Show NEWS OF THE WEST Wonderful Prosperity and Growth of Preston Idaho BUT SIX YEARS OF AGE THE COMMERCIAL METROPOLIS OF A RICH REGION Large Number of Wolves Slaughtered in Wyoming Sheridan Boy Accidentally dentally Shoots His Brother Glenn Perry Woman and Her Children i Jail Pocatello People Poisoned by Wild Parsnips Social Correspondence Preston Oct 190ne ot the loveliest of villages In the south of Idaho is Preston Orielda county Six years ago where the thrifty village now stands there was little else but sagebrush and wild animals Today there Is the making mak-ing of a village that many Salt Lakers and other Utah people will ere Ions turn their attention to when they desire de-sire to escape the dust and the trouble and the turmoil of city life Preston has had no boom and unless I greatly mistake the temper of the inhabitants it will be saved from that experience On the contrary there has been a steady and permanent growth such a cannot be set back at the will 1 behest man any set at men hest of any man or any men Small now of itself with a population popula-tion of say about 80 yet It does a ton business far In advance of that of many towne and even four times its run into the sIze Three trains dally rn town affording ingress and egress doth day and night and this is a valuable factor to the business men One enthusiastic business man said he had figures to prove that more business busi-ness was done in Preston than in any other town north of Ogden save Logan and Preston Indeed Is already pluming herself to become a rival t the Queen of Cache The immense stretch of country tributary would seem to justify the most sanguine Ail kinds of vegetation grows rapidly The streets are laid out after the style of Salt Lake and already this oasis has which was a desert six years ago taken on the appearance of a young forest NOTES I Two newspapers the Republican and the Herald Democrat are a credit to the town and are progressing in excellence almost weekly The curse of scrip order it is said will soon be removed Adams Jordan Is the firm name of two enterprising young druggists who propose to grow up with the country Twentyfive buildings most of them rather pretentious have been erected in Presfcn this year and plans are already al-ready laid for extensive improvement in the early spring An electric ISM proposition is now under consideration I is proposed to obtain the power from Mink creek Sheriff Turner of Cache county was in the town today on business The proposition to remove the county seat from Malad to Preston Is not dead by any means and will be aroused at the first opportunity Residents of this section say that a town destitute of railway telegraph or telephone communication and which Is half shut out from the world six month in the year is hardly the proper place for the seat of so prosperous a county as Oneida Half the threshing is not yet done as a consequence ready cash is a trifle scarce I asked Justice Phil H ilargetts today to-day whether there were any Democrats Demo-crats left in Preston It was with a touch of the old humor that he replied I Well rather Preston Democrats do not change politics because wheat happens to advance a trifle I Fifteen drummers mostly from Salt Lake are now en route thither Salt I Lake merchants seem t have an I abiding faith in the ability of Preston merchants to met their bills I Hunting Wolves in Wyoming Buffalo Wyo Oct 20 Wolves are r baing slaughtered In large numbers I near this place by hunters to the great i delight of ranchmen and farmers For j y ais the pests have destroyed hun I i ot fle deeds of young calves annually and all l effoits of the settlers to rid the country I coun-try of the animals have failed the wolves seeming to increase in numbers j rather than diminish t afl lts For several months past professional hunters have been at work Today l j hunter named L C Shane came to town with a wagon load of wolf and I coyote nets upon which he collected j 515750 in bounties This will be an encouragement to ranchmen to exert couragement men a I little more energy and kill off the pests as uell as enrich their coffers Shot His Brother I Sheridan Wyo Oct 20Jesse Kecr son of John Kerr living on Soldier I creek met with an accident yesterday while out hunting with his brother Jim They both carried 22 calibre riles In I Johns rifle accidentally some way rlfe was accidentaly discharged and the bullet struck his brother in the left breast The boy wilt I probably recover but if the bullet had I proved struck half fatal an inch lower it would have Idaho Elmore Bulletin Mrs Small who I rented and was running the Stockton I hotel at Glenns Ferry was arrested and tried last week for selling hotel I furniture that belonged to Mrs Stockton Stock-ton She was held t appear before I the district court and in company with several small children is now in the county jail iJmore Bulletin Frank Akes prune I crop is simply immense this year He has six acres of young trees from which he estimates he will gather not less than 150000 pound tie is now gathering gath-ering and drying them as fast as possible pos-sible Harry Allen superintendent of the Galdeu Star mine at Halley was kicked in the face by a horse breaking nine of his teeth cutting his chin lips and nose and fracturing his jaw Mr and Mrs Faulkner of Pocatello were poisoned last Monday by eating wild parsnips supposed by them to be horseradish Both will recover I The store of Webster Bros at Franklin Frank-lin was burglarized last week and a large quantity of goods taken Montana In a quarrel over a penny ante poker game at Fort Mlssoula Elms King a private Incompany G Twentyfifth In tantry shot and killed E T Bolton I j company H The stockholders l of the failed First I National Bank of Helena have been I assessed 100 per share Thomas R Denny engineer at the I Mountain Con mine is on trial at Butte for manslaughter in causing this I death of Joseph Duval who was assj i dentally killed I nD Aug 17 John A Ennis has started from Uv j Ingston for Xlondlke with a fourhorsa i team of grays He will winter at Edmonton Ed-monton Alberta British Columbia and leave in February or March or as soon as the going is good He expects to take the Leard river route to the headwaters f eUttk I waters of the Yukon and will take the horses as far as the feed justifies j i Albert Weydcrt has returned to LewIston Lew-Iston from Chicago where ho had attended 1 at-tended the sale of the Weydert wool i clip and 130000 pounds which had I been purchased at Billings of the Larson I Lar-son Sheep company This clip was bought for 12 cents and shipped to Chicago I Chi-cago Where it was sold by Sllberman Bros at a price sufficiently high to net I the purchasers IS cents or a margin of I l300 on the deal Last Saturday evening a man named j I Donahue was struck on the head with j a hammer by John Collins in the notorious notor-ious dance hall of May Collins in Cho teau His skull was fractured but the doctor says he will recover though he may toe insane Colorado I The Buena Vista Smelting and Refining Re-fining company has been Incorporated I with a capital of 100000 to operate In Buena Vista The Incorporators are I Benjamin F Morley John Taylor H B Black J F Black J B Hinkson G I C Hatzel and William Provost jr I The state veterinary and sanitary I board has notified the railroad companies com-panies that they must desist from turn j ing sheep loose on lands not fenced The board also notified Jack Edwards the Wyoming sheep man that his flock would have to be inspected JS hours before be-fore being driven into Colorado Philip Arjrall of Denver has been granted a patent on a new and simple apparatus for roasting and drying ores Mr Amall has been working for over a year on this device and has a machine ma-chine In successful operation at the Moffat and Smith works at Florence The Boulder Land and Improvement company has been incorporated with a capital of 250000 The company will build and equip a large tourist hotel at University place in Boulder which illl contain 150 rooms and will have every modern convenience Wyoming The state derives a revenue of S2000 from the rental of state lands Cheyenne SunLeader Conservative estimate places the total Wyoming cattle shipment of this season at 70000 head of which number 90 per cent Is actual market beef the remaining 10 per cent being prime feeders The beef is taking it all in all the best perhaps ever leaving the Wyoming ranges and the entire 70000 will easilyaverage 530 per head or a total money value in excess ex-cess of 2000000 Representatives of three new eastern syndicates have lately been in the Casper Cas-per oil fields with the view of oil land purchase and development The Philadelphia Oil company F > inley Pusey general manager which is located lo-cated at Orln Junction has lately looked over the Salt Creek fields and will probably largely invest there |