The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ed postmaster at Weiser, in place of
Mrs. NJ. E. Walker, resigned.
Another candidate for Governor
of Idaho: The Idaho City World
dominates C. S. Kingsley, of Boise
county.
The bill for the admission of
Washington, Montana, and the two
Dakotas has passed both houses of
Congress.
A state lottery scheme after the
plan of the Louisiana state lottery
has been defeated in Nevada by
500 majority.
The Union Pacific has placed Or
ders with the Detroit works for the
construction of 1880 box cars, 25O
refrigerators, 800 stock cars and
45O coal cars.
Now that every girl thumps the
piano and every boy is q book
keeper, potatoes will soon be worth
four dollars per bushel, says an
eastern journal.
The surveyors on the proposed
Union Pacific branch from Ontario,
Oregon, to Sacramento, Cal, are
now in the region of Alkali lake,
They will reach Harvey valley
some time Ia March. Gen. T. A.
Clark, the engineer in charge has
gone to Omaha to report.
Seven carloads of copper ore
from the Seven Devils mining re-
gion of Washington county, Melted
the owners so per cent profit. The
shipments were made recently.
An Illinois copper works has con-
tracted for two carloads of ore per
week for the coming season.
The Senate committee has re-
ported favorably on the bill Great
ing Oklahoma Territory. The
new territory which will be thus
formed contains 100000, acres
or nearly as large as Ohio. 1t is
in the northwestern part of Indian
Territory.
The pretty daughter of Butch c
Sam Brown, who lives on Sixteenth
Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming, was
insulted by a tramp last week.
She loosed the chains of two fierce
dogs, but after a fierce struggle the
tramp killed them both with a club.
The doors were barred, but he fired
the wood shed. Brown came home
about this time and extinguished
the flames, then he looked for the
tramp, who had set fire to the next
house. The hose company joined
in the chase, letting the house
burn down, but the tramp escaped.
Miss Edith Phelps of Sidney, N.
Y, who in common but unprofes-
sional phrase "broke her neck a
few days ago, bids fair to recover.
The facts of this remarkable case
are that when Miss Edith attempt
ed to raise a window sash, which
was held by ice that had gathered
at the sill, the obstruction suddenly
gave way, permitting her head to
| fly back with a jerk that dislocated
the vertebra of the neck. The sur
geon who was called succeeded in
reducing the dislocation, and then
adjusted around the neck stout
collar. 1t is believed that in the
course of months she will entirely
recover.
Three young ladies of Chenille
Mimi, went to the home of an old
couple to spend the evening of Feb.
16. At nine o'clock they started
home. They had scarcely stepped
out the door when they were shot
down by two ruffians. The old
gentleman of the house started for
help. While he was gonethe iends
entered the house and killed
the old lady. A late re-
port says that Joseph Che
melke, 10 years old, was the
murderer of the three women. His
victims were Mrs. Philip Chemelke
his sister-in-law, her sister Mary
and their mother. Joe being on
bad terms with his brothers family,
he got drunk last night and laid
in wait for them. He committed
suicide Immediately after the muir
der.
The Aborn Lottery.