Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-07-18
IDAHO STATE NEWS.
IDAHO.


train harvesting IN tue vicinity OF
wsiser is In full progress and The yields
are about the average.
Bosses militia company IL 10 be re-
organized and recruited to the full
legal number OF 1906 men.
A big tent. costing $500, and under
which 800 people can be seated, 10 to
be erected In Boise To be used for thcst-
rical pur poses.
Arrangements are being made by
the owners OF the Silver King mine at
Warren TO place ten-stamp mill on
their property.
new church building is to be
erected at Biackfoot. The building
will be gothic In style Of architecture
and will cost s., 900.
snenk thieves will probably steer
clear OF Boise In the future, one OF that
gentry being given sentence Of four
months Ia jail Iast week.
The fruit growers OF Payette and
vicinity will organize local company
and build an evaporator OF twenty
five tons capacity per day
The Socialists Of Payette have Issued
. call for a meeting curing the week
and will organize preparatory to
entering the fall campaign.
The nineteen labor unions OF Boise
are already beginning to discuss prep
srations for the biggest celebration on
labor day that Boise ever saw. a
A dispatch from valdes. Alaska, says
Thomas Kennedy, Of Pocatello, was
drowned June 7th while attempting to
cross the Katsna river In canvas
boat.
A number OF young ladies OF Parama
have organized Girls Outdoor club.
They intend playing tennis and cro-
quet In the summer and basket ball Ia
the winter.
IL Is expected that the yield OF flax
will be the greatest in the history OF
the state. the weather conditions OF the
past week having been especially favor
able TO It's progress.
1t Is said that a son Of the late Calvin
s. Brice has gone into Thunder Noun
tain district for the purpose OF recup-
Grating his fortune. which he has dis.
sipated In n short time.
II now appears that Rev. Andre" j.
Wilson. who suddenly left Boise on tho
srd. was bigamist, having one wife
In California one In Boise, aud prob
ably third In California.
What Is supposed to be the bones OF
= mHstodon have been uncovered in
the channel OF the Snake river near
American Falls. The discovery was
made by William Bamhart.
According TO dispatch from Payette,
j. V. LEIGHTON has put up on his Willow
,reek ranch 400 loads OF hay from n
,eres la alfalfa. making 500 tons, or
4 bout dive tons to the acre.
In the eastern part OF Boise there is
quite an invasion OF locusts. They are
aid by some who have examined them
% be OF the i7-ycar variety. The In
ects are particularly numerous Ia or
hards.
1t is reported that mining matters
lever looked brighter in Silver City
han ut present. Several good strikes
ave been made recently, the old com
anies are working full forces aud the
ew ones arc busy.
Mrs. 4. j. Dockery. secretary OF the
tate library commission. sent out ten
,ore new cases for the free travelling
brAry the Hrst OF the week. This
lskes fifty-foar cases now In circula-
on throughout the state. '
James $. Dedmsn. of weiser. aged :
years Is dead from drinking carbolic q
cid which he mistook for wine. Ded- 1
ian had been Mason for sixty-threc q
ears. aud claimed TO be the Oldest :.
,smber on the Pacific coast. D
Frank Dexter and Oscar Smith.
lucbmeu living on Snake river near :
liss. were drowned last week while g
shing from a boat, IL 10 supposed q
,s boat went over the rapids and was u
'ushed. Both men leave families.
The total receipts of the U. :. land
bee at Boise for the quarter was $780, :.
$50 The filings in every depart
ent were unusually large. Two
iudred and twenty-six homestead :,
lngs we're made covering 9s,s52 .,
res. :,
While the excessive rains OF the past a.