The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-03-21
LETTER FROM EUREKA.
EUREKA, March z, 1872

/, ED. WoRLD-Dear Sir: have not giver
you any news from this place for severa
weeks. for the reasonsthat all the news coul(
have given you would have been of death and
pestilence For at least six weeks we have
been mastered and controlled by that terrible
scourge-smallpox; but now. through the in
dustry and good Judgment of our Board o.
Health, we have been enabled to rid our town
of the pestilence entirely. There have been
in oil, about sixty cases, and out of that mum
Der, about fifteen resulted fatally, and most OF
those through neglector bad nursing. Workin
the mines, and at the furnaces, went on though
as usual, the men at work not being permitted
to come to town, so now our place is beginning
to look up once more; and in very short
time will be in a fourishing condition.
A great many of the business houses closed up
during the prevalence of the smallpox; but
now we can see that they were losing no
time, but were fixing up and preparing for the
Spring trade, rendering things rather pleasing
to the eye, after the gloomy and desolate APP
pearance of the town for the past six weeks.
The Idaho boys got through all right, only one
of them, Henry Frank, having the disease, and
he had only slight attack, being now about
well again. am sorry, however, to record
the death of one of our old citizens, William
Hutton, from almost unknown causes, but from
what was supposed to be inflammation OF the
bowels. He was sleeping in Mr.. Ridges store,
and on the morning of his death, Witten, who
was sleeping in the same room, was awakened
by what he supposed to be Hutton snoring.
He tried to awaken him. but getting no as-
swer he lit candle aud called another man
from an adjoining room, and they found Hut.
ton to be in kind of n ft. A doctor was
sent for, and everything done for him that
could be- done. but 10 no purpose, as hc only
gave one or two gasps aud then ceased To
breathe He was buried in good shape, and
there was larger attendance at his funeral
than | have ever seen OH similar occasion
since | have been here. aud | have seen
more men carried to the graveyard for each
month that | have been Ia this place than
ever Saw in Idaho during the entire eight years
that lived there. For health and sociabllity
travelling convenience aud confidence men,"
this State far snrpasses ny old democratic
home
As for politics here. every man is p"litie
according to the number OF twen:y dollar
pieces he is possessed Of and bis ability Ia let 20
of them. So you the people of this State
work for one and III" same end.-to make
believe is n good idea. and
shall follow that course from now on
received the WORLD on the 9Th Instant.
il having been niue days OH the road, which
shows that your end of the roads are as bad
as our own, that is what is left OF them. for
hear that the bottom has fallen out in many
places between here and Palisades, This
renders everything very dear here at present
Flour has been selling nj Sl2 per hundred, and
in fact everything in the market at very high
rates. Lumber brings from one hundred and
Ten 10 one hundred and twenty dollars per
and it is almost impossible to supply
he demand at those high prices.
Our old friend Northington has gone to
Phoebe and opened n saloon. and says that place
will be- thriving camp this Summer. Judge
ialbraith has opened nice little fruit and CT.
gar stand. and is doing very we'll and our old
friend Ridge holds his own with the best of
them.
Those matrimonial notices in the WORLD
strike me as rather conical and might cause
, -. ~ - al
vas not for little affair have on hand ut
present; but for fear the boys may say am
'spoony." will not go into details, but any
way will say am US happy as clam at
nigh tide, for YOU know how it is yourself |
Hoping this will find nil my old friends thriy.
ng, am, as ever, Truly Yours, L.