Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-05-02

Mrs. Leonora Noyinger entertain
ed the ladies Of the Episcopal
Guild Wednesday afternoon.
The greatest event in the history
Of minstrelsy-the Commercial Club
Show in ShoshOne May 9Th.
The spring term of the Lincoln
County District Court will be clos
ed this week and Judge Walters Oh
next Monday will open a special
term Of the District Court Of Good
Ing County, at Cooling, Idaho.
A. S. Anderson from Hagernan
Valley was in town Monday look
with the estate Of his brother, o.
F. Anderson, who was drowned in
the Snake river two years ago.
Frank Crosse received word on
Tuesday Of the death Of his sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. Ferguson, at PO-
catellO. The deceased formerly re-
sided in this town. Notice was
gwen that the funeral would take
place at PocatellO tomorrow, Sat
urday.
The Geology class, composed Of
/ Katherine MOrs'. Anna Rhine, Lois
Borden, Dorothy Pierce. Truman
| Mcmahon ard james Hunter. a.
| cOmpanird 10y Prof.. W--ayer, iaaC@
a visit To- he caves lat Saturday
to study Lhr gecicgica formations
found there
Miss Lyle. dean Of tiia women >
/ department Of the Lew 4sfOn state
Normal. was in ShOshO3i-- Wednes-
day inspecting the English work
in the ShOshOne High scnnOl. She
/ found the work very satisfactory
and cOmplimented the print .0al and
teachers upon the progress tiai ha-
been made.
According to a French metaliug-
ist about twenty-eight and a half
tons of diamonds have Been dug
from the earth since men began t.
prize diamonds. They are worth
about s36,OO0000 ton. The com
mOner BLACK diamonds have not
yet reached that figure but the
dealers seem hopeful.
A. J. Penner and C. 3. Wedel OF
the Clover Greek valley, came u4
on Tuesday to look after some
land locations. They state that q
great many dry land farmers are
coming into that section. and that
= several thousand acres Of dry farm
land between Kimama and Mlnldo-
ka have been settled on this spring,
Negotiations are nearly cOmplet-
, ed by virtue Of which the Oregon
Short Line will bring TO Mountain
Home a colony of Mormon familie:
each head of which will come po-
ssessed of at least 81 900, and the
whole obligated to irrigate and cul-
tivate 5000 acres of land within
year and at least twice that quan-
tity within three years.-WOod Rlv-
or Times.
F. C. Horne of Boise, one of the
: best known engineers Of the West
: was in town several days this weel
{ as a witness for Kuhn Brothers II
4 suit in the District court. Mr.
Horne was chief engineer for tn
reclamation service in charge o
2 the construction of the MinidOki
! dam, and later was employed b.
! Kuhn Brothers to oversee tn
, building of the Salmon River dam
The sheepmen around the Mini
doka country have had their flock
i invaded many times this spring o.
:. Cinnamon bears. In spite Of tn
+ greatest care of the young sheel
a dozen OF more in different flock
were killed every night. One 0
the flOckmasters took watch him
self for the predatory animals tn
+ other night and killed two of them
/ after one of his men had been drlv
4 en- to cover.
More than i5O.OO0,OO0 parcel pos
packages were mailed during tn
= first three months of the service
o Not. however, until the PoStOffie
Q Department compares this figur
: with the number of packages Q
n fourth-class matter mailed in tn
first three months of 1912, sha
we know what effect the new sys
q tenn has had on the business c
= the postOffice, for the parcel pos
e has taken the place of the fOrme
Judge Dunbar of the Probat
Court of Boise, delivered an in
tereSting lecture at the high schOC
Y auditorium on last Friday evening
: His address was confined mainl
- to matters in connection with tn
e best methods of handling childre
5 and was very much appreciated b
|. the large number of parents VIII
were present. Judge Dunbar is
g very matter of fact man, and on
n who has had a large experience i
d handling boys and girls. and hi
methods have been very successful