The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-06
REXBURG.
Queer Doings of Queer People in
the North.
RExBURG February, ., 1885

RExBURG February, 2, 1885.
Correspondence of THE HERALD
again resume my pen to give some
of the local news of this section of coun-
try, and few of the advantages of the
same.
The winter has been very favorable
for working, the snow being now but
five inches deep. Nearly everybody is
engaged in work of some kind, such as
hauling poles and saw timber for fenc-
/ iLs and building purposes. Many lly-
! ing in adjoining towns are taking ad-
vantage of the river being frozen over
in bringing their grists to mill. The
-four mill is grinding from 1000 to 5000
pounds of -four daily A steam saw
mill is also in operation.
/ There is a day school in Rexburg with
an enrolment of rs pupils, the same be
ing taught by Mrs. S. A. Barnes under
whose care the children are improving
rapidly.
t The Rexburg Dramatic Association
have given several performances this
winter and intend to play again on the
evening of Feb, 18th a piece entitled
Michael Erie or the Maniac Lover"
and farce entitled, 1.-The Toodles."
A public dance is generally given once
week under the supervision of dance
committee. A picnic party will be given
| for the authorities of the Bannock
Stake of Zion on the evening OF Feb.
9Th
The Young Mems Mutual Improve
ment Associations of the stake are well
attended and are the means of accom-
! plishing much good
The people are very indignant at the
legislative powers OF this Territory for
allowing fraud to take the seat
of justice and for passing such
repugnant laws against the Latter
day Saints, whom they have
deprived of the privilege of voting, hold
ing any Office of trust in this Territory,
and of acting as jurors.
The crops that were planted last year
yielded in abundance. Stock are win
tering out, and are in good condition.
There is ample room for several thous-
and people to obtain good homes here,
as there are yet large quantities of land
vacant, with good water facilities and
timber within easy reach, and the quail
ity of soil and climate has been tested
with very favorable results. Good
places can be taken up near Milford,
Salem or Rexburg, on the Teton River
and in Cleveland and Louisville, on the
south side of the south fork of Snake
River, and east and south of Eagle
Rock, under the Eagle Rock and Will
low Creek canal, which is over
hall completed now, and will
be finished in the spring. 1t is
estimated that the water from
the canal will cost $3.50 per
acre. 1t is twenty feet wide in the
bottom, three feet deep, and has fall of
ten feet per mile. 1t opens up an ex-
/ tensive and fertile country with very
desirable climate
We invite those DESTROYS of obtaining
good homes to come and see the
country and they will generally like it,
as very few returned from here dis
satisfied. l see that the newly ap-
pointed commissioners of Bingham
county met at Biackfoot, and APP
pointed justices and constables
for all the precincts in the
county and in nearly every instance
men who were not elected by the people
and some of the very worst men in the
country. In the majority of precincts
the justice OF the peace and constables
were elected without dissenting vote
and had received their election certifi-
CdIcS IIOIu Tic COuliI. ICCOAOCl, put tAC
commissioner paid no attention to
the rights of the people nor the
officers who had been legally
elected. In Re1burg precinct a
justice was appointed who lived fifty
miles from Rexburg, and in another
precinct, and road supervisor was ap-
pointed for Rexburg road district who
does not live in the district. In num-
erous districts justices of the peace have
been appointed VII o live in one corner of
the precinct, thus making it expensive
and inconvenient for the people to reg
lister their names as voters. Willard
Crawford (the gentleman who was put
out of the Salt Lake Theatre for disor
derby conduct) was appointed county
superintendent of public schools for
Bingham County.
We hope and pray that the time Will
soon come when the rights of the peo-
pie will not be trampled upon, and that
there will be none to harm or make US
afraid. Yours, &C.,
A. s. ANDERSON.