Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-01
Idaho.

Boise City has a new hotel, the Capitol.
ReXburg will build an opera house III the
spring to be 40 by l20 feet.
The Salt Lake Haley & Puget Sound
railroad is surveyed as far as Shoshone
Falls.
Montana men who have recently become
Interested in the Seven Devils country are to
erect a smelter there.
A stamp mill is talked of for the Little
Giant mine at Warrens, Idaho county, where
rich strike was recently reported.
Pocatello expects a boom. Word has come
from Washington to the effect that lots there
will be advertised Immediately and sold by
May |.
Willis Sweet has been appointed to repre-
sent Idaho at the convention of railroad COM
missioners to be held in Washington city on
March 3.
1t is not expected that the legislature will
have time to bother about county seat wars
as there are too many other matters to take
up its time.
Julian Hill, miner and pioneer Of Idaho,
died at the Warm Springs near Idaho City, of
infiammatory rheumatism Mr.. Hill was a
large mine owner at Atlanta.
The board of trade of Boise City offered
$40, 900 in cash and $40 acres of land within
,fvc miles of the city as q bonus for the loca-
ton of the state agricultural college there.
About $4,000 of bonded indebtedness of
Idaho territory will fall due next December,
and the proposition is being discussed of re-
bonding the Indebtedness at lower rate of
interest
Ketchum Keystone: Idaho is the best agri-
cultural country on the globe. This is
proved by the fact that every town in the
state is the pest possible site for the location
of an agricultural college,
Idaho Falls Times The monopolists are
after our coal. We learn the Union Pacific
has bought up all the valuable coal fields to
Al, I. 8 4
branch line from Idaho Falls to them as soon
as posi- BILE.
Two school boys, Lee Meservey and Clyde
Jack, were washing one anothers faces in
the snow at kaintuk when Messervey got
mad Whipping out his pocket knife he
stabbed Jack in the back near the spine
making dangerous wound.
Joseph Eirkcns ran away from Idaho Falls
with Emma Hawker and married her. But
she wasn't Of cOnsenting age and her father
mother and a deputy sheriff who overlook
the couple yanked them back. Firkens was
held for the grand jury on the charge of ab-
duction.
A steam pipe explosion at the North Star
mine at Haley severely injured four men
Dave Mahouey, Nels Peterson, William
Kessler and another. Kesser, the engineer,
was badly burned, another had his scalp
nearlN Saken off, and another received a Sc
we're wound in the leg.
Peter Knight, who lives on Daggett creek,
has discovered true fissure vein which has
given an assay of S5l7 in silver and some
gold, says the Boise Democrat. His claim is
located right in front of his door. Daggett
creek is north of the Halfway house and
near the Boise and Basin road.
A. X. Nordike, assessor and collector of
Logan county, who was known as Honest
Ben," is reported to have skipped, leaving a
shortage of $1,000. Gambling, wine and
women are given as the cause of his down
oil JN,.in In Dnlln ,k,o 1
have helped him out If he had asked them
Two hunting parties were organized at
| Liberty recently for killing various animals
| destructive to crops Captain j. w. Hymas
| led his men, women aud children on to vic
tory, by score of over 4, 900 scalps of wolves,
foxes, porcupineS, rabbits, squirrels, etc
| The other side paid the expenses of supper
anu dance for all hands.
Lewiston is excited over railroad projects.
| IL is expected that shops ana depot will be
| built this spring. The Teller reports that
work on the Tammany branch will begin at
once. 1t is thought that line will be pro-
| iected from this point into the Seven Devils
| before another season closes and the line TO
Camas Prairie completed this season.
The De Lamar mine is turning out more
bullion than ever before. 1t produced about
$4,000 in a thirty days run At this rate,
says the Silver City Avalanche, there will be
no necessity of drawing on any reserve fund
to pay for the construction of the new $3.50, 900
mill contemplated. Build il as rapidly as
they may the current product of the mine
will pay for it,
Messrs. Tootle and Reed of St Joseph
brought suit at Haley 10 dissolve the mining
partnership existing between them and John
T. Murphy, Colonel Doniphan and Judge
Doniphan, owners of the Camas No . mine
and mill, and j. NJ. Venable was appointed
receiver aud put in charge. For the present
he will only keep the mine clear of water,
without operating it.
Work is progressing we'll in removing OBJ
structions In the Snake river above the Seven
Devils landing by the government force.
More water is found than was expected, and
only one place was found where a steamboat
won't float. 1t will take only few thousand