Show INTERMOUNTAIN BREVITIES IDAHO liallys public school costs S28 per pupil Caldwell promlsscs a 850000 bonus and depot grounds for tho lluttcOall fornla railroad Vealthy New Yorkers are endeavoring endeavor-ing to purchase the Yellow Jacket The consideration will bo close to a million Suit has been begun against I 0 Ilattabough and Ills bondsmen for 17080 Ilattabough Is excounty tauasurer of Latah county J C Wilson tho man that brought the report from Jacksons Hole of the killing of Capt Smith is a deserter from the Seventh Cavalry and told tho story In order to secure a horso with which to make his escape The charges of mismanagement of tho Soldiers Home at Boise havo not been sustained At a meeting of the Oth tho management was vindicated Six of the twentyseven Inmates had grievances but they were of a petty nature M K Duncan of Boise after loading load-ing up with bad whisky on tho Mth stalled out In search of trouble and as a result is at the hospital with a badly fractured skill Joseph Grllln a laborer employed in laying a sidewall side-wall and a shovel lire responsible Boise Statesmen Private Andy Morrlsey one of tho oldest enlisted men In the service of Uncle Sam received re-ceived front Paymaster Kilbourne at tho last payday at Boise barracks a check for 0000 This snug little sum represents Private Morriseys savings covering a period of thirty years in the army Each payday Private JSlorrlsoy has loft with the Paymaster portion of his small salary The continually increasing sum was placed to Morrl seys credld Paymaster Kllliourno day before yesterday handed him a check in full of his account 40000 This Is the largest check over drawn In favor of an enlisted man Rtl Persy of noIse was taken suddenly sudden-ly tnlton Insane Monday night lie pounced upon Sirs Nugent a farmers wife who lives a short distance from the city and attempted to kill her It required several men to release her when the madman was taken to Jail I Mrs Nugent Is almost prostrated asa as-a result of the shock The Ilogc United States Government surveying party working In the lack sons Hole country will finish by the end of this month The survey covers eight townships or iTCOOO acres of agricultural ag-ricultural timber and mineral lands threefourths of which are agricultural and of the finest farming and Irrigation facilities the region being traversed In all directions by mountain streams of rushing current Lemhi Republic The miners of Yellow Yel-low Jacket are out on a strike and the nonunion men are many of them leaving leav-ing the camp Many confusing reports are given out as to the cause of the strike but whatever the cause and however just the complaint on either side It Is to be sincerely hoped that the strike will be conducted In a temperate manner until the matter Is settled Lemhi county cannot afford to have any of the scenes of the Cocur tlAlenes reenacted within her borders AVYOM1NQ Itawllns Journal The sheepherder who was rescued by the Dixon stage on the hogback In the last big snowstorm went to Denver Sunday for treatment His feet were badly frozen and amputation ampu-tation may be necessary Sheriff Orson Grlmtnett of Fremont county went to Evanston where he placed E T Payton late proprietor and editor of the BIG > Horn Pilot In the State insane asylum Mr Qrimmett says that Payton Is In a most pitiable condition and It Is feared Is hopelessly hope-lessly Insane A dispatch from Cheyenne asserts that the TransMissouri Freight association asso-ciation has about decided to return tot to-t he former plan of charging for livestock live-stock shipments by weight Instead of by the carload The minimum carload weights will be 19000 pounds for cattle 15000 pounds for hogs and 12000 pounds for sheep The Dupont Powder people arc actively ac-tively patenting more soda land In the vicinity of their already Immense soda lake holdings In Natrona county with thV Intention of erecting and operating extensive local soda works The build I ing of these works carries with It the speedy extension of the Fremont Elkhorn Elk-horn and Missouri Valley branch of the Northwestern railroad to the Du pont soda fields a distance of fortyfive miles from Casper the present terminus termi-nus of the Elkhorn tails Altgold not a Candidate Springfield 111 Oct 10Oov Altgeld states that Secretary of State Illn rlchsen had no authority to make the statement that he Altgeld was a candidate can-didate for reelection as Governor The Governor says he Is not a candidate and does not know whether he will band b-and has given the matter no consideration consider-ation at all |