Show GARDEN CITY CRUMB CHUMS editor CLIPPER an idea suggests itself to me that a few items from our little burg burcy would be welcome to the currer CLIPPER readers the winter is nearly gone we hope although we have lad bad two rather severe cold spells the winter as a whole has been very mild but we have plenty of sno snow w it would be impossible to say how bow deep dee P it is on the level as ilie winds have arif led it into such piles and banks about two weeks ago it snowed about twelve inches in less than forty eight hours the past three days the sun has been very warm and the snow is fast disappearing however it is so deep it will be impossible to have an early spring hay is already getting scarce our beautiful lake has been bozen over about a month the jhb lee ice is sufficiently thick to travel over with heavy loads of logs lumber etc our home dramatic troupe presented the drama edendale evendale Eden dale and the laughable farce my turn next at garden city and some of the neighboring settlements about two weeks ago one of our young men by the name of fredrick lutz while hunting prairie chickens ickens ph yesterday within a few hundred yards of the writers house came across a wild cat which rather surprised him he however determined to test his ability as a courageous hunter he took de liberte liberte aim and fired but the cat made a spring at that moment and the charge passed under it it happened however that ahat it was a double barrel gun so our hunter poured the contents of the second barre linto finto its side the brute tried to run but it was too late for the huntar seized his prey and wended bended his way homeward this is the first wild cat I 1 have known to be killed about these parts A beautiful little steamer will ply up and down clown the waters of our beautiful lake next summer it is being constructed now its proprietor joseph rich of paris idaho we believe to be a very enterprising man it was lie he who built the bash bah house and hotel at the warm springs at the north end of the lake the time is near at hand band in my opinion when our beautiful warm sulphur springs sp ringi clear blue lake grand mountain scenery and picturesque valley will attract the attention of the curiosity seeking tourist we look forward to tills this time with pleasure then and not till then will our beautiful valley be known in its true colors ff A GREEN march 1894 |