| Show NEWS OFIHE WEST IDAHO V The cash of the First National bank at Boise was locked up for two days last week owing to some disarrangement disarrange-ment of the combination lock on the vault An expert finally opened It It is alleged that Alfred Fred has confessed that he killed John Kensler for whose murder Freel and Mrs Kens her have been sentenced to a life term of imprisonment According to the story Freel said he killed Kensler because be-cause he was In love with Mrs Kensler and was advised by a relative to put the ranchman out of the way The con Cession Is said to have been made to his cell mate The report of the weather observer at the Boise barracks shows the month of May was very dry there being only 060 Inches of precipitation the rain falling on the 15th 16th 20th 23rd and 25th The maximum temperature was 100 on the 29th The mercury reached 91 on the 20th 92 on the 23rd and 89 on the 5th The lowest temperature of the month was 30 on the 8th Boise Statesman H E Hershey oC Gibbon Neb is in the city He has seven bands of mutton sheen on the way through the state The total number num-ber Is 46000 The sheep are to be driven to Nebraska Half of them were purchased pur-chased at Huntington and the other half in the Weiser country Mr Hersey states that prices range about 20 percent per-cent higher than last year He paid from 5150 to 165 for yearlings and from V V V 183 to 2 for twoyear olds For some mixed lots of sheep two three and four years old the price was as high ag 5220 WYOMING V Green River Star It is estimated that Box Elder county Utah boys have clipped at least 75000 Wyoming sheep this spring The sheen were Jn good condition showing clean wool and heavy fleeces Some sheep would shear 15 or 20 pounds The shearers were paid six cents per head and board or 7 cents and board themselves Boomerang Professor W C Knight and a party of ten university students left the city this morning for a two weeks trip north and east of the city Four wagons left the city during the morning Professor Knight went to Lockout on the train where he will meet the part this evening North oE the city along the railroad the party will devote themselves to the study of the rocks They will then turn eastward to the Plumbago canyon section and will continue on a circle to Iron Mountain Silver Crown and that section sec-tion returning to Laramie about the 16thNatrona Natrona County Tribune The Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Oil and Gas company whose refinery is located at this place has ordered a 150 barrel still which is expected ex-pected to arrive here within a few weeks The still they are using at present holds but 30 barrels and this has proven entirely too small to accommodate ac-commodate the amount of oil refined by the company As soon as the new still arrives it is expected to increase the working force at the refinery Two hundred iron barrels have also been ordered which will be used by the freighters in hauling the crude oil from the wells to Casper Other improvements improve-ments will be made In the big plant located here and it is very likely that from now on the refinery will be run steadily night and day summer and winter James Ross Irvine oldest son of W C Irvine of Ross Wyo was awarded the first prize in the final contest for the Means prize for orations at the Phillips academy Ahdover Mass NEVADA Reno Gazette Mrs Oscar Smith widow of the late M D Foley lays claims that the Foley estate is community com-munity property and the eastern heirs claim it is not community property The case will be tried in Judge Che neys court with Judge Mack presiding presid-ing before a jury Attorneys Clarke Jones and Wren will appear for Mrs Smith and Baker Bigelow and Julian for the eastern heirs and Mayenbaum and Dennis for the estate of the deceased de-ceased Hartley child Gold Creek News A cowboy gave a little exhibition on the avenue one day this week He was thrown and the horse stepped on him breaking a rib or two The horse had not been drinking Silver State The borax teams arrived ar-rived from Oregon yesterday with 18 000 pounds of borax A shipment of 24000 pounds was made to St Louis today The teams left this morning loaded by E Reinhart Co with 10 000 pounds of machinery and merchandise merchan-dise for A W Rileys Kings river ranch as well as supplies for different ranchers along the route V COLORADO Benjamin Crowell died at Colorado Spring Saturday morning after a lingering lin-gering illness at the age of 62 Mr Crowell fas one of the oldest pioneers of Colorado having come in I860 He has been identified with the public affairs af-fairs of the state for the past 20 years The Denver health department reports re-ports that for the month of May 133 deaths occurred making a death rate of 1033 per thousand Of this number 50 were from consumption James Ross of Toronto Canada was robbed of a letter of credit for 5000 on the train between Denver and Lead ville The next day the thief presented the letter to a Colorado Springs bank and obtained 750 on it Suit has been begun by Gibbons Bailey of Philadelphia against the city of Denver James McMurtie and John Cook He asks 25000 damages for the death of his daughter May who was killed one month ago by a brick falling from the McMurtie building The Denver Y M C A may b obliged to close Its rooms on account of a lack of funds |
