The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-01-18
NITIIITI[IIIlllIIITIITll[1lII
When Blackfoot
Was Younger
Observation-Disclosures

. Thru the courtesy of w. H
Stufhebeam we have a copy of The
Idaho Herald, dated May 1, 1885
, that reflects the business life o.
Blackfoot at that time. 1t was pub
lished by George N. Crawford, the
printing house being located about
where the Rowles-Mack store is
now According to the volume Label
! of the paper it had been published
one year and a month, and consisted
, of four pages of home print.
On the front page was a story en-
!, titled Luck and Omens," copied
from the New York Sun, telling
about the superstitious notions OF
good many prominent Wall street
men, how they walked on a certain
side of certain streets, stood at a
certain place on the ferry boat every
trip, and lot of other vital things.
Another article taken from the
Carson Index told about Senator
Jones of Nevada sitting in a cloak
room with other senators talking
about bimetalism, and Senator Hoar
and Senator Edmunds were talking
against the silver standard and
Senator Jones was defending it..
They said it was worth only IS cents
and the rest of it was government
endorsement, and each was trying
to prove his point. A page entered
the room with telegram for Sena-
tor Jones, and said that the mes
senger boy was waiting outside for
Is cents change due on the tele-
gram.
| Senator Jones handed him
silver dollar and said, TELL the
messenger there is a dispute among
the senators as to whether this dol
lor is worth IS cents or 100 cents;
! Senators Hoar and Edmunds
claim it is worth only IS cents, and
| If they are right I shall expect only
| 70 cents in change, but If 1 am right
| in my contention that it is worth
100 cents, then I shall expect IS
cents in change. We will let the
messenger settle the matter, shall
we gentlemen And they agreed
to it.
When the page returned, Senator
Jones was handed IS cents and the
page hesitated little. Ibid you de-
liver my message just as I told
your" he asked. eyes SIR" said the
page; "And what did he say?"
asked the senator. HE said that
them old buffers were the biggest
fools he ever heard Of that he was
willing to take silver dollars for 100
cents apiece, and the only trouble
was he could not get enough Of
them"
On that part of the newspaper
where this story ended, was one of
oh fhof nrin
to fill up a blank space when lock-
ing the forms for the press, and it
said, 1.-THE Herald, SO a year"
Near that was an item saying that
the British government had just
placed an order with German firm
to print $50 million postal cards,
and another item saying that Yale
and Harvard were competing to see
which could find the greatest num-
Der of English words ending in
"dous.''
Another article explained that
there was danger of an Indian out
break in western Idaho and eastern
Oregon and Washington because by
the treaty existing, all parties used
the ranges alike, and whenever any
Indian horses disappeared, the 1
Indians suspected the whites, and .
when any of the white mems stock ]
it was laid to the I
Indians. Nobody seemed to recog- {
nize the fact that there were stock I
thieves on both sides who ought to
be dealt with, and an occasional
clash threatened to become general. ]
There was much talk among the S
of rounding up the !
Indian horses and showing them {
across the border into Canada, thus t
setting the Indians afoot.
The front page advertising !
showed DaniIson & Stevens whole /
sale and retail dealers in general r
dry goods, groceries, s
boots, shoes, clothing, furnishing G
goods, drugs and notions, builders
hardware and farming implements. I
rhe printers indicator set in fine Il
ype at the bottom read "feb20tf," t
which showed the printing house j
orce that the advertisement started {
February 20 and was to run till for F
i'd. i;
Fred J. Keisel & Co., of Ogden, F
wholesale groceries,,
liquors, tobaccos and cigars, stand s.
I'd teas, packages and bulk; were O
gents for all the most celebrated +
reweries in the United States, have G
fine line of candies in pals and Fl
oxes, and contemplate arranging A
, take produce from country mer- H
hants. The printers indicator P
cad "1-1-tf' which meant that it A
tarted the first of the year and was T
, run without change till forbid. j
The q. G. M. I. (Zions Co-opera- c.
We Mercantile Institution,) Soda tt
prings branch, Herbert Horseley, T
announces lot of things D
/ general merchandise and features
lbs. granulated sugar for 81, IL al
IS. Golden G for 81; 10 lbs. Caro- lii
ma rice, lbs. Arbuckle's coffee, O
IS. q. G. M. 1. coffee, lbs best Rio
)ffee, lbs. raisins or 8 lbs, dried of
lrrants for 81. tn
w. F.. Fisher tells of his general st
lerchandise at Oxford, Bingham of
,unty, Idaho, and uses the lingo, w
boots and shoes, hats and caps, Is
our and feed"
William B. Thews & Co. of Malad th