The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-01-16
The Magic City" Meets all the Require
meltS Of Modern Civilization.
A STRANGE EXPERIENCE
Moro or Less TrnthTu!iy Told. Usual
Ninety.Seyen sea Serpent Per Cent
OF for Believers.

Caldwell has always maintained a
reputation for enterprise second to no |
other place IN the state, and her struG- /
giles and history show that it is founded /
upon the rock of truth. She leads in /.
all things, is daring OF conception and i'll
practical details. Imagine our chagr.n, .
thea. TO read III the :~hosiome journal
Of a Silurian monster. This is the first
time on record that Caldwell has been
behind III any public enterprise that
would tend to the happiness and com
fort Of Ter people. low it happens
that we as atoWn have never discovered
that necessity to modern civilization
a sea Serpent-is fact that Stuns the
intellect and for Il moment paralyzes
the limbs of enterprise. In this matter
we are compelled to yield the palm to
ShCshone. an account of their discovery
appearing in another column. Cald-
well never gives up, however, and after
reading the account in the Journal and
knowing the necessity and realizing the
Importance Of such an adjunct to the
prosperity of a progressive town, THE
TRIBUNE at once organized & party to
discover similar attraction for Cald-
well.
Last Wednesday morning the brave
little party of explorers for truth, con-
sisting of Sherman NJ. Coffin, NJ. b.
Gwinn, Howard Sebree and THE
| TRIBUNE, loaded four-horse wagon
with provisions for q week and tank
of Browns Best Monster Discoverer,
and started out on their perilous task.
The party took no deadly weapons as a
guarantee of good faith, having deter
mined to provoke no quarrel with the
monster when finally discovered. The
tank of Monster Discoverer was freely
tapped and by the time the party were
across the railroad track they were
feeling in about the proper condition
to discover anything. Nothing of i'm
portance happened until the wagon
bridge across the Boise river was
passed and the team headed in on the
narrow road bed which lines the river
under the hanging boulders and rocks
AS the party logged pleasantly along
. with jest and song, the horses suddenl!
, reared back, uptipped the wagon an(
jumped into the river splitting the fou
= scientists and the tank of Discovere
on the ground. Gwinn was the first t,
, recover and opening his eyes he shu
+ them again quickly and with low
, faint moan said: Great God. Sebree
, do YOU see that =" "NO," said the pres
= ident of the First National, 81 don
f see that" Take some more of tn
= Discoverer and you WILL" said Cottil
4 suiting the action to the word. AL
!. now depended upon the tank and tn
= four scientists soon emptied 1t in prop
o. or manner. Now, when l count thre
q all open your eyes, said Gwinn, san
d tho result of our perilous adventur
f will be apparent" At the given wor
!. all opened their eyes and looked-ye
II CueTC IL WIS, tLS llloSV uoli
upon which human eyes ever reste
10 Terror held every tongue and blanche
- every cheek, yet under it all the mob
four were conscious of a certain JOY ;
:, having discovered the object Of the
+, search and saved Caldwells reputatio
> From hole in the rocks issued
serpent like body extending at lea
., fifty feet in the air. 1t was pure viii
~ in color and had rings after the faShi,
of a convict's garb encircling it eve
fourteen inches. These rings were
+ every color and shade imaginable. !
es every two feet the monster seemed
be tied in a knot. while the ratl
H. slender body gradually enlarged al
IS finally branchei off into seven heads
the top. Each head represented Il col
an of tht solar spectrum, and were of t
nd most hdeous and rspulsive natu
The eyes in each were blood red Il