The Teton peak. [volume], October 29, 1903, Image 1

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bight Engine Collides With South
Hound Passenger.
Tlie south bound passenger collided
with a light engine between Markst
Lake and Idaho Falls Tuesday evening.
The engineer and fireman on the light
engine discovered the passenger train
coming onto them at slow speed. They
reversed their engine and attempted to
I hold it but were running down grade
and could not control the speed. They
; both leaped from the engine sustaining
painful bruises but nothing serious. The
passenger struck the wild engine full
force driving it hack up the track several
hundred feet dashing the passengers
against the seats. The passenger
I ngineer and fireman both leaped from
their engine saving their lives but
sustaining serious cuts and bruises. So
far as we have been aille to learn no
lives were lost.
Turns Ditch in Cemetery.
A special from Boise, Idaho, says that
an nukuown miscreant last night turned
the water from an irrigating lateral in
to Morris Hill cemetery, where it did
untold damage to the last resting places
of numerous former citizens of Boise.
The identity of the perpetrator of the
deed is entirely unknown hut the au
thorities are making every effort to
locate him. During the night board
were placed across the irrigating lateral
from which water is secured for the
watering of the graves of the city of the
I dead, diverting the full flow of the
I stream into the cemetery, flooding a
large portion of it. In various parts of
! the cemetery graves generally of persons
hut lately buried were found caved in
i this morning from the devastating
I waters and presented a ghastly ap
pearance.
j State Food Inspector McPherson
j makes the startling announcement that
a 11 canned foodstuffs—meats, vegetables,
jams, jellies -are antiseptically treated
: by the packer and manufacturer prior
to their shipment into the state and that
these are the gentry who are to blame.
The retailer he holds guiltless and
blameless. Even oysters and fish, says
Mr. McPherson, are not beyond the
ingenuity of the embalmer.
Gambling Stopped at Pocatello.
Mayor Steely, of Pocatello, directed
Chief of Police Ford of that city to have
all gambling closed forthwith. The
order is intended to cover slot machines
as well all forms of gambling under the
ban of the law of the state and the
ordinances of the city. As a consequence
all gambling games ceased operation
last Friday night.
Marshal Rounds Arrested.
Boise, Ida., Oct. 2:5.—United States
Marshal Ruel Rounds was placed under
arrest this afternoon on a warrant
sworn to by Mrs. George E. Spencer,
formerly first deputy marshal in Round's
office. The complaint sworn to by Mrs.
Spencer charges that Marshal Ruel
Rounds did on the 19th day of October
"commit an assault upon the person of
this affiant by means and force likely to
produce great bodily injury, as follows,
to wit:
He, the said Ruel Rounds, did then
and there unlawfully, willfully and fe
loniously' seize the arm of this said
affiant with such force and strength as
was likely to and actually did produce
upon the person of said affiant great
bodily injury."
It is alleged that Marshal Rounds
seized Mrs. Spencer by the arm and
forcibly attempted to pull her from a
tool upon which she was seated at
work upon her books.
Marshal Rounds and Deputy Marshal
Stobbs emphatically deny that anything
of the kind ever occurred. Mrs. Spencer
exhibits a bruised arm as evidence of
bat is alleged to have occurred.
Mrs. Spencer is the widow of former
United States Senator George E. Speu-i
eer of Alabama. She came here from
Washington In 1902 and was given a
place in the marshal's office, being later
made chief deputy, the duties of which
position are to keep tho books and rec
ords of the office. She was dismissed
last Monday, her place being given to
S. Stobbs. It was at that time the as
sault is alleged to have occurred.
Alexander McPherson, the state food
inspector, announces that after Novem
ber 1. he will begin prosecuting all
persons handling or selling to their
patrons, peas colored with copper.
The mill of justice is grinding
away this week under the guid
ing hand of Judge Stevens. The
town is flooded with good, bad
and indifferent lawyers; divorce
cases are in evidence, and the
horse thieves are decidedly un
easy.
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JIdaho Fruits Arc
Shipped to Cincinnati
The
Hid Fair to Rival tii
ducts of bidden State.
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Idaho bids fair to rival California in
ber fruit products. There will arrive
here this morning a carload o prunes
from Idaho. If they arc of the same
standard as that of the samplts sent here
they are of Hie very best in quality and
flavor. They also compare very favor
ably in prices to any of the same kind ;
of fruit sent from other fields They
will retail at là cents a quart, ('in
cinuati Tribune.
What Sugar Factory is Doing for
Iona.
Iona, Bingham Co., Ida., Oct. 21.
The Idaho sugar factory, which is
located at Iona, (hut from newspaper
items one would think it was in Idaho
Falls) is nearing completion, and the
roads leading thereto are literally lined j
with teams and immense l/eet racks
holding as much as four tons each, haul
ing the product of 2,0(H) acres of beets
grown in the loua ward alone. Another
l.000 acres is grown in our neighbor
town of Ammon.
The busy hum of the steam threshers
has been heard since Sept 1, and a. run
of four weeks is yet in sight. Three
immense threshers, with self feed, auto
matic wind stacker, weigher and bag
ger attached, are cleaning from 1,090 to
1,800 bushels of grain per day each.
Labor of all kinds is in good demand,
at good wages.
The second crop of hay is all in.
The potato crop is about half dug -ml
is one of the most bounteous that th
Snake river valley has ever know :
Prices are good ou all farm products.
A $15,000 brick school house is ii
course of erection and the $10,000 meet
inghouse has just received its last coat
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of paint and will be ready for occupa
tion as soon :;s the hot air furnace ar
rives. According to contract, it will be
in position by Nov. 15
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About 25 tine residences have been
put up by the sugar factory for the use
of its employes. Jabez Ritehi. is
putting up a beautiful $8,000 brick resi
dence, Frank Hurburt is completing a
$2,000 brick house and a number of other
dwellings are in course of erection.
George Corseu a new frame store.
We have two good blacksmith shops
and their anvils are kept ringing from
early morn till late at night.
The mammoth sheep herd belonging
to the ward is expecting to fatten for
market about 1,500 muttons aud 1,500
tons of pulp from tho sugar factory has
been contracted for to this end.
Six schools are now in session and a
large number of our advanced students
are attending the academies at Rexburg,
Salt Lake and Provo. When the new
school house is completed we expect to
be able to hold our pupils through the
eight grades.
Two more rows of blocks are being
laid off on the south side of the town
site. This will make homes for 79 more
families and each can have a fall lot.
Tho weather is all that could he
desired, and if it continues for two or
three weeks our crops will all be in.
We have had a large influx of people
hero this year, hut tlu-ro is still room
for a few hundred thousand more, with
plenty to feed them on and good cm- I
ployment for all. The general health
of the people is good, and, -ill things
considered we are about the m- -st pros
perous people that can be found in the
intermouutain region. Deseret News.
Idaho Ahead
According to tho chief of the bureau
of statistics of agriculture, Idaho stands
at the head of the long list of states in
the average wheat yield. The average
yield for tho entire country was 14 !
bushels per acre. Idaho has an average
of 25.2 bushels per acre. Thi - roc >rd is
the more remarkable because a great
part of this year's wheat was raised on
new lands that yielded
than the
older fields. The largest yield of any
state was in 1901 when Washington
averaged 29.1 bushels per acre. That
was in a good wheat year This has
been a poor one all over the United
States. Washington this year averaged
hut, 20.5 bushels per acre. If Idaho can
do so well in a poor year under adverse
conditions, what can she not. do in a
so
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good one when all her barren land is |
covered by irrigating ditches and under j
cultivation')—Emmett Index.
; Entertainment
' Oratorical entertainment and ednea- j
tional work giver'Thursday an.l Friday i
Grivel a'nd Mrs Mary V Wade of |
Seattle, Washington, a prominent j
elocutionist and humorous r -iter.
Mrs. Wade charms every one with her '
delightful manner. j
Come to this meeting and brin
friends. Don't forget the date.
your
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early and avoid the rush.
WATER IN A
NATURAL 1I0WL
Novel and Effective Method of
Irrigation Used in Idaho.
St. Anthony, Idaho, is a rainless com
inanity, living and raising crops on the
surface of an invisible artificial lake
which is never allowed to rise above the
surface of the fields. The valley is
about twenty-five miles long and five to
seven miles in width. The lava rock
which underites the soil forms a perfectly
water-tight' bowl with an average
depth of about (10 feet. Until ten years
j tiotusts
ago the valley was a desert and the howl
was empty of water. Now a canal has
been cut from the Snake River, a little
distance above St. Anthony, and there
is water within the reach of the roots of
crops which spread out for miles above
and below the town.
This invisible lake proposition is a
new one, even to experienced irriga
It is a pleasant discovery for
t hose who stumble upon it. for it, means
I irrigation without any ot the trouble or
; hard work. Ordinarily it is necessary
to lead the water in a large feed canal,
and then to take it in a smaller canal to
the field to be watered, and theu to run
it into lateral ditches and to stand and
open trenches and furrows, and thuiji
distribute the water on the surface of
file land. And this process must hi
repeated whenever tlio land becomes
dry. But up in this kink of tho Snake
River Valley all that the farmers have
to do is to open the big ditch and let the
water flow promiscuously out upon the
valley. The surface of the water ris(;s
in the bowl, and when the fields al-e
sufficiently filled with moisture the gatbs
are shut in the ditch and the flowjis
stopped. The soil is wonderfully ferti|e,
ud the potatoes grown there rival those
j of Greeley, Col.
St. Anthony has 1,600 inhabitants.
Ten years ago it had one. He discovered
and fathered the town, and now bears
(he honorable title of "Old Dad Moon."
Mr. Moon come here from Cedar Rapids
Iowa, in 1886. For several years ihii
house was tho only habitation within
range of ten miles. People said l)ad
was crazy to come out into the desert
and to think people were going] to
follow him; but Dad said it wasi the
other people who were stupid not tej see
the great possibilities for irrigated
farms. Dad took advantage of al| his
rights under the new laws and became
the owner of 1,100 acres of tho (best
land. Now that land is worth from
$-100 an acre up. The father of tho
town wears black broadcloth, chewjs the
liest fineeut tobacco, and takes a drink
whenever he feels like it. Dad is jjoung
and hearty at 72, and good for jnany
years more of honorable enjoyment
it is rather unusual for a man to be
come a Western pioneer at the i)ge of
55, and tho example of St. Anthony's
founder may be inspiring to some old
men of 85, who, working on salaries in
Eastern cities, think they are tho old
and too hampered to get out of tip« rut.
With old Dad it was, apparently, an
inspiration. He had been farming an
raising cattle in a small way foi- years
in the East, but one morning ho came in
I from feeding the critters and h]s feet
were covered with mud anil his clothes
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sa turated with cold fall rain; he shook
Xiiinself disgustedly and, turning to his
I p ;l jtlifal spouse, announced: "I'm goin
t() 0 ut ,,f this, and I'm go n' to a
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country where it never rains." And in
course of time it dawned on his friends
and relatives that Moon meant what he
said. .Minneapolis (Minn,) Journal.
KILGORE.
There is a great activity here) among
those who are baling timothy hay,
Despite tlie factl that tho conditions are
so unfavorable in Butte, for a| market
for the hay Mr. Elvers of Elvers & Co
came down from Butte last week and
bought 800 tons of baled liini thy hay
the price paid was $10 09 pef ton de
livered at Spencer.
Mr, Wetmore from Centennial valley
is In re buying beef steers. He expects to
gather up a large hunch of bt]ef steers
to take back. Considering the low price
of cattle Mr. Wetmore is paying a very
fair price for cattle and we are always
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glad to see him.
The t hing vs. Ching divbrce case
| which was supposed^ to have come up
j Tuesday is set for Nov. * th
Through the courtesy of the Teton
Peak editor a good many of our residents
have received .an illustrated) phamplet
of Fremont county. I
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| neatly helps those who are busy hanl
j btt >' to Spencer '
In regard to the telephone] service be
' tween Kilgore and St. Anthony
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Mr.
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'arey the telephone company's
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manager at St Anthony assures the
j writer that work will be coknmenced on
the line in the spring
HOLD HOLDUP
Pitkin of American Falls Slugged
With Rock and Robbed on
Public Highway.
J About 9 o'clock yesterday evening E.
D. Pitkin, a young man from American
Ifalls who had come up on yesterday's
t rain to look at the country, reported to
larshal Buchenau that he had been
Knocked down and robbed on West
Alain street. He showed a severe cut
|m the back of the head which was
evidence of the truth. He claims to
pave lost $15 in cash and a watch which
Was valued at $20. He accuses Fred
(Jones of Moody creek of committing
the deed. Pitkin's story is told as
follows: "I was coming np on the
train from American Falls to look at
this country and also to visit with a
brother who lives in Rexburg. I fell
in with Jones on the train after leaving
Blackfoot who claimed he was coming
home from Twin Falls where he had
been looking at the new lands for
settlement. He appeared to be a con
genial sort of fellow aud we became
pretty well acquainted, but when we
ame to Rexburg Jones did not get off
the train but came on to St. Anthony
with me. We arrived here and walked
around town until evening taking a few
drinks together. A few minutes before
nine o'clock we were coming up Maine
street toward the business part of town
when he suddenly attacked me, siriking
me a blow on the back of my head
with a rock, knocking me down and I
suppose 1 was unconscious for a minute.
When I staggered to my feet he said:
You d--s — of a b—— got out of this
quick or I'll kill you on the spot,' and I
ame np town and discovering my loss.
I reported the matter to Marshal Buch
enau, who immediately instituted search
for the robber, hut he had left town by
this time.
I had $29 in another pocket which,
fortunately for me, he did not find."
Jones is a resident of Moody creek
and is quite well known around Rex
burg. His reputation is not the best if
reports are true, and the officers should
use every possible effort to bring him to
justice before he kills some one.
It is the opinion of some that Jones is
crazy.
NOTICE.
Tho new law requiring the superin
tendent of schools to hold meetings of
the teachers of the county, necessitates .
a change of office days.
Hereafter, until further notice, the
office of superintendent of schools will
be open from 9 a m. to 5 p. m. every
Monday of each month and, whenever
a month does not liavo five Mondays.it
will he opened the second Saturday of
that month.
Grace M. Taylor,
Supt. of Schools.
Dated St. Anthony, Ida . Oct. 27, 1998.
Free Reading Room.
Owing to financial conditions the
Free Reading Room will be obliged to
close its doors to the public the last of
the month of October. The board of
directors have boen unable of late to
collect enough from the monthly sub
scriptions to meet the running expenses
of the room, consequently at the last
meeting of the hoard it was deemed
wise to discontinue the work.
The case containing tho books of the
Free Circulating Library will ho kept
at the Ternes Dry Goods Store, and
hooks can he exchange every afternoon
from one o'clock until the store is closed
in the evening.
An effort will be made to keep the
Free Traveling Library in onrmidst. It
will require some one to look after the
books as we are responsible to the state
for their safe return, it will he necessary
to raise five dollars per mouth in order
to pay a librarian, no more soliciting
will he done by the board of directors,
but if at any time, anyone feels like
making a contribution for this purpose
it will he gratefully received by any
member of the board.
The treasurer s report will be sub
mitted to the public next week, giving
a report of tho expenses for the past
year, look for it.
Mrs. W. M. Gray,
Secretary of Board.
Teachers Examination.
The next quarterly examination of
applicants for First, Second and Third
grades certificates will be held at the
court house in St. Anthony, November
19, 20, and 21, 1903.
ynestions in School Law and State
Constitution will be taken from the
entire pamplsts, no special chapter will
be assigned.
Grace M. Taylor,
Snpt. of Schools.
Dated St. Anthony,Ida., Get. 26, 1903.
Strayed Away.
One bay mare, weight about 1,000,
j }bs. branded j on left shoulder, white
! hind feet, sear on right eye, white mark
> Q back. Return or notify S. K.
j Guilliford. St. Anthony, Idaho, and
1 receive suitable reward.
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