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Show IIStlE WOMAN TRIES IS KILL HEP CHILDREN Neighbors Interfere 'and .Save Daughters of Mrs. C. L. Geer; Dr. Browne Read.- Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Ida., Aug. 2. What came near being a horrible tragedy took placo on .Mann creek, near Woiscr, on Wednesday, according to report, when 'Mrs. C. Jj. Goer, who has been in the insane asylum twice, attempted to kill her two "Hi tie daughters with an ax. Shn started after them wilh the weapon, and the oldest one ran to a neighbor's place and notified I hem of what hor, mother was trying (o do. Several women wo-men hurried lo the house to rescue the other girl. Mrs. Geer will bo returned to the asylum. Dr. .lames V. Browne, who for many years was one of the most prominent physicians in the Northwest, having lived many years in Oregon, where he was the mcdVnl director of the Willamette Willa-mette university, and for I he past few years iu Boise," died at the .lolnistini sanitarium in this city enrly this morning, morn-ing, of cancer. The Methodists in ennferonco here voted to discontinue tho Bason Lee academy at AYcjscr. II seems the school has been a losing proposition. It was started a year ago. |