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Show THE TERRITORIES. H. B, Luce, former local editor of the Olympia "Courier," has gono into the fish business- They haTe a young lady, Miss Delia Heed, as enrolling clerk in the Idaho legislature. L F, Coston is president of the oouncil and S. 8. Fcnn is speaker of the houso in the Idaho legislature. Wilson, ono of the judges of Idaho, calls tho grand jury system a "miserable "misera-ble humbug," and recommends its abolition, Qualcs alias Poker Jack, tried last week at Port Townsend for killing Thompson, was acquitted. The indictment in-dictment against Harry Sutton for complicity com-plicity in the same matter was dia-m dia-m if Bed. The Idaho Legislature met lately. There were four hundred and sixty candidates for the positions of olerks, dooi-koepors, aergeants-at-arms, etc No organization was effeoted the first dav. The famous Spotted TailN vf Indiana at White Clay agency, Dakota, is reported to be without an adequate supply of "muik-i-muck," and many of them likely to beoomo "muck-a-1 muck" themselves bofore spring for worms. Colfax, the county neat of Whitman county, W. T., is building up quite rapidly. Business in that littlo town is said to be good. There ifl a fioo agri- cultural district around Colfax, and indications in-dications aro that that town has a bright future. The number of acres of public lands rlronnsnd of nt the Olvmnia land office luriDg the month of November, hs-. tro as follows: Sold for cash, 3,607.- '6; entered under the homestead law, ,331. SO; homestead certificates icpucd, ,031.74; declaratory statements filed, i hb' 73" dooation certificates issued, 1,70'1'J.i. Total, 11,134 OK Of the earthquake in Montana the . Helena 'Herald" pays : The "quake" of Tuesday attrnoon raueed some Tery funny incidents, a lew of which are reported below. Deacon Hall was, when the "qnake commenced operation.", busily cnKaeed in unpacking butter from a farmers box Doubtless expecting Gabncl to toot his born, be dropped on his knees 1D the butter box. It perhaps unnecessary un-necessary to say that neither the dea-con'o dea-con'o unmentionables nor the butter were improved by the performance. A itohiooably-drejywd young lady, with o immense pnT attachment tt tripping lightly aero Main stree'. Wben she reacbw me sidewalk a great ohangc was noticeable in her appearance. ap-pearance. Her (uprb pamer was do more. In the street was a large anrt-ment anrt-ment of Territorial newypapra. Jba' voinir person wi very moth shocked. John K McDonald, was heard io eiciaim, "My mortgages, ity .Maker. Ad elderly ynun? iady Tisiting id the upper part of the town had a very narrow escape from death trom suo-canon. suo-canon. Her very lartre tt of faiae treth commenced to rattle, and. she gwallowrd them. Charley CanDno immrdiately Planed to exttmine hi silvr-r miD.. and ar-luio ar-luio whether tha silver bad ail been I shaken rnt or n-t. A ieadine Helena divine remarked : "Didn't I tell yoa o ?" bam Hiuwr. hrarin? the rumbling rjoi-c thai arocmpaLied the 1 ;ahed jtito the -tret. hnntin. ill he if that ain't the Morthcrn 1 a- c 3- rai'rriad ! t Ao indiv:daal stindini at tr.ejoo of Broad wav. ecsintr the nidi td m-T-ment of the earth, yc'.led, ''iltre -' it comes ." and then broke for the Tai-k Tai-k 1 iey uie a q-oaner korse. Charley Wells wis noticed with a stock of couoty warrants and bond which he was trying to dispose of before be-fore the county bottom was shaken onL , Joe Woolman was observed between chases trying to bet two to one that it was a eerjuine embqaake. No takers. J. K. Sherwood phou'dered a sack of suirar and rubed into the street, swearicg lht he would save a stake, at lasL Bishop Bullock, as be turned thirteen thir-teen somersaults down utairs in his framic endeavors to gel out of the Bentiy block, wes heard to ejsculate; "I'll be shot if I don't feel like praying." |