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Messrs. Hopp & Power are newspaper men of experience, taste and discrimination. They be- lieve that first of all a local journal should be dis- tinctively local and should command all worthy home interests. They believe that a home paper to be successful must be adapted to the needs of the whole family. They believe that a family paper should be a pure paper, so clean in every line that it will not offend the nicest taste, and that its publisher should so respect his con- stituency as to assume that such is the kind of paper it would place in the hands of its boys and girls fifty-two times in the year,-fifty-two incen- tives to higher ideals, never one suggestion that can debase or contaminate. So believing, they have made the News a strong local paper, they have made it a family paper and they have made it a clean paper. Beyond this they have given it an attractive guise, print it nicely and manage its affairs in a business-like manner that make the publishers as well liked in the community as is the paper.
The News is an independent paper politically and is published in the interests of the people of Genesee and its tributary territory, without re- gard to political or religious affiliations. It is the aim of the publishers to help every worthy home enterprise, to advocate every proposition, withı- out regard to source, which seems to them to offer anything for the benefit of the place. It is their aim to so set forth the advantages of Gene- see as a place of residence and for business in- vestment as to bring to it men and women who are likely to advance the interests of the city by working intelligently to advance their own.
The News establishment is one of the best equipped printing houses in this part of the state, and the job printing of all classes done by Messrs. Hopp & Power is artistic in design and well done in every way, and their facilities are such that they are able to compete in prices with any printing concern in the state.
The Genesee News is published every Friday, at two dollars a year. Its issue for February 25, 1899, was a special illustrated number, devoted to home projects and enterprises and of a char- acter, in a literary way and mechanically, to re- flect the greatest credit on its publishers.
THE SALUBRIA CITIZEN.
This journal was founded in the year 1887, by Dr. S. M. C. Reynolds, under the name of the Idaho Citizen. It was a five-column folio paper and issued weekly, and during its early history the proprietorship was changed several times. In April, 1891, and while owned by a stock com- pany, the plant was consumed by fire in a con- flagration that did considerable damage to the town. After this Eugene Lorton purchased a complete new outfit and continued the publica- tion of the journal, changing its name to the Salubria Citizen, its present title. On the Ist of November, 1896, Thomas Nelson, an experienced newspaper publisher and editor, purchased the paper and has ever since owned and conducted it. It is now a five-column, eight-page weekly, de- voted to the interests of the Salubria valley, while it is independent in politics. Being ably man- aged and well supported, it has become an im- portant factor in the development of the locality and in the increase of general intelligence. It is really a good newspaper.
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Mr. Nelson is a native of the state of Illinois, born April 16, 1869, and has been a printer and newspaper man continuously ever since the four- teenth year of his age. He learned the printer's trade in the office of the Rocky Mountain News, at Denver, Colorado, and was employed on that paper for a period of four years. He then re- moved to southern Colorado, where he founded the Lajara Tribune and continued its publication for nearly a year. Next he worked as a journey- man job printer until 1891, for two and a half years of the time being the foreman of the job department of the Heppner Gazette, in Oregon. For some time he also ran a job printing office at Pendleton, Oregon, since which time he has been connected with his present enterprise, as already stated.
He is a gentleman thoroughly posted in news- paper work and is enthusiastic in his support of the interests of Washington county. He is one of the organizers of the Washington Fair Association, and has published a neat pamphlet setting forth the resources of the county in an at- tractive manner. He has also published an ex- haustive article on the same subject in the issue of his paper dated May 18, 1898.
In his political principles Mr. Nelson is inde- pendent. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of the Maccabees and of the Typographical Union. January 1, 1894, he was united in marriage to Belle Oswald, of Free- port, Illinois, the daughter of James Oswald, of that city. They have two interesting little girls, ---- Ruth and Myrtle. Mrs. Nelson is a prepossess- ing and amiable little lady. The family deserve and enjoy the highest esteem of the community.
THE WOOD RIVER TIMES.
This enterprising daily and weekly is published at Hailey, Blaine county, by T. E. Picotte, who founded it June 15, 1881, the very year in which the city itself was started, as a small village of tents. The principles emphasized by the founder were announced to be independence, impartiality and fearlessness, but not sensationalism, and fair wages, fair prices and fair living.
The weekly is a four-page sheet, twenty-four by thirty-six inches and seven columns to the page, and placed at three dollars a year; while the daily is twenty-two by thirty-three inches in
dimensions, with six columns to the page, and is sold at ten dollars per annum. Politics, "silver" Republican.
Mr. Picotte has been a newspaper man from boyhood. He was born in Montreal, Canada, October 26, 1848, began his apprenticeship at the printer's trade at the age of fourteen years, in New York city, and when the civil war broke out enlisted, but was rejected on account of his youth. A little later, however, he succeeded in entering the New York City National Guards, in Com- pany K, One Hundred and Second Regiment; and he was in active service for four months. After this he was telegraphic editor on the Cour- rier des Etats Unis, of New York, the leading French paper in the United States; next he was proof-reader on the Chicago Republican, now the Inter Ocean; and from Chicago he went south and was assistant foreman of the New Or- leans Daily Republican. Thence he went to Aus- tin, Texas, as superintendent of the state print- ing. Returning to Montreal, he formed a part- nership with his brother as a contractor for ma- sonry and cut stone, and after a time he came west and published, in Denver, Colorado, the Daily Programme and a weekly, the Colorado Real Estate and Mining Review. Next he was mining reporter on the Virginia Chronicle, at Virginia, Nevada, two years, and for a year was local editor of the Daily Independent, at the same place. He was the founder of the Sutro Independent, at the mouth of the Sutro tunnel, and was also editor and proprietor of the Lyon County (Nevada) Times two years. In 1882-3 he brought to Hailey the telegraphic dispatches from Blackfoot, the nearest point on the railroad, a hundred and seventy-five miles distant, and published the contents. for six months, during which time the price of his daily was at the rate of twenty-six dollars a year.
In 1881 he came to Hailey, then a village of a few tents, where he founded the Wood River Times. His varied experience in life, the high responsibilities he has so often carried, and the shrewd insight he naturally nas in the affairs of men, have combined to qualify him for the best management of a public journal. He is also in - terested in various mines, has built a good dwell- ing in Hailey, and is esteemed as one of the most valuable citizens.
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In October, 1863, he was united in marriage with Mrs. E. J. Taylor, who by a former mar- riage had a son and a daughter. Mrs. Picotte departed this life in 1891, and Mr. Picotte has since remained single. He is giving his step-son and daughter a liberal education. As to the fra- ternities, he is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was adjutant general in 1891-2 for the department of Idaho; and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen he was the first deputy grand master workman and the first past master of the oldest lodge of the order in the state.
IDAHO FALLS TIMES.
The Idaho Falls Times, Hon. George Chapin, publisher, is a six-column quarto weekly, Demo- crat in politics, devoted to the local interests of Idaho Falls and Bingham county. It was first is- sued in 1890, by the Times Publishing Company. A year later it was purchased by James Lamer- aux, from whom, after he had published it six months, Mr. Chapin bought it. It was first is- sued by Mr. Chapin in January, 1892, and since then has appeared regularly and on time, every Thursday, and has taken a leading place among the county papers of the west. Its plant is first- class in every respect, fitted up with modern ma- chinery and with type of new and attractive faces, and its facilities for turning out good job work, large or small, in any quantity, are in all ways adequate to any probable demand. Hon. George Chapin was born in Rochester, New York, April 3, 1839. He was educated in New York and Brooklyn and began his literary career as a cor- respondent for several eastern papers. During the civil war he was in the transport service, mov- ing materials of war for the United States gov- ernment. After the war he was connected with important steamboat enterprises in the east until 1870. His health declined and he was advised to subject himself to the influence of a mountain climate. He came west, and in the niining camps found the physical improvement he sought. He mined on Snake river, in Boise basin and at Rocky Bar, but met with only partial suc- cess. He was one of the historic six men who took the copper plates into the big canyon and were the first to use that method to secure the fine gold.
After mining for five years, Mr. Chapin en- gaged in the stock business, running as many as fifteen hundred head of cattle on the ranges, and was fairly successful until the feed became poor and the mortality among the cattle in the winter became ruinous, from the ordinary loss of three to five per cent. Mr. Chapin sold out his cattle interests, bought the Idaho Falls Times and has since devoted himself to the building up of the paper and of the town, fostering all local inter- ests by every means at his command and making his paper of the greatest interest to the agricul- tural class in all the country round about.
Mr. Chapin was married, in 1861, to Miss Delphine Henion, daughter of Captain Henion, of New York. Their daughter Cornelia is the wife of A. R. Hutten, of Brooklyn, New York; Charles D. Chapin, one of their sons, is a civil engineer; Clarence, the other, is a printer and is employed in his father's establishment.
A lifelong Democrat, Mr. Chapin has been called to places of trust and responsibility. In 1878 he represented his county in the legislature. He is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias, and he and his family attend the services of the Episcopal church.
THE SHOSHONE JOURNAL.
The Shoshone Journal was founded in 1882, by W. C. B. Allen. At first this paper was only a two-page weekly; but its career from the be- ginning to 1894 we are not able to give. In the latter year it was purchased by a stock company of Republican gentlemen and since then it has been the organ of their party for Lincoln coun- ty. It is now leased by R. M. McCullom, and the same policy of the paper is continued. Its greatest specialty, however, consists in faithfully giving the local news and in aiding the develop- ment of the material resources of its section of the country. For these purposes it is indeed a vigorous sheet.
Mr. McCullom is a newspaper man of lifelong experience, having learned the printer's trade when a boy, and having adhered to his favorite vocation to the present time, including editing and publishing. He is practically identified with the best interests of the town, is married and has his home here. After an absence of twenty-nine years from his old home at Ypsilanti, Michigan,
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he recently made a visit there, which was particu- larly interesting, in view of the many changes in the country in that time.
THE ELMORE BULLETIN.
This able journal, owned, edited and published by George M. Payne and his daughter, Mabel, is a four-page, seven-column weekly newspaper, the Democratic organ of Elmore county, devoted to the interests of the town of Mountain Home and Elmore county. Mr. Payne established this pa- per in 1888 and has ever since controlled its pub- lication, meeting with success in the enter- prise. In 1894 he associated with him his daughter, Mabel, who is now its business man- ager, while her father is the editor and the pub- lisher.
Mr. Payne is a native of Virginia, born in Cul- peper county, November 27, 1834, of English ancestry whose first American representatives were early settlers in that state. His parents, Richard and Susan (Asbury) Payne, were natives also of the Old Dominion and were Methodists in their religion. His father, a planter, died in the thirty-eighth year of his age, and his mother survived until her fifty-sixth year. Of their five children only two are now living. The fourth of these, the subject of this outline, was educated in the public schools in Alabama, and at the age of twelve years began to learn the printer's trade, and ever since then, excepting a few years' min- ing in California, he has been connected with newspaper work. In California he founded and for a number of years published the Amador Dis- patch, until he was elected a member of the legis- lature of that state. In 1869 he removed to Ne- vada, where he was a compositor on the Virginia City Enterprise; next he was the foreman of the office of the Elko Chronicle.
In 1869, after a visit to his relatives and friends in Alabama, he went to Louisville, Kentucky, where, April 16, 1872, he married Miss Ada Cole, a native of that city. After this he spent eight years in Nevada, where he was foreman of the Eureka Sentinel, and in 1882 came to Hailey, Idaho, where he had the position of foreman of the News-Miner office. In 1887 he came to Mountain Home and purchased the Range and Valley, a small publication owned by Frank Ma- son. From this nucleus he developed his present
enterprise, the Elmore Bulletin, which is an in- fluential organ of local interests.
Mr. and Mrs. Payne have but the one child, al- ready mentioned. She was born in Louisville and reared here in the west. The family have a nice home and are highly esteemed by the citi- zens of Mountain Home and vicinity, in the in- terests of which they are so enthusiastically en- gaged.
THE BLACKFOOT NEWS.
The Blackfoot News was established by Colonel John W. Jones in Tune, 1887. It is a Democratic local paper, edited with much dis- crimination and dressed and printed with taste and care. Its subscription price is two dollars a year. For twelve vears it has been preaching Democracy and helping to build up Blackfoot and the surrounding country. It has never missed one issue, and only one issue has been delayed. A delay of two days occurred in Janu- ary, 1894, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Jones.
Colonel John W. Jones was born in Virginia, September 12, 1839, and is descended from Eng- lish ancestors. His grandfather, Worthington Jones, fought for America in the Revolution and again in the war of 1812. Worthington Jones's son, W. B. Jones, father of Colonel John W. Jones, was born in Virginia and became prom- inent there as a physician. He died in 1842. Colonel Jones was educated in the Old Dominion and passed his youth and young manhood in that state. He enlisted in the Confederate service, in the Fifty-sixth Virginia Volunteer Infantry, and was elected captain of his company. He fought at Fort Donelson, in the seven-days fight in the Wilderness, at Gettysburg, and in many less im- portant engagements, and was wounded four times and promoted for his good soldierly qual- ities to be colonel of his regiment. His regiment was attached to Pickett's division of Long- street's corps, in command of General Rob- ert E. Lee, and laid down arms at the historic surrender at Appomattox. After the war Colonel Jones was president of a fe- male college in Arkansas and was elected to the legislature of that state. He came to Idaho in 1885, and two years later es- tablished the Blackfoot News. In 1893 he was appointed by President Cleveland receiver of the United States land office at Blackfoot. In 1898
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he was commissioned, by the governor, as lieu- tenant-colonel of Idaho troops, and went with his command to Manila and was there at the time of Admiral Dewey's great victory. But his health failed soon afterward, and he was permitted to re- sign his commission and return to the more fa- vorable climate of Idaho.
In 1860, Colonel Jones married Miss Anna Gregory, a native of Virginia and daughter of one of the most distinguished physicians of the south. Mrs. Jones was a woman of many graces and rare accomplishments, and her death was a blow not only to her husband and children but to the entire community, in which she had striven loyally to help in such works as commended themselves to her excellent judgment. The fam- ily consisted of five sons and two daughters. Norman, the eldest son, is in the cattle business in Wyoming. Percy is now the active publisher of the Blackfoot News. Gregory is clerk and stenographer in the United States land office at Blackfoot. John W., Jr., is a recent graduate from the law department of the Washington and Lee University in Virginia. Blanche is her fath- er's housekeeper.
THE NEWS-MINER.
This is a daily and weekly paper publisned at Hailey, Blaine county. The daily is issued every morning except Monday, and the weekly every Friday. In dimensions the latter is twenty-two inches by thirty-two in size, a folio of six columns to the page, while the daily is twenty inches by twenty-six, with five columns to the page.
As the name implies, this periodical is devoted to mining and local news. In politics, since 1892, the publishers have advocated the cause of the People's party. It was first published in Belle- vue, by Frank A. Harding, under the simple name, The Miner. The News was started in Hailey, by C. H. Clay, and in 1883 tnese papers were combined and passed under the control of the present owners, Richards & Richards, who changed the name to the News-Miner. The price of the weekly is two dollars a year, while that of the daily is ten dollars; and they both have a good circulation.
E. R. Richards has had charge of the journal for the past four years. He has been a news- paper man all his life, in the east and in the west.
He learned the printer's trade when a young man, in the state of Maine, of which state he is a na- tive. As newspaper men here they have done all in their power to advance the material interests of Hailey and Blame county.
THE POCATELLO ADVANCE.
This periodical was founded in Pocatello in February, 1894, a weekly seven-column folio, and is the organ of the Democracy of Bannock coun- ty and the state of Idaho. It was established by Frank Walton, who conducted it for the Advance Publishing Company. In March, 1898, it was purchased by Messrs. Moore & Wright, who now manage the journal.
H. A. Moore was formerly the publisher of the Herald here. He learned the printer's trade in Kansas and Nebraska, and is a very active and able newspaper man.
C. E. Wright, the junior member of the firm, has long been in the newspaper business, in Iowa and Nebraska. He came to Idaho in 1894, and published the Elmore County Republican, at Mountain Home, 1or three years.
Both of these gentlemen are exerting their best energies for the material interests of their com- munity, and are accordingly held in high esteem by the citizens.
THE KENDRICK TIMES.
A weekly newspaper published at Kendrick, Idaho, is the Times, which was established in 1893 by the Treisch brothers. It was issued on Friday and was an independent journal, devoted to local news and to the upbuilding of Kendrick and the surrounding country. Its founders con- ducted it for two years, and it was then published by E. H. Thompson for a year. On the Ist of June, 1897, E. E. Aldeman became the editor and proprietor and has since remained in charge. In 1898 he also began the publication of the Canyon Echo, which is issued on Tuesday, while the Times comes out, as usual, on Friday. Mr. Aldeman is a stanch Republican in his political views, and edits his paper in the interests of that party.
He is a native of Ohio, was educated in the public schools of that state and in Hiram Col- lege, and during the greater part of his life has been engaged in the manufacture of lumber, his
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present enterprise being his first venture in the field of journalism, but he is meeting with very satisfactory success and has a large patronage from the business public. He was prominently connected with educational affairs while residing at Hart's Grove, Ashtabula county, Ohio, and served as school director for a number of years. In 1874 he became connected with the Masonic fraternity and took an active part in the work of the order, serving as junior warden of liis lodge. He is now a member of the city council of Kendrick and is a valued citizen.
THE SOUTHERN IDAHO MAIL.
The Southern Idaho Mail is an eight-page weekly paper, Republican in politics, which was first issued at Blackfoot, Bingham county, Idaho, by the Mail Publishing Company (Willis Earl Smith, editor and publisher), May 24. 1899. It is published on Wednesday of each week in the in- terest of Republicanism, the city of Blackfoot and Bingham county. It is ably edited and well printed and is a high-toned home journal, giving all the home news and advocating all measures calculated to advance the interests of Blackfoot and its tributary territory. Its reception by the people of Blackfoot has been cordial and encour- aging and its future seems bright with promise.
Willis Earl Smith is a native of Shellsburg, Iowa, and was born February 26, 1869. He re- ceived his primary education in the Waco, Ne- braska, high school and was graduated from the college at York, Nebraska, in the class of 1888. He learned the printer's trade in his native town and has been a newspaper man since he left school. Before establishing the Southern Idaho Mail he published the Herald at Wallace, Ne- braska, and the World, at American Fork, Utah. Mrs. Smith has established a prosperous mil- linery business at Blackfoot. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are popular in society and leaders in many good works.
THE ELMORE REPUBLICAN.
This lively journal was established in 1889, by a man named Abbott. At first it was an eight- page five-column weekly, devoted to the interests of Elmore county and the Republican party in general. Later it was purchased by a company. In 1894 the office was destroyed by fire and the files of the paper were lost. This misfortune has
.deprived the historian of many desirable items in connection with the career of the paper, as well as of the community generally. It is now owned and published by the Simpson brothers,- George E. and Lawrence E. Simpson.
The Simpson brothers are natives of the state of Indiana and are both practical newspaper men of years of experience, both at the printing trade and as publishers. George E. Simpson was em- ployed on the Idaho Statesman eight years, and had been a part owner of the Marion County (Iowa) Reporter; and Lawrence E. was for a time proprietor of the Pleasantville (Iowa) Tele- graph. George E. has a wife and two children, while Lawrence E. is single. The latter is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and also of the Order of Daughters of Rebekah. Both these gentlemen are capable, agreeable and obliging young men and are giving their best energies to the upbuilding of the town and county.
THE IDAHO MINING NEWS.
The News is published monthly, at Boise, by the Idaho Mining Exchange. The first issue, in March, 1896, was devoted to the Boise gold belt. In that instance, through absence of snow at the time, the Exchange was able to employ a writer to visit each individual property and describe it, and this plan has been followed as far as practi- cable throughout the various other mining dis- tricts of the state. In the edition of the News for May, 1896, its aims and purposes are thus briefly defined: "The News has for its goal a complete description of the mines and mining of the whole state of Idaho. Its contributors will be the min- ing men, its editors 'the committee on develop- ment, information and advertising' of the Idaho Mining Exchange. The magazine does not rep- resent any clique or locality other than all the inhabitants and the whole of our state. Its circu- lation includes the mining men, engineers, brokers, companies, bankers, prospectors, hotels and exchanges of America."
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