The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-02-02
IDAHO ITEMS.

There will be daily Ketchum Ken
stone in the spring. Good luck to it.
The recorder of Alturas county wen
east some time ago and forgot to leave
the combination Of his safe. There was
considerable Inconvenience.
A company has been formed at Spc-
kane Falls, W. T., to equip and run q
six horse line of stages into Ceur d.
Alsne, to be put on Immediately.
The Keeney House at Pocatello occa-
sionally serves buffalo steak and eastern
travellers think it a rarity. II is. and
such good hotels as the Keeney House
are rarity, too.
We are informed that this has been
the severest winter on sheep exper-
fenced for many years, by reason of the
scarcity OF water. Water that will sup
ply three hundred head of cattle will
not water that many sheep, because
they muddy the water, when they will
not drink of it.-AUulanche.
Silas Fowler, an old resident, had two
trials at Bellevue lately on two charges
of setting fire to the Black schoolhouse.
The first fire destroyed the building on
the goth of December. 1t was rebuilt
and on the 9th of January was again
consumed. Judge Waters was attor-
ney for Mr.. Fowler and triumphantly
cleared him, although Attorney Bruner
had dozen witnesses for the prosecu-
ton. Without examining witness for
the defense, Judge Waters proved that
the proximity Of the stove to the walls
caused the fire each time
A Soda Springs correspondent under
date of January Goth, says: ga very
sad and fatal accident happened here
on Saturday night last, the victim be-
ing Sam Blackburn, our matchmaker
and jeweler, who went to the Horse
shoe Spring after some soda water
about 8 o'clock p. NJ, and was never
afterwards seen alive. About o'clock
his wife became anxious about him and
got Mr.. Schmidt to go hunt him up,
and when he found him he was on his
knees his head laying up against the
wall dead, sufocated by gas while in
the act of filing bottle with soda
water"
The big tunnel being constructed by
the o. S. L. through the divide at the
head of Hams Fork in Wyoming is
about completed and trains will soon
be making straight run through the |
bill from the head of Hams Fork to |
COkeville without any delay or switch
ing. The switch-back over the noun
JAIN now traversed is q laborious and
low way of getting across, generally
about ten times the time
md several times the distance to make
/ run between two points on opposite
Iides of the mountain. The tunnel is a
,rand enterprise, built large and solid.
t is low enough to avoid any severe
,rade in the approaches, while that
'doped is hardly perceptio le.-Key-
tone.
Speaking Of Camas PRAIRIE" said
'heriff Furey, the other evening, ''re-
ninds me of the time, four years ago,
7hen l was obliged to cross it sf5er
orse thieves. On first striking it 1
1as surprised to see such broad fer
lie country. Grass was growing in
bundance and brushed against the
des Of my horse as he passed along.
fifteen or twenty bands of cattle were
zen on various portions of the prairie.
hey were being driven to Cheyenne
i'd other points along the railroad.
migrant wagons were passing across
g prairie toward their destination in
regon and Washington Territory. For Y
e first time, was deeply impressed Il
tn the natural advantages this sec ion W
ords to the farmer. News Miner. CT