Show bean BEAR LAIM naim A PLEASANT CHAT WITH O oxe onn NI OF ITS DE DENIZENS fzens I 1 brother W william lilliath G Kimbal lof paris panis bear lake county idaho is down from home on his way to arizona to spy out oat the land lie ile will leave here ceat ext monday and will probably be accompanied compa nied by his brother Alor moroni oni ont of this city he states that there ther 0 is more snow in the region he comes from than has been known in the last seven s e ven years it is from W 3 to 4 feet oil on th the e level and drifts drills in places as ag high as ten or twelve feet covering fences ac and rendering locomotion n very difficult snow plows are inactive in active demand on the railroad to see them plump plunging inz luz inq through the drifts with the combined force of two engines in the rear with the snow whirling about in a blinding 11 cloud completely obstructing the vision and giving a glorious halo of uncertainty to the outcome of the work in band he be says is a picture no artists brush or writers writer ls ben pen pen could do ja justice stice to one day as the snowplow snow plow was coming into montpelier it caught up a horse and hurled it some fifteen or twenty feet from the track thinking the animal was certainly killed and its mangled remains either lying about in patches on the snow or contributing to a shower of flesh in the adjoining county the men stopped the engines long iong enough to ascertain the facts when to their astonishment they saw through a rift in the snow cloud the irrepressible equine qui quietly 1 trotting on the track ahead a apparently part n t aly waiting for the second act of of the grand bouncing feat to begin r re the deep snow had saved its life ilfe the surface upon which the animal trod was two or three inches above the edge of the plow while the snowbank snow bank into which he was so unceremoniously projected ejected received him with all the tenderness of a mother or a featherbed all the trains have two locomotives back of them and even then they are often blockaded the weather had been very cold but was milder when our informant left he arrived here thursday night via mccammon and heard on the cars that a man had bad been shot at gran granger graner er brother kimball does not believe in the bear lake monster and sternly the insinuation that it is fear of this as yet invisible horror that impels him southward ile he felt perfectly safe in leaving his family in paris he may possibly settle in the south if the country down there is all it is I 1 cracked up to be lots of people from the east are en route to the coeur dalene this reon region 1 I is in the west ern corner comer of idaho some miles from hereabouts |