Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-01-06
Latest Aftsr. Holiday News.
The Lawton fund has reached over
4o,O00 and will go to $4,000.

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The Lawton fund has reached over
$4,000 and win go to $4,000.
Six inmates OF the Soldiers Home,
Boise, died during the holiday week.
Hon. VIM. j. Bryan has returned
from Texas aud addressed the fusion
forces OF Nebraska yesterday.
Ladysmlth is about TO surrender to |
disease II not To the Beers. Fever and !
dysentery are raging rs epIdemics.
Owing to prevalence OF bubonic
plngue at Honolulu our transports are
giving the city the ''go-by."
Car shops ln the United Statet last
year turned out III, 1898 cars OF all kinds,
being the largest number on record.
Ex-Governor McLaurin is TO be the
new U. $. Senator from Mississippi.
He has been nominated in caucus.
Ex-senator Frank Cannon has re-
turned from Europe. Now we shall
hear from him in Utah politics.
Ex-senator Blackburn has been NOM
mated 10 caucus OF Kentucky Demo-
cratic Legislators for the U. s. Senate
That means his election.
The bubouic plague is reported In
Manila. The surgeons Of the army
will take every precaution to prevent
Its spreading.
! Assistant Secretary OF the Interior,
Webster Davis, will resign. Too many
rough places for him in his daily walks
with other officials.
The American troops at Manila are
now sbou, 10000, all told. Aguinaldo
has not been capiured and the rainy
season about 80 days away.
. The discussion over seating Senator
. Quay may be drawn out AS long AS a
barbed wire fence. There is much OPP
; position to giving him seat.
a union OF all ,he Silver forces in
bingham county can make victory rs
I easy next November as sliding down
/ h!l ON brand new sled.
The trial Of Capt. Fred J Mills for
killing Chief Engineer o'Nelveney. is
set for trial in Judge Nurrel's court,
Salt Lake City, next Monday.
o Senator Quay will he put to rest OF
his senatorial seat question next week.
Until then 1t Is lawful TO guess he will
either be given the seat or he will
not.
The demand for farm loans at the
!. close OF last year wits anything but fiat
r teripe To the farming interests oil th'
Il country.
= Kentucky will furnish us somethin:
T. interesting when the legislature take
up the pubefnatorial contest. Their
will be hot time In the old state.
!. Russia had a destructive earthquake
& since New Year day. Six villages wer
81 completely destroyed aud thus far 50
y dead bodies have been taken from th
= ruins.
: William ]. Stevens OF Ogden, Utah
filed a petition in bankruptcy, Wedne'
dav. giving liabilities at $3.50, ,06 an
st assets valued at so. Following this,
X brother S. c. Stevens also filed pet
II. tion In bankruptcy.
The Americans won the Spanish wa
;, and then drove Alger out OF the wa
. department. The British have not wo
:, their Boer war but they are trying har
tn call down their war department.
Kentucky will soon furnish poiitic
news as interesting rs Boer news iro
the English towns In South Afric
There is more going on down the'
's than singing:
ne ..Thc moon shines bright at my old kehtuet
IN home"
=" When the Short Line railroad
prosperous Pocatello is prosperous III
=, Short Line has been prosperous
10 more than a year, therefore Pocatel
- has had good times for the san
for period.
er. Tho national, state and county ca'
pairns which arc booked for the ye
will materially interfere with busine
and work, but he who Is wise will ha
ent his business and work so we'll In ha
bis Tia, the interference will be nothi
more than II slight delay or hindran
''e. and not n serious Injury.
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