Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-04-30

that she must be mistaken, and
asked to see IL. She then brought
out a locket In which there was a pho
tograph of Ben Butler taken when he
was in h army, and it looked in fact
very much like the picture OF Senator
Davis as he is to-day. Senator Davis
vas born in New York. He vent into
the army as a private and came out of
1T as a lieutenant, and after the war
was over he ven to Minnesota to prac-
tice law. He was Governor OF the
State when he was IS years of age, and
he has had for years one of the biggest
law practices of the Northwest. His
practice is said to be worth from s20,-
600 to $4,000 a year, and he might bea
rich man if he cared anything for
the saving and accumulation Of money.
As it is, he spends as fast as he makes,
and in 1881, when he withdrew from
the firm of Davis, O'Brien & Wilson, ne
was $4,000 in debt. Since that time
he has paid off this debt and has made
enough to buy himself a comfortable
little home and to make a little nest-egg
for the future. l doubt, however,
whether he knows actually how much
he is worth, and doubt whether he
cares. He is a student and a lover of
books more than q lover of money He
speaks and reads two or three Ian
guages and is, to some extent, a hero
w~orshipper. One of the greatest
men who ever lived is to him
Napoleon. He reads everything he
can get about Napoleon, and has a
large collection of pictures of him. He
has 800 books relating to him and his
time, and he says his collection willnot
be complete until he can go to Europe
and pick up about 500 more. He is a
lover of the classics, and he thinks two
of the greatest heroes of the past were
Alexander the Great and Julius Cesar.
He is a man of wide reading, and he
can speak on his feet about as well as
any man in the Senate. He is a de-
voted Shakespearean scholar, andis well
up in all Of the general literature of
the day.
Another man of culture among these
Northwest Senators is Senator Casey.
He is a farmer and has the manage
ment of 100, ZOO acres of land or so in
Dakota. A self-made business man, he
talks several languages, has travelled
widely in Europe, and looks more like
a New York club man than a farm
manager from the wild and woolly
West. He is thoroughly practical in
his views, however) and he. is enthusi-
astic as to the prospects of his section.
Senator Ha%nsbrough began life as a
printers devil, getting his education by
typesetting, fought the goddess of
misfortune in half a dozen different
States of the Union, and now, at about
40 years of age, he is a United States
Senator. Full of life, enthusiastic as to
the future, he believes that the North
west will be the richest and greatest
part of the United States, and says'it
will supply within a few years from
now 60 per cent.of all the food products
of this country.
The Northwest has Two senatorial
fighters. These are men whose lives
have been spent in the widest parts of
the frontier and who have grown
strong with fighting among the Indians
and the desperadoes. 1 refer to Senator
George Shoup of Idaho and Senator
Wilbur F. Sanders of Montana. Shoup
is a tall. straight, broad-shouldered,
blue-eyed man. There is no hair on
the top Of his head and he
has not even a scalp-lock. He
lost his hair naturally, however,
but he had a number of scrapes where
he might have lost it from the Indians.
Born in the East he started out for
Pixies Peak when he was twenty-five
years old, and during the war he was
one of the independent scouts of the
Colorado volunteers. A large part of
his career during the war was as a
scout, and he has been connected with
| all the Indians and the desperadoes of
the West. He is now at the head
t of the Indian affairs committee.
and he has been governor of
| Idaho, having left the executive chair
to take his eat in the Senate.
Senator Sanders is noted as having
rid Montana of the noted gang of
~ruffians which overran the Northwest
some years ago. He was at the head OF
; the vigilantes, and he has a number of
times looked death in the face. He has
made many a speech in his State with
| his pistol in his pocket, and while he
was speaking pistols have come out be-
fore his eyes in the hands of his audi
) ence. During the rebellion he was in
! the army as a soldier from Ohio, and it
| was through failing health that he had
I to resign and go West.
There are a score of other prominent
men from the Northwest at Washing
y - -
: William f. Villas. who, cold and clean
, cut, is considered one of the finest ora
tors of the country, and who is bound
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