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Show there are six or eight people In town now who are not employed by the railroad. The Eagle Rock Register office is graced with a bran new "dovll." He was sent on an errand last Wednesday for some printing material, and some body was mean enough to send him back with a coffee sack tilled with lava rock. Work on the Armory hall at Eagle Rock Is progressing nicely. The walls will be finished by tomorrow night, and the roof will soon be on. The stage will be twenty feet deep, and the hall 37x68 feet Inside, with a twenty foot celling. The Interior land and canal company have Inaugurated a big canal scheme. They propose to tike a large canal from Snake river on the eost side of the ll wr Dear Crater Butte, about tenml eifbive Ma-kit lake. The cost is estimated at 13)0,000. J. L. Keegan, of Wallace, Idaho, is in Boise, and has been Interviewed on the senatorial sena-torial question by a reporter of the Sun. Mr Keenan la quite emphatic in his statements, and he says that North Idaho positively claims a United States senator. Says the Rexburg Press: Mr. E. Cabbie Cab-bie and O. Taylor, whilst huntln g their horses on foot found a coal mine, Tney brought specimens spec-imens to town, and experts proclaim It to be Alquallty. They will go to work on the find as soon as they can get ready. A project is now on foot at Eagle Rock to organize a stock company with a capital cap-ital of from 140.000 to SA0.0CO for the purpose of building a four story hotel with 800 rooms; work to commence soon In excavating for the foundation and hauling the rock. Larry McConnoll, superintendent of the Malad Consolidated, on the Gold Belt, got back today from B tit Lake City. He reports m nsy enough on hand to complete the tunnel to the vein, and the comnnny's affairs In good shape generally. Wood River Times. P. McFarland, who owns a large fruit ranch on Dry creek, brought to the Boise Sun office ripe strawberries from his vines. Mr. McFarland has strawberries now growing In all stages of develapment, from bud and blossom blos-som to ripe, delicious fruit. The berries are large and of excellent flavor. On Saturday the Idaho Weekly Statesman completed the first quarter of a century of Its labors, Its history and Its record and entered upon Its twenty-sixty volume. The Weekly Statesman Is about ftlteen months the Junior of the trl-weekly, the first number of which appeared July 89, 1864. Official returns show that the total votJS cast in the recent state election are 18,008. The majority received by the republican republi-can candidates for congress and governor are 8171, and 8373 respectively. Upon Joint ballot the legislature stands, republicans 45, democrats demo-crats 9. Boise City is not the only place in Idaho affected with a coal famine. Reports tate that Caldwell and Welser experlonce like etrouble. The Welser Leader of recent date says: Backyard fences, hen coops and sage brush will have to be sacrificed If things keep on at this rate, and the young people will have to marry to keep warm. Another Broadford mine promises to soon Join the ranks of ore -producers. This is the Hillside. It Is owned by Charles Hlggin ion and John Edwards, of Broadford, who have recently developed their ledges sufficiently to show It to be five feee In width of which one foot Is solid galena, and two feet more good second olass ore. This Is on the banging wall, and easy to work. ,. ; The Union Pacific has laid tracks up Hotel street, at Wall ace,-as far as Sixth, running run-ning In the rear of the principal mercantile establishments, stf that goods could be unloaded un-loaded directly from the cars Into the stores. About 10 o'clock Monday night the citizens united and tore up about 8.10 feet of the track Jutt as the train was backing up on It. Just what the company will do Is a matter of considerable con-siderable speculation, but the p eople are determined de-termined to prevent further building on that street. IDAHO NOTES. In Haily electrio light is really cheaper than coal oil, A fine state wagon bridge will be be erected across Snake river, near Payette City. W. H. Holcorab, jr., trainmaster of . the U. ft N has had his jurisdiction extended over the Short Lino. Fred Dubois was tho youngest man in the lower house of congress, and he will be the youngest man In the senate. Albert Klonschmidt & Co. Lave sold their mining property In the Seven Devils for 11,600,000 to Denver capitalists. The officers of Pocatello Chapter No. 10, R. A M., were Installed on S.tVirday evening even-ing by a delegation from Ogden. It Is understood that Eagle Rock has made an offer to the grand lodge for the ereo-tlon ereo-tlon of an Odd FellowB home at tha t place. Tbe Lewiston Teller has commenced the fifteenth year of publication. Since Its birth into the Journalistic world it nas never missed an Issue. Chief Justice Beatty has issued a temporary tem-porary restraining order in regard to the removal re-moval of the county seat of Logan countv from Shoshone to Bollevue. Many of the papers over the state are advertising for wood in payment for subscription. subscrip-tion. Some of them will freeze out this winter f they depend on making any such deal. The Coer d' Alene Times names the four senatorial candidates as follows: Dubois an1 Shoup from the south and McConnell and Claggett from the north. Instructions have been received from the postofflce department at Washington changing the name of the postofflce at Eagle Rock to Idaho Falls, to take effect January 1, 1891. ' Hon. S. F. Taylor, late candidate for lieutenant-governor on the democratic ticket celebratad his tin wedding anniversary Friday evening, October 3rd, at his charming home in Eagle Rock. Mr. Ross Hartman, the conductor who was fired because a broken rail wrecked another train, has had his sentence commuted toathlry days' "lay oir by General Manage Ressegule. F. Washburn of Omaha, superintendent superintend-ent of the Pacific hotel system, has been In t Pocatello for several days past with a view of having some needed repairs made In the U. P. hotel of that city. The crowding of the Oregon Short Line yards is partly due to the disablement of tbe locomotives In the recent wrecks. There are 38 locomotives so disabled, and the remainder re-mainder are about worn out. Once On a time Pocatello Was composed com-posed almost entirely of railroad people. Every body' Interest was (the railroad interest but . .4 V - " ' l K |