The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-07-24

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charges of treason or some act of
military occupation of neutral terri
tory which might involve the United
States in war.
When the order arrived it was
opened by Mrs. Fremont, who was
acting as his secretary. Fremont
was already on the road out in Kan
sas and the bride, seeming an at
tempt to forstall the objects of the
expedition, sent swift courier with a
message of love, in which she urged
him to press on as rapidly as possible
until he was far beyond the outposts
of civilization and beyond the Rocky
mountains. She limited at reason
but did not disclose it, and without
knowing what he was getting away
from, he daily put greater stretches
between his company and the United
States, not knowing he was expected
! in Washington but fearing all man
ner of things. There was much talk
in Washington of court marshal for
him and of punishment for his wife
who had dared to suppress govern
ment order, but Fremont was gone
and the senator's daughter enjoyed
a certain amount of protection by
being a women and by keeping them
guessing as to what became of the
order.
When Fremont camped at Ft. Hall
he made a sketch of the place and
buildings and reported upon the fora
of the Fl. Hall Bottoms. The Whit
man colony had gone through not
long ahead of them, and one of the
incidents of their passing was that
some teams got tangled in a crossing
of the Port Neuf, and Daniel Richard
son, the father of the Blackfoot man
we mentioned, warm and sweaty from
travel, plunged into the cold water
and untangled the stock, but received
chill that developed fever from
which he died on the third day while
at Fl. Hall. He left a wife and
three children, AlonZo being the
second child and less than two years
old. The husband and father was
buried there and the family went on
to Oregon. When he was twenty-one
years old he returned to Idaho with
the gold rushers, and in 1883 was
appointed clerk of the district court
at Blackfoot under Judge Berry who
came out from Clinton, Iowa, to re-
form the Mormons and others,
especially the Mormons.
During Mr. Richardson's residence
of two years in Blackfoot he sent a
party to Fit. Hall Bottoms to try to
locate his fathers grave, expecting
i to remove the remains. but they re-
turned with the report that OF IL
I the people said to have been buried
there, they could find no definite
trace or mark of any one. Forty
years had wrought its changes, and
the cottonwood stakes and posts
erected, or the scraps of wagon boxes
planted to mark the graves of loved
ones, had rotted and tumbled over
or been kicked about by the herds
of stock or used for kindling by the
campers.
Mr.. Richardson is clerk of the
court at Boise, and on Memorial Day
there is one grave he never finds.
, TT. Hall has moved three times
since then and what is now the main
store building at Fl. Hall, and bears
: the sign of Post Trader, was situated
for long time a mile and half up
Ross Fork creek above where is ii
now, and was the stage station for
Ben Holidays line. Another one OF
our Blackfoot men, w. N. Shilling
was post trader, station keeper and
telegraph operator there from 1876
until 1886, and was the man who
passed the news of the Custer Mas
sacre out to the world by wire In
June, 1876.
The telegraph line had been bull
through to Helena about the year
1854 or sc, and it was out of com.
mission between Ross Fork creek and
Pleasant Valley, now Monida, on the
summit of the Bitterroot range be.
tween Montana and Idaho. Lee Man
tie, who afterwards became United
States senator from Montana, was
tending the station at Pleasant Val
ley, and Shilling at Ross Fork at
the time of the fight between the
indians and Custer's command on
the Little Big Horn. Shilling had
been in Custer's brigade in the Civil
War, was taken prisoner at Gettys-
burg, was confined in Libby prison
and at Belle Isle, was exchanged and
again Joined his command, the First
Michigan cavalry, was with Custer
in Colorado up to November, 1866,
and eleven. years later licked off the
message telling the world that his