The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-01

bable scene of the next worlds
championship bout, under the aus
pices of the Athletic club of Poca-
tello.
A Funny Incident
A New York newspaper man wish
ing to slur the audacious little west
ern city that had the nerve to an
nounce that it was in the race for
the big bout, sent the following tele-
gram to R. S. Sheridan, proportion
of the Evening Capital News at
Boise, Idaho:
Where in HI is Pocatello,
Idaho?"
Mr.. Sheridan wired back, ''Po-
catello is long way from Ii,
and you will have plenty of informa-
ton as to its location from now
on"
Put up Fifty-Thousand Dollars
J. Bobb Brady was present at
Wednesdays meeting at Pocatello
and said he had enough faith in the
great benefits to be derived for his
town and state, to be willing to put
a substantial sum into the guaranty
fund, and said he had been advised
that the citizens of Pocatello would
put up as much as he did, and he
laid a draft for $4,000 on the table
to start the fund. Billy Trap, one
of the older residents Of the town
responded, saying that he was as
good sport as Mr.. Brady, but he
had somewhat less money, but he
took pleasure in putting up what
seemed to him about in proportion
to his fortune as compared with Mr..
Brady's and rendered 500, to-
gether with a heart full of faith and
enthusiasm. He said he expected
to get it all back thru the sales of
seats land also expected to get it
back ten tmies over thru increased
business and development of the
Gem State.
Read Everything About Idaho
In Mr.. Spangler's work of the
publicity bureau, he will devote
much space to telling the people of
scenery of the west and of Idaho
in particular 1.-THE fine fishing and
hunting, the great irrigation pro-
jects, the chances to make homes
and farms and to get stock ranches,
to make investments and to go into
business, to develop resorts from
the natural resources and all the
multiplicity things weird, strang
and wonderful with which the west
abounds.
The Case of Reno
When a white man and negro
fought at Reno, Ney. nine years ago,
the little city was taxed to it's capac-
,ity and a thousand times over.
People slept in the open, and every
where. One thousand and ten pull
man sleerers were packed on the
sidings of the town, and autos were
banked everywhere. Pocatello can
take care of it's visitors a hundred
times better than Renon did, and
the Oregon Short Line have track
age where they can store an un-
limited number of sleepers. They
will clear their yards and sidings
for the event, and be prepared to
bring in special trains in squadrons
from all directions, planting them
in their ample yards. People will
bank their autos for miles along the
streets and roads centering on Brady
park, and for weeks before the
event, the city will be packed with
the fore-runners of the big bout
People will come into Idaho for
many days, perhaps weeks, in ad-
vance and be sightseeing about
the neighboring counties, and after
it is over they will scatter out over
our irrigation projects and thru all
the mountain valleys and the Yellow
stone park. They will make the
circuit of the Pacific coast, and
Idaho will be getting |
pages and blocks of advertising in |
the press and in millions Of little |
groups of people talking of the big |
bout and Of what they will see or
what they expect to see on their
tour of the west.