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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
ORDERED TO
REPORT AT ONCE
SRIIlWAY WILL BE PUT IN SAT-.
.(SFACTORILY TO MACkAY ClTl.
KENs.-WoRk TO COMMENCE
AT ONCE.
.AA

il is officially announced bv the
GtlLton- HURT company that work will
be commenced at once ON this irriga-
ttOn project Harrison B. Riley.
chairman of the Bondholders Commit
tee, OF Chicago, was in Boise last
week i'm consultation with Clinton.
iurtt Co., and it is said that the en-
lsneers have been ordered on the
TO begin work at once. If this be the
case, which from all probabilities it
Isl, 1T Will be but short time before
surveying crews and contracting par
ties will be here. Engineer Binkley,
chief engineer for Clinton Hurtt COM
pany, came up yesterday enroute to
Mackay to view the situation and it
IS emphatically quoted by him that
work will be commenced immediately
Last week the Mackay citizens,
While down to Boise, agreed to be
satisfi fled if the spillway is put i'm
according to specifications as drawn
up by the state engineer Editor Dill
Engiham of the Miner, when inter
viewed by the Boise Statesman,
said:
1.-The people are thoroughly stais-
fled with the action of the present
END board with reference to the
dam. If the plan adpoted by the
board shall be carried out, and we
have every assurance that it will be,
the structure will be rendered as safe
possibly as it can be made at this
time. AT any rate we will be sat
isffed if the work is done as the
board has decided it shall be.-Arco
Advertiser.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
MUST KEEP OFF
RESERVATION
SUPERINTENDENT ESTEP WILL
PUNISH vOLATORS OF FEDER-
Al STATUTES.-THER RULE is A
STRICT ONE.

The superintendent of the Fort Hal,
reservation has been directed by the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs to
give vide rutici;y to the fact that
thrtiny on any In6:an reservation IS
a si',ai.sn of tie LL,ted States Sta.-
utes and subjects the offender to a
confascatioH Of eLDs or traps used by
hiia and tc pc of not to exceed
500, and that after such notice has
been given. hunters found ON the res
ervation will be prosecuted under this
law. The Tribune is advised by the
Superintendent that he intends to
obey the orders OF his superior officer
in this matter, so it is up to hunters
I" keep an eye out for the reserva-
tion Ena-Pocstello Tribune.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
WOMEN ARE
GREATLY ELATED
PASSAGE OF SEVERAL BILLS
TRACED TO THEIR EFFORTS
FAILURE OF CIVIL SERVICE
BILL A HARD BLOW.

The club women in the city, and
they represent at present nearly 20
dnferent clubs of the state, are re-
)olclng over the passage of senate
bill No. rs, which protects the wife
IN that 1t requires her signature to
all deeds of sale or mortgages Of
real estate, which recently passed the
house with only a few dissenting
votes'but which had rather a struggle
IN the senate. The loss of the civil
service bill YVES blow to the women
who feel thEt if they had only worked
a little harder they might have Sc
cured dts passage, since it lost by
only one vote. House bill No. 62.
which the women opposed, was lost
in the process of sitting, which fact
the women are happy over.
Women S Influence is felt more or
less in the passage of many Idaho
bills.
Mrs. Lewis H. Sweetser, wife of the
president OF the senate, played a com
splcuous part in the passage of am
Important measure Friday evening,
house bill No. 2S3, to provide for sep
arate maintenance of the wife even
though mot divorced. when it is inn
possible for husband and wife to tive
together. A number of the senators
had assailed the bill as unfair to the
husband. The roll was called on the
final passage. 1t resulted in a tie-1O
ayes aid 10 nays. 1t was up to Presi-
dent SWeetser to cast the deciding
vote. He remarked that his wife was
present, standing in the door of the
s. room, therefore he voted
Yes. The vote was greeted with ap-
Statesman.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09

recognized by the farmers around Ida
no Falls more than amy other section
OF the valley. and less by the Black
.oot farmers. A buyer can get train
loaals of what are termed Idaho Rural
around Idaho Falls, OF which it is
almost impossible to get half dozen
cars OF one variety in amy ouher Sec
tion. The Idaho Rural comes nearer
to FILLING the demand for a choice
potato than any other grown locally.
AS an example, the o. S. l.. dining
car people had been buying their DO
tatoes l1f Blackfoot, for a number of
years, but when they went to Idaho
Falls and saw the Id-ho Rurals. they
bought twelve cars at big premium
over the market for common stock.
The Rur-l potato growing has
brought about a condition that did
not formerly exist, hnd is not gen.
erally understood by the farmers, and
taat is: the Kansas. Texas, Montana,
and ether buyers. will specify in their
orders where to- ship from and THAT
Is Idaho Falls, or they want Idaho
Rarals. They have recognized the
d'iferen ce i'm the quality of potatoes
from dlffere'..t sections ct Idaho, and
VIII not pay "a high price for pota-
toes from some other localities.
Your Blackfoot farmers should be
able to grow las good potatoes as
amy other part OF the valley, amid can
GO $40 by getting the right kind Of
seed and using proper methods of
cultivation. The fact that he is able
to get some person to- buy door DO
tatCes without kicking, does mot in
dictate that his stock lis desirable or
the purchaser is his friend. On the
contrary, the buyer is his aiccomplice
iii roibbing his own pocket book, and
Incidentally the pocket books of all
poidato growers, by putting on the
market potatoes that makes am Ida
irCtJn turn black in the face with
morulfication, when he meets them
away from home.
Idaho is getting IA good reputation
Tor shipping all good potatoes from
some sections, but in order to main-
tain this good reputation, we must
ship all good potatoes, from all Sec
tions. Tihe farm ers have the keys,
1Td it is up to them to unlock
Mouher Earths bountiful doors, and
bring forth fancy Idaho Runa.s, and
-he shippers will do the rest.
Yours truly
T. l. HUBBELL, Manager,
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
SALES THAT AMOUNT TO
LARGE SUMS HERE

Last week E. M. Kennedy, the auc-
tloneer, sold the first piece of real
estate ever sold at public auction,
not a sheriff's sale, in Blackfoot, and
brought the parties Interested a neat
sum OF money for their trouble 1t
was the home and personal effects of
Peter H. Anderson and wife. The
house and lots brought $1,275, start
ing at $500, and being jumped to that
amount with bids of $1OO each. The
entire sale brought $1,000. Many peo
pie thought that there would be side
bids by friends of the parties, but
Mr. Kennedy, who is believer in
square aealhng;y did ~not permit any
frame up on the sale.
On Thursday last a large number
CT Blackfoot people ATTENDED the
Wood sale, near Shelley, which was
also conducted by Mr.. Kemaedy. This
was stock sale, and many fine
horses were disposed of. Mr.. Wood,
who located cn the farm near Shell
ley about Cne year ago, found it
necessary to return to his former
home and therefore decided to dis
pose of his entire effects here. One
fine Clyde m1re sold for 1926, the
highest price any mare has ever been
sold for in this valley, while a driv--
ing team brought around the $4OO
mark and were purchased by w. A.
Younie.
Wednesday thel Frank Just sale was
conducted by Mr.. Kennedy. This sal
is one of the largest held lin this part
of the country, being principally
stock, and ran close to the $1,000
mark. The crowd was large, but they
were "a good feeling bunch. as they
always are, and stock c,-d goods went
at face values. Horses brought from
$235 each, down, ana cows, being Jer
sey stock, sold from $77 down. This
WIS no exception, though, from the
Alvin Berg sale held few days ago,
as horses, cattle and everything sold
we'll, and aS usual, the crowd was
large, regardless of the bad weather.
A square deal always brings business
and sales conducted by Mr.. Kenme-
dy always bring satisfactory results,
as he does not take sales with cappe
bids ON the side.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
,...,..sF. - a !. - ls-ssg.s ~
THREATENS AN
EXTRA SESSION
He ALLEGES THAT THE APPRO-
PRIATlONS MADE BY LEGiSLA-,
TURE EXCEED CONSTITUTIONS
AL LIMITATIONS,

Before final adjournment of the
eleventh session of the Idaho 1egis-
lature this afternoon Governor Haw-
ley gave its members several bad
hours of worry under the threat to
cau the legislature into extra session.
the allegation thst the appropriations
made by the legislature exceeded the
constitutional limitation which mnder
the amendment to that instrument
adopted by the people six years ago
Is 10 mills on the dollar of valuation
Of the state.
The members were clearly worried
about the situation and therte was
cOnkSide rable discussion as to whether
1t would be best to rem-lan i'm Boise
and let the extra session be called
at once Or to adjourn and let the
governor call the members back with
In ten days or such matter. 1t
was decided to withhold motion for
final adjournment until it could be
decided by the governor whether the
extra session should be called Rt once
or only after a few days for the pur-
pose Of passing am appropriation bill
which would come within the inhibi-
tici,, of the constitution.
But some of the inquisitive men,
bers got to doing some figuring and
these figures soon caused it to dawn
upon them that the appropriations
made by this legislature both by di-
rect ttaN-tion and for bond issues
were very well Within the constitu-
tionaa limitation upon their power.
They nEcretained that the total valu-
alton of the state is $127156,07556
and that a 10-mill levy would permit
a tax of $1,271 $50 annually, whereas
the legislature has provided for a
direct tax of but 5000, 1000 per aanum,
which is levy OF but seven mills
on the DOLLAR or three mills less than
the maximum allowed. There are
other taxes required for interest and
sinking fund purposes for bonds. but
the supreme court has already held
that these taxes do not run against
the constitutional limit which is made
only for general purposes of the state
After this became known many
members declared that the talk of the
governor was all political buncombe,
made for political effect and that he |
lsd never seriously considered calling
In extra session and that he would /
lot dare commit political blunder d:
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
NOTICE OF CAUCUS
AND MASS MEETING

Notice lis hereby given that there
will be held in the respective wards
on Friday evening, at 8 O'clock pm,
caucuses for the nomination Of coun-
cilmen to be ratified at mass meeting
to be held at court house on Monday
evening, March 18th, for the purpose
of dominating an entire city ticket
for the general municipal election to
be held Within said city on Tuesday,
April 4, 1911.
R. N. WEST, Mayor.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE
COURT HOUSE

Some needed improvements have
BEEN going ON at the court house this
1Yek. The court reporters office has
been repapered, enlarged and n fine
new carpet added to beautify the
room.
A corner in the garnet has been
fitted up for a jury room and made
fixtures. These were all improve
memts ordered by the old board of
commissioners and came as somewha
CT a surprise to the present commits
SiOnerS.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09

pose, taking lease on the new builc
ing ror term. Of two years. The
oulDddng will be built exclusively for
show house and will be a move in
the right direction, provided that a
stage Is added and accommodations
made for both pictures and travelling
troupes, as many complaints are
made relative to the exorbitant prices
now chlarged by the management of
the Auditorium for the use of that
play house, and competition might
tend to give to the theatre1goers "a
higher class of entertainments for
their money. 1t is understood that
James H. Hunter lis negotiating for
the purchase of additional frontage
adjoining Mr.. Johnson's purchase,
and ii this deal is consumated am
other building will be constructed.
The unsig'htly old fire traps that ARE
OWNED an'd kept by people able to
build, cannot pass any too quickly
to suit the majority of residents, Re-
ports are current that upon her re-
turn Mrs. W. C. johnson will tear
down the old, decaying brick and
frame structure in the rear of the
State Bank and erect room there
fof modern barber shop, leasing the
same to Daffin & Collins. And now
Is the winter of Blackfoot's discon-
tents made glorious springtime by
these progressive moves. Let it
never cease.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
IN POSSESSION OF
BAKERY AGAIN

Frank Seigel, who sold the Idaho
Bakery about two months ago to Otto
Myerdang, has taken possession Of
the bakery again, Mr.. Myerding not
making the payments as agreed upon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seigel are now con-
ducting the place of business and
their many friends will be glad to
know that they are at the old stand
again.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
NEW REAL ESTATE FIRM

c. F. MOlden and J. d. Kent have
formed a partnership for the pur-
pose of conducting a real estate
business. Their office is located in
the room at the rear of thet State
Bank. These gentlemen are both
hustlers and should make "a strong
team / n this business.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
THE ROSS FORK ROAD

The macadimizihg of the sandy
stretch on the Ross Fork road will
be IA. coed thing for this part of the
state. House Bill No. Al, by the
Bingham county delegation, providing
fer five niles of nlacadmized public
highway lin Bingham county and ap-
propraating $4,000 for that purpose,
has been signed by Governor Hawlsy.
-Rexburg Current-OJ Jurnal.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
CITY COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS
POLLING PLACES DESIGNATED
FOR CITY LECTION.-SEWER
FUNDS DIVIDED. - SIDEWALK
EXTENSIONS ORDERED,

AT the regular meeting of the city
fathers Tuesday evening the follow
ing polling places were designated for
the general election to be held Tues
day, April 4:
First Ward-Co1mer of East Main
and Pacific streets.
Second 'WaId-COurt house.
Third Ward-Armory building,
Fourth Ward-City hall.
1t was ordered that the money now
available for sewer extensions be
divided equally among the respect
i've wards AMID that the extensions be
deshgnated at some future time.
The matter of sidewalk extensions
was next in order and after some
discussion, it was ordered that the
walk be extended on the west side
OF Taylor street south to Kennedy
Addition No. q also from Dippels
corner, south along the east side of
Spruce street to Ewing school,; also
along south slide of East Bridge
street, from the john r. Rogers prop
erty, e2st to Central school, and also
any other portions that the street
and alley committee may deem ad-
visable
These extensions are not yet cov-
cred by sidewalk districts, but will
be included in the new districts now
being drawn up by the city engineer.
1t WAS ordered that the street and
alley committee, together with the
street commissioner, ascertain the
amount of pipe necessary to replace
the wooden fumes NOW i'm use at
streets crossings, and order same at
an early date.
1t was deemed advisable that steps
be taken to protect the city agains
the poor sidewalk work, also local
dealers and laborers for the pay
ments due them and avoid a repeti-
'NSAA VI A'S0S yOAA OAPCipCiICc, ~ Uu0
council ordered the city attorney to
draft an ordinance providing for the
furnishing of bond in the sum of
$1,000 for the faithful performance Of
work ON the sidewalks and
crossings, and for the payment for
and labor. The bond is to
be given for one year.
The chief of police was ordered to
give notice to the West Side Ditch
to place a bridge across
their ditch at alley crossing, center
IT block 124, Danilson's First Supple
nent.
1t was ordered that the sidewalk
along the west side of Stout avenue
adjoining the Burrell, RowIles and
lockwood properties, be raised high
enough to prevent its draining and
holding the water from the ditch
The regular monthly reports Of Of
icers were audited and ordered tiled
und the usual monthly bills allowed.
Mrs. Summer C. Brown was grant
ID permit to erect brick addt
ION, 24x28 feet, to her residence,
aid addition to cost approximately
400.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
LIFE CLUB
TO BE ORGANIZED

Miss Alice Beach, superintendent
of public instruction, left Tuesday for
Ashton, where she will organize a.
country life club, Miss Beach is
giving considerable attention to this
line of work and is thereby making
the commissions s effort felt.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09

blackIOCG, ldahO.
Gemtlemen:-
l haWe become SO disgusted here
trylng to market Blackfoot potatoes
that ! Thought best to write you "a
few lines on the subject, and wish
you would have them publish in a
local paper SO that your potato grow
ers with few exceptions) may
KNEW the facts about their potatoes
mot what they imagine the facts
are.
Gers 9O65 and $685. rejected, po-
tatoes rough, rotten ends, deep eyed,
showing stock run out, had to be as
sorted. OF the shipment to one party,
seven cars were from Blackfcpt. and
I'll have been rejected on account of
the deep eyed rough stock. As l am
On the ground and have to inspect
these cau's with the purchaser. l have
to acknowledge there is Justice in
their reflections. These reflections
bring heavy losses. but our loss in
reputation Es reliable shippers of
good potatoes is far greater.
To give your farmers a better
idea of the differaece i'm potatoes,
from different localities of the Snake
river valley, l shall have to bring
in Idaho Falls for comparison, and
! do not think it should be Thought
this article is written from a preju-
diced point of view, as our financial
interests are greater tn Blackfoot than
Idaho Falls.
We have shipped over eighty cars
here since my coming to Los Angles.
fourteen cars mixed varieties from
Blackfoot, of which mine have been
rejected forty-five cars Idaho Rurals,
one car Rurals rejected ON account of
dry rot from cut potatoes, and three
cars Russetts rejected on account of
rotten ends, which has been very bad
in the RusSetts this season.
The potato business has changed
in Idaho in the past
three or four years. and the great de-
mand for carloads of potatoes of one
variety. and u2iform size. has been
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09

Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Robethan
returned Monday from San Francisco.
where they spent several weeks.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09

Just received, at A l.. Hugh's, new
and up-to-dste line of hat pins, belt
buckles and jewelry.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
FORT HALL TRACT
SCENE OF ACTIVITY
~
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS PRE-.
PAIRING FOR RESUMPTION OF
WORK IN EARLY 8 PRlNc.-
lEAks WILL BE REPAIRED.

\ Associated Fress dispatch to the
tribune from Washington today saws
1nat all the big appropriation bills
got through congress before adiounn+
Aent, which is accepted to mean that
y the Indian appropriation bill, carryina
$so,ooc tor the completion of the
Fort Hall project, was successful. elnf
that the money will be available for
use this spring.
Ross Fork, March 4.-(SpectaID-
The mild weather is causing "a stir
among the government irrigating en-
gineers and officials in charge of the
Fort HILL project who are looking for
, ward to AN early resumption of work
the canals and later,als OF the sys-
hat is to supply water for irri-
/ fcr the INDIAN lands of the
a,ion as well as for the lands
aY the whites around Poca-
onNte a little damage to canals
befoAy the h Ugh water in Janu-
Of 'raMy in the vicinity of Glib
that' where small section of
bur was completely washed out.
sIloney left over from the last
.fopriation will take care of this,
however, and work will Begin just
as soon as the frost is out Of the
ground
A straw vote taken at the agency
:. q ShcTt time ago showed a total of
over "a hundred white people residing
in and about the agency, more than
ever before and a greater number
than was expected.
Major Estep, the new agent, is
and bids fair to become at least as
popular with the red men of the res
ervation as Major Caldwell, who pre-
ceded him.
The high water in Januany and
some of the heavy traction engines
that have passed over the road have
. combined in destroying most of the
SMALLER bridges in this part of the
country. The bridge just south of
the station, which has always been
locked after by BaHnOck county, on
account of being so near the Bannock
county Eule, is nearly out and needs
repairing, and the people at the agen-
cy are i'm hopes that the board of
commissioners of Bannock county wit
look into the matter at an early date.
1t lis rumored arolrmd the agency
that C. E. Thum & Co., the post trad
ers, would retire from business if the
right party came along willing to
take over the business. The health
of Mr. Pyke and his family demand
a chsmge, it is said, and after many |
years of successful handling of the |
agency trade with the Indians, this |
firm would be willing to withdraw
POcalttellO Tribune.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-03-09
TROUBLE WITH 1''7'7'7
THE SPUDS
LETTER FROM LARGE POTATO
DEALER EXPLAINS SITUATION
RELATIVE TO POTATOES FROM
BINGHAM COUNTY.

The following letter from T. I.
Hubbeu. general manager of the Hub.
bell system of glraIin elevators, gives
a little information relative to the
gay and festive spud as she lis grown
In this county and the difficulty of
marketing them:
Los Angeles. Feb. 20. 1911.
Blackfoot Grain & Produce Co.,
Blackfoot, Idaho.
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Continued on page 81
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-10
.STOtYPIN FOUND
POLICE GRAF IS
And That is Reason For
Murder Evidence
Indicates.
Seats Back Of Minister
Were Kept Vacated by
.Ifs Police.
Ry united rre.- WIRE.

ST. Petersburg, oct. 10.-That Pre-
mier Stolypin was assassinated as a
result of his discovery Of enormous
gratis in the secret police department.
lis strongly Indicated by the evidence
brought out during the investigation
of the murder.
d On sthes eve of his death Stolypin
isked General Kourloff, chief of tn ,
sec cret police, TO account for $45O,000
which his department had received
and for which no account had been
rendered.
On the night of the murder Stoly-
pins aide -de-camp was refused adj
mission to the opera by order of the
police and five seats behind the pre-
mier were kept vacant in order, II
is believed, that the assassin might
have a clear view of his victim.
After the shooting NJ. Spiridovitch,
next in command to General Kour-
|1off. made desperate effort to kill
Bogroff. 1t is charged that he wished
to get rid of a very dangerous ac-
compiled who might be induced to
confess and implicate the exalted In
stigators of his crime.