Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-11-20
IDAHO.
IDAHO STATE NEWS.


The contract for the Idaho building
at the st. Louis fair has been let for
$4,000.
The enrolment OF the PocateIlo
schools IN Lis. and the average at
tendance 1.02i
Lombard, the man who escaped
from the HALEY jail, has been cap
tured on Silver creek.
Electric power is being transmitted
to the Occur d'klene country from
Spokane, distance OF 101 miles.
The first death occurred in Miner
last week. when the aged wife of
traveller from Kansas died Of pneu-
monia.
Senator Dubois has introduced
bill authorizing the construction OF a
public building at Moscow, to cost
$4,000.
Senator Dubois will reIntroduce his |
bill authorizing the sale OF lands with
IN FIVE miles OF Pocatello. for not less
than $3.50 an acre.
A great number of families have re-
Gently arrived In Mountain Home from
the east, and Will settle on the beet
sugar company's lands.
William II. Michaelson OF ST.
Charles has this season threshed over
$500 bushels OF grain. an average OF
htto bnfa n. ~ .
Senator Dubois has introduced bin
granting TO the state OF Idaho 5000
acres OF land to aid In charging and
maintaining the Idaho soldiers home
II now develops that the stockhola- :
ers came out loser on the recent state
fair at Boise the report OF the secre. >
fary showing a deficit OF between $500 =
and 5000
Idaho people have broken all rec. !,
ords for a first years crop Of sugar o
boets. The beets will average ten c.
tons per acre In most sections. while u
many fields win double this tonnage y,
L. II. Burns, switchman employed
at Pocatello, was badly crushed be-
tween the footboard OF switch en-.
CINE and caboose on Saturday. He
has about even chances for recovery
The Kemmerer and Rock Springs
Goal companies have served notice on -''
IDAHO dealers of an increase of 80 -
'cnts per ton In the price of coal. No 20
N IA N m nm .ls.o
dvance. or
At Wallace last week. J. g. Clay ~
ourn, coIored, shot and seriously ~
rounded Cora curtice. also colored. -
he couple had been engaged to be ~
iarried. and 1t Is said the woman had
ltely changed her mind. which led tha
) the tragedy ain
Tho steamer Imnaha. plying be- pm pm
yeen Lewiston and the Imnaha - ,
Ines on the upper Snake river. was mo-
rocked at Mountain Sheep rapids on kid
% 10th. The passengers were saved
It tho cargo was lost. The vessel was
Ilucd at $4,000.
Jack O'Keith a sheepherder. was ~
49,
und dead In the saddle near Silver ~
ty. He had been stricken with heart
lure. and In some way his vest
nght on the horn OF the saddle. pre- proJ
Rting him from falling from his 6iar
rise. and In such position he was Cha
md -.
lane Bowers Of McCook. Neb. has esta
d petition in the Pocatello court neut
ding that her s-year-old son be de &c
red the lawful heir OF Henry Bow 10
who was killed In Pocstello on - ID,
10 IA. The announcement created
ensatlon as Bowers had married In uons
'atelo his wife having died a actio
nth before he was killed. tione
he HALEY Times reports a strike on Il
/ Is said TO be the biggest in this forsil
ntry the past 20 years. in the claim anna
'ancil & Carpenter. near Muldoon. a. Ne
y have an ore vein OF high grade ernm
ma, that Is stripped on the surface the o
20 feet. Germ
ta, :, ton ,
tight ears OF sheep at Glenns Ferry
day last week. and the next morn The
found 90 sheep dead and several arrest
&. AZ Is believed they were pcis- In WI
!. There Is no clue to the perpe- Fake,
,r OF the deed killed.
% no,,a,,v ..,, , ing at
GU were
eiknt years a' tae state peniten- Shove
+. and who rose from guard to tho Kettle
id position In importance M that which
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