Show N E S Delig t land Beauties of p Affairs Pictured by a Cnlaekfo t pondeut rres To the Editor of THE EIULD This is the talked of new county county ot SCat Binha of th 6lM carefully examining the to w 11 tit almost tempted to think ° ae Idaho Legislature perpetrated H be burlesque when a h they Dlade this lIge ment the capital of the newly 8ett tle county Credible informant aUlZed it cost so much money I r tL location of the Courthouse to secure point that the inhabitants ouse at were left in an almost ruined of the to after eondi having succeeded i in ing their desires If the acconp lis saloons I ling hells and bawdy houses werlIlo moved the town would beToJnre o in i cantly small that it wouldV a keen eye to find reqUir e single building remaining eVen remaining Third District Court Th e is in session at BlacKfoot of ldah and the town is thronged with at presellG withgambe > deputy marshals blackleg ers ruffians generally The officers n court marshals sheriffs oh jury all keen bowled attorney and up to nozzle and th are constantly so Cull bad whisky o as would render theub other regions incompetent of achn small any official capacity 110 matter acting hoy John W Jones of Malad Valley peered before the inquisition t todaT and upon avowing his future interi to live only with his first wife w e and to discontinue forever cohabiting his second wife he was genU With dealt with and like his iIlu trious predecessors Arnold Spencer he was dismissed with a ineo ana three hundred dollars Neither Mr Jones nor his friends having thai amount of money on their immeduf person Honorable W D Hendrich I man who is possessed of sufficient tobuy the entire town court and n onered to stand security for Mr Jones until 10 oclock tomorrow mOrning when he guaranteed that the amount the fine imposed upon Mr Jones would be forthcoming At first his propon tion was refused but after much wrang wrang ling and many illnatured remarks by the deputies it was agreed to and lit Jones was set liberty until tomorrow when he will either payhis fine o be cast into the cell of the felon There are ten polygamy cases on the docket for trial at this term of court and if the whisky holds out their fate will be decided as many days Among the number indicted for unlawful c0 habitation is a venerable whiteheaded old gentlemen bowed down and crippled with the infirmities of age and apparently tottering on the very verge of the grave It would seem that too mans years and patriarchal almost saintly demeanor would awaken within the breasts of his tyrannical cap tors feeling of respect and sympathy sym-pathy but their hearts are adamant and this poor old decrepit man has been confined within the cold walls of Black foot prison for five long weary weeks with only murderers and thieves for associates The marshals here plan a raid on the polygamists who reside in the outer settlements like sportsmen would the capture of game They think it is great fun to tantalize polygamists who are in their power They do not realize that sooner or later they will have to suffer tortures a hundredfold more agonizing than the pain they are now so relentlessly relent-lessly inflicting upon these brave mao centmen who are so patiently and uncomplainingly un-complainingly suffering from then cruel and unmanly persecutions RABITCS BLACKFOOT May 131885 |