The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-17
The Elegant Palace the Elk
Senator Has Built
For the Bride He Will Take
From Washington.
PRIDE OF BLACKFOOT.
Only a Small Town but the
Mansion a Wonder.
How Charley the Chinese Cook
Was RecOnciled.

Chicago, Jan. 17.-Out in the little
town of Blackfoot, in the southeastern
portion of Idaho, and within few
miles of Snake river, a former United
States senator has furnished home
that would rival many palaces of the
Lake Shore drive on Michigan avenue
in this city. In elegance artistic taste
and modern equipment, this home of
former Senator Fred T. Dubois will
make the 700-odd persons who compose
the total population of the town of
Blackfoot open their eyes in astonish-
ment, for while the good people of that
estimable municipality are accustomed
to all the comforts and good things of
life, a modern up-to-date city residence
right in their midst is somewhat of an
innovation.
The cause Of it all is that Fred Du-
bois, whose term as the representative
of Idaho in the senate at Washington
expired little less than two years ago,
and vino is now in his 4Sth year. came
to the conclusion that much more is to
be gained by taking unto himself one
who VIII share life's fortunes with him
than by travelling the remaining years
of his life alone.
The former senator wooed and won
Miss Edna MaXfield Whited of Dolan.
S. D., whose family. prior to taking up
their residence in that place, lived in
Morrison, Ill Mr.. Dubois himself is
native of Illinois. He is a son of Jesse
K. Dubois, friend of President Lin
coins and one of the best known men
in the state. The marriage took place
recently, the couple coming to Chicago
for the purpose. The ceremony was
performed by the brides brother-in-
law, Rev. Hanlan Hanson, at his resi-
dence in this city.
Mr. Dubois recently confded to his
friends that inasmuch as he had waited
until his. 4Sth year to take wife he
intended to do things up as they
should be DONE" and that his bride
should enter as fine and modern and
luxurious a home as could be found in
the land, even if the town of Blackfoot
had but 700 inhabitants. The former
senator has the wealth to carry out his
desires in this direction, and his home
In the comparatively isolated little town
in southeastern Idaho will be one of the
attractions and wonders of all the coun-
try thereabout. And yet Dubois is the
extreme opposite of an ostentatious
man; in character he is simplicity and
democracy itself. In Washington he
was generally regarded as a royal
good fellow" without frills or affecta
ton. He was one of the poor men of
the senate. All he had to live on was
his salary.
He often said it was politics that kept
him a poor man, and that once clear of
that fascinating game he believed he
could make a fortune as quickly as any
man tnaC uVeu- he mas mace BoOQ MS
assertion. Leaving the United States
senate March 8, 1897 he turned his at
tention to money making. The small
savings he had accumulated were jul
diciousiy invested. Today he is pow
er in stock raising in the west, and
where he formerly possessed the title
of SENATOR" he now bears the title Of
"cattle king"
For ten days past the former senator
from Idaho and Miss Whited have been
in Chicago. The bride-elect and future
leader of society in the state of Idaho
is stopping at the residence Of her
brother-in-law. During their stay here
the happy couple have spent each day
in the big stores of State street and
Wabash avenue, and as a result the ex-
press company has been delivering ev-
cry day or so in the little town of
Blackfoot great boxes Of wonderful