Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-03-17
EAGLE ROCK LETTER.

Trade in agricultural implements
has opened up lively, early as the
season Is.
The town was full of people Tues
day, ranchmen looking after canal
irrigating business.
There seems no doubt now that the
Yellowstone Park road will be built
this year, and from Eagle Rock.
We hear of several transactions in
improved ranch property; the prices
generally at from SO to $15 per acre.
Report say o. S. Lee, from Utah,
has purchased the John Heath ranch
on Willow Creek. Price not learned.
We are to have tower on top of
the fire engine house and in this tow
er is to be placed fire bell, good job
DIED-At Eagle Rock, on Sunday,
18th inst Charley, son of Jos. STRIFE
bich, aged about four years. Funer-
al Tuesday last.
Don't laugh at young mans awk-
wardness at dance, for sometimes a
very verdant looking youth inside,
turns out a firstclass head puncher
outside.
BY the death Of Tom Potter the U.
p. loses an executive officer whose
place it will be hard to fill. The dem
ocratic party loses the kind of man
we like to keep,
VIM. n. Thomas and Geo. Barber
are about opening up new agricul-
tural implement store in Eagle Rock.
Some of their goods have already ar
rived.
A mail route has been established
between Eagle Rock, Lewisville, Rex
burg, Teton and Egan direct Propo-
sails for carrying it viii be received
up to April 10th.
When the Yellowstone branch road
is completed so miles north Of Eagle
Rock it will strike ample fields of coal
as good and for some uses better than
the Rock Springs coal The writer
has seen the coal and knows whereof
he speaks.
Deputy Marshal Hopson arrested
on Saturday last Robt. Hull, under an
Indictment of couple of years stand
ing for polygamy. Hull might have
been arrested at any time if it had
been thought that case would stick
against him.
DIED-At his home near Eagle Rock
on the 14th inst, Alfred Marshall,
aged 81 years. Two years ago be
moved from Salem, Oregon, to this
place. Funeral services were held on
Thursday evening.
4 At a large meeting of the Willow
Creek canal stockholders at the pres
ident's office on Tuesday, the directors
action in buying the Anderson canal
was approved by a large majority
This will give all farmers plentiful
supply of water and there viii be yet
water to spare and lots of it, for new
comers.
; A lively time Tuesday when Fred
! Schurtz' black team balked on a steel
! pitch with $500 pounds of potatoes
, A man from the Island bet his LITTLE
J team could pull it; he hitched EN- OF
and they did scratch gravel at livel!
t rate, but two trained mice cant pull ;
locomotive and they couldn't pull th'
t wagon up. He paid for the beer anC
. then the blacks being ''treated" tool
J the load home.
The false alarm of fire Wednesda,
, night sent Charley Miller across lots
, in the dark. First thing he knew h
! fetched up in one of those little cel
, lars about the size of a grave in tn
! rear of where the company boarding.
/, house stood. Copious application o
! soap and water cured his injuries
that is except his temper. They do sa
e when talking about it his language
! is quite improper.
Indications are that loss of stoc
Q on the range viii be heavy. Those i
sight are poor and many will yet su'
cumb to spring debility A winte
: that freezes hoofs and horns of, a
has been the case, has not often to b
met, but when it comes we must nc
expect any or per cent loss wi
let us out If we can get off with l
I or 90 per cent loss we ought to b
4 we'll satisfied.
4 Sam Taylor's stable has been a poir
n of attraction this week for all VIII
g love fine horses. Sans new Membr
e no is the handsomest trotting hors
: the writer has seen in the mountains
n "Blackhawk," bought by Anderso
e Bros, is magnificent black, eros
c between Norman and Whip, the ver
kind needed in this country to brin