The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-16
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= closer and easier connections. He
spoke of the necessity of protecting
the homesteader in his rights to the
use of fish and game around his
place, and said that the principle OF
the two-mile limit law as applied to
herds ought to be applied voluntarily
by sportsmen instead of going thru
a mans fields and cleaning out his
trout and wild fowls just for sport
and leaving nothing for him. 1t was
unfair to the homesteader and de-
stroys not only his friendship, but q
part of his potential wealth which
others have but little moral right to
Mr.. Dubois has long been more or
less q national character, with his
home at Blackfoot, and Rotary felt
honored by his presence. For the
information of those who are not
familiar with his career we review
briefly his activities when he came
west. He came to Blackfoot in
August, 1880, with a working capital
of 1874. He remained here three
days and made an engagement with
stockmen to 60 with one of their
herds overland helping to drive
stock east. He invested his $34 in
things for the trip, went with them
as far as Cheyenne and there he
found three letters awaiting him,
offering him three different jobs If
he would come to BlackfoOt. He
took the train back and arrived here
the second time with about $34, and
took job herding government
stock Later he became United
States marshall, delegate in congress
for the territory, then representative
and senator.
In his address to Rotary he was
requested to review the matters per-
tanning to the reservation, which ran
about as follows:
Dubois Address
1t was in 1880 that my acquaint-
ance began with the Shoshones and
Bannocks and their affairs. At that
time there were only about 1000 of
them, and the reservation was much
larger than it is now. Since that
time their number on this reserva-
ton has been increased by the addi-
ton of about 400 from the Lemhi
reservation, and this reservation has
been reduced by the sale of strip
on the southern end in the region OF
nixon and McCammon, by the open
ing of 1910 acres for a townsite at
Pocatello, and later by what was
known as coded lands within a
radius of five miles of Pocatello,1
these latter amounting to $4,000
acres. All of these lands were pur-
chased from the Indians and they
were paid for them in forty semi
annual instalments, the money being
handled for them by the government.
This money was expended by theI
Indians in Blackfoot and Pocatellol
chiefly, and it made valuable ad-
dition to the trade volume of these
communities. A number of the
fortunes of today in these towns
have had for their start and a sub
stantial part of their continuity, the
rich Indian trade of those twenty
years. Some of the money was ex-
pended for the school on Lincoln
creek known as the Ft. Hall school
and all the supplies for the institu-
ton went out from Blackfoot for {
twenty or twenty-five years. Then
the new institution was built at the
present FIT. Hall, formerly known as
Ross Fork, and the benefits of trade
have been shared by Pocatello and
Following the opening of these
lands secured legislation providing
FOR the construction of the Black !
loot reservoir and canal system for
benefits accruing from the construc-