The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-12-06
AN IDAHO RIP VAN WINKLE.
Ane4gedsl llner WIpF Had sNessr Sec
Train Of Cars. -


Train of Cars.
never saW fam Gf eyt sa ms, ~ aad y
or so ago ut Mountain Home. I'm
back number and no mistake. didn't
come from the ark. though. and I know
what VIVA smile is, Let's-smile." It was
Juage J: =. Barnhart OF Atlanta who
crowd Of DID and new friends at the
overland yesterday, and then all hands
smiled, says the Boise. uda.) Statesman.
Judge Barnhart has lived III Atlanta, the
tSlmore county mining camp. for thirty
years, and during that time he has never
been over twenty milesaway from home.
lie Went to Mountain Home the other
day. and there he saw, FOR the firsts time:
IN his life. 2 locomotive and a traiIf of
cars. Ihey were revelation to him:
AMI heE4.Was sseoinpletely bewildereti.
Someone suggested that he take a ride
down the road, but the aged Judge wass
mortified at the very idea of any one pro-:
posing such a haza rdous undertak KIM;
q Hens can't deil where the blamed thing
more fMniliar with tile iron Horse dur
ing his brief stay in. Mountain Home.
AND finally consented to come TO Boise
on the cars, provided Joe sHelfrich would,
come along. Mr.. Helfrich consented,
and the two boarded the cars and start
ed over the plain at a speed that seemed
to the judge to be nothing short of ter-a
rifle The judge anchored? himself to y
seat and held on like grim death for
Sometime. *. He finally relaxed his hold,
and, becoming accustomed to the noise
and the motion, agreed to 60 throughsthe'
other cars. When the trainmen were
told by Mr.. Helfrich. who is an old rail
roader, that the judge was taking his
first train ride. they insisted upon taking
him through to Huntington and OIL to
Portland: but the judge positively "
fused. In due time the judge arrived
in Boise, and has since reveled in the
gl0ries of ''tOwn livin''' NJ.
Judge Barnhart went around the Horn
and landed in. California in 40. He
sailed an old tub Of vessel betweens
San Francisco and Portland for some
time and in 1854 moved to Oregon. The
placer diggings of Idaho attracted his
attention and he started for them. but
stopped at Walla Walla, where he.
arriving in Atlanta OH the 18th day Of
April, 1865 He was, elected justice of
the peace there, twenty years ago ana
has been reelected as regularly as the
time rolls round ever since &<ssse
Judge Barnhart's general appearance
is that of a typical mountaineer, Injured
to the hardships and dangers and ex-
posures of : q. life in the wilds. Since
1.-THE days of old, the days of gold, the
days ofEa'49,"< he has roughed it. and
nothing short of an iron constitution
would have preserved him TO such ripe
old age. ~, 49, :<t7f J.. i ~ tt p
Some of the boys tell a story on the
Judge something like this: As he was
standing on Maine street one of the cleo
trio cars passed down the street at
pretty fair: speed. The judge sgazed~in,
amazement at it a moment and then
cried out to the crowd. "Stop Ter. boys,
she's runnin' away without the engine
Judge Barnhart owns several good
mines, at Atlanta, and is possessed OF
sufficient of this worlds goods to carry
him through, though he should live to be-
come q centenarian