Show MlNtR KllltO AT MRCURI EDWARD TERRY FALLS DOWN THE EDNA MAY SHAFT His Neck Was Broken and Death Was Instantaneous Was Well Known Throughout the West Special to The Herald ilercur Utah Oct Edward Terry l Ct g a miner working at the Edna May fell I from a scaffold in the shaft and was instantly in-stantly killed this afternoon Terry was engaged in timbering the mine and was on a scaffold about 20 1 feet from the bottom of the shaft For some reason he let the planks on which he had been standing down into the shaft and stood on an inch board The board gave way and he vas precipitated precipi-tated to the bottom breaking his neck Death was instantaneous Teirj was a man aboat SO years o age and was a competent miner and I carpenter He has been in charge cf the timbering at the Edna May and 11 I > s the builder of the shaft house ai i I that property He was foreman at the Rover last winter and is well known In the mining camps throughout the west I His only known relatIve is a brother living in Fresno Cal The body was brought to Mercur this evening for I burial I I LANDS FOR IDAHO I Patents on Two Lists Approved By Secretary Bliss Special to The Herald Washington D C Oct Secretary Bliss today approved for patent to the state of Idaho two lists of lands in the Boise district One embraced 2563 acres selected under the grant to aid the state normal school and the other embraced 20G1 acres icJected under the grant to aid the state asylum for insane I A Tjostoffice has been established at Singhizer Lemhi county Idaho and Ellis A ilumira commissioned postmaster post-master Patents were issued today as follows Idaho Byron H Walker Coeur dAlene bicycle lock NevadaJohn S Hawk Reno mowing mow-ing machine |