The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-27
BELLEVUE, Idaho, Aug. %, 1889.
Shoshoue Splinters.

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town last Tuesday. consisting of the
Stevens party of Omaha fourteen persons.
They came in Pullman sleeper-the
Kearney-had a baggage car turned into
stable for their sixteen horses, and had
fat car rugged up to carry two Concord
coaches, and on the latter car was the full
sheet flyer, Yellowstone National Park
Excursion" The party drove out to the
Shoshone Falls, and returned Wednesday
evening. and vert east. They are enjoying
The rural sights" in style and comfort.
AThe home excursion party that left
August for the Sawtooth reddish lakes
afsO fourteen in number-are home again,
having returned Sunday. They had one of
the old time mud wagons OF early Wood
River days, had plenty of clothing, cooking
utensils, bottles to hold hot water for the
cold footed" and had the best time out.
And such awful stories are now going
about; such large bears up there; and the
oceans of fish: and the game; and the bold
hunters; and the sharp-Shooter5; and the
narrow escapes; oh, its miraculous how
they all returned safe and sound! But
they did.
GENERAL ITEMS.
The county board of equalization meet
rcxt week.
Wednesday. the first car of the vestibule
pattern ran through on the Oregon Short
Line, and it is to be a regular feature here
after.
Idaho's delegate is remembering the
Shoshoneites, for the post Office was this
week flooded with public documents on
every subject.
The fittings for the new steel-bar cell
have arrived, as well as large and hand
some safe for Treasurer DOan's office.
These are much-needed improvements for
Logan county.
Charles Gilmore has taken charge of the
Shoshone Pacific express office, while eN-
Postal Clerk Abbott, of the Wood river
branch run, has taken the messenger route
on the Oregon Short Line.
This market is now supplied by home
permers with everything from cucumbers
and watermelons to tomatoes and corn, in
vegetables, and from peaches to grapes IN
the fruit line But the long dry spell has
told IN some sections by lessening the crops.
The Chinese doctor from Albion, Cassia
county, has been in ShOshone for week,
and has more calls than he can attend to.
This peculiarly intelligent Monaghan Is said
10 be a sure cure in any disease he gives his
attention He knocks the ''eliXlr OF llte'
cold. as it were, and some of his cures are
here in ShoshOne every day to show for
themselves.
This is the time of the year when the
various county assessment rolls are figured
mn We are told that Logan county will
fan about fifty thousand dollars short of
second class county in the matter OF rat
ing the salaries of officers, or 81 $50, GOO val
nation of property in round numbers. II
WAS thought by some that it would be
N2OOO,O 900, sure.
The Idaho constitutional fXers are by
this time all home, and surely ought to
have recuperated heads by this date. So
far as Logan county Is concerned, Shoshone
as the county seat has literally paid no at
tantion TO the work. But if Idaho always
remains territory, how is a criminal ever
n turn states evidence! This important
discovery and the fact that the hungry poll
ticians must be fed some way, arc two
strong items for statehood for Idaho.
There have been rumOrs about town
lately of various through railroad lines tap
ming ShOshone Is it possible our little
;ewn is destined to be Denver for Idaho
that every railroad wants to tap us! |
authorize myself TO give notice now that
Iro have only limited space here, and
tRrough lines desiring franchises should
Tsise their right hand-and don't crowd 10
the front So Let the secretary take tAc.f
names.
But let me close this letter with jofe
on one of our county ofticials-no names
Visitors from that wicked town OF HALEY
ontired this county official into an all-nighJ
nedro game this week The official, how
ever, paid for all the beer, and one OF Sho-
shoneis Wags the next day dropped note
in the postoffice 20 the butt of this JOKE, and
addressed 10 ''Pedro Jack, Shoshone,
Idaho Somehow, the letter was put into
Sheriff Campbelrs box. He looked at 1t,
smiled. opened it and read it. He boldly,
waFAed over to the delivery window and
demanded: ''How did you know this letter
Ivas for mei' Death stiffness for three
quarters of a second, and the postmistress
besitatingly replied: ''W-y, you were the
only Jack in town, and, and the sheriff
never heard the last of that sentence, but
come friend did. CARRIE ALL.
SHosHoSB, Idaho, Aug. D. 1889.
paMorcifnl TO Yourself