Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-02-18
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Gathered From Our Exchanges From All
Over The Territory.

News has reached Boise that Del
egate Dubois and Governor Stevenson
have secured an appropriation o
$4,000 to enlarge the territorial prison
Mrs. Governor Stevenson is visiting
relatives at Grand Rapids, Michigan
Coon and Pickett who were sent tC
the pen for months each Mt the last
term of our court for selling whiskey
to Indians at Lemhi have been released
Ada county has no prisoners in hel
coanty Jail.
Picture frames made in the peni
Tertiary are being ratified off in Boise
The Statesman say Boise has an
alley through WI i h teams cannot pass
on account of rubbish. Whew!
A Shoshone correspondent to the
Bellevue Herald says the NJ. f. church
at Shoshone has added a violin and
base violin to Its church music.
Tribune-T. 7. Danilson, of this
city, has formed a partnership with
W. \, Shilling, of the Utah National
Bank, Ogden, and under the firm
name of Shilling & Danilson they are
about to open up an immense stock
of general merchandise and agricul-
tural implements at Ontario. Mr. Dan
ilson has been in active business in
Caldwell and Ontario since the advent
of the Short Line, and is well known
to the citizens of both Ada and NAL
heur counties as an enterprising, push
ing and thoroughly honorable bust
ness man. His large acquaintance
Throughout the entire country and
the knowledge gained by years of ex-
perience as to the wants peculiar to
this community, backed by business
tact that few possess, will soon build
up an immense business that will not
only be profitable to the investors but
creditable to Ontario.
Murray Sun.-If North Idaho ever
becomes connected with State it
will be easy to secure an appropria- /
ton to clean out the North and South
Forks of the Ceur d'Alene river, the .
st Joseph and the St Mary rivers,
and give us some of the finest water
highways for small craft in the Union.
The North Fork, along its entire
length, trayerses one of the finest for
ests in the world, and every foot of
good timber will find market with
the expenditure of $4,000 on the
South Fork and other streams thou
sands of overfowed acres can be re-
claimed and placed on the market bv
-he Government.
The Boise City Office of the Brad
street company reports the following
changes: L. Schweitzer &
Bros, dry goods, Bellevue, dissolved;
W. II. Behle, drugs, BIackfoot, admit
ed partner style now Behle & Son:
King & King, general merchants, Cot
onwood, dissolved, now F. B. King: !
J. II. Lee, of Lee & Co, merchants.
ulster, deceased; L. c. Eastman, drugs
soda Springs, failed-property hardly
utficent to pay debts.
Wardner News.-The Lewiston
Teller has pill to swallow in woman
outrage, it cannot gracefully gulp ,
lown. The cause for its ardent adyo- ,
acy of annexation is plain as the sun
t noon day, but its dislike of woman
uffrage may not be quite so easily
Understood. To get even for the re-
loval of the Capital from vision !
Boise City, the Teller would be will
lg to annex the Panhandle of Idaho
n almost any conditions, but at :
oman suffrage it has to draw the line.
t is consequently, like the very few ;
f its ilk to be found in Northern :
IDAHO, in bad fix, afraid to proceed
nd ashamed to back out.
Herald.-This year of 1883 is put
ng on appearances Of epidemic year. 7
very seven years, or every nine years, "
ome people set as dates when epidem-
IS should certainly show up, whether
ley do or not. But to this coast 1888
making good beginning for title
epidemics. Smallpox is at fear
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