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Show IDAHO Norts. Hail stones as big as h"us' egjjs fell at ltcxburg lust week, according to the Press. Hurry C. Silver, a reportor on the (be Imuku States. nan, has bcou arrustcd 'or tupping a till. Chinamen are being broucrht from Oregon lor section work on the Short Line between Pocatello and Huntington, Hunting-ton, about one hundred Unviug been secured so far. There seems to bo no limit to the variety of minerals in the Pnlouse, the latest and le-tst expected is talc, which was found this week on Tower butte, four miles southeast of Moscow. Another during attempt to oscape from jiiil was maile on Tuesday night by R. C. West. Hu burned a hole in the door of his cell in the court house, but becoming Rested extinguished the lire. Palis Independent. A mountain of iron ore lias just been discovered eight miles east of Moscow. Latah county. It was fouud several (leys ago but until tho assay was made nobody knew how rich it was. The ore goes it? per cent, in magnetic irou and the lediro is inexhaustible. A writ of injunction ha been issued out of tho district court of the liftb judicial district restraining the officers ofthtitown of Pouatello from Issuing r tany warrants of arreat for the1 violation of the city ordinance prohibiting the salt! of liquors without first obtaining a city license. A ststo university, $5,0n0 public school builiiuig, live large brick blocks one of which is bOti-'O feet and three fctories, a tilo and dranagn pipe factory, a foundry aud machine- shop, one new brick hotel three Unties in bight, 11 livtry stable aud thirty-live dwelling houses, besides "?0.tjljO expended in public improvements, is not a very poor record for a single year's growth. That is what Moscow "points to with pride." The hardships a man will undanro in his bunt for wealth are often greater than those expel .,oi"e l in tho most arduous ar-duous military campsgii. s.usthe Voll-mer Voll-mer Videtto. There arrived at ollmer the other day a yountr noun tamed Isaac Reels, w ho has completed a journey jour-ney almost without parallel. Leaving the Alaska gold mines last October, ho started lor Sitka, a distance of 1(;U0 miles, on horseback. The animal gave out in a short linos and was abandoned, he continued his journey 011 foot over the great mountain ranges ncd through desolate valleys. Ha had numerous encounters with wild animals. and when on the verge of starvation was rescued by the Indians, of who.-) kindness he ppoke in the highest terms. He got from Sitka to Vancouver by boat, and then started for the Ruby creek mines, tramping his way. Although he brought no tangible proofs thereof, ho asserts that tho Alaska mines are the linest in the world, |