Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-01-28
ToWR ARD GOURTY,

Fruit growers are still hopeful of a
fair crop Of fruit next season.
The roads to Fort Hall have their
full complement of snow.
Cattle in the vicinity Of American
Falls are wintering well
The Union Pacific railway company
has an advertisement in this issue.
All the lines of the Union Pacific
are reported open, but few trains run
in on time.
W p. Ramsey, farmer at Ross Fork |
Agency, has returned from his visit
10 Tennessee.
Director Johnson, of the Insane
Asylum, il is stated, lost 300 head of
cattle in the late cold weather
Rabbits were frozen in their beds
under the sage brush in the Wood
River country.
Fort Hall Indian school has harvest
ed thirty tons Of ice for next sum
mer's prospective hot weather.
Bingham county has more conyicts
in the penitentiary than any two
counties in the Territory.
Cattle losses in the county during
the bitter freezing spell, so far as as
ceriained, were very small
The Northern Pacific railway COM
pany will probably build a narrow
gnage road from Lewiston TO Camas
Prairie.
Shoshone weather was too much for
Angora goats; one man over there lost
100 cut Of his flock.
Rev. Mr.. Lyons preached an excel.
lent sermon 20 large congregation at
the Baptist church Sunday evening.
The approaching Leap Year Bail
makes our young men feel as happy
as twittering spauows on a bright,
iowcry May morn
Capt Ransford Smith, Of Ogden, is
al Boise City 70 take par, in the Min
mic Palmer case pending in the Sn'
prcme Court
A chinook has triple force II can
> melt snow, raise the mercury in the
thermometer and cheer up the spirits
Of s.ockmcn like new wine
The case OF Minnie Palmer agains
the Utah & Northern railway was SCI
tor hearing In the Supreme Cour
yesterday, 27th.
The Chinook OF Tuesday brought
' out Capt Jim, Chief Of the Shoshones
1 h a straw hal and linen duster, bu
the summer Is still several degree
away
Potatoes will probably be scarce il
the spring, the insecurity OF common
cellars against such weather as w
had two weeks ago made the losse
extraordinarily large.
i Our pocatello and Eagle Rock col
respondents did not reach us in tim
for this issue, but will be up TO tn
scratch after this.
The brother Of the late Mrs Ber
:, moi. was summoned by telegram an
? arrived al her bedside from San frar
cisco the day prior to her death.
Mr. Bybce and Mr.. Raymond, 9
Menan. were down on business wit
:. tbe probate court yesterday The
a rcport the snow deeper with thel
10 10 than in Blackfoot but no serious los
!" es in cattle TO date
60 The eases Of the people VS. fran
90 Williams and Alex Woods now peh'
90 inc In the Supreme Court, no couns
20 appearing for the appellants wei
taken under advisement by the cou
,o5 ON the cath inst
. The brother and family OF WIN,
~ and Dolph johnson are expected
arrive from Missouri soon and mai
'SS , their future home in Bingham count
200 Welcome There is room for sever
.oo r., more like them.
,@9 IL saving be economy, then blac
=. @ e., has been economical for thr
q, ,at wecl,s mast No man has invested
sTy mncb M n nicSle in apples, but =
an simnle reason is there were no appl
ar1 'nil to he bought
The postoiiice hours at PocateI
7. will hereafter be as follows;
Week days from 5 a. M 10 r
SUNDAYS.
"a m. TO 10 q. m. a 9. pm 10 p
! JAS. II. BIBLE, I, NJ
limited States Indian Ag't. Gailagl
- visiting Fort Hall school and n, ,,sn wn
I'M there will draw on Uncle Sans hea
NOV 10 the amount Of one quarVe
'c' pay for the employees
Mrs s II. Holbrook has a new
The IN this issue of the NEWS 70 wa,
"a attention is directed. She has J
!, received a large invoice OF new go'