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Show I Inftrittoumain news. I , , , i BLACKFOOT, IDA. ("Special Correspondence.) Mr. Charles Hart returned from his eastern trip last Sunday morning, where he had gone to purchase goods for his new store, which is almost completed. com-pleted. He is worthy of all Catholic patronage. ' Mass was held at the court house last Sunday by F. Mooney. Though it was an hour earlier there was a fair attendance, at-tendance, as the pastor had been summoned sum-moned to St. Anthony to attend the late Mrs. Howard Aldrich, who died ere he arrived. Mr. William Montgomery is at the dask again with Brown & Eldridge, wholesale merchants. - Most -of our farmers have -harvested their first crop. It has been unusually heavy for this year. It is truly encouraging en-couraging for them and gives quite a boom to the Blackfoot country. 4 The Ladies' Altar society are proposing propos-ing to run the lunch counter during the county fair, so as to raise funds for their new church. There is no doubt that under the energy of Mrs. Charles Hart they will meet with success. A pleasing example happened last Saturday evening which might be imitated imi-tated by our lukewarm Catholics. A telephone message came to Blackfoot requesting the pastor's immediate presence pres-ence at St. Anthony. As he had gone some three miles out of town. Miss Burns of Pocatello and Miss Wilson of Blackfoot walked along the track late in the evening to deliver the message. Had it not been for their charity tlJ dying person would have died without j the consoling rites of our holy religion. 4 Last week Miss Alice Coltmann of Idaho Falls gave an ice cream social in honor of ber pastor. All had a pleasant pleas-ant time. - f- Funeral services were held at the court house in St. Anthony last Monday Mon-day over the remains of Mrs. Aldrich. who died so soon after an operation. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved husband, who had but recently located at St. Anthony. The remains were shipped to Ogden, where the requiem was held at the church. Mrs. Philetus Averitt of St. Anthony went to Butte last Monday, accompanied accom-panied by Mrs. Hugh Lavery In the hope of recovering her health. Rev. S. Kress will be in. Idaho Falls next week to join a camping parry which is being planned by Mr.. E. p. Coltmann. Thereafter he will lecture at.Rexburg. BOISE, IDA. The election of James li. Hawley as mayor of Boise is regarded as a strong personal victory and also demonstrates that the old order of things has passed away. Boise is a city of homes and churches, and the good people of ths town have declared that gambling in ail its forms must cease, that vice must J hide its head and that the laws upon I the statute books, must be enforced. j Mr. Hawley unequivocally pledged himself to this policy and was elected I mayor in consequence. He goes into office with the best wishes of a large majority of the people of Boise and j can make the office a stepping stone to the governorship if he so chooses. POCATELLO, IDA. Pocatello will have a fair this year. This has been finally decided by the directors. di-rectors. The citizens of the town have subscribed $3,000 toward the association associa-tion and contracts have been let for the erection of the grand stand and other necessary buildings. The race track is about finished and is pronounced as the finest in the state. It is anticipated that one of the" best meets ever seen in Idaho will be witnessed in Pocatello, this fall. The premium list for the fair' is about completed and some $3,000 will be offered for the best exhibits: Enough, it is said, have already been promised in this line to make one of the finest fairs ever held In this section of the country. The second of the twin girls born to Mr. and Mrs. Pat Scarry died. The first lived but a short time and the second several days. BUTTE, MONT. I Reverend Father Mullaly was the honor guest at a oretty dinner given on Thursday evening of last week by Judge and Mrs. J. J. McHatton, at which covers were laid for ten. The nanasomeiy appointed table was artistically ar-tistically trimmed with pink carnations arranged in a pink matting basket, the floral center also shewing clusters of feverfew. At the table were the honor guest, Mr. and Mrs. Mullaly, parents of the young priest; Miss Marie Mullaly, Miss McCarrick, Mrs. Bowen, Father Callahan and Mr. Corkling. A pretty church wedding took place on Thursday evening, July 16, at 7:30 o'clock, when Miss Kate Kilgallon and Air. Joseph F. Conway were united in marriage at St. Patrick's church with Reverend Father De Siere as officiant. The Misses Mabel and Maud Nissler entertained a merry crowd of young girls at the Broadway on last Monday evening, the party being chaperoned by Mrs. Jahreiss. Supper at the Nissler Nis-sler home followed the play. In the box were Misses Maud and Mabel Nissler, Mrs. Jahreiss, Misses Helen Tilton, May Dugan, Montana Largey, Dolce Hayden, Anna Holcberg, Mar-jorie Mar-jorie Mulvey, Erma Charles. Misses Allie and Anne Lowry are visiting vis-iting the Misses Clarice and Jose Tal-bott Tal-bott in Columbia Falls. CHEYENNE, WYO. Miss Kittie McPhee, aged 23 years, daughter of Mrs. Donald McPhee, met a horrible death at Islay, twenty miles north of Cheyenne, on the line of the Colorado. & Southern Monday afternoon.. after-noon.. She was driving a hay rake for her brother-in-law, who has a contract to harvest the crop of the Van Tassell ranch. The tongue' of the rake broke, pitching Miss McPhee under the horses' heels. The animals bolted and dragged her body in the rake for more than a mile before they could be stopped by horrified witnesses of the accident. The prongs of the rake mutilated the girl's body and her hair, catching in the wuwit, was corn irum iiei iicau, carrying carry-ing the greater part of the scalp 'with it. When extricated from the rake she was still alive and doctors were summoned sum-moned by wire from Cheyenne, but she succumbed to her injuries two hours after the accident. An examination by Dr. A. W. ' Barber revealed that the back of her skull had been crushed, probably by a blow from the hoof of one of the horses. In this case she was unconscious before the horrible ride over the field began. Miss Mc-Phee's Mc-Phee's body was brought to Cheyenne this evening, accompanied by her aged mother and her sister. The young woman wo-man was well known in Cheyenne. She rode in the woman's races at several frontier performances end at one time was holder of the woman's world championship. cham-pionship. Arrangements for her funeral fu-neral have not been considered. Governor Fenimore " Chatterton received re-ceived a telegram from General Baldwin, Bald-win, commanding the department of j Colorado, informing him that pursuant to an order issued by Secretary of War Root, no army maneuvers will 'be held at Fort; Russell . this yeas. . as had been previously ordered. The announcement an-nouncement of the order caused keen disaDDOintment here, where the ma neuvers had been looked forward to with great interest, and in the militia companies of the state, which had anticipated an-ticipated participating. , ... . In view of the extensive preparations which have been made by the state troops for the maneuvers Governor Chatterton will request the war department depart-ment to permit the Wyoming national guard to engage in maneuvers with the troops stationed at Fort Russell at the appointed time, the government to defray de-fray the expenses and to pay the militia mili-tia regular army rates during the time they are absent from home. LARAMIE, WYO. As the haying season opens the dearth of hands is something that is giving ranch owners considerable anxiety. anx-iety. It is estimated that fully 1,000 men will be needed to harvest the crop. So great is the scarcity of help that men are being hired at $1.50 per day, which is one-third more pay than that of ordinary years. RAWLINS, WYO. P. J. Murphy, T. A. Ready. J. J. Cullen, E. M. Tierney, Ed A. Wallace, Frank Blake and Rev. Father Dela-hunty Dela-hunty took a train to Cheyenne recently recent-ly and joined the Knights of Columbus. John and James A. Cosgriff accompanied accompa-nied the party to help In the organization. |