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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1913
Page
6
A jumble of classifieds lists items for sale jobs and notices from a small town market page. Entries include goods for sale at Gem Meat Market requests for livestock at various farms and references to local professionals such as attorneys doctors and fraternal organizations with meeting times and contact details. The mix reads like fragmented ads and notices from the community directory with names addresses and local business references.
A crowded list of transfers, deeds, mortgages, water contracts, and public notices from Idaho and Shoshone regions. Notable items include several warranty deeds for lot blocks in Highfield, numerous water contracts in 11-19 EB and 6-86-18 E, and chattel mortgages on livestock and crops. Names such as Idaho Irrigation Co. and Theos McMahon appear amid property changes and financial encumbrances dated mid June 1913.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions apartments dogs jobs and a person named Shin Bottiva with scattered phrases about work death and police. Specific details are unreadable, but the piece appears to be a stray jumble from a local page with potential references to local people and events fading into incoherence. The record preserves the uncertain reading without clear facts.
Railroad schedule notes daily and special trains on the Oregon Short Line Main Line. Timetable entries include Nos 14 6 10 17 9 150 and 125 with destinations Shoshone and Wichfieh. Agent T Wiletnack signs the notice outlining arrivals and departures.
Local residents and officials frequent the courthouse in Shoshone and nearby towns. Gooding County figures including W D Garlock, Kyman G Taylor, W P Kennedy, and Frank L Bower are noted for official business. Boise attorney Raymond Graves of Adams County visits for legal matters. Mildred Barger leaves assets office for county recorder duties. George Anderson returns to sheep camp after family visit.
The Glendale group near Gundale reports a 150 foot vein with 4 to 5 feet of solid argentiferous galena ore assaying 150 ounces of silver and 69 percent lead worth $215 per ton. A shaft reaches 25 feet with plans to 100 feet, surface vein traced 400 feet, and the find described as the largest surface showing on Wood River.
Washington reports the Nugent crowd will not fully control federal patronage in Idaho. President, after talks with Senators Borah and Brady, intends to appoint Dane Molden of Blackfoot as receiver of the Blackfoot land office to replace resigning Guheen. Molden, a Dubois Democrat, is recommended by Hawley and Percy and backed by Borah and Brady. The nomination may come in a few days alongside postmaster appointments for George M. Harris Burke and others.
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