The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-01-26
STATE NEWS.

drilled holes and water poured in.
A wooden plug is then tightly
driven in the mouth of the hole.
The swelling of lime break the
rock gradually and the opals are
thus secured with but minimum
of damage.
Monday, January 4th, e. Rich
ards and Thomas Craig, Of
Butchers bar, saw the body of a
man floating with the current in
salmon river, just above Horse
shoe bend, and almost two miles
north of Freedom. The boys, I'M
able to secure a boat in time, lost
track of the remains as they
passed through the white water
at the head of the bend. Word
was dispatched to Whitebird that
the body vi as en- route downriver,
but at the hour of going to press
no tidings regarding its recovery
and Identification had been re-
ceived. Andy Croffiutt and others,
said he seemed to- be clad
in a Mackinaw coat, brown in d.
or. The head was barely visible,
but was hatless.
The two mile limit Law t at has
cut such an important figure in
Idaho politics for some years has
again been in the Supreme court.
The law provides that damages
shall be collected from sheepown-
ers whose sheep "herded" CT
"grazed" within two miles of a
habitation. The constitutionality
of the law has been affirmed here
tofore, it being held a proper ex-
ercise of the police power of The
state. The case from Washington
county was decided today, how
ever, in which the court held that
the mere driving of sheep rast
and within two miles of a ha5ita-
ton does not constitute violation
of the act. 1t is held that sheep
may be stopped for necessary rest
within two m lies Of a house end
that such grazing as may occur
does not come within the meaning
of the law. This makes an i'm
portant modification of the APP
plication of the law, as much of
the complaint against sheep arise
from their being driven over
land on their way to another
range.
The news Of the death Of j. r.
Wilkins which occurred at Los
Gatos, California, Friday, January
9th, was surprise to Mr.. Wilkins
many friends in Elmore as wellas
Owyhee county.
Two weeks ago Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilkins left for California for the
benefit of his health and to visit
sister whom he had not seen for
forty-six years. Soon after their
arrival, he was taken so seriously
i'll that his daughter, Miss Kittie
and her two brothers, John and
Sam. were sent for and were at
his bedside at the time of his
death. He was prominent stock
man of Owyhee Co. Mr.. Wilkins
crossed the plains in 1864 and
arrived in the Boise valley 1864.
He was buried at Los Gatos
Saturday afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
Joe Monaghan, a we'll known
stockman of Rockville, was seized
with fit Of coughing from which
death ensued, at the residence of
Barney Malloy, on Succor creek,
in Oregon, q few days ago.
In preparing the body for bur.
ial, il was for the first time learn
ed that u je Monaghan" was in
reality woman. She had dress
ed in mems clothing and main
tanned her masculine character in
the camps and oil the trail, riding
the range and roughing it in from
tier style in eastern Oregon for
25 years.
She was about Sc years old at
the time of her death. She lived
alone during the 25 years of her
residence near Rockville, in dug
out. During the summer she work