Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-05-31


fold them over her plate, as il in
prayer. Some of the boys laughed,
but the girls were dumbiounded.
Some recovered and commenced to
expostulate with Billy, Others left the
table, but Billy became more talka-
tive, more boisterous, until it was
plain to everybody that he was I'M
der the influence of liquor. One after
another the girls drifted out of
the room, and the boys gather
ed about the fallen hero and en-
| deavored to humor him into sobriety.
As the girls stood in little groups
about the dancing hall, discussing
the awful predicament in which they
were in and while the boys we're vet
applying themselves to Billy in the
improyised oyster parlor, Haw-
thorne's hired man came bursting
into thereon, calling loudly for his
young master, at the same time
shouting excitedly that Hawthorne's |
big cattle barn was afre. Billy |
heard the words and recognized the |
voice Of Carlson, and in three min
utes he was the soberest man in the
assembly. Calling to Lou he told
her he must go home at once, and
asked II she wished TO go now, or
wait until the dance was over
and then go home with one OF
his friends. The strangeness OF
his intoxieation flor he had never
been drunk before) was no stranger
than his rapid recovery. The ex-
element occasioned by the announce
ment Of fire had overcome the effects
OF the liquor, and Billy was wholly
J himself again.
Lou was ready TO 60, for who
! wanted to remain and dance under
the double depression brought upon
. the company. first by Billy's conduct
: and next by the calamity on the
[ Hawthorne farm.
Ii was a ten minutes drive from
: Thorn's hall TO the Whiting resi-
4 dence, and just as they pulled up at
the front gate, Jim Whiting, LOUIS
father, was about 70 ascend the steps,
having Just returned by carriage
Z from Centeryille, where he had wait.
. ed To hear the decision Of the Judge
: OF the supreme court, in the case o.
J Stiles VS.. Hawthorne.
!. "This your" asked Whiting, al
! Billy and Lou came up the walk
y "Oh, papa, how you scared me,
= exclaimed his daughter, as she Olsen
y gagged her arm, and ran toward he
. inther.
a BILLY, presume you know that |
v decision was TO be rendered to-da,
M in your flther's case" said Whiting
as the young man was about to re
=, turn in haste 10 the buggy.
I, We'll. how did Il come out?"
- I'm afraid ii has gone agains
q him, said Whiting, but here be wa
- interrupted by Lou. "Oh, papa. d
- YOU know that Mr.. Hawthorne's bar
!. burned down, and Billy is hurryin
( home now" and amid expression
~ OF profound regret on the part
Whiting, aud sympathetic wore
:, from Lou, Billy FASTENED to Il
- buggy and was off.
!" Hawthorne's cattle harm had II
y deed been destroyed, together wit
~ fifty-four head OF blooded stock, j
~ Guiding seventeen imported horse
on The loss. including the building M
=, all the contents was estimated
~ slO.O 900, with not a cent oiinsuranc
~ Billy looked over the smolderiI
- remains with heavy heart. NJ
-. Hawthorne, ST., was assuming veI
:" brave front, hut he knew too ",
y, that the loss would cripple him bel
lessly.
:, ON the following day he received
M letter from his attorney which co
~ firmed what Whiting had told liil
~, the night before, but which the b'
Inv had not yet told.
~, The attorney held out the no
~ that the case could be appealed, b
~ Tint il would be costlyexperimel
~ Added To this, the incident of Blll.
80 drunk Mt the dance on Thanksglvi
'Ne night. found its way into the Hn
-, thorne family. and it seemed as II
the once proud household would
Nas crushed under the triple calamity.
~ And it was even so, The land g
'r.' was perpetuated and is still pendiI
=. but the expense OF the ltgabloh
~ become a heavy draw upon the n
wac slender income OF the farm.
aw- The set back received by the loss
NnS the barn and stock was never ms
sot' mn. and now parts OF the farm
paV. rented out, only about one-thrd o
was was being titled by Hawthorne; a
SUIT Bily-he never regained his place
ven, n local hero. His break at ,
I nere Thanksgiving dance brought
lrne into disravor with many OF /,
. lat- anxious mammas, and made
llon more vulnerable to the attacks OF
we're rivals. He could no longer ride
i net hind spanking team OF bays,
lon' could he indulge himself in othe
i IN, his whilom pastimes and pleasu
glr, Gradually he dropped out OF
ono ono society OF Wayoph, and alter
the wears Of decline, went to Monta
:, md his going caused no comm'
10 "a, u The Hawthorne family had sutler'
40 Of collapse.
. SS tremendous Force OF