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Newspaper
Blackfoot News
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1900
Page
5
A collage of local notes from Blackfoot and nearby areas. Mentions plans for a January inaugural ball in Boise City, social events, marriages, school milestones, weathered health updates, and ongoing rail and business developments. Includes smallpox cases in Butte, Oregon Short Line improvements, local officials, and commercial notices.
The incoming legislature faces important tasks but must avoid bartering and special favors. The news urges fair, clear, and careful action on matters including the U S Senator election ratification, the Pocatello convention, Coeur d Alene expenses, and code commission work, aiming for laws that are plain and enduring.
Shoshone county representatives will go to Boise in January to press for dividing the county and creating Clearwater as a new county. The north and south sections are said to be unable to unite in business affairs, with no clear political gain for either side. Last election showed near parity between McKinley and Bryan electors and a small Fusionist majority county ticket, suggesting the new county's creation is likely.
Totals show McKinley 7,238,130 and Bryan 6,360,530 in November with Barker Middle-of-the-road Populist 54,813 Debs 73,470 and Wooley 157,000. 1896 results had McKinley 7,104,779 and Bryan 6,502,925, giving a 603,504 plurality that year and 877,600 in 1900.
The Old Spencer Horse Ranch of about 730 acres and about eight cubic feet of water per second, is still for sale. In quire of FP. S. Drerrick, Pocatello, Ida. "White House' Mocha and Java coffee, were better, sold by Holbrook.
The Nez Perce have just received a general government fiat payment of 40000 dollars for lands ceded from their reservation. Each person gains up to 800 in cash and 80 to 160 acres in trust, with land valued at about 20 per acre and rental income of 3 to 5 per acre, giving a family of five an annual income ranged from 1000 to 1500 dollars.
A young man in Bingham County asks during Thanksgiving week about a killer’s punishment after a man is jailed for assault on a little girl. The piece contrasts US justice with Judge Lynch’s brutal view of death by hanging shooting or burning.
Fred Howard, arrested Thanksgiving morning for criminal assault on 13-year-old May Baker of Marysville in Fremont County, faced a preliminary examination before Judge Malden. Prosecution led by Jno. W. Jones Jr, defense by W. J. Lamme. Howard held for district court trial on $2,000 bond, not posted, in jail. This offense is said to be the first of its kind reported in Blackfoot, with community alarm at such crimes.
An adjourned term of the district court will begin at Blackfoot next Monday. Some matters from the regular October term could not be settled then and were docketed for the adjourned term next week.
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment advertised as a tested remedy for a distressing condition. Sold in bottles for 50 cents and tubes for 75 cents at Pioneer drug store.
Blackfoot Idaho notice states that at a November 20 1900 board meeting assessment No 14 of two dollars per share was levied on capital stock payable to treasurer J W Clendenin. Unpaid stock by December 31 1900 becomes delinquent and will be sold at public auction. if needed parcels will be sold January 26 1901 to cover the assessment.
Open round trip fare to all stations within 250 miles. Valid December 23 24 25 30 31 and January 1. return by January 3. No stopovers allowed in either direction.
A listing promotes Parlor Quoits Fish Ponds and Parlor Croquet for long evenings. Ads highlight Palace Drug Store Bromangelon dessert jelly at Holbrook's and farm loan avenues with Lindsay Co Idaho Falls or O. P. Smith Blackfoot.
A yearly subscription to The Youths Companion is pitched as the ideal Christmas present. Buyers can add the 1901 Puritan Girl Calendar, a 12 color portrait of a Plymouth Puritan maiden, with the gift. The offer includes free remaining 1900 issues upon subscription and a printed certificate of subscription for display on Christmas morning. An illustrated announcement of the 1901 volume is sent with sample copies.
The Twice-a-Week Republic is published every Monday and Thursday and available for $1 a year. It covers political, domestic and foreign affairs, markets, and general commerce, with stories and information valued by both men and women. Address Republic St. Louis, Missouri.
William H. Watson of Blackfoot received a check for 245.00 from the cubde counthry as his first Christmas gift in 1900. The article notes the timing is early but praise the gesture as a cheerful forerunner to the holiday and extends congratulations to Mr and Mrs Watson.
An advertisement touts Krause's Cold Cure as a fast acting remedy that avoids head or hearing effects unlike quinine. It claims quick cure and clear headed feeling, priced at 25 cents and sold by Hull & Woodruff.
A concise quoted proclamation from Franklin warns that spending more on rent than advertising is a faulty policy and urges merchants to publicize their business to succeed.
The text argues the South remains loyal to the Democratic party while Republicans push resolutions in Congress to weaken it. Such moves risk firing back against the South and the party, likening infighting to a harmful, dual-reaction gun and to the poison of sectionalism.
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