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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-10-08

John G. Brown received notice Sun.
day from Hon. John HALEY, chairman
Democratic state central committee.
stating that he had been appointed state
committeeman from this county. In
place Of N. ii. Clark, removed, who has
accepted the nomination as attorney
on the Silver Republican county ticket.
Charles VanDorn, warden OF the
state penitentiAry, was In the city
Thursday. He came over for two pris.
oners convicted at this term Of court,
namely: ID. d. McCulium, for grand
larceny, one and one-half years, and C.
A. johnson, for assault with deadly
weapon, one year and nine months, and
800 dne.
The state executive committee OF the
Populist party have named . new
ticket and have put two Democratic
Silver Republican nominees on, name.
ly: !. N. Sullivan, for supreme Judge,
and Miss Permeai French, for superin.
t1ndent OF schools. The other names
on the ticket will be found on our edi
torlA page.
Last Monday at Boise, the jury re
turned verdict OF Acqul,,al In the cas-,
OF Charles Nelson, charged with tn.
murder OF Thomas Kerr, quartermastel
general o! the Idaho malltia. Nelson
wife had confessed tha, she had beer
crimlnaliy intimate with Kerr. Emo
,ionsl insanity was urged as defense
but the jury returned the verdic, OF no
guilty on the grounds that Kerr die
from the effects OF an operation mad
eight days after be MAS shot, a matte
which the defense also injected into tn
case, but no, as a serious ground.
/ W. II. s,uniebeam, candidate for au
dI,or snd recorder on the DemocrAti
county ticket, attended = meeting {
, the executive committee a, Idaho Fall
Thursday. SIR. Stufiiebcan Is actin
As secretary FOR the committee durln
, the absence Of Attorney Ryan. II
, says the committee has levied asse
men,s aud arc planning for an Acsis
and vigorous campaign. Geo. Y. Pui
mire, Of Danilson Springs, an cuerget
and successful farmer. has been place
oa The ,lckc, for commissioner iroi
the third district. Another mee,lr
OF .hc committee will be be
within . few days. lie further So.
{ the prospects for the success OF Il
o ticket look very bright.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-10-08
Republican County Contention

The Republicans held their county
convention a, Idaho Falls last Tuesday,
The convention was called 10 order at
Armory Hall Al llDo a. IN. and temp
orary organization was effected with
James NJ. Stevens a. Chairman and
Mcsdames Bessie Mitchell and Nellie
Stone A. secretaries.
After appointing tho usual committees
on credentials, permanent order of bus
inos. and resolutions, an adjournment
was taken until 2 p. m, when the per-
manen, organization was Installed Win
Rual Rounds, chair man, and Miss Clara
Uouck and Mrs. A. v. Scott as secre-
,aries. The credcn,iAl committee re-
ported s3 delegates out of II entitled TO
seat. in the convention. The following
we're present from the southern part oi
the county;
Bscksoo,-Mrs. Nellie Stone, Misses
May Scott and Clara Houck, Geo. b'
Rogers, James NJ. Stevens, Geo. l.,
Wall, r.. p. Sweet, Dolph johnson and
VIM. Danilson.
Rose-J. =. Porter, John Clendennin
and Jacob Gushwa.
Moroland--Jamcs Nelson - skeen
Jas. England, Jas. Wrsy.
Rich-Geo. W. Victor and = Puckett
Basal,-w. w. Bartlett and Jacot
Tceplcs.
pre,to-w. Christensen and - An
T dcrHon. -,
The platform Of the state Kepuol'
, cun convention WAS indorsed, and TN
convention wen, into secret session an'
nominated the following ticket
For Senator--Jas. Wray, Moreiand
4 penre.,n,atives - W. II. Danilson
I B,ackfoo,, aud N. w. Casper, tairvie"
}; sheria-Dan Cline, Idaho Falls
!. Assessor--J. +. Shelley, Shelley
y Clerk-C. p. Sweudscn, Moreland'
i Probate JUDGE. A. Dond, biacS
II foot. - n.
d Treasurer--,iiss Bessie Mitchell, id'
7, no Falls. -, A..
Is County Superintendent MISS ~
Scott, Blackfoot' ,,.,
=. County Surveyor DC, Martin idaf
h Falls. - Idaho Falls.
9 Commisslouers--lst Dist, - seeua,
'e Iona; 2ud Dist, C. W. Derryman' n'so
" foot; 3rd Dist, Andrew Berkman' N'
Sweden. .,,,,o
g. A ccntra, committee was elee'e
o' two from each precinct, one laoy ~
.. ., one gentleman. II. X. L'nger wv. "
~ elected chairman and Geo L, W.
.ccretary. Geo L. Wall ana Mrs,
nc NJ. Stevens are members oil the 'e"''
h. committee, from Blackioot'
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-10-08

THE NEWS editor WAS called TO the
telephone central Office today friday
at the Blackfoot House and commuDi-
Gated with Mr.. Ritter, Of the Bell Tel
ephone company, at Pocatello, who ex-
tended the privilege Of the use Of the
line TO THE NEWS man gratis. A rate
OF 25c. will be charged for messages
over the line from Blsckfoot to Pocsr
tello, the limit Of time being fixed at
Hve minutes. The rates to points
below Preston or Utah towns
where connections are had, are fixed
at from 35c. to sl.50. Each central Of
fee is provided with a rate card so all
using the line may acquaint themselves
with charges.
The mayor OF Wallace has issued an
Official notice that the chief OF police
has been instructed by him to arrest
all participants In any charivari with
in the city limits. The mayor says
This city has too long been disgraced
by that relic OF OF the barbarous aget
called the charivari. The hoodlum Boy
use 1t as a means TO filch from the ben
edict funds they squander or hoard.
believe it TO be q disgrace upon th'
participant and his parents; q refec
tion and stain upon the good name o
our fair city,"
Plums or prunes SOC. case.
G. Il. HOLBROOK.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-10-08

lie. Miller will be in Blackfoot Mon
aav and Tuesday next for the last time
his fall. In future you will find him AT
his Office at Idaho Falls.
lam still selling choice peaches al
az. nor case. G. II. HoLDRook,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-10-08
John Sforcr Commits Suicide.

John Storer, prominent farmer liv-
ing about eleven miles northeast OF
Idaho Falls and brother OF G. Fl.
Storer, state treasurer. committed sui
eide last Monday by shooting himself
through the head. Early IN the day he
attempted to shoot one George Smith,
neighbor, thinking that it was his
brother, Robert Smith, one Of the com.
missioners OF this county.
1t is reported that Storer was accused
Of burning or causing to be burned, the
wheat stacks OF Orin Lee and also the
property Of Commissioner Smith that
was mysteriously destroyed by fire re
Gently, and In fit Of desperation, excit
ed by drink, made the attack on George
Smith and afterwards destroyed his owr
life
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-10-08

Concord grapes, oVe' per '
Holbrook's.
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the hour Of noon, that heard how, al
the conclusion of the sports, Taosiri
fragrant with perfume. and with eyes
aflame from the excitement of the
scenes she had witnessed, and with 9
beautiful flush in her cheeks, was sum-
moned to the king, who presented hei
to his noble son, Thammosis.
1t was soon the talk Of all-even Of
the commoner folk-that she would be
selected for Thammosis' gynaeceun
and be doomed to part for ever and
ever from Lathyrus, to whom she was
betrothed.
I did her wrong. For said to Phelon
who told me the news, that such honor
and promotion would well please her
Afterwnrd I knew better.
1t was two days later that the city
was thrown into confusion. The cause
I only know by hearsay.
Taosiri had been hidden at shutdown
to the kings palace, which stood at
one corner of the square, an immense
building, having a large courtyard in
front, enclosed by thick walls crowned
with deep and solid mouldings, stand
ing outlined in the blue haze Of coming
night against the darker toned sky, and
the stretch of the desert hills beyond.
After the outer courtyard, came yet
another, surrounded by covered walk
or arcade, the roof supported upon
massive columns with granite archi-
traves. The walls and pillars were
decked with bas reliefs and brilliant,
colored hieroglyphics, which served to
relieve the almost oppressive solidity
of these enormous masses of stone. In
the centre of this inner courtyard was
a fish pond with a FLASHING fountain, in
which the colors of the columns were
a thousand times reflected in the ever
widening ripples.
There were numerous doors In the
wall beneath the arcade, all of them
decorated with great magnificence. The
principal ones guarded by Nubian
slaves, led into the gynaeceum, and the
kings private apartments. Lathyrus,
ere he died, told me all that happened
on that most fatal night, he being one
of those present. Typhon, himself,
must, think, have then walked
abroad.
AS the moon rose like a topaz over
Luxor, swimming up into the deep clear
sky beyond, through the slight haze
which hung earthward, transparent as
the veil Of princess, Taosiri came with
her attendant maidens, confident in the
power of her beauty, to the palace of
the king.
She was received with every honor
ESQ Lathyrus told mel in the audience
chamber, where the king, his most
beautiful wives, and Thammosis, his
son, were gathered, surrounded by
slaves and singing women, who smote
upon harps and cymbals. and sang the
new melodies which Talmis had writ
ten in honor of the king.
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kSOpyrlgnt. 1Sy6 Dy Inc lnternduoAa'
Literary and News Service.1
SYNOPSIS.
Evan Grant, accompanied by his frieno;
correspondent Of the Torch" The events
that lead to the young journa lists mis- nj !.
sion were very extraordinary Gran Ethel fSi
Valance. a London society belle, is a ssp
Interested in the same subject. PROFESSOR
syss an n fbe Vaanoes paers
Ethel for a medium. He claims that he
PAST. The girl under the spell. takes an az,
Egyptian dagger from the hall. and staos
one OF the guests, Hillheld. an u9tavo ,,;s
mis sSi ~ the best msdical skill in London
cannot restore Ethel to conscioIs a enG
The next night Grant dreams that ne ano
tian desert. They meet q woman M Mho
has evidently been expecting them; ,, nne
woman asks them whether they Def tSst
II ihey W do, she says that she will protect t
Ethel. whom she calls Taosiri. i woma ino
Of the fSt1 Ssr,ef ns Outs sn Taosr
der q spell, and teaches Lathyrus, as sne
calls Grant, the mystic passes Dy wnlcn
sns rs 10 m vivid Ie il the Of this
3ream that Grant goes to the vala,ntSSe ei
lsxt day and succeeds in awakening n'ns'
The result of all this is that Grant goes
70 Egypt where he discovers IN the n Vas his
dream. He finds an unviolated tomn
ana IN It 9 sarcophagus containing haansifu 4
woman. The first thing that strikes e
Grant il her remarkable resemblance 70
tu ii. preservation Of the body. There is no
evidence Of death; the girl seems ems 4a pI1
asleep, although she has been in the tom9
fof Centuries; Grant and Doctor a G tshere
It is kept in the Torch" building. await
Inc scientific INVESTIGATION: G hxnno tie
spell, and although he is in love W VIII
Ethel Valance and had become engages
to her before going to Egypt. the mani
mate form of the Egyptian exercises
such . spell over him that the, ne oes'nTTh er re-
sealed flask o found IN a in tns cG and
this Doctor Gerard. who is a skilled
Egyptolostst. thinks will g give the e gip1ds
starts to translate the roll and when ne
has finished he sends his work to Grant
who reads the following remarkable MS
tory:
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A Chinese Railway.

The train service on China's one and
only railway comprises. according to
BLACK and White" four trains daily
In each direction, the average speed be-
ing fifteen miles an hour. The traffic
is worked by natives who receive two
shillings week for their services. The
rails and the machinery come from
England. The first railway constructed
in China was completed in 1876. It was
built by British engineers in the face Of
many difficulties, all of them arising
from the prejudice Of the Chinese. John
Chinaman worships his ancestors, and
while a daily course of lying forms part
of his education, and an occasional
murder is regarded as an incident, the
neglect of or even a casual trespass on
the grave of an ancestor is held to be
crime for which no punishment known
to the ingenuity of man is sufficient.
And to make matters more complicated.
the Celestials have a knack Of burying
their dead in all sorts Of places, accord
ing to how they are indicated by the
soothsayers invariably employed for
the purpose. To construct railway
through a country so pledged to an
cestor worship Is rather q big order,
and the plans had to be modified any
number of times; indeed, seldom a day
came without some objection being
taken to a particular piece Of road.
Thus in one case, an embankment as
planned would have had to be con-
structed over the grave Of a deceased
warrior. In another the shadow of
signal-post was found to fall, during
at least one hour day, across the
grave of one who had been murdered:
and again the sinking Of we'll within
a hundred yards Of cemetery nearly
caused riot. Eventually, however, the
road was built, and the trains began to
run, but not for long. The astrologers
found that the doom of the Empire was
sealed. The dynasty was threatened,
and the mandarins were in arms, for
the line was worked by Europeans, and
the officials were denied their inalien-
able right Of levying blackmail on the
traffic. It was officially announced that
the spirits of air and water were
against the existence Of the railway.
The engineers had to make themselves
scarce, and the rails were torn I'D sby
officials specially requisitioned for that
purpose. The second introduction OF
railways into China was in 1879, and
the present III miles Of railroad are to
be shortly supplemented by an addi-
tional 70 miles at q cost Of $4,000 per
mile.
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Even Thothmes seemed startled out
of the deep calm in which he always
rested, and he bowed as Taosiri, in all
the magnificence of her dress and love-
illness, entered.
A beautiful woman is more powerful
than monarch, and Taosiri knew how
highly the king esteemed such, and so
she scarcely bowed, but spake to him
without more delay.
20 King! Behold I am here! I have
obeyed thine honorable summons. What
dost thou require of me?"
After she had spoken thus, there Fell
a. stiffness for moment or two in the
hail. and then out of the silence Thoth-
mes spake:
II desire of thee. Taosiri. thyself to
wife for my son, who saw thee in the
litter, borne by thy slaves on the day
Of the triumph, and again in thy seat
at the festal sports, and YEAS smitten
with love of thee. What sayest thou?"
20 King!" Taosiri replied, II am not
worthy to be the wife Of thy son. More
over. I am already betrothed; there
fore. o King, I pray thee release me
from thy DESIRE"
At these words, Lathyrus told me,
Thammosis rose suddenly, and strove
to take Taoslri in his arms to bear her
away a captive to his palace.
Ere his arms could clasp her, how
ever, she had drawn from the folds Of
her robe thin long blade, and with O
cry she plunged 1t to the hilt in Than
mosis' breast, who fell prone at her feet
as bull falls under the stroke Of the
priest at the sacrifice.
All was on the instant in an uproar.
The screams of the women and slaves
drowned the groans Of the wounded
prince. who lay on the floor at Taosirls
feet. But three persons preserved their
calmness; the king, Lathyrus and the
girl who had done the deed.
The penalty she would suffer was a
most cruel, lingering death--the nail
ing to the great gate Of the city at
dawn. Lathyrus knew this, and his
heart was sick, that his beloved should
thus cruelty suffer- There was little
time for thought, 1t was time for ac-
ton. and, as the guards advanced to
seize her. he stepped in front Of Taosiri.
and ere they could reach her. he put
her to sleep by the lifting up of his
hands, with the strange power he pos
sessed, gained from Rehpri, that Moth
er of Wisdom. at the place Of the
stones.
Lathyrus was seized by the guards,
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looked, Taosiri sat with eager eyes,
leaning her face between her hands, her
nostrils quivering, her lips drawn tight
with excitement, gazing on it all.
In few moments 1t was done, and
the black bull, with full foot of spear
shaft sticking out from its neck,
glanced round. and spying the other
girl, rushed believing after her. And
then I closed my eyes.
When l uncovered them the girl
was slain, and the attendant slaves
were running across the arena with
slaves in their hands ready to beat off
the bull from further mangling of the
poor blood-stained body.
oh; cruel sport! The splitting of blood
in the sight Of gentle women and ten
der hearted girls for no sacrifice, except
indeed it be done on the altar of pleas
ure!
1t was this day that I learned to hate
Taosiri 1t was her voice, calm and
cold, that 1 heard saying as the at
tendants of the arena, having beaten
off the bull. dragged the victims body
across the sunlit sand:
"A thousand pities! the girl would
have made good slave. She was SO
beautiful A match for my Arts, and
pair Of slaves such as she and Arts
would have made, are not in Oph. How
well she ran! She was strong and sup
pie, slave of a thousand"
But what Of the sport?" asked the
chief, to whom she had turned. You
are too tender-hearted, lady" he said,
with an enticing smile.
Truly If a tigress who has once tast-
ed blood Is tender-hearted, then was
this girl with the flashing eyes and the
red lips, which smiled over another s
shameful, cruel death.
I did not stay to see or hear more,
but bowling before Taosiri, made my
way through the gay, richly appareled
crowd, my heart burning with the great
question of right and wrong, and sick
Of the cruelty had witnessed. Out
went through the thickly gathered
throng of waiting slaves. horses and at
I tendants. into the purer air and white
sunshine of the street.
I, a priest, had no business with such
a thought. but in my brain-my head
had begun to ache with the heat, dust
and noise Of the sports before left
the great problem Of pity and cruelty
the first great pain OF crumbling tradi-
tions. so long accepted as to form q
part Of life itself. had begun to throb
It was not until the next day. near
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with the dust rising % thick that It al
most obscured the sun.
That night, the city Of Oph blazed
with feast-nres and riot and luxury
prevailed. Next day were held the
sports, the three bull fights. In the last
Of which two slave girls were made to
face a monster bull without vesture,
and armed only with lances.
The girls faced the black, roaring
beast with courage wrought by despair,
and prepared to die with their slender
muscles and strength braced by the
shouts and hoarse murmur of the on.
looking holiday crowd.
Taosiri was seated near me, attended
by her slave girls. with Lathyrus at
her side, and surrounded by men with
love in their dark flashing eyes, men
she had drawn away from the love of
other women by the magic of her Won
drous smile, and voice in which lay a
caress. Men upon whose necks she
would have planted her daintily san
dalled feet without remorse. She had
looked on scenes that day from the last
agonies of which other women had hid
their faces for very shame, and which
had made even me. a priest, used to
mind.
When the last bull-fight came, she
leaned her hand on Lathyrus knee,
and bent forward, half rising in her
seat to gain first look at the victims.
When the doomed girls stepped forth,
she clapped her small hands with the
rest. I shall never forget the sight.
The black bull. paving the ground.
rushed headlong into the arena, goaded
on by the barbed slaves of the attend
ants AS he paused a moment in his
wild career. both girls. sick with hor-
ror, and on whose faces the shadow of
oblivion rested, let fall a cry of agony
and fear from their pale lips.
Then the beast. noticing them for the
first time, came at them, and the
younger, a light skinned. slender limbed
girl of fifteen or sixteen, faced it, spear
at rest, with the courage of inevitable
death.
AS the bull came on, heard Taosiri
say to her court:
CRY to her to flee. Tell her to turn
and turn. Cry out, or all will be over
and the sport lost!"
The men raised shout, and the elder
girl, hearing it. fled. But the younger
stood her ground, and the beast, blind
ed with passion, rushed full on the
spear point. The frail girl had no
strength to drive 1t home; there was
below of rage and pain, a crack of
splintered wood, cry of intensest
agony, and then, 1 saw white form
tossed skyward to fall earthward again
with dull thud, the crimson stain in
the sand, and the Infatuated animal
rending the still writhing figure.
There were sobs from the throats of
some of the women near me, but when
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balmers. And when I stole into the
tomb by the way of the hill by the
quarries, years after, when my strength
was failing. to look once more on that
beautiful face and to strive to solve
the mystery once again of that long,
long sleep, I found her lovely as before,
with the funeral flowers crumbling to
dust, and the chaplet of lotus blossoms,
which 1 remembered her mother had
hung on the sarcophagus, weeping
many tears the while, fallen from it's
place, dry, crumbling and colorless, like
the pleasures of the world which rot,
are bitter and give no peace.
These few pages Joined to the form
er ones. on this, which may be the last
visit 1 shall pay to the tomb of the
loveliest woman that man has ever
seen.
Then came the signature of the
writer, sealed with scarabaeus i'm
pressed in vermilion wax, the color of
which was as brilliant as on the day,
more than two thousand years ago,
when the priestly fingers used the seal
to attest this strange manuscript.
-
When Grant had finished reading this
marvellous story and lay back in his
chair in the fast deepening twilight, he
thought much over the subject, but he
reached no conclusion, except that the
influence Of evil, of good, of beauty and
OF sin, does not always die with those
who have welded 1t.
Grant woke early the following morn
Ing, and during breakfast again read
the manuscript
He was now anxious to try to de-
hypnotic the girl who had had such a
history, and put In practice his theo-
ries concerning her who had once
walked and gone to and fro beneath
the blue, fair sky of ancient Egypt, and
amidst the bygone splendors of now
ruined Thebes.
He started for Fleet street imme-
diately after breakfast although he
knew that Mr.. Murray would probably
not put in an appearance till after mid
day.
He found the room in which the body
lay. locked; and upon inquiry, that Mr..
Murray had taken the key with him the
night before.
He therefore went down to his room
and endeavored to attend to the letters
which lay upon the table. But all the
time he was thinking Of Taosiri and
the manuscript-which he had brought