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Show Diocese of Boise BOISE. Mrs. J. M. McMenamin of Guffey is here for a few days. E. P. Dodd, editor and publisher of the Pendleton Tribune, is in the city, on a visit to relatives In this vicinity. His father, D. P. Dodd, is one of the pioneer residents of Boise valley, having hav-ing come to Idaho forty years ago. Mr. Dodd will visit at Caldwell a few days before returning home. j J. T. Try3?ll gas Francisco has aF rived in Boise to take charge as fore man at the new brickmaking plant. The Idaho Vitrified Brick company is excavating for the new building, and a kiln of hand-mold brick is being burned with which to construct the dryers and kiln for the new vitrified brick plant The yard of the company is in Crane's gulch, north of the city. Hon. J, R. Wyatt, a prominent attorney attor-ney and Republican politician of Albany, Al-bany, Ore., Is in the city on a brief business visit. W. H. Kearney the Seattle mining man, is back from a flying business , trip to Salt Lake. $ I E. W. Johnson is visiting in Salt Lake city. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Idaho-Wyo 'ing Oil company, held last week, it - decided to consolidate with the Parah'me company of Poca-tello, Poca-tello, and to increase the capital stock to J2,000,000. The treasury stock was , also ordered taken from the market. J. S. Cafferty of North Yakima is doing business in Boise. David D, Murrayand wife of Caldwell Cald-well were in the city during the week. J. W. Murphy is in from, Neal and f staying at the OVerland. He says the Neal camp was never more active. John F. Clark and L. A. McBride of Salt Lake are in the city. . POCATELLO. Drs. Ewing and Baldwin, two of Salt Lake's most prominent r-hytucians. spent a few hours id the cliy the past ! week, waiting for the train vest. They i are on their way to Portland for a trip, j . . j Colonel O'Brien, the special land agent, who is here by authority of the Interior department to 511 land on h 17th, Is an old frieni of Lionel Iner- Boll. They have known each other since the civil war, and Colonel ingersoll ! says without hesitation that a better , man could not have been seleated; that Colonel O'Brien is 11 right. Mayor O. B. Steely and J. H. Brady have been appointed delegates to the Mining congress al Butte on Septj 1 to 4, by Governor Hunt. The Catholic ladies fiave a lawn social at the church on THlirsdaV' evening, July 17. Ice Cream and cake were served, and a dance was given in St. Joseph's hall. The band kindly consented con-sented to give its regular weekly open air concert on the church lawn that evening. The ladies prepared an evening even-ing of rare enjoymer-t, and all their friends attended. Dr. and Mrs. O. 3. Steely. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. McCarty and Mr, and Mrs. j T. F. Terrell spent Sunday camping in the hills at the head jf City Creek, at "Old Camp Comfort." Jack Kelly, the popular teamster for Hayes & . Franklin, has taken a few-days' few-days' well deserved lay-off, HISTORY OF CATHOLICITY IN IDAHO. Long before the pioneer braved the dahgets of the wilds of this "Gem of the Mountains" do We find the Catholic Cath-olic priest in the heart of the mountain moun-tain trying, to Win souls to God laboring, labor-ing, hot for earth's riches, nor for ambition's am-bition's fading treasures, but for the building of a surer, safer edifice the Catholic church in Idaho, whose work for many years was the winning of souls from barbarism td the light of Christianity. . As far back as 1838 we read of Archbishop Arch-bishop Signey of Inhes sending two priests the Most Rev. F. N. Blahchet and Rev. Mot'test Demurs, to minister to the spiritual wants of the: Hudson Bay traders, most of whom were Canadian-French, lit 1846 the pope elected elect-ed the see of Walla Walla, and what is now Idaho became part of the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion under Rt. Rev. Maglohe Blanchet, the archbishop's brother. However, the honor and glory of havjng done the first missionary work in Idaho belongs to Father DeSmet, the famous Indian j i missionary, who, in the spring of 1842, started from a mission on Montana to Vancouver, and on the way stopped in the hospitable tepees of the Couer de'Alene-Indians. These natives had heard of the "Black Robe" who dwelt among, the Flatheads In Montana, and were anxious to be equally favored, land he taught about the "Maker," as they called God, in their own tongue. One of the most striking characteristics characteris-tics of the Rev. Father DeSmet was his ingenuity, which was. well taxed on this occasion, for he had but three days in which to accomplish what seemed a life work. iWth the aid of an interpreter interpre-ter he translated the sign of the cross j principal prayers and articles of ' faith into the Coeur de'Alene tongue. ' Having completed this he made all the younger members of the tribe stand in a circle, and to each he gave a sentence sen-tence of the prayer. He demanded that they always stand In the same order to pray. J Frequent repetition by each i in term of what he had memorized se-' se-' cured to each the prayers in their entirety. en-tirety. On his return trip he was delighted de-lighted to find that a large number of the tribe knew the prayers by heart. This induced him to send missionaries among them, so in the fall Father Point and Brother Huet left the Fiat- i : head mission in Montana, under the es- 1 t cort of some zelous Couer de Alenes, who had gone to secure a "black robe" for themselves. Their first mission was put under the patronage of St. Jo-: Jo-: seph, the river of the same name in ' f this section was named by these ! worthy pioneers, who carried the torch j of faith to this benighted tribe. They continued theif work here with good results. The interest of Father De j Smet in this region seeems to have ! been deep-rooted, for in the fall of 1814 ' ! we read of his coming again among i them and converting the Kootenai or I Nez Perces Indians In the north. The j work was slow and difficult, for these . tribes spoke a different language from the Couer de Alenes, which Father De ; Smet had already mastered. In 1845 j an old chief, whose life had been de- ' , spaired of, was intsurcted and bap- , tized. After this he was always a very ! strong ally of the whites. On the oc-l oc-l casion of the uprising which resulted j in the death of that brave old hero. Dr. j Whitman, to whom we owe three of the j largest and richest states of the Union, I the chief sheltered Mr. Spaulding and ! family in his own wigwam, and thus ! : saved them from the fury of the reds. ; When spring came the floods caused such devastation on the bans of the , St. Joseph that the mission there had to be abandoned, and the second was j located on the banks of the beautiful ; Couer d'Alene river at a point now 1 known as Old Mission. Here, in 1853, ; was built the first Catholic church in ' Idaho. Here today stands that same ! old structure, an unworthy monument to the zeal and enery of the Jesuits who worked so earnestly amidst perils and hardships In these early days. Some Idea of the enregy needed may be acquired when we think that they had at their disposal none of the tools so Indlspensible to the workman today they made rude trucks, harnessed themselves to them and brought wood 1 and rocks from the mountain near, j Nails they had to manufacture, or more ! properly, wooden pegs, which today 1 still hold the old edifice together. The noble red man asked no pay for his work; it was all for the honor and glory of the Maker not to be allowed to work upon God's house was the severest se-verest punishment, that could be im-DnserT Ftrom &tt that ia 6??? must j n6t be thought that these early trila j slonaries always had smooth sailing, ; for they did not. War broke out on j several occasions against the govern-I govern-I ment, and it was beyond the control i of the priests. After, the uprising In 1858 the pries8ts were about to abandon aban-don the mission. The United States troops had defeated the Coeur d'Alenes and General Clark, who commanded, urged ' them to stay, saying, "The Coeur d'Alenes will yet become good Indians." The prophecy was fully verified veri-fied by the present condition of the above tribe. After the rush of miners to the Coeur d'Alene, whose effect upon the Indians j here has never been for the good, the I mission was moved further we'-t. on the Washington border, to what is known as the De Smet mission. A sight of the reserv'ation here, with its neat farm houses, cultivated fields is surely convincing proof of what the Jesuits have done towards civilizing and Christianizing this tribe, whose very name reminds one of the character charac-ter they have among the neighboring tribes. The Coeur d'Alenes (Heart of Owls) were now peaceable, thrifty farmers; could not a solution of the Indian question be found here? The first great rash of whites Into the southwest, who came to the placer diggings in the early '60s, was 'soon . followed by the Catholic priests to i minister to the spiritual wants of th& miners. Fathers Mesplle and Paulin were the first. They were qualified to cope with the wild state of society here, in which a rough, depraved element ele-ment abounded. Strong physically, nerved to hardships, broad and liberal lib-eral mentally, they were not long in gaining the good will of the sturdy miners, all courageous and adventur-j adventur-j ous, all having one common aim the amassing of gold. Rough, perhaps, but invariably generous, without religious . j prejudices, they were ever ready to help chaHty at all timed and do It without stint. Thanks to this noble generosity, within six months four edi-! edi-! flees raised their spires heavenward in j mute recognition of the Almighty, j These churches were St. Joseph's, at i Bannock, now Idaho City; at Placer-. Placer-. ville, at Centerville, at Pioneer City. Of course, they were small frame structures a protection, that was all but when we think of lumber at $100 per thousand, wages $7 a day, they deserve much credit who achieved so much amidst so many difficulties. Fires seem to have followed in the wake Of church building in these early days. Three times were they burned down In these first days. Nothing daunted, within two months, at Idaho City, another an-other was nearlhg completion. In 1867 the Sisters of the Holy Name from Portland selected Idaho City as the site for an academy. Within two years Idaho City met the fate of so many Small camps of that time the I mines failed to produce, and the town I became a typical deserted village. The i sisters, receiving so little patronage, ' were obliged to close their school and 1 return to Portland. The Rt. Rev. L. Lootens was the first bishop of Idaho. During his time two churches were built, one in Boise, the other in Granite Creek. His dif-flUclties dif-flUclties were many, especially from a financial standpoint. These, together with ill health, prompted him to resign re-sign in 1875. There were now but two priests in southern Idaho Father Mesplle and Father Archambault whose thief work was among the Indians In-dians of the1 south. In 1871 he asked the government to allow him to evangelize evan-gelize the Indians of Fort Hall, which had just been established. He did not stay long with the Indiana, for in 1872 ! he was appointed United States chap- lain in the army, and assigiied to duty j at Boise barracks, where he remained for several years. In 1879 Archbishop l j Seghr made a tour of Idaho, visiting all the Salmon river country, and for the' first time offering the Holy Sacrifice Sac-rifice at Challls, Bonanza and Clay- ton. In 1S82 he made a second tour of the state, and it was due to his instrumentality instrumen-tality that Idaho was given a Fhep-herd Fhep-herd of its own, our present worthy archbishop, Rt Rev. A. J. Glorleus. MARY M'F. (Continued Next Week.) F. J. Hill Drug company is very reliable. re-liable. Prescription druggists. Most delicious soda water in the city. The Rosary. The illustrious Bousaet, one of th t greatest geniuses of the time of Lruis : XIV, not only recited the rosary hshH- I uously, but also had himself enrollp,i t in the confraternity of the Holy ios. ary. In his train wi may range all th ' k instltutors or reformers of modern eon. j gregations St. Francis de Sales. St ( Vincent de Paul, the venerable Baptiste de la Salle, the learned Cardi- nal de Berulle, the pious Olier. foun li- ! and first superior of the Seminarv of j St Sulpice, with a crowd of others Better than that, the kings and givitt I ones of the world have Imitated th. I celebrated men. Father de la Ku-. a I learned religious of the company j Jesus, relates that one day. being a1- ! mitted to an audience by Louis XTV. ' j ' he found him saying his beads. Th - ' I religious could not help showing hu i surprise. "You appear surprised," sai l the king, "to see me saying the rosarv. I glory in saying it. It is a pious custom cus-tom which I have from the queen, ni-rrother, ni-rrother, and I should be Very sorry i i miss a single day without discharging that duty." .J |