Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-06-28

Politicians all over ldabOsare turn
ing their optics towards Bingham to
look up men for high places. 1t
would not be startling thing for the
Republicans to nominate a Bingham
county man for congress or for gov
ernor and maybe Bingham men for
both places.
Mr.. w. G. stufiiebeam, proprietor
of the Reeves House, purchased this
week the Commercial Hotel from
Anson q Dubois and will run the two
under one management The sleep
ing departments and bar of the .,om-
mercial will be run as usual but the
dining room will be closed.
The Kentucky court Of appeals has
decided that telegraph company is
liable for damages both for feelings
and financial interests by failure TO
use all due diligence to deliver a tel
egram. The case was Chapman VS.
Western Union company, in which
the company failed TO deliver a tele,
gram to Chapman notify wing him OF
the approaching death of his father.
To the meeting of the Travellers
Protective Association at Denver on
June 22d, the Union Pacific will sell
I round trip tickets good for 80 days
for $32.70; and to the Methodist con
ference az Salt Lake, June 23 TO 26
for 1865; tickets on sale June 23d
and good for six days.
Lemons are used for soap IN many
countries where they grow. When
for instance the men and women oi
the West Indies want To wash theil
nands, they squeeze lemon ovel
them briskly in water until they ar,
clean. There is an acid in the lemor
similar to that used in soap And il
countries where oranges grow country
gentlemen use the cheapest kind foI
blacking their boots.
The Keystone says: The cool wealth
er this week has checked the water o
, Wood river and there is not mucl
probability for any great rise thii
season, unless spell of very warn
weather strikes the country within
week Ii is remarkable season
none ever known like it on this river
The grass grows and the flowers GOV
er the hills; nature looks green anC
refreshing, but last Sunday a snoy
storm this side of Galena made I
: wintery showing for two or thre.
: hours.
Rocky Bar, Mountain Home anC
Glenn's Ferry are at outs on the cour
~ seat question, and the two paper
are Singing ink at each other vigor
ously. The Elmore Bulletin of las
Saturday says: "District Attorne,
: McCarty returned from a visit t
: Boise City Tuesday. He necessaril,
/ stopped at Mountain Home a shor
. time and says the people of that plac
are wild about the county seat re
moval; that they act as though th
county seat was the only salvation o
, the town; that the bargain hetweel
Glenn's Ferry and Mountain Home i
positive fact, and that the peOpl
of the latter place will trade thei
boots and swap wives to gain vot
when the time comes. Politics will
cut no figure with them. The fight i
sectional and county seat the war CRY
Charles Black says the grasshopper
are bound TO clean out the lowe
Wood River valley between Belleyu
and Silver Creek. The ground j
black with them. and they don't seer
to be half through Matching yet Nj
Black tried every thing he could thin
: of, For instance: he raked all
could find on a piece of ground ,
!. feet square into a pile, threw brus
5 and straw on top, and set it afr,
J. Scarcely any grasshoppers were burr
d ed; nine tenths of them getting ava,
. He turned on all the water he coul
n on hay field, and covered the groun
, pretty well. The hoppers climed OF
of the water until there were three
four on every blade OF grass, lookin
4 on as if laughing at his futile effort
!. Nothing can rid the country of ther
q he says. They must be allowe
T. to stay their time out, whiC
t seems to be two or three years in eaC
a, locality. This is the third year (,
the Prairie and second for the valle
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