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Show Drowned in Snake River. We learn from Mr. Harvey, just in from Snake River, that Thomas Briggs, a foreman, fore-man, working for Mike Hyde, was drowned in Snake River Saturday afternoon, after-noon, about half a mile below Dorsey's ferry. It seems that they had been swimming swim-ming some cattle across the river and Biggs rode in after a fractious steer that had reached a small bar and refused to go farther. After getting the animal on its way he took a direct route for the shore, instead of returning the way he came. His horse struck swimming water, became unmanageable, and it is supposed struck Bigge in some way, disabling him. At any rate he sank from sight and was drowned. His friends instituted a search for his body, but up to the time that our informant left, on Sunday, it had not been recovered. Boise Statesman, 2Sth ult. |