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Show IDAHO NOTES. T'ne Star of Idaho has changed hands, and is under tho ownership and manngement of J. E. Ballaiue auu Goo. H. Mi'ers. Weiser Signal: AI Donart when in towu a few days ago had in his possession posses-sion a gold nugget which weighed over l!2 ounces and was worth about $'0). it was found in the Seven Dovils. A steam pipe explosion at the North Star mine at Iiailey severely injured four man Dave Mnhoney, Xels Peterson. Peter-son. William Kessler and another whose name we did not learn. Kessler, the engineer, was badly burned, another had his scalp nearly taken off, aud another an-other received a severe wound in the leg. The Idaho Citizen, of Salubria, Idaho, always mindful of the Seven Devils country, is now poetizing that camp. That paper is untiring in its praise of that mineral region. This many devils land, undoubtedly, only needs to be seen to bo approvod and highly spoken of; but, then, don't you see 'that everybody every-body can't see it "In a private letter, says the Kootenai Courier. Mr. J. C. Sogers, who is assisted as-sisted by Mr. CuthbgW, Unilcd States ongiueor. operatin Iwith a foree of men blasting out instructions in the Snake river just above the Seven Devils latinding says: "Work is progressing here nicely both the U. S. survey and the blasting out of rocks. Tiio river is an agrecablo disaupointment to Captain Cap-tain Miller and Engineer Cuthbert; they find more water they expeciol and there is only one place where there is not enough water to now run the steamboat, and a lew thousand dollars v' will make a channel through this place. r Fifty thousand dollars will make the river navigable the year round. , |