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Show IDAHO NOTES. J. S. Harris of Cassia county, has just hnished-ahtmrinir his Angora, and will ship this soaton about 10,000 pounds tif mohair,' The llelamar Nugget has made its appearance. It is a bright, newsy ltitle sheet, carefully edited and typographically typograph-ically neat and attraotivo. liood luck go with it. The Knijrhts of Pythias of Wallace, are talking of putting up a three story building, 60x100 feet. Tlie upper story will be used as a rastle hall, the second story for a public hall and the lower lloor for stores. ' .The Wood River Times says: "There are millions of crickets on Clover creek. They cover a stretch of country ten miles long by three wike, and aro traveling trav-eling northward, and lots more are coming from the west." Two or three rears ago that region was laid waste by clouds of grasshoppers. Notwithstanding that Hailey wai almost al-most destroyed by lire only two yours ago, it is today a splendid town. 1 1 alley al-ley has good water and plenty of it, a good electric light system, a well organized or-ganized and splendidly equipped fire department, a well drilled companr of militia, a brass band and a good law abiding population. During Levy Allen's recent visit to Weiser he related totne Signal reporter many interesting and curious facts about the Seven Devils country. Among others the discovery of queer snakes. In the I'eacock mine, away down under the gravel, he once stirred tip an angular angu-lar reptile of the serpent species llesh colored, with the tail apparently cut square olT. Mr. Allen first thought the tailless condition of this specimen was due to some accident, but upon mentioning it to some of the boys in camp they informed him that one had been discovered in the Lockwood mine under such conditions that they could not see how it could possibly get there from the surface. Is this genus some relic of a previous epoch, trapped and contiod by a convulsion of nature? Or is its natural habitation the interior of crevices of the earth's rocks? Let some naturalist answer. |