The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-07-27
BIG STAMPEDE TO
BE HELD AT HENRY
New Dancing Pavilion
Special Restaurant
New Wells

Thursday, Friday and Saturday Of
the second week in August are the
dates of the stampede and stock
mems reunion at Henry, Idaho. situ-
ated at the eastern end Of the Black
foot reservoir.
Since our past publication on this
subject, the committee in charge
have made arrangements for the
erection of dancing pavilion
60x90 in size, and a restaurant with
capacity to handle the crowds that
are expected.
At the worlds fair at st. Louis
there was the Inside Inn and the
Outside Inn, and q person could be
nourished at either one. but at
Henry, everything will be on the In
side OF the grounds, and there are
abundant camping grounds with
shade, mineral springs, new wells
Just sunk and the Inside Inn close to
the grandstand. People are invited
to attend for three days and take
their own beds, tents and food, but
those that want to buy meals can do
so and have service at the frontier
restaurant on the inside, built ex-
pressly for the occasion.
This stampede is the connecting
link between the old and the new
the quaint and the modern, the
aboriginal and the civilized. This
reunion marks the turn OF the
century from the time the Rocky
Mountain Fur Trading company sent
out it's first hundred young men in
1922 to explore and to trade and
trap. In that company were men
whose deeds have caused their
names to be written for Ft. Bridger,
Walker Lake, John Gray's Lake,
Port Neuf river, Uierre's Hole, (Te-
ton Basin) Jackson Hole. Then
there were the Beer Springs now
known as Soda Springs, Henry s
Fort, Henry's Lake and Henry's
fork, and now the greatest assembl-
age of frontier things Is about to be
made at Henry by the artificial lake
made for irrigation. Henry's fort
was built in 1909 just below the
present town of st. Anthony, but 1t
was burned down in the long, long
ago. Captain Bonneville and his
expedition passed that way In 1888,
and n 1884 when in the region OF
the Blackfot reservoir he had boot
Logging experience and also lost the
. meat out of the cupboard by having
some Indians outwit the fellows in
charge of pack mule. 1t happened
in this way:
In Captain Bonneville's expedition
was a keg of alchool. They also had
a cask of honey, and honey and
alcohol mixed form very hot stun
which the Holland Dutch in America
call "mathiglon." After sampling
the product of the Beer Springs and
declaring that it was not the real
stuff and did not produce any more
effect than a blank cartridge, they
prepared some mathiglon and it had
the real kick. In fact it had too
much kick and there was trouble
and the hunters neglected to hunt
until they got entirely out of meat
Then small party went out, taking
a pack mule to bring in the meat
and after loading him with choice
cuts of the buffalo, they started for
camp and on the way were waylaid
by several Indians who fired volley
in their direction, stampeded the
mighty hunters, made them abandon
their mule and then the Indians took
him off to their camp on big trot
and feasted their own people, while
the white men in the mathiglor
camp went supperless to bed.
Visitors at Henry in August, 1922
may or may not find honey and other
hot stuff mixed, but they will, be able
to get plenty of fresh meat and
other nourishment at the Inside Inn
and people going up there camping
may be able to take supply of their
fresh fruits from the Snake river
farms to feed to the cowboys, COW.
girls and Indians to prove to them
that we have the fruits to match
their sweet cream.
The commissioners of Caribou