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Show IDAHO NOTES. Caldwell ba received its atholetic club. Kexburg is suffering from a diptheria scare. Idaho Falls has organized a strong republican club. Decoration day will be observed by fitting services in most of the cities of the state. The Idaho militia gets l.',7tU from the I'nited States in arms, ammuuition, etc., this year. The Nampa Progress reports a most daring robbery on Wednesday night, someone having entered a room in the Commercial hotel and relieving the inmates in-mates of two gold watches worth 1150 apiece, and about 90 in money. There i no clue to the perpetrators of the deed. Tho World says G. F. Stone was thrown from a wagon Thursay, at the Bend, and, falling ou his shoulder, his neck and huait were pretty badly hurt and it w as thought for a time his Injuries Inju-ries would prove fatal. Mr. Stone is out of danger, but suffering from t severe se-vere paiu in tho shoulder, caused by fracture of a bone. A Chinaman at work in Vm. Barker's Bar-ker's placer claim met with a very serious seri-ous accident last Friday. A rock fell from the bank and striking him on the leg broke the bone just above the ankle nil also shattered the aukle. Dr. Ziph attended to the breads, and took two pieces of bone from the ankle. Tho doctor says the ankle is in a bad condition, condi-tion, and' will alwuvs be stiff and of little or no use to peilestrianism. Superintendent Wing, of the Bruneau ditch company, is expectiug the president presi-dent of that company about the first of June, when they intend to push the ditch to completion. This will give all the available teams in that part of tho country work, and make fertile thousands thous-ands of acres of uow sterile land. They are undecided as yet whether they will rebuild the dam or extend the ditch up the river, which will require considerable consider-able Iluming. A terrific cloudburst occured in Curlew Cur-lew gulch near Boise City Saturday Satur-day afternoon, the angry waters carrying carry-ing away a house located in the gulch owned by Mr. Ridge, who barely had time to escape with Ids family. The bath houses at the Kelley hot springs were badly wrecked. Fifty thousand brick which were being burned in Curlew Cur-lew gulch were totally destroyed. A large quantity of cordwood belonging to tho government at Boise barracks was washed away. Cottonwood 'creek overflowed and caused the streets to be running streams for several hours. The estimated loss is $.15,000. |