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Show CHARGED WITH MURDER OF FORMER NEIGHBOR Welser. Idaho. Feb. 6. Sberltt Hand of Baker county, Oregon, and Sheriff Courdin of this county, arrived ar-rived in the city last evening, having in. charge A. C. Biggerstalt, charged with murder. Blggerstaff, who is a well-known rancher living -near Council, Coun-cil, is charged with tbe murder of an old man named Moore, near Starkey Springs, about five weeks ago. Moore was found in his cabin unconscious and taken to the poorhouse, where he died, never regaining consciousness. Rumors of foul play were started, and the body was exhumed and in Inquost held, which demonstrated that he had l-een beaten with a club or some oth-er oth-er blunt Instrument. Blggerstaff had rcade threats against Moore, hence the DiTcst. He 'was captured at Copper-field, Copper-field, Oregon, where he was working. Eiggerstaff has a family and owns considerable property. |