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ST. ANTHONY, FREMONT COUNTY, IDAHO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1903.
NO. 44
A. K. Steuncnbcrg, G. E. Bowerman, 1
Cashier.
President.
First National Bank
( Charter No. 5764. )
We want your banking business and offer you every
facility consistent with good business methods.
Money to loan on approved security. Liberal advances
made to those wish to purchase cattle or sheep.
Office hours from 9 o clock to 4.
THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN FREMONT COUNTY.
The St. fliffiiotjy Baijkffig Co.
Accounts Ol ----- g
F armer«, Stockmen and VEerchants u
. _ Solicited. |
A General Banking and Collection business trans- |
acted. Interest paid on time deposits. 8
Every accommodation extended, consistent with ij
Sound Banking business. 2
A portion of your business respectfully solicited. I
I G. C. Baker, President. |
Oh, What a Snap.
Have you seen the Over-Shoes and the Flannel Waists
that the GOLDEN RULE STORE is selling below
Men's Captain Over-Shoes, were $2.00 now $1.50
Men's Lace Trogans Over-Shoes were 2.50 now 1.75
Men's 2-Buckle Per. Over-Shoes were 2.50 now 1.75
Men's 1-Buckle Per. Over-Shoes were 1.75 now 1.00
Ladies'Flannel Waists that were 2.50 now 1.95
Ladies' Flannel Waists that were 2.00 now 1.40
Ladies'Flannel Waists that were 1.75 now 1.25
Ladies'Flannel Waists that were 1.25 now 1.00
lost y
THE GOLDEN RULE STORE.
Clothing*, Boots
and Shoes at
Per cent, off for
this week ONLY.
COME EARLY.
AT THE
HUB.
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ST- ANTHONY TRANSFER LINE
All kinds of light and heavy hauling.
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REVIEW OF BUSINESS DONE.
hirty-five Days of Ses
sion Over—Will End
About March 5.
The Idaho legislature is now on the
short end of the session. When they
A up the work of the week they had
eady completed thirty-five days of
the sixty day session. The session will
d Thursday, March 5, though the
legislature can continue as long as they
ish without further pay. The work
the session will now come on with a
sh, for as a matter of fact very little
s been actually concluded. The sum
ary of the work is as follows:
Governor Morrison has signed three
bills as follows:
House bill No. 1 by Jensen, appropri
ating $50,000 for expenses of the legisla
tive session.
Senate bill No. 53, by Allen, increas
g the power of independent school dis
ricts to bond for improvements a sum
not exceeding eight per cent of the as
tssed value of the property of the dis
trict, instead of a maximum of four per
ent.
House bill No. 11 by Jensen, providing
for payment of deficiency claims against
the Pocatello academy.
BILLS PASSED THE SENATE.
The following bills have duly passed
the senate:
Senate bill No. 1 by Smith, appropri
ating $15,000 to aid in the construction
of a bridge over the Snake river at Wei
r, Washington county.
Senate bill No. 4 by Yost, amending
potion 1 of the act authorizing divorces
cases of insanity and regulating the
duties of district attorneys therein.
Senate bill No. 5 by Oaton, providing
that county printing and binding of the
veral counties be done within the
fate.
Senate bill No. 8 by Brigham, chang
:g term of directors of independent
I'hool districts from six to three years.
Senate bill No. 13 by Evans, provid
g that transient stocks from other
jates be assessed for a full year's taxes.
Senate bill No. 15 by Heath, amend
g section 84 of the school law and
nthorizing trustees of independent dis
tricts to levy tax for school maintenance
Of not exceeding 20 mills instead of 10
ills.
Senate bill No. 10 by Keifer, requiring
transient stock to remain outside the
s;ate line until inspected under quaran
tine regulations, instead of entering two
files within the state.
Senate bill No. 19 by Evans, making
unlawful for a member of the legisla
te to accept an office created by the
legislature during the term of the mem
Senate bill No. 21 by Eckert, appro
priating $5000 to open a trail road from
the Goff Ferry on the Salmon river to
central Idaho mining districts.
Senate bill No. 27 by Stevenson, au
thorizing social or religions organiza
tions to mortgage or sell property by
consent of a majority of the membership
present at meeting.
Senate bill No. 33 by Allen, providing
hat independent school districts may
vote to bond the district for improve
ments to an amount not exceeding 8 per
lent of the value of the assessable prop
erty, instead of 3 per cent.
Senate joint memorial No. 1 by state
affairs committee asking congress for an
appropriation for a surrey along the
Idaho-Montana line.
Senate joint resolution No. 1 by Evans
providing that the finance committee of
the house and appropriation committee
of the senate constitute a joint appro
priation committee, to prepare the gen
eral state appropriation hill and present
it on or before the 35 th day of the ses
sion.
Senate concurrent resolution No. 2, by
Evans, providing for a committee of five,
two of the senate and three of the house,
to visit and investigate the Blackfoot
insane asylum.
Out of the 114 bills introduced in the
house 10 have been passed: viz: Jensen's
bill to provide for the payment of mem
bers and officers; Jenkins' bill taxing
mines; Black's bill lor the relief of Al
bert Small; Jensen's bill to provide for
the deficiencies of the Pocatello Acad
emy ; Reid's bill for tiie remarriage of
divorced people; Werner's bill to regu
late the purchase and sale
goods; Moore of Fremont
state industrial school
of stocks of
to create a
in Fremont
county; by Willis making it a misde
ineanor to issue checks or drafts on a
bank where no funds are on the credit
for the payment of the same , by Eich
enberger authorizing the board of par
DRIVING
RABBITS
Between 3,000 and 4,000 Bun
nies Clubbed to Death.
HELD AT MARKET LAKE LAST SATURDAY
Market Lake held it annual rabbit
drive on Saturday, Feb. 14th. About
five hundred men and boys rounded
up between 5,000 and 0,000 rabbits, and
clubbed between 3000 and 4000 of them
to death. The balance broke through
the lines and, many of them wounded,
scurried trembling back into hiding in
the sage brush.
As an exhibition of sheer brutality
the rabbit drive is probably without a
parallel. Destructive as the rabbit is
to growing crops, to young orchards and
even to hay stacks, it is the most timid
of creatures, the most innocent in ap
pearance. To see four or five hundred
men and boys, wild with excitement
and yelling like mad men, drive two or
three thousand of these trembling little
animals into a corral and ruthlessly
club them to death seems cruel indeed.
It was a beautiful day for the drive..
Four or five inches of snow covered the
ground and a temperature hovering
about the zero made the air bite keenly.
The sun shone, dimmed by a frosty haze
that hid the towering Tetons on the
east and through which the mountain
ranges fifty miles to the west loomed
dimly. The valley of the grand old
Snake here is seventy-five miles wide, a
level sage brnsh plain throngh which
(he river flows, bank full. Here is
neither market or lake, spite of the
name of village but there are farms re
claimed in the midst of the rank sage
brush, where the rabbits breed with
such fearful fecundity that for all their
innocent appearance it is not an un
usual thing for a green growing field to
be made to look like a main traveled
road over night.
The drive was unquestionably ex
citing. The whole population of that
part of the country turned out. They
came from Menan and Lewisville by
the sled loads, most of the schools in
bodies. There were visitors from Po
catello, from Blackfoot, from Idaho
Falls, from Butte, from Rexbnrg and
from St. Anthony. The 500 men and
boys who participated in the drive were
sent out in tbx-ee divisions, distinguished
by red, white and black banners and
were hauled in sleds and lined up in a
great semi-circle which had an extent
of about three miles and which at the
tail points was about a mile and a half
from the stockyards, which was the
dons to parole juvenile offenders before
being committed.
Senator Allen of Canyon county has
the honor of securing the enactment of
the first law made during the session,
outside of the appropriation measures
and a few joint resolutions. Senate bill
No. 33 by Allen is the new law and it
authorizes independent school districts
to vote a levy up to 8 per cent of the
valuation of the property of the district
to make school house improvements.
Under the old law the limit was 4 per
cent. The Allen bill carried an emer
gency clause, and became a law last
week when the governor signed it.
The house bills killed in the house
No. 8 by White of Idaho—Regulating
the organization and operation of build
ing and loan associations.
No 27 by Moore of Idaho - Asking an
appropriation for a bridge over Salmon
river at Goff.
No, 32 by- Anderson of Shoshone—Re
ducing the value of homestead exemp
tions.
No. 37 by Moore of Idaho—Placing
the sale of liquor under state control.
No. 43 by Eichelberger of Ada Re
gulating the width of wagon tires on
public highways
No. 54 by Galloway- of Washington
Regulating the collection of special
taxes.
License for Live Stock.
Representative Galloway of Washing
ton proposes that the stock ranges in
Idaho shall be preserved for the home
makers of the state, and with that ob
ject in view be has introduced a bill
compelling the owners of cattle, horses
and sheep, who do not possess land
within the state sufficient to cover their
stock under the provisions of the law
to pay license in proportion to the stock
they own. The ownership of one acre
of land entitles the possessor to graze
j twenty-five head of sheep or five head
• of cattle or horses without license, thus
giviug the homesteader full protection
Every person engaged in the raising,
herding or grazing of sheep, cattle or
horses must annually- procure a license
point for which the drive was headed.
From a platform about a quarter of a
mile out from the stock yards, Mart
Patrie directed the movements of the
divisions by signals with Hags of red,
white and black.
About l o'clock the lines began to
move in. Then the beaters were so
far out that from the stand of the
commander they looked like black
specks in the sage brush. Slowly they
closed in, and as they did so black
streaks were seen chasing each other
over bare patches of snow far ont with
in the circle. These were the rabbits.
Shouting and bellowing the line drew
steadily- in and soon the sage brush in
front of the commander's station became
alive with rabbits running this way and
then that. Then a coyote appeared
among the rabbits running from one
side to tha other and then back. Then
another coyote and soon a third. They
had no time to see the rabbits that
were now almost as thick as the sage
brush but van from one point on the
line to another.
The ever narrowing circle of howl
ing, whooping men moved in steadily
and relentlessly. Their shouting be
came continuous. The circle narrowed.
Thicker and thicker became the rabbits
ami more and more panic stricken their
frantic rushing back and forth. When
the circle had narrowed down until not
more than a couple of hundred of acres
were surrounded thq very sage brush
seemed to dance. The sage grew as
thick as it could well stand but there
were a half dozen rabbits for every bush
of sage. The shouting was frightful
and the line of men and boys was now
so close that they could touch each
other. Relentlessly they drove the
panic stricken bunnies into the V-shaped
lines of wire net that led right into the
slaughter pen.
The rabbits were all blaektails.
There was not a cottontail among them
and only three big white jack rabbits.
Two of the latter were captured alive.
After the slaughter the crowd drifted
down town and devoured a mammoth
free lunch of sandwiches and coffee.
The one saloon of the town didn't lack
patrons and in the evening there was a
ball.
It was a great day for Market Lake.
—Pocatello Tribune.
by
therefor from the county sheriff, paying
for the same in advance on the following
basis: For every 5000 sheep, cattle or
horses, $250 per annum, and $50 per an
num for each additional 1000 over 5000;
for 4000 head, $200 per annum; for 3000,
$150; for 2000, $100; for 1500, $75; for
1000, $40; less than 1000, $25 per annum
Licenses are good only in the county
where they are issued Sheriffs are in
structed to make diligent search for vio
lators of the law and enforce seyere
penalties for its infractions A fine of
not less than $50 or imprisonment for
not less than twenty days is imposed for
the first offense. The county auditor
shall furnish the sheriff with blank
licenses and the sheriff is permitted to
charge au addition fee of $2 for filling
out the same. All moneys collected for
licenses under the provisions of this act
are to be placed to the credit of the gen
eral fand. Mr. Galloway explains his
object is to keep migratory sheep and cat
tle out of the state and protect the small
farmer and home-builder. His idea is
that the person who feeds stock on pub
lic land should pay for the privilege.
All the sheep and stockmen have to do
in order to get around the provision of
the law is to take up land enongh to
protect their stock. Pocatello Tribune.
To Survev for Dam.
A company which is being organized
to put in a dam in the Snake river
alxive town for the purpose of develop
ing power, has Mr. < has. Chapin, a
thorough and competent civil engineer
of Idaho Falls here surveying the site.
It is the intention of the company- to
construct a dam for the purpose of de-,
▼eloping power for saw mills, flouring
mills and water power and other pur
poses. Mr. Juiins Do Coster recently
from Idaho Falls, is one of the main in
stigators of the scheme. He is a man of
money and has unlimited hacking and
we feel confident that he means to dili
gently pursue the construction of the
dam. _
Wanted.
To lease or rent a good hay ranch
within ten miles of St. Anthony. Ad
dress "L. K.", care of Teton Peak.
Hon. Geo. C. Parkinson
Makes Official Visit
to St. Anthony.
ST. ANTHONY SHOULD GET IT.
Hon. Geo. C. Parkinson of Oneida
county, made an official visit to St. An
thony yesterday on behalf of a local
sugar factory company which has lately
been organized of Utah and Idaho cap
ital. This company is purely- a local or
ganization and perfectly independent of
any trust or combine as was intimated
by- our coutemporay- last week.
Mr. Parkinson informed sumo of our
county officials that a sugar factory
would be located in the county at an
expenditure of $750,000. It now be
hoves tiie business men to get together
and secure tiie location as near St. An
thony- as possible. An excellent location
could ho had south of town on the St.
Anthony branch anywhere between
Rexbnrg and the county seat.
A sugar factory will do more for tiie
development of the rich land in Fre
mont county- than any other enterprise.
There are thousands of acres of land
which will lie brought under irrigation
during'the next year. One canal alone
which is to be taken out of the Teton
river this spring will cover 7,500 acres
of the very richest sage brush land lying
along the bench from Canyon creek
around to Teton City.
Let every- property holder in Fremont
county use his or her efforts to land tins
gigantic enterprise. We already have
1000 miles of large canals carrying from
25,000 to 100,000 inches of sparkling
water from the old Snake river. Ac
cording to geologists this is the best
watered section of any- county in the
nort h west. Beets can lie grown here
profitably, and the following list will
show the matter contained in the Fre
mont grown sugar beet:
Sample No. 1.
18.9 Corrected Brix.
14.9 Sugar
13.8 Diff. in beet
7.3 Purity. Poor.
Nc
Brix.
Ni
Most excellent.
Most ex.
24.8 Cor.
21.1 Sug
20.1 Dili'.
85.5 Purity.
No. 3.
23.6 Cor. Brix.
20.5 Sugar
19.4 Diff.
86.9 Purity.
4.
20.1 Cor. mix.
18.3 Sugar in juice
17.4 Diff.
88.0 Purity.
These tests were made
sugar factory and are exceedingly en
couraging. We sincerely hope that the
republican legislature at Boise will
speedily pass the sugar beet bounty bill,
which will further encourage the loca
tion of sugar factories within tiie state.
Excellent,
at the ( )gden
j
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C. C.
illus
Musicale
Tiie Ladies' Literary Club gave a mus
ieale Tuesday afternoon in the Masonic
hall, at which a number of their lady
friends were invited. The Hull was
tastefully decorated with palms and
dainty tea tallies were interspersed
throughout the room. Tiie following
program was rendered:
Roll call (Quotations.
Piano solo Mrs. Jno. Blevins.
Vocal duet Mrs. Gray and Mrs
Bowerman.
Reading Mrs. G. E. Bowerman,
trateil by Mrs. E. M. Holden.
Vocal solo Mrs. Will Gray.
Paper "Beethoven" Mrs. M. E. Jamison
Instrumental duet—Mrs. J. H. and Mrs.
D. L. Blevins.
Vocal solo.....Mrs. C. G. Bowerman.
Paper "Mozart" -Mrs. Stevens
Vocal solo Mrs. Holden.
Piano solo Mrs. D. L. Blevins.
At the conclusion of the program tin
guests were seated at tin- tables where
they were served with delicious refresh
ments. After tile guests- had departed
the husbands of the members of the
club and a few young men were invited
in to have supper.
Heart Social.
A Heart social was given at tiie home
of Mrs. Will Gray on Thursday evening
of last week under the management of
the Catholic church. Miss Slattery sue
ceeded in getting the most hearts and
was awarded the prize. A dainty- lunch
was served and th ■ guests departed at
about 11 o'clock.
Rabbit Drive.
The rabbit drive between Egin and
Plano took place February II There
were 350 rabbits killed. The Egin boys
came off victorious. Tiiere was a free
dance and supper in the evening for all
who took part in the sport.
St. Anthony has ■aallenged Egin for
adrivewhich will come off soon with
10 on each side
Married at tiie Falls.
Temp Hopkins of St. Anthony and
Miss Mary Martin --.' Idaho Falls, wer -
united in the holy bands of wedlock
j yesterday at the home of M. Maguire.
I at Idaho Falls. Mr. Hopkins is one of
j St. Anthony s well-tc-do and promising
I young men. He is un old resident in
I this section, having come here in the
I very early days of St. Anthony. The
! Peak joins with the many friends of
•lie happy couple in wishing them a
long and prosperous life.
30 per cent off on shoes at the Hnb.
Hakky Gesas.