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The Teton Peak.
vol. Vi
PUBLISHED IN THE G AUDEN SPOT OF SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO.
PARKER.
ST. ANTHONY, FREMONT COUNTY, IDAHO, THURSD AY, OCT. Ö, 1904.
its finishing touches
PARKER.
Oct. 1.- Glorious weather.
Iket teams are monopolizing the
ads uow-a-days.
y rs . Jos. Brown who is sick with
phoid fever, is said to he improv
er. \Vm. Hunter is reported as
lapsing.
Mf Fred II. Mason who came
W11 with typhoid nearly five
e jjs ago, is thought to be some
, a t improved though slightly de
mons yet, and extremely weak.
Father Davis, father of S. M.
vis, the well-known Parker bus
man, died last night after a
gering illness of some months,
nibined with old age.
WILFORD.
Oct. 5. —Wm. Allgoods' family
isick with what Dr. Middleton
Us intermittent fever.
\V. A. Miles is building in town.
John Robb, Jr., and Bert Mace
L rounding up the dry herd.
John and Oscar Johnson and
broni Jorgensen are working at
|e saw mill.
LMarv Ann Clark, of Indepen
tce, Mo, is here visiting with
latives.
[Fred Burrell has removed his
Eideuce from town down to the
nch.
[Fric Johnson Jr., and Stephen
tcli will take the missionary
iirse this winter at Rexburg.
[Martha Pincock, Alberta Orme,
cues McArthur, Melissa Smith,
Idle Johnson, Dan and David
bArthur, S. J. Orme, Melvin
bch, Hugh Stewart and others
ill attend the Ricks Academy
Is winter.
thas. Smith and wife have re
ined from McPherson's ranch.
[\. Pederson has erected a fine
nary.
Bleu Murri left Monday to begin
ool at Grant ; her husband who
SO months has been on a mis
ii in Switzerland will return
ne the last of next week.
Ir. John Stimpson and wife are
tiding their honeymoon at Riv
ale, Utah.
PARKER NOTES,
lurried on the 19h ulto., Mr,
Miller and Miss Myrtle
wer. Mr. Miller is the son of
hop D. G. Miller and the bride
lie daughter of Mr. Donis Brow
Bishop Miller performed the
emony.
tied on the 30th ul'o., Mr. John
Davis, father of S. M. Davis of
s place. Mr. Davis had been an
olid for several years. The fun
services were held Sunday,
2, at 2. P.JM., in the meet
house. The speakers were : H.
Todd, H. Roy lance, H. W.
1er and Bp. D. G. Miller. The
icatory at the grave was offer
by Mr. F. H. Mason,
n Saturday evening we receiv
a visit from President T. E.
sett, Prof Chritsensou and Prof,
'khani, of the Ricks' Academy
h a quartet of singers. They
e here in the interest of the ed
tion of the young people. Pres,
sett delivered a splendid lecture
the benefits of education, and
followed on the same subject
Mrs, Sharp Kirkham, and Prof,
istenson. The quartet rendered
e very fine music,
n Monday night there was a
meeting held to consider the
position of incorporating Parker
village. After arguments on
h sides ot the question, it was
to a vote and there was only
vote against it. There were
'J 1 it tees appointed to attend to
different kinds of business and
meeting adjourned until Tliurs
' 'light.
1- A. Grover of this place raised
"gar beet that weighed 15
"ds after the top was off, and
11 Hunter raised two that
ghvd ]5 pounds each and there
numerous instances of them
ghiug f rotu 9 to 11 pounds.
s i- s Bom sub-irrigation. This
ts Da Grande or Sugar City.
b.gin bench soil has one ad
tage over the soil of the Sugar
country and other localities:
soil never bakes around the
and stops their growth, it
ters not how wet it gets.
, e people here are not inclined
Sl gn the petition to bond the
to build a court house. A
GUO court house doesn't suit
taxpayers when a a $10,000 our
■ JÜU one is ample for our needs.
" e Primary association is Prae
st for a two evenings' entertain
t °n their annual day.
le meeting house is receiving
its finishing touches and Mr. Eee
one of the contractors, has taken a
job on the slicer.
TETON TOPICS.
Threshing is well over and the
abor incident to the harvest of our
laige beet crop has commenced.
David Owens has just completed
the painting of his residence and
he now has one of the nicest little
homes in our community.
There was no meeting of the
board of Village Trustees during
the month of July' on account of
the sickness of several members of
our council, and it is now reported
that Jones and Gilletc are busy
drafting an ordinance that will re
quire every citizen who desires to
carry the village trustee's toga to
secure a doctor's certificate show
ing a perfect physical condition lie
fore it will be possible for his name
to appear on the village ticket next
election.
All the Republican delegates who
attended the county convention on
Sept. 30, have returned home and
the majority are satisfied with the
work of the convention. All should
be satisfied, both the people who
remained at home and the dele
gates, whose privilege it was to
represent them upon this occasion.
The former that one of our best and
most intellectual citizens secured
the nomination that his merits so
justly entitle him to; the latter
that they were able to accomplish,
without friction, that which they
desired, and which not only reflects
creditably upon their good judg
ment, but is a benefit to every one
who has a love of justice in his or
her soul.
The Y. M. & Y. L. M. I. A. of
this ward gave a social on the even
ing of Oct. old and to say that it
was a success would be putting it
mild. The evening's entertain
ment consisted of a program, after
which refreshments were served to
all who were present. All parts
upon the program were exception
ally well rendered, all receiving
liberal applause, while a number
were encored. The presidency of
our associations should be proud of
what they accomplished upon this
occasion. The object of the social
was to impress upon the minds of
those who were present, the neces
sity of joining with the M. I. A.
workers in making this winter's
labors productive of more good
than lias any season that is now
past. Too much good cannot be
spoken in favor of M. I. A. work,
and those who have this labor in
charge should receive the praise
that their earnest endeavor for the
intellectual welfare of others right
fully entitles them to.
The Mutual Improvement Asso
ciation of Wilford will give an en
tertainment Thursday evening,
Oct. 6, 1904.
Joseph Romrell returned Tuesday
from Rigby, where he had been to
attend the funeral services over the
remains of his sister's child.
Millie Loveland of Parker was
visiting relatives here the first of
the week.
S. W. Orme, Mark Bigler, Eric
Johnson and F. T. Smith are con
structing beet wagons.
Anton Pederson is engaged to
teach school at Shelley for eight
months at $80 per month.
John W. Nay and family of Big
Horn, Wyo., are intending to
spend the winter here.
A Sam Smith and family are living
Lysander Dayton's place for the
winter.
Mr. Joseph Jones of Teton has
rented his place here to his brother.
Our new meeting house is nearly
completed.
Jacob Abbott of Paradise, Utah,
is visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Minerva Wright of Ben
nington is visiting at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
McArthur.
Work closes on the Farmers'
Friend canal Saturday and work
commences on the Wilford canal
Monday, Oct. 17th.
Nettie Birch returned Saturday
from a visit to Willard, Utah.
S. A. White is visiting points in
Utah.___
St. Petersburg, Oct. 5.—An as
sault on Fort Visoxy was repulsed
at 5 o'clock on the morning of the
23rd. The Japanese had their mi
trailleuse in position when General
Konkratenko-ordered Sappois to
charge them with hand grenades
filled with nitro-glycerine and the
Japanese fled in haste. General
Stoessel estimates the Japanese los
ses in the lour pays' fighting at ten
thousand killed and wounded.
INCONSISTENCY oFoEMOCRAa
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Speech of Fred T. Dubois in the United States
Senate, February 5th, 1903.
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In a debate in the United States
Senate, recorded in the Congres
sional Record, beignning on page
1729 of February 5, 1903, only a
little more than a year ago, there
appeared the following bearing on
the polygamy question in Idaho:
Mr. Hale—Then it must follow
from that, as the years go by and
as the older people disappear, poly
gamy as a practice will be practic
ally removed.
Mr. Dubois—There is no ques
tion about it; and I will say to the
senator owing to the active part
which we took in the fierce contest
in Idaho, I, with others who had
made the fight, thought we were
justified in making this promise to
the Mormon people. We had no
authority of law, but we took it
upon ourselves to assure them that
those older men who were living in
the polygamous relation, who had
growing families which they had
reared and were rearing before the
manifesto was issued, and at a time
when they thought they had aright
under the constitution to enter the
polygamous relation—that those
older men and 4vomeu and their
children should not be disturbed ;
that the polygamous man should
be allowed to support his numerous
wives and their children. The
polygamous relations, j of Course,
should not continue, but we would
not compel a man to turn his fami
lies adrift. We promised that the
older ones, who had contracted
those relations before the manifesto
was issued, would not be presented
by the Gentiles; that time would be
given for them to'pass away, but that
the law would be strictly enforced
against any polygamous marriages
which might be contracted in the
future.
Mr. Hale—I can see the force of
that generous policy, which was
based upon the larger proposition,
that of getting rid of an undoubted
evil, having provided for its disap
pearance in the near fuure, for the
time you bear with the present con
dition of those older parties. Un
der this generous treatment I sup
pose those older persons in Idaho
did not cease the polygamous rela
tions; they supported their wives
and their family relations were
maintained, but there was no new
taking on, and therefore in time
polygamy would disappear.
In another place reported in an
appendix to the Congressional
Record, appears the following from
Mr. Dubois:
I say there is no polygamy, and
no one contended more vigorously
against this tenet aud practice of
the Mormon church than myself.
It was a fierce fight for years, and
in my feeble way I did all I could
to suppress it, and this helped us
to do it.
It is folly and waste of time for
Senators to undertake to demon
strate here now that polygamy is a
live issue. It is dead, as the sena
tor from Utah, (Mr. Rawlins) so
well said, and he has spent his life
among these people, fighting them
hand to hand. If any have suffered
on account of their activity in poli
tics, the senator fromUtah is one of
them ; but, as he says, polygamy is
The girls of Pattstown.Pa., have
formed an anti-kissing club, under
the name of Four Leaf Clover club,
there is little danger of the pretty
Idaho girls losing their heads so
far as to organize such a society.
The only reason attributed to the
strange action of the Pattstown fe
males is that there is a large num
ber of old maids, toothless and
neglected, who hope by their rash
acts to make some man feel bad.
;
not a living issue. It is dead be
cause of the public sentiment in
that country, which lias destroyed
it.
Now these Mormon people be
lieve what no other people do, and
they are as sincere in that as they
are in their other beliefs. They
believe that the constitution of the
United States is a divine instru
ment. They honestly and thor
oughly believe that it comes direct
from God. In the days they be
lieved that under the constitution
the United States could not inter
fere with polygamy, holding to the
idea that polygamy was a part of
their religion. They contended
that the constitution, being a di
vine instrument, and polygamy be
ing part of their religion it could
not be interfered with under our
constitution.
I may say that they fought
against anti-polygamy laws in all
the courts, but when the Supreme
Court of the United States declared
that an anti-polygamy law' was
constitutional, then came their
manifesto abandoning polygamy.
As one of the representatives of
a state where the Mormons are one
fourth of the people, I join with
the senator from Utah, who is in
part a representative of a state
where three-fourths are Mormons,
in saying that there is no polyga
my, that is, new polygamy, in
these parts of the country, I doubt
if the gentlemen on the other side
are sincere in quibbling over this
proposition. If they are sincere,
let them put the test oath, or pro
vide for it being put into the con
stitution. No one wants to take it
out, but there is no occasion for its
enforcement. Should the occasion
arise its power would be invoked.
Mr. Beveridge—Will the senator
from New York permit me?
-Mr. Depew—Certainly.
Mr. Beveridge—Concerning the
proposition of the senator from Ida
ho, it is perhaps proper that I
should speak.
I have never questioned the sin
cerity of a senator upon this floor,
and I never expect to do so. If
the senator is anxious to have this
anti-polygamy clause put on this
bill or any bill that may be passed,
why does he ask a condition? Why
does he say "I am willing to pur
chase the attachment of the state
hood bill by conceding an anti-pol
ygamy amendment?"
Mr. Dubois-—Does the senator
wish me to answer him?
Mr. Beveridge—Yes.
Mr. Dubois—-For the reason that
it is perfectly apparent to everyone
that so far as the senator from Ind
iana is concerned he will never
have a vote on the statehood pro
position; and I simply took this
method of informing him that, in
my judgment, we will have a vote
on it upon an appropriation bill,
and I anticipate it in advance, and
say that I am ready for this amend
ment. I AM NOT ANXIOUS
FOR THE AMENDMENT AND
DO NOT WANT IT, BECAUSE
IT IS NOT NECESSARY.
POLYGAMY IS DEAD AND
CANNOT BE MADE MORE
DEAD.
Splendid Lesson.
The helpfulness of the Germans
toward each other has been one of
the splendid lessons they have
taught. Fidelity is always an ad
mirable trait. The fidelity of Ger
mans toward each other has been to
me always one of their striking
and admirable characteristics.—
Senator Fairbanks at Indianapolis,
Sept. 3, 1899.
Will Represent the Gern State.
Idaho will be well represented at
the National Irrigation congress
which will be convened at El Paso,
Tex,. November 15 and remain in!
session for three days.
The governor of each state in
which irrigation work is carried on
has the authority to appoint 10 del
egates to the convention : mayors
of cities having a population of 25,
000 or more may appoint three
delegates, and mayors of cities with
a population of less than 25,000
may select two delegates. Dele
gates may also be named by presi
dents of irrigation districts.
Governor Morrison has selected
the following delegates to represent
the state. :
John W. Avers, Weiser.
Frank Steunenberg, Caldwell.
Jess B. Hawley, Boise.
Fred R. Reed, Hailey.
W. C. Howie, Mountainliome.
P. E. McCutcheon, Idaho Falls.
C. C. Moore, St. Anthony.
F. S. Dietrich, Pocatello.
James H. Stephenson, Boise.
I. B. Perrine, Blue Lakes.
As Idaho is probablv more deep
ly interested in irrigation than any
state in the Union at present, it is
hoped that all the delegates select
ed will find it convenient to attend
the congress. Projects representing
an outlay of millions of dollars are
now under way in this state and
those most concerned appreciate the
necessity of a strong representa
tion.
The convention at El Paso will
be the most important in the histo
ry of irrigation. The government
reclamation service will have
strong delegation present and much
is expected to result from the con
gress. —Statesman.
Water Struck on Minidoka Tract.
D. W. Ross has returned from
Minidoka. He expected to meet
the engineer of the contractors who
are to build the headworks, but the
latter could not reach there in time.
Mr. Rosj states the engineers are
running out the canal lines and
principal lateraIsland they find it
works out somewhat better than
they expected. They had antici
pated a little trouble at some points,
but the surveys avoid the bad spots.
They had an interesting exper
ience in getting water. The sup
ply for the engineers has been
hauled three miles. To get a sup
ply near the work they tried driv
ing a well. When it was down
about 60 feet it seemed to have
some water in it, but there was no
supply. Others sought to drive
wells, and met with the same ex
derience. It was thought the screen
became clogged with heavy clay
through which the point was driv
en, but efforts to clear it by forcing
water down did not succeed.
Finally a well was dug. It went
down through fine sand, then
through heavy clayjmd finally into
sand and gravel in which a good
flow of water was found. Wells
are now being driven deep, and an
abundance of water for the settlers
will no doubt be secured. When
the irrigation shall have been start
ed there will be water near the
surface, but in the meantime these
deep wells will supply the settlers.
Died.
Gil F. Fletcher, a pioneer and
one of the leading citizens of Fre
mont county died in St. Mark's
hospital at Salt Lake City on Mon
day of this week. The remains
reached St. Anthony last night and
were taken to the old home west of
town where the bereaved family
reside. The funeral will take
place tomorrow from the Presbyter
ian church under the auspices of
the Odd Fellows of this place. The
obituary of the departed brother
will appear in the next issue.
The Mormon conference opens
today at Salt Lake City.
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SUPPLIES FOR REFORM SCHOOL
Trustees Actively Engaged in Pre
paring List of Requirements.
The trustees of the Idaho Reform
school spent a busy day yesterday
going over the plans and selecting
fittings, furnishings and equip
ments for the institution. The
routine work of the board was com
pleted at noon and the details were
placed in the hands of a committee
consisting of Mrs. F. A. Pyke,
secretary of the board, Mrs. R. L.
Nourse and Miss May L. Scott.
This committee is working in con
junction with Superintendent
Humphries on the laborious task
of determining what is necessary to
be purchased for the school at this
time.
As the purchases to be made in
clude everything from needles to
anvils aud draught horses to mat
tresses, the committee has many
problems to work out.
The complete list of articles re
quired will be read on Wednesday
morning. Copies will be in the
hands of all members of the board
and the superintendent of the
school at St. Anthony. Those who
desire copies may obtain them by
writing to Mrs. F. A. Pyke, Du
bois, or any member of the board.
The kind and quality of every
article from a teacup to a spade will
be plainly designated in order that
bidders will be spared the necessity
of making inquiries.
The bids will be opened on Oct
ober 15, when the board will hold
another meeting. The trustees are
anxious to have all supplies as
nearly as possible in order that the
opening of the school may not be
delayed.
The preparation of tht lists in
volves an enormous amount of work
and the trustees are particularly an
xious that nothing necessary shall
be overlooked and nothing super
fluous obtained.
The suggestions of Superinten
dent Humphries are proving inval
uable to the board. The trustees
themselves had already gone to
the pains of posting themselves
upon the requirements of the insti
tution and their work has been
lightened considerably by the know
ledge previously obtained. The
members of the board are in thor
ough accord and perfect harmony
obtains.
The ground plan of the school
prepared by Architect J. Flood
Walker has been carefully inspected
by the board. Upon recommenda
tion of Superintendent Humphries
a few minor changes in detail were
made. These changes affected, the
walks aud play grounds and will
not in any way alter the original
plan which is regarded as compact,
practical and artistic. The adop
tion of this plan, which makes pro
vision for every building to be
erected on the site hereafter, will
prevent confusion and insure har
mony in the future.—Statesman.
FROM LA GRANDE.
Albert Hanny, who used to live
south of town near Wilford sends us
the following good words of cheer
from La Grande, Oregon, where he
went over a year ago :
Ed. Peak:—
You will find enclosed $2.00 for my
subscription to your valuable paper
another year. It always contains
the news from our old home, and
that is about all we ever hear.
We have had a very satisfactory
crop this year. I have raised 1100
bushels of grain and 40 tons of tim
othy. I have two acres of fine cab
bage and expect to ship one or two
carloads. We raise all kinds of
fruit on our place and will sell
about 500 boxes.
We had a big nine pound boy on
the 27th of September. We are
getting along very well.
Yours very respy.,
Albert Hanny.
The funeral of Postmaster-Gene
ral Payne will occur tomorrow.