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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-01-25

1t appearing to the Board that erro-
neous assessments have been made in
number of cases in the assessment for
the year 1895, it is ordered that change
be made in such cases as follows, to-wit:
Florence v. McCaffrey's assessment to
be changed to correspond with her as
sessment for the year 1894, after equal
ization.
B. McCaffrey's assessment to be
changed to correspond with his as
sessment for the year 1894, after
equalization.
Fl. K. Linger's assessment to be
changed to correspond with his assess
ment for the year 1894, after equaliza-
ton.
Archie C. Fisk's assessment for the
year 1893. 1894 and 1895, reduced fifty
per cent.
A. " SCOTS assessment for the years
1893, 1894 and 1895, on lots in Crows
and Highland Park additions reduced
fifty per cent.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18th.
The commissions of the assessor and
collector for the year 1896, are hereby
fixed as follows:
Commission collecting property taxes
5 per cent.
Commission collecting poll taxes Is
per cent.
The sheriff is hereby authorized to
appoint two deputies or guards whose
compensation shall be So and $3.50 per
day respectively.
JURY LIST.
AdMoN-Joe A. Taylor, Jas. Owen,
Eph. Empy, Sam Southwick, Lars.
Hanson, Willard Kenton,
BLACKFooT-L. w. West, Geo. Hol-
brook, Jas. c. Fisher, Jno. Montgom-
cry, Geo. Houck, Jno. S. Watson, ST.,
j. G. Hinkle, Albert Watson, Chas.
Pierce, Chas. Sims, Samuel Lloyd,
VIM. Danilson, John Rowles, Harry +.
Horton, Joseph Warren, Jno. Ander.
son, Marcus Mester, d. H. Biethan,
Fred c. Winkelman, Percy Jones,
Chas. Wicks, Leon Messlin, C. f.
Smith, Jas. McTucker, Henry Dunn
r. 81. Hopkins, A. E. Clark, D. Y. Mil.
Ter, VIM. Howard, L. B. billiard, d. S
Morgan.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-01-25

ben The facts arc before you, you
see convinced.
aeiacis are that the UNION PACIFIC
ssding all competitors, is tho &C
pledged dining car route, and
ashrough car line Of the West.
ae line via Denver and Kansas City
alcago in connection with the Chi.
oS Alton Railroad, with tie excel
equipment Of Free Reclining Chair
Pullman Palace slcepcrs and
ilnan Diners, demands the attcn.
. every traveller 10 the East.
f'k your nearest agent for tickets via
route, Il. l.. LoMAx,
Gen. Pass. and Tiki. ACT.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-01-25

r. Minute Cough Cure Is rightly
1 II affords instant relief from
rhg when afflicted with severe
% o. cold. II acts on the throat,
eehial tubes, and lungs and never
give immediate relief. Hull &
fsSe, druggists.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-01-25

the alteration OF a county road, and it
appearing that all land owners have
agreed to give right of way for said
proposed road, 1t is ordered that said
petition be and the same is hereby
granted. For description see road re-
cord)
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-01-25

II Wits Little EARLY Risors for bill
( s,aess, indigestion, constipation. A
4u pill, a prompt cure. Hull &
rene, druggists.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-01-25
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
hinufes of the First Ouarferyy
Session.
MONDAY, JANUARY 18TH 1896

sFs-feAai 10TH 1870.
Board Of County Commissioners met
on this 18th day Of January, 1895. There
were present G. w. Bergman, chair
man. ". D. Huifaker and Isaac Ericsson.
commissioners, and George +. Gagon
clerk, when the following proceedings
We're had to-wit:
The Treasurer,s report for the third
quarter OF the year 1895, was examined
and compared and on motion the same
was approved.
II is ordered that no claim or demand
against the county for services render
ed sick Or INDECENT persons win be al.
lowed by the Board, unless there IA a
strict compliance with section 2l7i OF
the Revised Statutes OF Idaho.
BILLS ALLOWED GENERAL FUND.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07


The American girl has been discussed
and analyzed until one would think the
subject had been exhausted, but new
, development in England lends to the
discussion a revived interest 1t is one
of the amusing signs of the times that
the British matron, after having for
many years utterly disapproved of and
loudly condemned everything connect
ed with our young countrywoman, Is
now endeaVoring to find out the secret
OF her attractions, and to teach her
little ways" to her own somewhat
stolid brood. To tell the truth, she is
fairly frightened at the influx of Am
orleans into the pecrage and the coun-
try families, and since she finds she
cannot kill with disapproval, she seems
inclined to initiate.
But here comes a difficulty an in
seperable obstacle of race. What an
American can do, with a sort of airy
audacity quite her own, is apt to be-
come rather heavy rse-play with her
English cousins. The explanation of
this seems to be that the American
type is more spirltuelle. Our women
may be eccentric, unconventional and
even sometimes what might be called
fast, but they are rarely, II ever, coarse.
An innate refinement and GOODNESS of
temperament saves them from vulgar
ity, and gives to their manners the OAR
ing courage of originality that for
eigners admire. One of the happiest
and most satisfactory of diplomatic
marriages in Washington was the out
come Of q ridiculous practical joke,
whereby a pretty western hoyden sent
a new French secretary up to his host
ess with an absurd speech, which he
had conscientiously and seriously learn
ed in English from his tormentor, she
assuring him it was the thing to say
on taking leave. How impossible such
a childish trick would be in London
drawing-room, or from an English
"Mces," and yet the result in this case
was q wedding.
| thought we would find you alto
gether English" said a friend to Her
Grace" on her first visit to her native
land after her marriage.
mo, indeed!" answered the latter in
mock horror 'I consider my American
accent and manners my most cherished
possessions. They are my greatest
cards over there! We had a fire at
Castle, where 1 was stopping last year,
and l lost a lot of my clothes L hope
you saved your pretty gowns said
the prince to me afterward L saved
nothing but my American accent, sir
I answered. We'll, then, you are all
right he returned, laughing.-New
York Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
PEN AND PAPER.

The objection made to the first gold
pens manufactured was mainly to the
points. which were so soft that they
We're bent or worn out very quickly
The iron pen mentioned by job in
the book Of that name in the Bible is
supposed to have been a steel graver
used for cutting inscriptions on stone.
Most cop ing inks are ferrogallic IN
their nature, and are adapted for use
by being highly gummed and having
also portion Of sugar in their COM
position.
The Chinese pen from time immemo-
rial has been a brush made of some
soft hair and used to paint the curious
ly formed letters of the chinese alpha
bet
The side Sits in the pen are generally
made by a hand-lever machine. which
Sits the steel at the proper place. and
thus insures greater fleXibility in the
pens.
The manuscripts of the fifth and
twelfth centuries We're written with
very good black ink which has not
shown the least signs of fading or OBJ
liberation.
Quill pens are prepared for use by
sorting them, drying them in hot sand,
scraping them so as to remove the out
er skin. then hardening them in diluted
nitric acid.
Bamboo pens have been used i'm In
dia for over 1000 years. They are
made like the ordinary quill pen, and
for few hours writing are said to be
very serviceable.
Some chemists affirm that the ideal
ink consists almost exclusively of gal
late of iron, and that the nearer the
liquid approaches this substance the
more perfect the ink.
An indelible ink very commonly used
in the Middle Ages was made with a
basis of the terchloride of gold applied
to a cloth dampened with solution Of
chloride OF tin.
The nutgalls used in the manufacturs
of ink contain ganic and tannic acids,
together with mucilage and other ele-
ments supposed to be essential to the
constitution of a perfect ink.
The parchments and papyrus used
by the ancients seem to have had a
special preparation, by virtue of which
they absorbed the ink and thus caused
the writing to be almost indelible.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
rlRsorAL

J. s. CoNey is publishing u daily pa
per to I'LL Che long-felt want of Mas.
sllon, o.
The sum paid in Paris to the Wagner
family in royalties On the operas OF that
composer for this year up to the end of
last month, amounted to $3.50.
The Emperor of Germany is very
musical and is constantly composing
something new. A song album of his
productions IS soon to be published
Emma Colve and her fiance, TO whom
she is soon to be married, are so devot-
cd to each other that their Paris houses
arc specially connected by telephone.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling attends to all
of her husbands correspondence and
carefully guards him against woWid-be
intruders. lie is said to be the most
unapproachable literary man in the
world.
In five weeks Mr. Morley Roberts
wrote a novel of 10000 words, revised
one of $4,000, and in six succeeding days
wrote six short stories aggregating
$4,000 words. He did this in the lake
district.
Mrs. Lille Pardee, who is a candi
date for State Senator I'm Utah, is thr-
ty years old, a teacher of Latin and
Greek and wife OF a Salt Lake lawyer
She is a Republican and says she is
sure Of election
DIR. Marion a. Cheek, who has just
died in Siam, was one of the best be-
loved missionaries who ever went to
that country He was a fine physician,
and was known as the White Magician,
on account Of his medical skill.
Prof. r. B. Richardson, director Of
the American school at Athens. ad-
Vances the theory that the horrors at
tributed to the River Styx by the an
clients were due TO fever germs, with
which the locality is still infested.
Joseph Field, the veteran farmer of
Monmouth county, New Jersey, is 1903
years old. Mr.. Fields ancestors were
English and settled on Long Island.
The family moved from there to Mon
mouth county, where they have ever
since resided.
one of the most intimate personal
friendships among Senators is that be-
tween Blackburn, of Kentucky. and
Allison Of Iowa. The two men are un-
like in politics, antecedents and asso-
Citations, but they hold the most devot-
ed relations with each other
The Speaker of the House of Com
mons has a chief pet a bulldog named
Billy His teeth and mouth and jowl
are of the regular bulldog type; vet
Billy is said TO be very good-natu' ed.
Still, he has had several misadventures
in London streets, his peculiarly pug
nacious appearance, which much bellies
the gentleness Of Billys heart, having
nearly frightened some ultra-nerVous
persons out of their wits.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
An Electric Bicycle Lamp.

Henry London has invented and per-
fected an electrical bicycle lantern.
London is one of the first men who
ventured to straddle a wheel in san
Francisco at time when bicycles were
not allowed in Golden Gate Park. Years
of riding have not diminished his ar
dor for the healthy exercise. He is an
amateur electrician as well, and to light
the path of his wheel he has constructed
and attached to the handle bar the most
perfect little lantern imaginable. 1t is
about as large as one-half of an ordin-
airy sized peach.
The reflector measures two and a half
inches I'M diameter on the outside and is
one inch in depth. The lamp itself is
about the size of a hazel nut. The lam
tern looks precisely like those on toy
carriages.
The battery is contained in a leather
case nearly as large as a tool-bag, and is
fastened to the cross-bar in the same
manner as the latter one. 1t consists or
II three-cell storage battery.
The ircandescent lamp Is rated at two
candle power. 1t has attracted the at
tcntion of wheelmen, pedestrians and
people in carriages since it made it's APP
pearance in the park, and men and
women stop to inquire what produces so
brilliant light from such a small APP
paratus. All sorts of pet names have
been coiaed for the little lantern, such
as lash lamp, search-light, calcium ana
lime light. London calls il the electric
bicycle lantern.
The light is regulated, eXtinguished,
or relighted instantly by the pressure OF
u button, conveniently fastened on the
handle-bar, without moving the hand.
The battery furnishes light for two and
one-half hours. London is now engaged
on a battery which win have capacity
for twelve hours without being recharg-
vd.-Chicago Post.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
The Usefulness of n Jest.

He stood upon the platform of his car,
serene and smiling. when every car drlv-
er and 'sruckman on West street was
swearing and cursing The jam was tre-
mendous and the street was packed from
curb to curb. Yet whenever he spoke 1t
was with some good-natnred Jest and the
truck drivers turned out of his way and
le. car No rs go by. He hailed them all
with merry bandinage and the surliest
of them grinned from ear to ear and gave
him back all that he sent.
ITS easy" he said to me confidential
ly. when once you get a man 10 smile
he'll do anything you want him to do.
Did you see that surly chap driving the
beer wagon? l kept chatting him until
got him TO laughing, and when man
once lets smile chase over his face he's
a goner. / tell you. my friend, that even
down here in West street good nature
will go further IN getting your own way
than all the yelling and curslng.
And the philosophical car driver whip
ped up his horses and told the charloteer
of the ice wagon in front that no man
could stop things up as he did unless he
were from Cork. The Zee wagon turned
aside, and the iceman gr,nned and said
that he was from Limerlck.-New York
Herald.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
WHEN LINCOLN WAS SHOT.
Mrs. surratt's waiter hoy Tells what He
Knows.


Knows.
Nathaniel Simms who in the carly
sixties was Mrs. Mary Il. Surratts col
ored waiter boy, lives north OF oxford,
Pa. He is native of Prince Georges s
county, Md. Simms says when four
teen years Of age he was bound out to
Mrs. Surratt. there being soren other
colored boys on the place. He tells. in
the Philadelphia Inquirer, the following
respecting his mistress:
"The missis lived at Surrattsville,
about seven miles from Washington,
and, being a lady of wealth, owned con-
siderable Of the village. She possessed
fine features and temperament that
was excitable. Her favorite hobby was
riding horseback. | have seen her put
one hand on the saddle pommel ana
vault up into the seat without assist
ance. Mrs Surratt was fond of wine.
She could WELD a rawhide with vigor,
and IL always came upon the backs OF
US boys so unexpectedly.
"Ske entertained frequently. John
wilkes Booth was a frequent visitor at
the house he being very intimate with
my mistress son. John Surratt. Booth,
a kind of helpless fellow, required a
good deal OF waiting on, and from him
! received my FIRST money | could say
was mine. About two months before
the taking off of President Lincoln
Booth was at the Surratt mansion
steady. A few days before the shooting
of the President, Mrs Surratt and |
went into Washington and she bought
nine or twelve pistols at gunsmith's.
They were put in a little coffin, which
the undertaken hauled in his hearse
across the eastern branch bridge. The
guards supposed it was funeral, ana
made no attempt at searching. Mrs
Surratt, after reaching home, hung the
pistols around on the walls of her room.
ION the night of the assassination
Pcoth and John Surratt ate supper to-
gether and left the house. About mid
night Booth returned, and / heard Mrs.
Surratt clap her hands and exclaim,
I'm glad the old rebel is dead-meaning
our noble Lincoln. That same night L
helped Booth into the saddle, and he
shot down the pike as If demons were
after him. on opening the house next
morning | was surprised to see the
piazzc and. yard full of soldiers. one OF
them asked if Booth had been at the
house during the night, and l replied
chat he had. In a short time my mis-
tress and all hands about the place were
taken into Washington. w Washington
Star.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
Neat In the Wrong WAY.

The number of people in the world who
are economical at the expense of others
is immense. The ability to do this was
somewhat picturesquely illustrated in q
case in which two mothers were discuss
ing their little boys.
"Oh, dear!" said Mrs. Brown, my
Willy is so dirty and destructive! All
his clothes are spoiled right away"
"Oh, that's too bad" said Mrs. Green.
"My little Johnny, now, is so neat and
saving. Why, rather than soil his clean
handkerchief he always borrows one
from one of the other boys!-Youth'a
Companion
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
A summer Girls Trip.

a Kansas journal thus gathers together
the testimony concerning a summer girls
trip:
Miss Dodie Marchmont will go to To-
pelta tomorrow to visit friends. .-Leaven-
worth times.
Miss Dodie Marchmont, of Leavenworth.
is visiting friends in the city.-Topeka
Journal
A party was given last night in honor of
Miss Dodie Marchmont, of Leavenworth.
who is visiting Topeka friends. Topeka
Journal
Miss Dodie Marchmont of this city, who
is visiting friends in Topeka, had party
given in her honor recently.-Leavenwor
Times.
Miss Dodie Marchont, who is visiting
friends in this city, will return home to-
morrow.-Topeka Journal
Miss Dodie Marchmont who is visiting
visiting friends in Topeka, returned to her
home in this city to-day.-Leavenwor
Times.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
sacred Stone of the oneidas.

The oneida Historical Society, OF
Philadelphia, has been making efforts
to secure as the corner stone of it's new
building now in course of erection in
that city the sacred stone of the Onei-
das These endeavors bring to public
attention Q curious feature of the In
dian history.
The Oneidas were one of the confed-
Grafton of the Five Nations. Their
great claim to distinction beyond all
other tribes was the great bowlder-
the sacred stone This was the fetch
of the tribe; they looked on it with the
utmost Veneration, and esteemed it as
possessing divine and magical virtues.
So great was their reverence that they
could not endure any separation from
II, and in consequence wherever they
went they moved with them their ia
nous rock, as the most important as
well as the most cumbersome article of
their impedimenta. The stone served
them as a sacrficial altar and before
and about it the great rites of their
religion were performed. The cere-
monial feasts which were held in COM
memoration of their dead were eaten
on the open place that surrounded the
holy stone, and the sachems kindled
the Illuminating flames beside it when
they gathered about the council fire to
discuss the weighty matters of Indian
policy and action. It's inspiration was
sought as well for the fierce frenzies
of the war dances, when the braves
sought to rival in the furies of physi-
cal contortions the fervor of their wild
passions.
The other tribes referred to the Onei-
das as the people of the stone and the
stone itself was called onia, or oinota,
the real significance of which is the
man born of a stone.
After the Oneidas Joined the confed-
GRAFTON of the Five Nations the stone
stood on the crest of a foothill on the
borders of the Oneida Creek valley.
There it remained for many moons the
sole remnant of the Oneidas, for its
devotees had gone to hunting grounds
where they could not bear with them
their beloved rock.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
WISDOM OF THE HOUR.

The new woman is the old woman
made over.
The sure thing at a race-track is an
uncertain thing at best.
Riding the wheel is called a fad be-
cause fads move in cycles.
There are a great many people who
make mistakes on purpose.
As a rule poor actors are poor, at
good actors are not always good,
Experience is the best teacher but she
charges heavily for her services.
Go to a fool for advice. If it doesn't
suit you you need not worry about fol-
lowing it.
Politics is a game Of grab. The boy
or boss with the biggest hand gets the
most marbles
The man who can drink or let it alone
Just as he chooses, chooses to drink as
a general thing.
Every two-for-a- -nickle politician
thinks he carries the affairs of ma
tions on his shoulders.
The wages Of sin is death, but pay
day is put off a long while to many
holders of SdtGn's vouchers.
a great many actresses seem to deem
Il bigamy to be welded to their art un.
less they have divorce from their hus.
bands.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-05-07
SIZE WAS ESCORTED.

She Rad TO he. she Was $50 FIustered,"
and vhings w-re "An Turned Around"
Lovely woman slll has a way of claim
eng her prerogatlv in the matter of male
galantry; and what a woman claims she
always gets, such deferentlal times are
th SO. There was one particular woman
WI came to New York one day recently
or t. Hudson right boat with vivid
conception of her prerogatlve and nu-
mer1us bundles She was a New York
W man and OF mature age. but she ex-
pln't that she always got hustered"
and ,ook the wrong car. coming in at the
bos '-adng with things all turned
around"
She went to the purser and told him
about 1t.
'I always have to have somebody put
me on the right car" said she confden-
tially.
'1Eh?" sail the purser, busy with the
passenger list and answering half doz-
en- questions from as many sources before
nc turned around.
"And | have so many bundles I
couldn'. think OF crossing that street
alone" she went on 7heerfully. I'm
always 50 nervous The doctor says I
have heart diseisa. Seems S II this noise
and all confuses ma. always have to
he seen II a cs~" She held out her shawl
stran and umbrella TO him.
"Eh?" repeated the purser dazedly.
you can come right along with me,
I'm all ready. and vpnt 20 get uptown
soon's | can" she rerelted. ut amt no
use. I couldn't th.nll Of moving a step
off th.s boat alone. I just turn around
and I get lost n this part Of the town.
= . T.. II Ma ts.I h.,
to- for she saw denial in his face.
Great heavens madame!" he ex-
claimed. "I couldn't leave in this busy
time to escort Queen Victoria TO a carr
We'll" slld she energstically. then
vou'n have to send somebody else with
TO- or I'll set here all day, that's surep'
She put down her bundles arrl collapsed
S~ = crate of peaches. The boat-hands
wheeled several loads of freight around
her and one of tn.m swore softly. She
showed signs of being hysterical She
was tanning herself with her handlSer-
chief.
1T all comes Of having yonr boats land
on this side Of the town. A body turns
around and they're lost ! won't stir
step alone" she went on with shr!ll emo
ton
That's H." said the purser with SYM
pathetic polteness, "I ALWAYS said we
ought to run the Hudson River up to
the Forty-second street station and land
passengers from the upper deck onto the
elevuced Madame you shall be escort
ed" boat-hand was called from the
freight rolling and madame was cere-
monlously escorted the several blocks
carward. her face beam.ng with conscious
complarency.
Good Lordv said the purser to him.
self and the nearest passenger, 1.-THE cling
ing kind ain't quite ext!nct"-New York
World.