The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-01-28


Inere are twelve vacancies In the coprs o
surgeons In the nsvy.
There Is dramshop for every forty-hvs IN
habltants Of Belgium.
The name of a man under arrest In Phila
delphia for murder 10 Killer.
At Roaring Creek, W. Va, is family Of Ton
persons that weighs z, 440 pounds.
A fall of red snow Is said to have taker
place at Allegheny, Pa, few days ago.
Large quantities of genuine cod have beer
taken by the Monterey, Cal, fishermen lately
Z 1t lie said there are 900, 900 people in Francs
who live in apartments that have no windowA
'Paint" signs are picketed at every corneI
in the senate and house chambers at the capt
toL
A British Columbia legislator has resigned
his seat In the lower honse and Joined the
Mormens.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, is going to do
his best this winter to have q hayward estab
lished on Puget sound
Tho English consular reports are now
stamped In the upper right-hand corner with
the notice, sail rights reserved"
During the twelve months ending with Octo-
Der, IL vessels and 127 men were lost in the
Gloucester, Mass. fshing-grounds.
Oyster juice is what Paris doctors now pre-
scribe for patients whose stomachs are too
weak to hold any other kind of food.
The number of negroes who enlisted in the
union army during the war Of the rebellion,
according to recent estimates, was liz, 000
A Nashville undertaken complied with the
dying request of woman who was recently
buried in that city by interring her new bonnet
with her body.
centenarIan has been found In Monmouth
county, New Jersey, who was never twenty
miles away from his birthplace, and who never
saw q steamboat or a railroad.
Petroleum Is being found In increasing
quantities all over the islands of the Dutch
East Indies, particularly in Sumatra and Java.
Rich wells have been discovered In eastern
Java.
Electric wires can not be placed under
ground in New Orleans because the water level
is only three feet below the surface. Strong
towers $50 fee. high are to be erected on which
to place them.
A party OF scientists are boring In the soil Of
the Nile delta in search OF rock. A depth oil
808 feet has been reached, but no rock was
found. The everything soil to a depth Of one
hHndred feet Is sand.
The Zulu and Philippians of south Africa are
to have taste Of Salvation army religion, Gen.
Booth having ordered squad Of his soldiers
to settle In that country. The army has al
ready invaded Jerusalem.
Beef cattle at Tucson, Arizona, are cheap
and in big demand, being bought up by San
Francisco dealers. The cattle are in splendid
condition. Stockmen are realizing and
cents per pound, on foot, ct the railroad
depot
The government Of New South Wales offers
a reward of si35. 600 to any person who will
make known and demonstrate at his own ex-
pense any method or process not previously
known In the colony for the effectual exter-
mination of rabbits.
Although great quantities OF peanuts are
yearly shipped to Antwerp but few are eaten
by the Dutch. The nut Is submitted to
treatment by which its oil Is extracted, and
the oil is used for various purposes. The
supply is imported from Africa.
Claus spreckles' evident determination to
push the beet-sugar industry is alarming the
sugar planters of the Hawaiisn islands, and
already they are talking about giving up
sugar-cane planting and substituting coffee
as the staple product of the islands.
Poultry men say that pullets Matched by in
cubators and raised in brooders lay much
sooner than those hen-hatched and raised. A
Trenton man has one of these artificial young
hens that began laying when ten weeks old,
and has laid an egg day ever since.
A physician SAYS that the benefit to his pa
tients from public library is enormous. Most
of his patients arc poor aud good books would
be beyond their reach but for this system; an
interesting book is to them something of what
change of air and scene is to the rich.
News has just reached New Bedford that
the whaler Abbie Bradford hal been frozen In
in the northern waters for eleven months.
The crew had plenty of venison and other
fresh meat; had experienced cold 5615 degrees
below zero, and had had pretty good time
generally.
The United States government has ordered
a new survey made Of government lands lying
in and near Monterey, CAL The survey will
between two and three hundred acres to the |
military reservation, which Is the proposed |
site for the national soldiers home.
The credit of establishing national Thanks |
giving day, is attributed to Mrs. Sarah j. Hale,
late editor OF Godey's Ladys Book. As far |
back as lS4l she began to urge upon the gov |
enors Of the states the propriety Of issuing |
Thanksgiving proclamations, until In 1859 the |
day was observed In all the states but two.
Recent statistics show that crime is decreas-
ing in India, especially 10 Bengal and the |
northwest provinces and in Oudh. Although |
there were over $50, 600 persons confined in the |
754 prisons of India last year, the daily aver.
age has declined steadily in each Of the past |
Eve years, falling from 81, 900 In 1881 to 1900
In 1885
Idaho newspapers are calling attention to
the fact that the Lemhi Indians are slaughter
ing deer by Wholesale, just for their hides.
They form circle covering miles Of country, |
and drive the deer toward q common center,
generally deep ravine and do their work so /
thoroughly that almost every animal started |
within the outer circle is killed. The authorl- |
ties are asked to put stop 10 this slaughter.
A good story, says The Springfield Rspvbli-
ca,s, has just leaked out concerning the pastor
of a church not hundred miles from West
Warren, and a neighbcr who Is not In the
habit OF attending church regularly. The
neighbor had stated as a reason for not going
to church the next Sunday that he had lot Of
wood to saw. The Clergyman offered to saw
the wood himself before Sunday If the
man would agree to attend church. A bar
gain was struck, the wood sawed, and the
minisl er caught his bird
William Hanson. a llneman at Salem, Mass,
to save himself from falling from an electric
light wire pole, caught hold Of one of the
wires Instantly the thought flashed
through his mind that IL was about time for
the electric current to be turned on which he
knew would certainly kill him. He was hang
ing seventy feet from the ground and was
about to let 60 OF the wire to drop to the
ground when someone. shouting to him hold
on fer few minutes, ran to the engine-house
and warned the engineer. Hanson was then
rescued.
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