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Show FOUIt m'kN DROWN'KDj LOG DRIVERS LOSE THEIR LIVES IN PAYETTE RIVER. j Attempted to Shoot the Raplda In a Boat, Which W Overturned, Throwing tha Men Into Rasing Ras-ing Torrent. A rayntln. Muhii. apeclal sy: A terrible traxedy o-curri-d near fiar-den fiar-den valley Tn ,lay monilnx. In whic h four men lost their live, by drowning. Thn dead: John Pcilon, John nowen. John Conley. -McDonald. Tho four men were a portion of a crew of lomlrhern who were running a blK drlvo clou ri the middle fork of the I'nyetto and had gotten their timber tim-ber Into the north fork of the atroam. Noar (iarden valley H'e river gorgea and a acrlca of raidds occur. When thla point waa mm lied Hie four men attempted to nli'xil tho raplda, a feat alffaya accompanied with a great deal of danger, when they loat control of tho boat In which they were aeated and tho frail craft atrurk a rock and waa overturned, throwing the men Into tho river, which at tho placo named baa a remarkable awlft current, cur-rent, and the men were carried down treara and drowned. |