Show ASIF THE EARTH HAD OPENED A mysterious disappearances of dick thomas ai and d wife 1 jat JS S brwn or wet ata abnot not fair li r trl mr the mra irta a of nf 1 airn an thoman th oman who lla elern on alic lt atrice the mattry deve I 1 aj rind nud e arli killed r by aynn nil unknown ri lanczi enemy boue boise idaho aug 3 II 11 has been months sanc dick aina and hai hawke wife mysteriously disappeared froni from their farm on silver creek owahee owyhee county and no trace ot of them hal hai yet baeff discovered they disappeared as completely as though the earth had opened and swallowed allowed fw them whether one or both were murdered and nd their bodies cached in tome some in inaccessible ac ces sible place Is as a much ol of a mystery as it was war last spring immediately alter after the elie disappearance became known instead of clearing the mystery has deepened and a recent attempt at murder on the thomas ranch has placed another snarl in the already woefully tingled tangled skein according to a tory story that reaches boise an attempt was made a few cv days age to murder mrs airs Al murphy urphy a sister of mrs thomas who has has been lavingon liv living ingon on thithom ahe thomas as farm since the disappearance of thomas anil and his hii wife mrs airs murphy was fla hanging nging clothes on le t e line m when lien sonic some one concealed in a bunch of willows near by threw a rock striking mrs murphy in the forehead inflicting a fearful earful gash mrs murphy fell to tho ground as though dead when found some time lime afterward ard the rhe was war othi insensible but shortly recovered consciousness the officers of owahee owyhee county have a mystery to unravel that has but few parallels in fit the northwest |