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Show , . - ' IDAHO NOTES. I A. C, Rowley, an inmate of tho Ada J county poor house, coinuiitled suici : on Saturday. No cause is known lor; the act. ' ; Tho! 'Joe Wilson bouse," as it was j familiarly known, on the, valley road about two mile from lioise. and ow ned . by Hon. A. R- t'ru.en of Curtis, Neb., was completely destroyed by liro Thursday Thurs-day morning. L. T. Bump, a prosperous farmer of Post Palls, Idaho, called the attention of a reporter to the fact the other day that he has on his farm a neutiina cuii-ositv cuii-ositv in tha way of a It inonllis-old Jersey heifer that has piyen birth to a pretty calf that is no larger than a jack rabbit, and it is as lively as a cricket. Apparently tho ranchers of Camas prairie and Wood river are doomed to mother grasshopper plague. 1'or tho three past seasons they havo lost tho greater part of their grain crops by reason of the pest. It now appears that the eggs laid last season aro hatching hatch-ing out aud the valleys aro full of young hoppers. Tho ranchers havo had a bitter experience the past three years ami they are in a iiuandary whether to 6ow grain or not. . ... . |