Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-04-07

second time and referred to the com
mittee on Indian Affairs We will
risk our prospective interest in sixteen
corner lots that the Bill, in that shape,
VIII not pass both houses, and yet Po-
catel!e ought TO have the land.
The initial number of The Reporter.
now seni-weekly, from its Pocatello
office has been received. George p.
Wheeler, editor, and J. |. Frantz, bus
lness manager II will be issued on
Wednesdays and Saturdays at $500
per annum.
The Secretary Of the Interior has
ruled that married women may make
desert land entry This has been
mooted question for some time past,
but is now settled beyond controversy.
A number of families from Califor-
MIA are expected here every day now
10 locate between Blackfoot and Ba-
salt. Ii is also expected that a Cath
Ollie colony from Williams county,
Ohio, will locate in the vicinity during
the summer.
Preaching Sunday morning in the
Methodist church at the usual hour
In the evening children of the Sunday
School will give concert. Speaking,
solos with guitar accompaniment and
general chorus. Everybody cordially
invited TO these services.
| The social announced for the Meth
odist parsonage ON Friday evening
has been postponed until next Tues
day evening. The social will be a
good one; among the attractions be
ing Chinese chop sticks and donkey.
Go and enjoy it.
The NEWS Office is in receipt this
week from Chicago Of an elegant job
Press and job Type of the latest de
signs, and is now prepared 10 turn out
job work equal to the best from any
Office in the Territory.
Bill Edwards, one of Braskie's COW
boys accidently shot himself in ths
leg last Friday when over on the
Parlueuf DR. Maddox, surgeon a
Ross Fork, exttacted the bali Sunda,
: and the wounded man is doing we'll
A thing OF beauty is a Joy forever
but the alley between First and Sec
ond streets is not n thing of beauty
We're we TO give an illustrated pictur'
Of that alley, somebody would say
Shoot him, and yet people see its con
dition every day.
The latest candidates for public pa
tronage are West & Drumiler, mex
door to the postofflce. They are re
ceiying splendid stock of genera
+, merchandise and invite the public I
, make an inspection and get prices bc
fore buying elsewhere. See notice
In this issue of NEWS.
I The coquettish weather is beamin
! with pleasant smiles again.
Our publisher hegs to apologize I
the readers of the News for fault
!. arrangement of two lines at the bo
!. tom OF second column and top of th
! fourth column OF "Trip to Mexico,
on another page. In adjusting til
forms at night the mistake creE
!, in and was not noticed until too LAT
for correction. The apology is mad
in Justice to the fair writer. 1t is I'll
first mistake Of the kind ever mad
I in the News Office and we regret it.
! The Democratic Central Committe
OF Bingham county as elected at tt
last convention is composed of IL
following members:
l., B. Rice, Henry.
Jas. Archibald, Moody Creek.
s II. II. Spencer, Beaver Canon.
{, w. G. johnson, Camas.
IS J.C. Anderson, Eagle Rock.
j. w. Jones, Blackfoot.
: J. $. Campbell, pocatello.
y VIM. Chester, Soda Springs.
n George Pratt, Oxford.
: n. A. just, Upper Blackfoot.
Harry King, Chesterfield.
Vim. Clements, Gentle Valley
: Owing to sickness of our speci
. artist the News readers will be d
! prived of an illustration of the Sc
" ing circle Of gentlemen at the W.
Al T. U. sociable of last Friday evenin
le Sample Orr sat at the head of !.
IF class furnishing a specimen of Z
t. modus opcrandi of handling the need
<. half a century ago; Reeves gave
lesson in plain sewing as taught
: Kentucky when he was boy; Da
!" Beithan was the painstaking sew'
= : John Montgomery, Jr, was sewi
!. :, for the fun of it; and the othe
% q among them the News devil, we
doing their level best for the prl
cake in sight i,