thinking OF chal-
longing other towns for games.
The residence OF Mrs. Taylor
Thompson. OF Welser. was destroyed
by Ore last week, the fire being tue
work OF an incendiary. Loss $4,000.
The commissioners OF Bear Lake
county have appropriated $1,000 for
the purpose Of poisoning squirrels,
strychnine to be used for that purpose.
Oneida county has an assessed val
uation Of 81, e0i. 1870 SO. with total In
debtedness OF $50, 900. The income for
the last year amounted TO $50, 1880.
Boise county has an assessed valua-
tIon OF soi3. IT'S and a total indebtedness
OF 800. 90l.os. The receipts for the
Last year were s57, 4soi2 and expendi-
lures for the same time, sss, 3o3.5s
Word comes from Meadows that
Robert Herndop OF Virginia has
bought 200 acres OF ground at that
place, which will be laid out as town
site
Superintendent OF the state insane
asylum at Blaclfoot has sent his OK
pense bill for the first three months OF
the present year The sum total OF
the expenditures for the quarter is
s0.ss3.2s
The Electric Power company In en-
iarglng its ditch at Idaho City, cut
tale ledge with veins of quartz running
through Il, gold being seen with the
naked eye
There Is much excitement In Silver
City over recent strike made in the
RAMS Horn mine. A body OF gold ore
was tapped at depth Of 300 feet
which shows value OF "a little over
100 TO the ton.
The report OF the treasurer OF Cassia
county to the state auditor shows that
he county expenses for last year were
IA. spo.o o.. The total indebtedness,
,onded and otherwise, on the tirst day
4 January was SEQ. eGt.55.
II Is said that the delay In reaching /,
conclusion in the appointments to /
he Blackfoot and Lewiston land Offices /,
due 10 crush OF business In the
flee OF tho secretary Of the interior /
nd has no other Significance. =
According to dispatch from Idaho I
iiy. tho Electric Power company near
orse Shoe Bend has 80 men employed. 5
hree Teton dynamos win be put In.
he company has 1000, 900 pounds of
,ment which will be used In the work. W
Honorable Edgar Wilson has sold a.
Is great apple orchard at Beatty to a
&c Wilson Fruit company for $4,000. l.
IL. R........ ....h. II consists 81 . tnn ! n
apple trees, 500 Rome Beau ia
rs, 700 Ben Davis, aud 800 winter CT
airs. c'
The body OF Horace Rich was found "a
the railroad track near Ross Fork, OF
rribly mutilated only being ldentl- G,
d by pieces OF clothing. II Is be-
we'd young Rich, who was well ID
own throughout the state. was muir pr
red. he
Sol Petit. OF Meridian, while lar Nj
sslng team Of broneos, was fhise CIR
'iously Injured by one OF the animals or
'pping on his foot, turning II In such trl
ranuer a. 70 break several bcnes Of fci
, snkle aud causing the bones TO pro- pr
,ss through the flesh tn
z. l.. schsck. she we.l.known ranch
N who was no terribly burned in ]
wagon while driving home from He
Use with bis wife, has succnmbed 10 bal
injuries. II Is believed he was Tn
sckep with paralysis while riding Tor
ng and did not feel the heat. lac
Il Bliss party Of Greeks in the bal
ploy Of the railroad company at dir
nptcd to take some coal FROM the VIII
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