The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-01-10


following report, in company with
others, were out on the desert after
horses, and a man they called "Shep"
had his leg broken by the horse fall
ing with him. Others of the party
agreed to go to the settlement, some
fourteen miles distant, and return
with a vehicle to get him. They went
on to the settlement with the stock,
branded the movericks, drank to
their W good luck and forgot about
''Shep," or at least none of them ever
went for him. He crawled to the
settlement, dragging his broken leg.
We mention these things to show
the reader the spirit of the commun-
ity, so he can better appreciate the
feelings of the new settlers in deter
mining what they will do in their So
cial affairs.
Some of these new settlers, desiring
to give their young people a party.
engaged the Catron school house for
the purpose on the End of January,
invited whom they wished, placed a
piano in the building and at evening
received the guests. Mrs. Robert
Dietrich, a very cultured lady who is
a school teacher and mother of a
grown-up daughter, and Mrs. Parks.
wife of Representative John S. Parks,
who has been identified with most Of
the enterprise of storing water and
conducting it to the lands on the edge
of the desert acting as chaperons.
It goes without saying, that there
were people living in the adjacent
settlements who were not invited to
the party. and the events of the even
ing show how some of them felt about
1t and how their feelings governed
their conduct,
At ten o'clock when the party was
sums III uS oClOiCly 40 CHS udll dI
Brussels before Waterloo, the door
burst open and six half drunken men
stepped into the room with drawn re-
volvers leveled at the merrymakers.
The m of the intruders as given
by our informant are Ed. Ireland,
John Ireland, Sam Ireland, John
Flohr, John Skinner, Ralph Swan.
Each of them covered some member
of the dancing party with his gun,
and with brass knuckles proceeded
to mutilate the face of his victim.
Two or three of the boys showed
fight and were knocked down with
guns and kicked into insensibility
unless saved by some courageous
friend. Mrs. Parks interferred in
Mr.. Judy's behalf and was herself
beaten with the gun. Mrs. Dietrich
grabbed the school bell and beat the
ruffians owe the heads where ever
she could get to them, and her daugh-
ter fastened her fingers in the hair
of the ruffains and pulled until she
him off or got away with the
hair.
One of the boys of the party seized
a chair and floored three of the gun
men before he was overpowered.
Another young fellow vas scared so
lifeless that he sank on the floor
without being struck, crawled out of
the house and made his getaway.
The gun men finally guelled the pac-
made them drop the bell and
the chair and the tufts of hair and
back into the corners while they load
ed the piano into a wagon and drove
away.
The tragedy was enacted just out
side the boundaries of the precinct
In which Sweet Sage is located, and
over the line in Blaine county, max
ing it's perpetrators responsible to
the authorities at ArcO. The settle
are scattered about on both
sides of the county lines, and II pro-
solutions are started it may be diff
fcult to gather UP the offenders with
out appealing to both HALEY and St.
Anthony.
II such a case we're tried at Arco
1t would be possible to pack a jury
with friends and neighbors and run
ming mates of the offenders SO that
a verdict of acquittal would be GER
tain. It would also be possible to
MI the jury with men who would
take about the same views of Soc
ial privileges as the people who at
to give the party. In either
the contending parties would
probably find it more satisfactory to
take a change of venue to Blackfoot
or Mackay and all of this will help
to make taxes high and determine
whether or not the peace and dignity
the state extend as far as Arco
booze is carried into the interior.
The case NAV come IN Rlackfont for