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Show IDAHO NOTES. A freight train was wrecked near Caldwell last week by running into a band of horses. Tho engineer and fireman fire-man jumped from the engine and escaped without injuries. Idaho shows a steady aud substantial growth in every direction, savs the Po-ca Po-ca telle- Republican. The passage of the silver bill and tho admission as a state will both give impetus to mining and largely to population and general business. busi-ness. . . The supreme ceurt of Idaho has rendered ren-dered a decision on the water questiou to the effect that the first appropriator of water m a stream in that state, lieina the first in time, is the first in right and is entitled to all the water appropriated appro-priated so long as it is for a usefulpur-pose. usefulpur-pose. lho decision was rendered in t ho case of Drake et al, vs. Earhart" Judge Berry rendered a dissentine opinion. , . Harlem has a hero iu the peVson of Garrett Colbert, who bravely seized mad dog aud held lho animal uutil it could be she by :i policeman. The don-bit don-bit him severely, but the wound was cauterized, and Colbert has gone back to his every day work of shoveling coal I olbert is what some persons would term only a common workman" but h.- s a hero just as much as if h'e had been clothed in broadcloth." |