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Show IDAHO NOTES. The young ladies of Boise City will hold a merchant carnival at Sonna's opera house tomorrow evening. Some of II. C. Lewis' large freight teams loaded at the Clayton smelter, Tuesday and Wednesday, with between 115,000 and 120,000 pounds of bullion, mat and ore. Arrangements have been perfected to ship 2000 tons of ore from the Seven Devils district this winter. It is proposed pro-posed to draw it to Wciser on sleighs as soon as there is snow enough. Charles Jennison brought In yesterday yester-day 16 tons of ore from the King of the West mine, Smoky, with his ox teams. This is the last trip ho will make this season, as it has already become too ioy on some of the side hills for such teams. Wood River Miner. Joseph Morgan escaped from the Boise penitentiary on Monday. Morgan was sent to the penitentiary last July to serve a teu-yeai term for an attempt to commit murder on Charles Garrett of Shoshone county, on December 15, 1888. He was tried and convicted July 1, 1889, and sentenced by Judge Logan. A farmer ot Salmon Meadows, in this county, while digging a well, struck a vein of crude petroleum at thirty-live feet from the surface of the ground. The crude oil so far analyzed, soems . oapable of being refined into the choicest article of Kerosene oil and is unlimited in quantity. Weisor Leader. Judson Spofford of Boise, has just re-. re-. turned from a trip to the Soven Devils country. He thinks those mines have a good prospect and will undoubtedly have a busy season next summer. The wagon road going into the mines via Hornet creek, Crooked river, . Rich creek and Bear creek is now completed. |