Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-07-20
Special Land Agent Matthews has
returned from Boise City.

returned IRON bolbe ClLy.
Services at the Baptist Church
Sunday morning and evening.
The secretary Of the bureau of dis
asters has had his hands full this year
Guess who will be the next Pacific
express agent in Idaho to marry. II
you cannot guess ask our little bird.
II. o. Harkness is the biggest man
in the Idaho convention, next TO him
is Glidden, OF Shoshone.
Slight frosts were visible on the
meadows near American Falls several
mornings of last week.
The booms of Tacoma, Seattle and
Port Townsend, like the little boys
soap bubbles, have busted"
Everybody says Judge Hopkins
makes number one probate Judge,
and what everybody says must be SO.
The town COW that climbs trees has
been experimenting in the climbing
business on Mr.. Montgomery's shade
trees.
North Montana must be well stock
ed with cattle. Idaho has sent up
some big droves as well as Wyoming.
A man left Blackfoot some months
ago for new field of labor and the
rumor is the strangers "tuck" him in.
Any one wanting nice parlor desk
cheap can be accommodated by call
ing on G. c. Stull.
The committees in the convention
are reporting rapidly and that body
should complete its labors next week
Mrs. Reeves was disappointed in
her Denver visit because OF the illness
of her nurse giri with measles
Miss Minnie BriIey has forty little
lambs which she raised and which
love her like the lamb that Mary had
About one-third Of the members OF
the constitutional convention are alb
sent from their seats every day.
c. Bunting, Sr, OF Eagle Rock, is
in Salt Lake undergoing surgical
treatment for disease Of the facial
bones.
Mrs. j. p. Porter, OF the west side
makes poultry raising profitable
business. She has sold about $50
worth of eggs this season and will re
alize more than that from her spring
chickens.
Attorney Quarles, OF the law firm
OF Reeves & Quarles OF this place
will move to Salmon City. The News
wishes him good luck in his new field
OF labor
j. A. Emmerson and Wilson Shan
non have moved from Port Townsend
TO Pendleton, Oregon, where they have
engaged in business.
Bill Howell's six horse team pulled
out for Bay Horse Monday with
1880 pounds of freight. How is
that for load for $50 miles.
Harry Curtis made, this week, one
hundred butter cans, twenty pounds
each, for an Antelope rancher. Two
thousand pounds of butter will spread
over many biscuit
Bishop Talbot has enlarged the field
OF labor for Rector Foster. II now
embraces Pocatello, Blackfoot, Eagle
Rock, Camas and Rexburg.
The convention at Boise City should
take care not to make a red hot con
stitution this July weather to be froz
en- out by the people in early winter
1t was warm day but the consti
tutional convention showed prohibi
tion under the drift.
When Idaho is admitted to state,
hood along with the four territories
provided for by congress, one can
travel from ocean TO ocean without
passing through single territory.
When prohibition was defeated in
Pennsylvania prohibitionist SAID
"There is great rejoicing in He'll =
The question that puzzles us is to
know by what line of communication
the gentleman got his information.
Herbert A. Pearson, mine owner
of Bonanza, Custer county, was drown
ed in the Lake at Chicago on the 9TH
inst. He was reputed to be wealthy
owning several mines in this terrific
ry. His body was not recovered.
The Baptists of southwest Idaho
will hold a basket meeting at Cald
we'll, beginning August Sd, and last
ing three days.
Right Reverend Bishop Talbot spent
last Sabbath In Blackfoot and preach