Alturas County Newspaper Articles

Alturas County Idaho Newspaper Stories

August 11, 1864
Idaho Statesman, Boise City, Idaho
Submitted by Nancy Piper

A new post office has been established at Rocky Bar, Alturas county, and Joshua McLaughlin appoint P.M. What provision has been made for the transmission of the mails we have not learned, but the people of Alturas will not now be long without an

U.S.

mail. It is gratifying to see that the Department is at last moving to accommodate the mining regions in this Territory. They have deserved it before. Men who will prospect in and wring wealth from the mountains and gorges of Alturas, deserve only less encouragement from the Government than those fighting its enemies.

July 14, 1883
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, Nevada
Submitted by Shauna Williams
O.D. Weller, the Sheriff of Alturas county, is in town.

September 20, 1884
Weekly Nevada State Journal. Reno, Nevada
Submitted by Shauna Williams

J.H. Harris, formerly District Attorney of Storey county, has been nominated by the Republicans of Hailey, for District Attorney of Alturas county, Idaho.

May 21, 1885
The Daily Miner, Butte, Montana
Submitted by Shauna Williams

BARNEY KELLY-Any one who can and will give information concerning the whereabouts of Barney Kelly, who left Hailey in June, 1884, shall be liberally rewarded, by writing the same to a friend and cousin. Address Mrs. Nellie Welch, Hailey, Alturas county, I.T. 5-20-sw7w

December 9, 1888
Idaho Daily Statesman, Boise City, Idaho
Submitted by Shauna Williams

INFORMATION WANTED-About Gottlieb Lange, who in December 1887, came to Arco, Alturas County, with a band of sheep and moved to Lost River, but has since been missing. Any person knowing about his present whereabouts or his death will confer a great favor on his relatives by addressing C. Caesar, Consul, for the German Empire, in Portland Oregon. nov. 10-1m d&w

December 29, 1888
Morning Oregonian, Porland, Oregon
Submitted by Shauna Williams
The postoffice at Smoky, Alturas county, I.T., will be discontinued from January 10.

June 15, 1889
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, Nevada
Submitted by Shauna Williams

After His Man
P.H. Kinney, Sheriff of Alturas county, Idaho, arrived here last evening with the requisition papers for Leander Lee, charged with the murder of two squaws in the above named Territory. He went to Carson this morning to interview Governor Stevenson.

June 18, 1889
The Standard, Ogden, Utah
Submitted by Shauna Williams
SUPPOSED MURDER
Sheriff Kinney Bringing Back an Alleged Murderer

A week or two ago Sheriff P.H. Kinney, of Alturas county, Idaho, was in the City. As a matter of course he was here only on a pleasure trip, but in a day or two he disappeared. He is now in Ogden and has with him a supposed murderer who is at present lodged in the City jail. At least he was at the time of this writing but as he was to leave on the U & N at 7:45 this morning he may now be on his way to Idaho.

The facts of the murder and the capture as learned from Sheriff Kinney last evening about midnight are as follows: On July 4, 1888, a murder was committed on Antelope Creek, in Lost creek precinct, Alturas County, Idaho. A man named Leander Lee had been living on a ranch on said creek, and had claimed a woman, with whom he had lived for fifteen years, as his wife. She had a daughter. On the day named the wife and step-daughter "turned up missing." No clue to the murderer was found. The ranch and all the property was in the hands of the women. Some time after their disappearance Leander Lee sold the property, stole another man's wife and departed. This created suspicion. A search was made and graves were found on the Lee's ranch. They were opened and the bodies of Mrs. Lee and her daughter were discovered. Knife wounds were found on the bodies and a bullet hole through the head of one of the women. Suspicion rested upon Lee owing to his action in selling the land formerly owned by the deceased and leaving with another man's wife. Sheriff Kinney got on his trail and traced him to California. Constable Upson, of Reno Nevada, on a dispatch followed him into California and brought him to Reno. There sheriff Kinney found him, received requisition papers from Governor Stevenson and brought his man to Ogden. This morning he starts or rather started for Idaho where the suspected man will stand trial for the heinous crime laid to his charge.

Found Dead in Bed
C. B. Fox, once clerk of Alturas county, was found dead in his bed at Bonners Ferry, Idaho on the 7th inst. The coroner's jury said he died of heart failure caused by the excessive use of stimulants. He was about 45 years of age and in many respects was a brilliant man. He leaves a wife and four children in Washington, D. C. The Bonners Ferry Herald of the 10th says: "His death in the manner it came, while far away from home and friends, was peculiarly sad. His remains are yet unburied, no information having been received as to disposition of he body. He was a Knight Templar, and it seems strange the Masons do not look after the matter." Poor Charley. Many friends in this section will regret his untimely death.

Mr. Fox was register of the U. S. land office at Oxford from 1877 to 1881, when he went to Hailey in the early days of the Wood River excitement.
Source: Idaho Statesman, December 4, 1918
Submitted and transcribed by Sandra Davis