Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-01-03

Services at the Methodist church |
Sunday morning and evening. You
are cordially invited to be present.
London, the big city beyond the big
pond, has had disastrous fire which |
DESTROYED $3000.000 worth of prop
erty.
In the first battle with the Indians
eight soldiers were killed, and as the
school girl would report it, ever SO
many Indians.
DIR. Miller, OF the Lemhi Agency,
has been transferred TO the Fort Hall
Agency, and he and family will prob
ably reach Ross Fork today.
Week Of Prayer will be observed
in the Methodist church, beginning
January 9th, and for each evening
during the week.
Driver & Taylor, seed merchants of
Salt Lake City, have an sad" in this
issue TO which your attention is di-
rected.
Nels Cousins. at one time guard at
the county Jail under Deputy Sheriff
Hays was accidently killed at Poca-
tello Monday by attempting TO jump
on an advancing switch engine.
! The Christmas edition OF the Salt
Lake Herald is worthy Of the highest
Icommendation. IL excels all the hol-
iday publications that have reached
our office.
Call on Hafer & Mester and look
over their new stock OF furniture and
carpets, window shades, etc, we have
the finest ever brought 70 Blackfoot,
and the cheapest. Call and see us be-
fore you buy.
Go 10 Hafer & Mester's and buy
your best girl or your mother or sis.
ter or wife a nice rocking chair for q
christmas present They have the
finest in the land.
The Utah Cracker Factory, the finest
bakers Of crackers and assorted cakes
in the inter-mountain regions, remem
bered us with a box Of assorted cakes
: for Christmas which could not be ex
celled in all the markets.
, Southern Illinois is suffering from
4 the most protracted drouth ever know
there. Storms OF sand and dust pre-
; vail from day TO day and it is next L
/. the impossible to move around th
country. Water in wells and stream
: is failing rapidly.
4 Simms brothers, late of Sacrement
Valley, California, this week bough
. VIM. Mester's ranch three miles eas
Of Blackfoot, together with horses
! ! cattle, hay, etc Consideration 5000
cash in hand paid.
Are we going TO sit on the fenc
= = and see the Agricultural College loc'
y ted in a distant county without a
. effort to get ii in the heart of The az
ricultural district OF the state. |
l. other words are we going TO lose ii
'e opportunity Of a life time
The Granite mine, near Wallac
this state, has been sold to Ne
G. York syndicate for $780, 900; $4,000
8 cash $24O,009 in thirty days an
d $500, 600 in sixty days. How is tn
for a Christmas deal.
ri The Grand Army men will ask tn
e. n week be set apart for them at ~
te Worlds FAIR when the armies OF d
M Potomac. the Cumberland and q
Tennessee will unite in one graz
- - reunion, parade and review and pa
- In review before the President
= commander-in-chief.
C. The Hyers Sisters gave the she
a Of the season at Blackfoot Wednesd
evening. No laughter meter machi
oi could begin to measure the sous
u wards of genuine laughter indulg
in by the audience
ar Special Land Agent Tyner of Boi
has discovered that a company
80 eastern land sharks has fraudulen
."s entered 10000 acres of valuable Ia
in this state. He has recommend
- the cancellation of entries and ask
!, III that the same be thrown open to DC
tide settlers.
led There are very few who cannot K
zen around them, and see, or think
nm. some one or more who are worse
than themselves. Be thankful for
=. even happy over it Severe sickn'
tne worse than any experienced, m
ing deaths in the family, or of other cl
'er- ished ones, dwellings, consumed
.sy- fire, crippling accidents, robbery,
ley ure of crops, entire loss of all pro
erty by miscalculations, or the fail
rhe Of others, one or more of these cal
lew ities might have been your fat