The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-04-25

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John Carpenter began on Tuesday
TO take the recently discovered Edison
consumption cure. DR.. Clymer is ad-
ministering the cure and both patient
and physician have hopes that it will be
effectual. Johns many friends will
hope 10 see him speedy restored 70
health.
Dan Richards has secured bond on
the Midnight claim in the Rock creek
district from the Wittle Bros. and is
running a tunnel TO tap the ledge at
depth OF 100 feet. The ledge is almost
40 feet wide at depth OF 20 feet. aud
Dan has hopes of striking something
good at greater depth.
George Franetle was in town from
Sweet on Tuesday. While unhitching
his team in the yard back Of the hotel
the horses became frightened and tried
TO run away. A picket fence and the
side of the hotel stopped them and the
damage was confined to harness, wagon
pole and house rustic.
Jack Levander came down from
Rock creek Tuesday, whore he has been
engaged in prospecting for some time.
He has been running a tunnell to tap
the ledge on the Erma claim, in which
E. K. Hayes is interested with him. He
struck the ledge Tuesday morning and
went two feet through good looking ore
without striking the other wall
We are indebted to Brother George
OF the Boise Evening Mail for a sample
copy OF his paDer. The Mail is good
paper and as soon as times improve a
little we will subscribe for it. We have
had hard struggle to get along since
the Mail quit exchanging with US, but
with the advent of better times we can
afford to be liberal with the Mail aud
at the same time enjoy rare intellectu-
al treat daily.
"A young lady Of the town recently
took unique plan to get rid Of lover.
He had stayed until nearly morning and
she was very sleepy. She handed MIN a
pencil and paper and told him to make
II ciphers in a row; then to make 4
short perpendicular line down from the
right OF the first cipher, up from the
- right Of forth. down from the right ol
fifth. up from the right Of the seventh
y and eighth. and down from the tenth
n She then told him to read what he haS
2 written. He read and left.-Ex.
The INDEX is IN receipt Of a bundl
, OF blanks from State Engineer Mills
s which are intended for the use Of farm
d ers and orchardists, by which they ma.
e make report Of the average crop
raised in 1895. The information is in
b. tended as basis upon which the stat
engineer can compile a report Of tn
!, resources Of the state as an official state
ment to be sent out TO home seekers
Call and secure blank and help with
good work.
= A fishing party consisting Of Bildei
: back. Hartman. HAYES and Boone, b'
lOOh ,tANto 10 tit Htd1A1 waves
: Big Willow last Sunday morning {
make war on the fiuny tribes which ir
D. habit that stream. They returned o
n Monday and reported having caught ;
IS brook trout, II showers. IL snow storm'
le So wet feet, II colds, and 4 sucker
p The suckers. trout. aud one seventh {
RI the wet feet were all the team coul
. pull home so the remainder Of the cate
l. had to be abandoned in the hills.
is The man who wipes his nose on h
e sleeve, picks his teeth with fork, spi
tobacco Juice on the cook stove h-artl
ss rides to mill with corn in one end
he sack and a stone in the other. drives
Or market with hickory bark lines, d
cs posits his money in his last winter
,n sock. insists on paying his taxes in coc
SKINS and wild honey, fastens his OF
gallus with wooden peg. and w.a
y" ''possum belly" pants. is the same o
~ rooster who has no use for his hon
paper, and his brother is the fellow wi
tries TO do business in a town without
- line of advertising.
A Farty OF surveyors passed throus
," town on Tuesday Of this week but fro
- whence they came or whither they we
~ going no Emmett man kDoweth. Tn
were nutfitted for mountain work al
II reticence is any sign we would jud
that they were experts Of some cescri
tion. They came from up the river a.
lg- went out via Freezout. The only inf
ed nation they gave out in regard TO th'
ln- business or intentions WAS that they We
'or going south. We would advise our rea
ne ers not TO get unduly excited over I
'er news for they may not be Butte, K
NETT Sau Francisco r. r engine'
nu after all.
ng -Judgs Richards. on Thursday rer
ior cred decision in A case bearing on
oil legality OF the city government OF Ca
css we'll. aud the judges decision has knos
ed the 'sCity" OF Caldwell into a cock
pa. hat aud it is now nothing more that
Id plain common every day sort Of a TOY