Show WESTERN NEWS ITEMS operations on the josephine mine at bingham have been discontinued for the winter the train mens menla strike on the D B R Q G railroad in colorado Is ia still go ing on with no prospect of a settlement at present an attempt will be made at price emery county this bia evening monday to organize a permanent literary and deba debating tinz society hunters report game of all kinds hinds scarcer this year than ever before in the history of this portion of wyoming says the sheridan Ahler enterprise prise A mand mandolin guitar flute and violin club is ia about to be organized in logan the proposed membership is about samples of ore from the Pal antics property near Lea leavington leamington were re in salt 8 alt lake yesterday the ore to is free gold the shaft is down eighteen feet only the live stock journal published at cheyenne wyoming was seized yesterday on execution of a judgment tor for 1700 obtained by the st louis type foundry the new uniform for the agricultural college cadets cabets is very handsome haud some and a great improvement on the chinese livery they wore last year logan lagan journal W most moat ferry left park city on saturday last for golden col to attend the colorado state school of mines during the winter term he expects to return sometime in may J edgar alden a member of an aristocratic boston family tell dead from heart diseati in a lon los angeles saloon caloon a few days ago he bad been drinking heavily for some time at boise idaho yesterday the judg judges es of the state supreme court had a private private meeting and consulted to 9 gether otter in reference to the test oath case argued last week at their decision is expected almost immediately A carload of copper bullion from the dixie smelter at st george owned and operated by woolley lund and judd went out east on saturday over the union pacific flo having been sold at 1 ft good price the and mines are now running at full blast james jame came in today saturday oct from bull mountain where they have been getting out wood he says aay tiie the snow w was wa very deep out there and that it 16 took four te teams a m a to move a w wagon ag an a and a d the h hones joftes were nearly out of sight night in the snow laralle boomerangs Boomerang S 9 yesterday news was received in salt gait lake to the effect that arthur and other gentlemen of the city had durcho purchased aed for the sum of the star group grou of mines in iii wood river alver district idaho abo the property is if said bald to be exceedingly rich and that a vast quantity of gold ore has ban already been extracted chete J A van polk pelt who went out to inspect the strike in the mohawk on saturday has returned he says they are in the ore four feet and have not yet encountered the hanging wall the ore has not yet been assayed aasved but be thinks it will pay to ship hip the oper acors of the property leel joel greatly encouraged cou raged and are confident that they will be richly repaid for their pluck and enterprise within the last week two train loads of sheep cheep and cattle have hare been shipped hipped to eastern points and salt lake irom from the brigham station every few days day from two wo to live five carloads of fine beef eattle cattle are shipped to the salt lake slaughtering company they have agents in these parts who are buying up hundreds of head bead of good beef cattle for the salt lake market bugler challis Grap graphic hig custer county idaho has a curiosity in the shape of a group of petrified trees about fifteen miles from challis first found by sheriff horsford these trees have been seen but by few persons and are said eaid to be strange to look upon trunks from stumps to thirty feet in height bearing out from the naturalness of trees and from two to fifteen feekin feet in diameter owing to the cave in the mayflower mine ore has not been coming up as lively as usual and the druyor of the first team to the mi mine no has been enable J to got get through his days work several hours sooner than those who later and there has boa been so much rivalry between farrells and ivors ivers team that some of them have tho the trip to te the th mine as an early as 2 in the morning park my record justice sulivan of the idaho supreme court said yesterday that the case of sheperd shepard vs grimmell instituted to test the validity of the idaho test oath law was on oa monday last argued and submitted A decision will be rendered some time next week and then the mormons cormons of idaho will know whether or not they may register I 1 ioa med mediately lately and vote at the general election idaho daily statesman october 15 the chalk creek mine company has now penetrate ratel J their coal vein and find it about eight feet thick and as clear of faults or foreign material as ever a vein of coal was the coal is the hardest ever found in this basin the company say that they will try transportation over the U P for a time but it if they attempt the freeze out game with them that they shall see age that another road goes through coal ville Go alville chronicle fish commissioner mills mille is having the state fish hatchery repaired throughout and getting it la in shape for the fall take of spawn says the carman nov appeal the close of this seasons work was the end of a abst so successful c year inasmuch myoung as young trout had been successfully planted in a most inaccessible waters throughout the eastern part of the state call cali fornia anglers are rapidly getting on to toe the fact that nevada ean can rake raise tho the hardiest handiest har diest aej camest gamest brook trout on earth the pioneer canal company have let the contract for the reconstruction of their large flume near mear the ranch miles mile southwest of the city to victor Besu beaumier inter mr beaumier will commence the work at once the flume Is ie about 1600 1500 feet long and will be twenty feet wide and six feet high being four feet wider than the present flume flame and two feet fact higher the high line cana canal which has baa been surveyed by the land company may be constructed during the corni g season reason the contractors who are constructing the big ditch in colorado diverting the headwaters of the laramie river now have men man at work laramie boomerang harry shields was instantly killed in the frisco mine a few jays ago he was head bead in the mine at the ume time of the accident shields shield was engaged putting in timbers in an old drift on the second level he had put la in two sets eta and in preparing to put in the last set next to the face he be found a rock projecting from above which haj hai ha J to be moved he told his associates to wait a minute and taking a hammer struck the projecting rock a few blows the drift was following the lead and the formation was not hard bard A few blows loosened loose loos enel the rook rock which seemed to be the keystone and its fall was followed instantaneously by seven or eight tons of broken rook rock and ledge matter the mass maa came down without warning and shields was crushed beneath it it the rook was waa removed as speedily as possible but the unfortunate man showed no sign of we life idaho mner miner A singular accident lost a valuable horse for jim westman of buffalo wyoming a few days ago westman and some others were on a hunt in the big horn hers mountains they had packed one horse hone and started back to camp on the ton ten sloop sleep when a little below the big meadows the animal started down a steep bank leading to the th creek the earth was loose and treacherous and the horse lost its footing and slid and fell into the water when the hunters reached the animals animal Is side ide they found it lying in a foot of water it lad had fallen head bead first into the creek and forced its head bead beneath a huge rock from beneath which the combined exertions of the men were unable to extract it and the horse was drowned so tightly had the animals bead been held by the rook rock that westman was forced to cut the bead from the trunk in order to secure the bridle the horse borse was a gret grea favorite with its owner and was highly valued the idaho state board of pardons has extended clemency to henry rice bice sent to the penitentiary from this county in 1887 for ton ten years for murder in the second degree rice is in over 60 years of age many people have believed that he was not guilty of 0 the crime for which he be was punished he was a fisherman asherman living on an inland in the snake river near payette one oas night in october 1887 1987 be went into storm millers s saloon near the brewery in payette idaho where a large and disorderly crowd was assembled and there he met mat a man named henry lorenson Lore naon who demanded a sum of money which he claimed rice owed him rice refused to settle the clairs claim in the saloon whereupon bjorenson throw threw him upon the floor and gave him a severe beating As A soon boon as aa he could rice arose and started to leavi leaff for home but lorenson pulled hili into the saloon and again hammerot bamme redl him bystanders dragged almon son away from the oli nalan and storm 8 term stepped between thea A moment later lorenson was wa fatally dabbed tabbed tab bed bJ audit aud it was claimed that rice committed tho the bloody act he wag arrested and convicted though many persons believed that the crime was wan saddled upon him in order to euchre him out of a valuable fishery which he held by squatters right several of the men who served as jurors at the trial rial petitioned for biccs pardon prof J M navoni the talent edl mue ioian who came to boise idaho from butte montana a few mouthy wont ha ago to is wanted by many creditors hel cannot be found however and the people to whom he is indebted are ar grieving navoni who is a remarks remark Av bly accomplished violinist was ft i bright and shining light in local musical circles and he be made consider able money during daring his bis stay in boise he organized a good orchestra and played regularly at the in other first close class resorts about a month ago he org organize anizel a con cert company with A J williams as an manager and commenced a tour of the smaller towns of ada and adjoin t ing counties the troupe was composed of prof navoni nellie weber W J fitzpatrick Fitzpatric kand and W 8 unger and as their entertainments were un usually good the box receipts were heavy the company went over t io 5 owyhee owahee county during the week just urt ended and met with a flattering romp recep tion at silver city the professor flushed with success commenced to gamble the results being empty 1 pockets he left for greener fields as speedily as he could the naveal troupe traveled about in a rig hired from the city stables and for the hire of the outfit the professor owes about in ia cold cash besides this tho the stableman tab stab lemaa lemas had to pay for the food feed the horses consumed in silver city andi and had bad to send a man to nampa to driva the rig to boisr the enors debt will aggregate about idoa daffy statesman oct A new action has been begun begu 11 b 11 eva E lewis against the estate elder jason jaason 0 mirler a s well know character of lincoln Ne nebraska brasta ant an the owner of a large amount property the real name of ev eva F x teals lewis until sho she was three years 0 of t a i a was eliza elisa jame jaae covender Cove Co oger and an dil nearly bearly as can be found out she w i 0 born about december 14 1864 1 ia a III nois at a very early ago age she w surrendered by her father to the hon hom for friendless children mallets at C chicago icaco in april ackil 1870 elder miller visited the home and took a fancy to the little dark eyed eyd gir girla he was childless and said h w wished lobed to adopt her and on prope proper representations was allowed to ta takk her the elders desire was that the she should be become ap fr girl grow grew up conn t I 1 missionary however she in met ata E W 0 lewis loved him after the fash ion at young girls BBQ ana when bested by bf eldor elder miller to give him up a aad go tw to convert the heathen of the orient she ahe did not feel that hat filial obedience required such auch a sacrifice ac and instead he be married man led the man maa of hot her choice elder bider miller died a year ago leaving an estate valued at he had made no provision for mrs mr lewis A suit was wag begun last spring but asis waa withdrawn on OB representations that miller had never adopted the foundling though giving her his hia name and treating her in every way as aa his hi daughter detectives were put to work in chicago and the positive of they are alleged to bate secured from M the home there showing bowing that miller filler contract contra ott d to adopt eliz eliza A J jane sue Co venser and give her the name of ava va E miller Is the cause for the 9 of the new action kc ex |