Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-01-28
Fresh MOrsels.

The weather is warmer at st. Paul
Postmaster General Dickinson is at
his desk and at business too.
Speaker Carlisle is improving but
will not resume his seat this week.
Small pox is said to be raging in
San Francisco to an alarming extent.
Scarlet fever is still existing in
Ogden.
Twenty thousand sheep are report
ed lost in the late Texas blizzard.
Dakota had another blizzard Tues
day with thermometer at so below.
Prohibition is looming up in several
states for the races this summer.
Additional losses are reported from
the Dakota blizzard country with
every incoming report
The losses of cattle in Montana
during the late cold spell will not ex-
coed / per cent.
Maxwell, the notorious Preller muir
derer of St. Louis, must hang, so says
the Supreme Court
Thirty-fve thousand people wit
messed the opening of the ice palace
at St. Paul Wednesday.
1t is thought that Attorney General
Garland will be candidate for re-elec-
ton to Senate from Arkansas next
winter.
The celebrated Rogers locomotive
works, Patterson, New Jersey, had a
100000 fire Monday.
Mrs. Garfield, mother of the late
President Garfield, died at her home
in Mentor, Ohio, Saturday last.
New York, San Francisco and Chic
ago are all struggling for the National
Democratic Convention,
| An Auburn, New York National
bank cashier and book keeper have
gone to Canada and the banks money
went along too
The cold of two weeks ago got
under the clothing of California slick
er than any spell they had ever known
before.
Mr.. Stockslayer, Receiver in the
nailey Land Office has been confirm
ed by the Senate.
A prize fight took place at Fort
Hamilton New York last Sunday and
one of the fighters was knocked out
of existence the first round.
A dynamite factory in Pennsylvania
blew up Wednesday and four men al
work therein went the way Of all
earth, flying timbers were scattered
for miles around.
A supply OF 81, so and So silver
certificates will be given out from the
treasurer of the United States by the
1st of FEBRUARY.
j Delegate Dubois will make it plair
to Congress by petitions and other
wise that the people of Idaho want nc
change in Territorial lines.
! Holyoke, Mass, envelope mill, per
haps the largest in the United States
burned Sunday, loss 1925, 900. Besides
the mill property 10000, 900 envelop
es were burned.
Two months of the present term oil
Congress is passed and that body is
just getting in good shape to wrangle
and do nothing. The Republicans are
throwing every obstructing stone pos
sible in the way and their aim is, il
possible, to do nothing and Their
charge the Democrats with the failure
Goveno. Taylor, of Tennessee, is
fiddler from away back and some
body has presented him with fiddle
J. 100 years old. Much of his success ir
. politics has been due to his good
fiddling.
Under date of January 10th Dele
gate Dubois writes us from Washing
ton, ID. c.: "Governor Stevenson i:
here with me, and working as hard as
myself for the preservation of Idaho
and ! trust that there will be no part,
politics with us until this is definitely
settled. "-InterIdaho.
: The largest Chinese mining camr
: in the Northwest is at Warren, Idaho
Hundreds of Chinese have been al
work there for several years, and each
year from fifty to seycnty-five go back
to China with from $4,000 to IS, 900
a fortune for them. Most Chinese
miners work over old mines, and are
very expert at cleaning up every par
ticle of gold; but at Warren they are
on new ground, and their careful sys-
ten results in large yields