Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-02-11
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-'eNN yIhA SNSt
The Leap Year Ball takes place at
the Opera House tonight.
Eyeryother man in Salt Lake City
IS said to be a real estate man.
Snow is still from l2 to 1s inches
deep in the Rexburg country.
The Registration Law will saw who
shall vote ut the next election.
THE NEWS is indebted to Marshal
kirkpatrick for fayors extended.
Ice machines are temporarily idle.
here, there and elsewhere.
Next Tuesday, the l4th inst. is St
Valentines day. Don't forget it.
The new saw mill OF just & Hutch
inson, on Wolverine, is in operation.
Treasurer Bunting will take in New
York and the National Capital before
he returns home.
Rev sir. Lyons held a series OF in.
teresting meetings at the Baptist
church this week.
Regular services at the Methodist
church next Sunday morning. All
cordially invited 10 attend.
The blizzard along the Atlantic
coast shows that "the criter" is not
strictly a western local issue.
The Methodist Sabbath School will
give an entertainment Sunday even
ing next to which the public is re-
spectfully invited.
Mrs. Dowd. MIrs. johnson. Miss
Jones and L. NJ. Capps, Of Fort Hall,
came over last Sunday TO visit friends
and attend church.
MrWilliam Kirkpatrick has sorted
out the poorest and weakest of his
band Of cattle and taken them 10 his
home ranch % be fed.
John B, Pierce, at one time a direc.
tor Of the Insane Asylum at this place,
died At his home near Boise City the
first OF the present month
The News announces with pain the
illness Of Mrs. Rube Dunn, but ex-
presses the hope that her illness will
bc Of short duration.
The health Of Blackfoot and vicin.
~ has been unusually good this win
Ter and consequently the doctors are
complaining Of hard times.
Stock that range on the prairie near
Basalt are said 10 be in excellent con.
dition, having suffered but very little,
II any from the recent cold weather.
The laws OF Idaho make executions
Of capital punishment private and
hence when Woods and Williams are
hanged here no one will be allowed
witness the execution.
Attorney Standrod, one Of the most
| promising young lawyers Of southern
Idaho spent several days, on legal
| business, in Blackfoot this week
/ Don't forget TO attend the meeting
at the Methodist church next Tuesday
evening, an interesting programme
has been prepared BY the ladies fol
the occasion.
We are requested to state that .
| Basket Sociablc win be given at the
settlement on the westside Tuesday
night to which cordial invitation Il
extended TO the public.
Billy Dinecn has resigned as one o.
the guards at the county Jail to &C
cent 4 position in the shops at Poca
teilo, and Billy pratner is appointed
| In his place.
The people of Pocatello believe II
being on the safe side and 10 preven
smallpox from entering their mids
are taking steps to quarantine agains
Butte where this much dreaded dis
ease is reported TO exist
4 We know OF party who wants y
| buy n lot of horses. well broke 'ant
weighing over 1000 pounds each. Par
tics interested can get information a
this office.
A letter from a party in Utah to
gentleman in this county says tina
half the sheep and one fourth OF th'
horses and cattle in three counties
Juab, Utah and Toocle, of that Terri
| tory have died this winter.
Charlie Valentine, Of Ross Fork
came up Tuesday; he reports every
thing an serene at that point OF uncl
SANS domain as "the moonbeam o.
the Lake, Love" The News acknowl
edge q call.
All Bingham county knows OF GeS
Rea, the Nimrod OF the west wen
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