Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-06-24

mines are closed because of q strike
for higher wages. The Union insists
on $3.50 per day for carmen instead
of $500. The sentiment Of the busi-
ness men is against the leaders of the
strike.
/ The tri-weekly run of trains on the
HALEY branch road causes genuine
howl among the citizen OF Alturas,
Custer and Logan counties. They
want daily trains and mails continued,
and are getting up mammoth petitions
to the postoffice department and to
the railroad company TO restore the
trains TO their daily run.
The Challis Graphic and Messenger
are talking back one at the other.
That's naughty. The cultured reader
don't relish that kind Of reading. II
there are personal troubles between
the editors, little private meeting
outside the town limits with a CHIP
on the shoulder OF each would settle
the matter. Then all would be serene
and Challis and Custer county would
be the gamers.
The Coop Wagon and Machine
Company, Idaho Falls, G. G. Wright
Manager, has on hand the most COM
plete stock OF haying tools and fix
lures ever brought into Idaho. The
haying season is near at hand and
ranchers should make a note of this
information and place their orders ac-
cordingly.
A Georgia farmer claims to have
a COW whose milk will produce butter
without churning. What labor saw
ing machine that breed OF COWS must
be. What a blessing to little girls
who sit at the churn for hours toiiing
away with the old up and down dasher
and singing 50 plaintiyely "Come but
ter, come"
Senator Leland Stanford, the mil
lionaire Californian, died suddenly OF
heart failure at his home at Menlo
Park Thursday morning at 1880
o'clock Arrangements for the fu-
neral have been completed and it will
take place from his University Chapel
at Palo Alto to-day. Eight engineers
Of the longest service on the Southern
Pacific will act as pail bearers. His
great University has been literally
provided for, and il is believed that
much Of his $4,000, 600 or s5O,OO0,-
600 will be placed ia trust for 1t.
Mrs. j. NJ. Bennett, Of Pocatello,
is enlisted in good cause Her let
ter in The News today explains itself
Southeastern Idaho has but little on
exhibition at the Worlds Fair to tell
the home seeker Of its grand posslbil-
ities and advantages. Thousands OF
home seekers will visit the Fair to
learn Of the advantages Of localities.
Southeastern Idaho, and particularly
old Bingham, the garden spot of all
the southeast, should present hers as
in an open book that call who run and
seek may read Mrs. Benefits prop
osition to the business men and tax
payers is good one and il accepted
and carried out will bring fruit, pos
sibly, eighty and an hundred fold.
| A Scotch clergyman, while going
through village, was requested to
otficiate at marriage, in the absence
of parish minister. just as he had
told the bridegroom to love and honor
his wife, the man interiected the words
"and obey" The clergyman, surpris.
ed, did not heed the proposed amend.
ment He was going on with the ser
vice, when the groom again interpos-
ed with emphasis, GAY, and obey, sir
love, honor and obey, We kenr' Al
few years afteiward the clergyman
met the hero of the wedding incident.
"D'yc mind, sir, yon day when We
married me, and when / wad insist
upon vowing to obey my wife2 Well,
ye may now see that was in the right
Whether ye wad or no, l have obeyed
her; and behold, | am the only man
that has twa.story house in the hale
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