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Show GENIAL HOSPITALITY COSTS ANGLER $80 POTATEMO, Tdaho. July ?.0. Giving- a farmer a bottle of beer cost a Kvell-known Pocatello traveling man and fisherman no less than $S0 a few days aco. In leavinpr for a, short fishing trip this disciple of Ixaak Walton Included with his other equipment part of a case of real beer, which he felt himself fortunate in having received from Utah especially for the occasion. oc-casion. In the spirit of hospitality that radiates from the genial fisherman, a farmer, on whose prounds the party had been given permission to camp, was offered a bottle of beer, which was accepted and disposed of with seeming: appreciation. But it so happened that the wife of this tiller of the soil who had been thus treated had witnessed the act, whereupon she proved herself to be a zealous prohibitionist by calling up the heriff. The offender who had parted with the cold bottle was haled into court, and after due solemnity the rural justice imposed a tine of 50 and ordered the remaining bottles bot-tles confiscated. The culprit paid up without with-out protest, but states that he will hereafter here-after avoid Blaine county and confine his offers of liquid refreshment to cup of cold water. ' i |