The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1891-11-07
The water has been turned off in the
city bitches.

ClVY u1lCuOS.
Mrs. Shelton is putting up a fine two:
story house on her lots in the west end.
Mr.. Schnabel is dangerously sick at
his residence in this city. Drs. Isham,
Lee and Wright held a consultation last
Thursday evening. They have little
hope for his recovery.
The regular monthly union service of
all the churches of Caldwell will be held
in the Methodist church, Sunday, No
vember 8, at 1880 o'clock p. M. Rev. l.
5. Hicks will preach.
The sale Of school land at Boise City
last Tuesday and Wednesday was
quite spirited, most of the land selling
above the appraised value. Quite a
sum of money was realized for the
school fund.
Gov. Wiley says he will make a
report OF the prison prize fights in the
near future. There will be a sigh of |
relief 60 up from all oyer the state
When we learn which convict was
awarded first blood.
J. r. De Lamar stands firm in his
resignation as worlds fair commits
sioner, but offers to pay his successor
salary of $500 per year out of his
own pocket, provided the appointment
be agreeable to him. Gov. Wiley has
accepted tho resignation and has tho
appointment of a successor under adj
visement.
Fowler took his lunch basket into
Judge Beaty's office. When it went in
it contained q fine lunch, when it went
out it contained a brick bat neatly
wrapped up and the dog Brigham
contained the lunch. Let us draw
the curtain over the next act and
hope that the fair page of history will
never be disfgured by q record Of the
remainder of that day.
Whenever wholesale house receives
scrap of paper without anything to indi-
in, or the sheet is Ornamented with one
of those hideous daubs called rubber
stamp, his name is Immediately checked
with an 49," which indicates suckers.
This mark serves as notice to the
travelling salesman that the said mer-
chant is fit subject on which to palm
off all the old, worm eaten, shelf-WOrn,
shoddy goods that you possibly can.
The poor merchant then wonders why
his customers never come back the Sec
ond time to buy goods. The rubber
stamp is the cause.-Ex.
P.J. Kelley returned from the Snake
river placer diggings under the Phyllis
ditch, where he has been employed as
amalgamator, last Tuesday. He re-
ports a serious state of affairs between
the company and the men which re-
suited in the entire force quitting tho
the works Wednesday. The company
is about $1,000 behind in their wages
with no prospect of a settlement. Mr..
Kelley says that the last clean up
showed well for the mines and under
proper management thinks could be
made success. He speaks in highest
terms of Mr.. Wiley, the foreman in
charge, as a competent miner and q
also "in the hole for large amount
in his transactions with the company.
The casting which the artesian well
people were waiting for, came last
Wednesday and Thursday noon steam
was raised and the journey to the cen
ter of tho earth began. With its usual
enterprise THE TRIBUNE sent its best
} detective to keep sharp look out for
images. If he don't find one in two
days that will knock the spots off the
famous Nampa image, he will be placed
under the hammer and sent down after
one. OF course We expect to find more
artesian water than did our Nampa
friends, but of what avail is water
without an image Our very soul yearns
for one, and should water squirt up | ,O0C
feet in the air, without a modern relic OF
3 antiquity to have pictured in the Scien.
3 tific American. we should feel that al
our labor was in vain.
Witches, devils and fairies ran ram,
pant last Saturday night and INDUCED
in much harmless amusement. Gates
! were carried OFT, signs changed and the
usual Halloween pranks INDUCED in
One crowd cOntented themselves by
music Another party of young ladies
y organized themselves into q band O
, female "Night Caps" and boldly raidet
= nearly every house in town. They were
indeed Il wierd. ghostly looking band
!, and had it not been for the knowledge
: that those hideOuS masks covered
@fpretty and happy faces, many Il poo
:, sinner would have thought that hi
i eterna! job in the sulphur works hat
s commenced. Now it was all very nic'
Q for these young ladies to have their fun
n but we think they carried things to eX
Il tremes in changing signs, stealth!
e boxes, and above all in playing witt
d Monte Gwim's hose. This last ac
y was immodest to say the least, and can
d not but prove embarrassing to MI
Q Gwinn. We were very loath to max
J. these charges against the young ladies
It but Willie Dryden, Gabe Brown am