The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-05-07

G. f. Hoel, for many years past with
the McCord Brady Co., has severed his
connection with that house and joined
in business with the M. b. Gwinn Mer-
camille Co., of Caldwell. Fred has
made many friends while knight of
the road, who will miss his accustomed
visits, but all join in their best wishes
for his prosperity in this new business
venture.-Shoshone Journal.
The people of Washington county
are having great time over public
roads. The citizens of the lower end
of the county want road from Weiser
to Mineral, and asked the commission
ers to pay one-half from the county
funds, the town of Weiser agreeing to
pay the other half. The commissioners
refused. The people of Weiser then
formed themselves into a committee of
the whole, and held public meetings to
discuss the progressive idea of roads,
and incideatly censure the commission
ers. The people of Salubria and the
upper part of tho country who are
opposed to the road, then killed the
fatted calf and invited the commission
ers to the feast, and passed resolutions
lauding them to the skies. Lockwood.
of the Wsiser Signal, happened to be
in Salubria on tho night of the ban
quet, and some wag at Weiser tele-
graphed to tho Statesman that tho citi-
zens of Sal ubria were banqueting
Lockwood for the firm stand he had
taken on the Mineral road, when in
reality they were burning him up in
the latest approved manner. The joke
of the thing ought to bring about an
era of good feeling.
Readers who have any doubts con-
corning the following are respectfully
referred to Dan Leyan, who by the
way was something of chicken fan
cier himself (after dark before he left
Pennsylvania: Lancaster, Pa, April 9.
e. E. Eshelman, well-known and
reputable miller of West Lampeter
township, is the owner of veritable
egg-laying rooster. The strange fowl
has attracted great deal of attention
and has been the subject of repeated
Investigations, all resulting in the con-
clusion that it is without doubt a
rooster and with equal certainty layer
of eggs as well. In breed it is cross
between a white Leghorn and white
Plymouth Rock. 1t has big spurs,
yellow legs, long tail feathers and large
red comb and wattlss, and in every
respect has the appearance of prime,
ellconditioned rooster. In the farm
yard it crows Justify at frequent inter-
walls, scratches the ground for the par
ticular cluster of hens that follow it,
chuckles like other ROSTERS when it
wishes to call its harem together over
a new-found seed or worm, fights off
other ROSTERS which essay to come too
near, and in general conducts itself
while in tho yard precisely as other
male chickens do. Since March 6, how
ever, it has shown it's versatility in
another direction by actually laying
thirty-nine perfect eggs. From March
8 to 10 it laid two eggs each day.
Learning of this remarkable fowl, DIR. j.
II. Musser, neighbor of Miller Eshle-
man, related its exploits to the men,
bers of the Lancaster county Medical
Society ut their recent meeting. Two
weeks ago, to test the accuracy of his
statements, the fowl was pepned up
alone and closely watched. During its
confinement it has laid by actual count
exactly twenty-seven eggs, nine of
Thorn in three days and the remainging
eighteen in eleven days. 1t does not
cackle when it lays, nor does it mani.
fest any disposition to hatch or show
any particular preference for laying on
a nest, apparently being suited equally
we'll with the bare ground or floor of
its box"
A GRAPHIC WARNING.
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