Show AN ILLICIT STILL c Uoonsiiiners < at Work in boo teniai County t STABBING AFFRAY AT SUCCOR A BIg Water Suit Involving the Right to Nearly All the Water in the Blackfoot River United States Marshal Pinkham broke in an illicit distillery in Kootenia county last week The tiling was operated by Martin Kirby and William Cavanaugh Kirby was arrested and placed under 2500 bonds Cavanaugh is still at large but warrants have been issued for his arrest I and reports say ho will certainly be caught Kirby failed to give the required bonds and is in jail at Boise city awaiting trial OTIS Weiser is to have a new brick opera house A fabulous gold strike is reported near t Elk City The Statesman reports sixteen deposits of gold at the mint on August 3 the total value of which was about JOOOO The premium lists for tbo sixth annual fair of the Bingham County Agricultural association are out and are ready for distribution dis-tribution The Pine Creek mill is running steadily I on ore from the ClipperBulllon mine I Spinney S Slavins pack train is packing the ere from the mine to the milL I k The grasshoppeu have done so much I damage on Camus prairie that some of the farmers are destitute and will have to call upon the Logan county commissioners for r assistance I I c It is rumored that Miss Addie Rippey has purchased the plant of the Challis Messenger s Messen-ger and will start a paper in Challis in thor I tho-r near future Should such be the case we wish Miss Addie success and prosperity in t her new field of labor t John Robson who has lived on Ruby creek near Idaho City for about sixteen years commited suicide a few days ago says the Statesman by hanging himself with a piece of miners fuse He was 4S r years old and subject to fits of insanity r A little boy at Pocatello by the name of Patterson was caught between the cars and had his shoulder dislocated and an arm badly mangled a few days ago while trying to crawl through them Little boys should not be allowed too much liberty about carsOn cars-On Monday the Idaho Falls Canal and Irrigation company made the last payment of SOOO on the Cedar Hollow and Foothills Foot-hills canal They now own the property clear of encumbrance and will immediately have a large force of men and teams at work extending it and constructing laterals lat-erals A stabbing aLray occurred at a wood camp on Succor creek Wednesday night in which young Bob Kelley received exceedingly exceed-ingly painful but not dangerous wounds bv a jackknife in the bands of Jack Klipsch a Hungarian Dr Richter was called and dressed the wounds Kelley i was stabbed in the leg abdomen and shoulder The Silver Mcticnoer reports a big strike in the Silver Brick mine at Bay Horse owned bv Ingvart Christensen Tho Ics t sniper correspondent estimates that Mr Christensen has 73000 worth of ore insight in-sight which is high grade and free from zinc or antimony The ore is worth from t 103 to 120 ounces in silver and 60 per cent leadA A bit water suit involving the right to nearly all the water in Blackfoot river is pending in Bingham county Judge Stanford r Stan-ford who was interested in the case before his elevation to the bench has appointed Charles Cobb of Cassia county referee to hear the case The outcome will be of interest to everybody in Idaho CoIdircU Tribune The Boise City National bank has received re-ceived sixteen bars of bullion from the De Lamar mines valued at 30000 Mr Henry Bratnober returned from the mines yesterday yester-day and left again last evening for Montana Mon-tana The contract for the erection of the new mill will probably be let this week but it is not expected to be ready to be used this season All that can be done toward increasing the output of the mines this year will be to add ten more stamps to the present twenty stamp milL Statesman John L Gray esq attorneyatlaw of Salt Lake city and Mr Andrew Glenn of f Ogden who paid a visit to Idaho Falls about three weeks ago returned on Monday Mon-day evening and will locate Mr Gray will hang out bis shingle as soon as he can r find a location for his office meanwhile he t can be found at the Town companys office 3Ir Glenn has accepted a position withthe r surveying party on the Idaho Falls canal I for a short time and will probably engage I in business in the falL Idaho Falls Register i Archie Craig a cautakerous character I who has been chopping wood on Succor k creek was arrested and brought to town on Monday cnarged by Charles S V Reynolds lit Rey-nolds with pointing a gun at him and having r hav-ing made threats of killing him He had a 4 trial before Judge Lewis who bound him t I over in the sum of S 200 to keep tho peace f The trial was a funny one as the defendant defend-ant plead his own case cross questioned t several witnesses and displaying a good j deal of skill and quite as much impudence as a pettifoger Idaho Avalanche The Silver City people have made up their minds to have a fourdays lot of sport at their race track beginning the fun on September 15 They are raising funds to make the affair an attractive one and when Silver City people aro called upon to contribute to any kind of entertainment in their town they run out their bullion like s double discharge battery working on Phillips y Phil-lips and Sullivan ore They already have > come 1500 in sight to be given in purses and have a committee of the best men in town appointed to complete the arrangements arrange-ments for the grand event Of course a grand ball will be a feature of the attractions i attrac-tions De Lamar Jfuguct I t Now that the thrifty grangers of the I Payette valley have commenced usual I comparing samples of their various products pro-ducts we want to warn them to fight shy of that famous potato raiser P P Daw eon who brought potatoes to this market two years ago some of which weighed over six pounds He sold 1200 pounds of these potatoes to a Chicago man for exhibition I at the board of trade in that city Last i year he had in five acres that averaged 400 bushels to the acre Mr Richards of the I Riverside ranch is our authority for this statement and claims that the products oft of-t the Payette valley will astonish some people peo-ple if given a show at the Worlds fair Payette Independent Cocur dAlene Jfiwe Far up in the Sunset Sun-set basin about 1500 feet north of the Sunset claim and parallel with it arc the i Hero Liberty and OMara mining claims Just now William OMara and Merritt Frost are working the Hero Those who are familiar with that section will remember remem-ber that it is very common to find boulders of galena there Lately these men have been ground sluicing and have removed the loose earth over a large space Nathan Wittner a partner with OMara and Frost was over there Wednesday He returned with a number of specimens ot galena and says the result of the sluicing has been to expose several Hundred tons of loose galena |