| Show IN THE TETON COUNTRY TETOM CITY idaho oot oat 22 if it were nut included in the name one would scarcely arcely Bc realize that he be were in a city at all when he finds himself within the borders bordea of this pretty little place jt it is as rambling in general cowit construction ruction as most other places in fremont Freu county but has a homelike inviting sort of appears appearance nee with it all also as elpe elsewhere where the people are hospitable aud and enterprising there ire are not to exceed of them in the place and these are spread over several square miles becoming more inore and more gregarious as the central point is reached and here they are quite neighborly otly but ut in any sense crowded within a radius radios of halt half a atle are probably three dozen surrounding a couple of a ppe aoa and meeting house latter Is MO adeo wo jan an hall where and hold occasional own away during the be long winter nig nights and on more than one OC occasion of lat lata as I 1 can per son so nally alJy testify it has baa been the forum jooa from which nave emanated modern philllp picas iOB of the western variety on the question qu estlyn of party politics ane building is of wooden logo jogs aud and is in not very capacious or elegant but it has been found equal to the demaude demands dpn it up to date next year the town if all goes rights will have a more structure of brick the tons stone foundation for which is already laid fronting the building spoken of bishop jonn joan E lives more than a mile from this central point but is always on hand band when wanted and looks alter after ane peoples people welfare as a practical business man of correct principles and upright habits only can hein he is the democratic candidate for probate judge anti it is only fair to say that his popularity does nut not begin nor enu with his bis own party several miles east of here are the teton peaks the most needlelike needle like and towering eminences in this part of the world the height of the principal one which looks down upon its joity associates themselves in bold relief against the eastern sky on either side aide from a sharp pointed summit a thousand feet or more nearer the cerulean dome anan theirs heirs are has never been scaled donled and never will be until mother earth has another general convulsion anti and the physical aspects ot of her countenance hereabout undergo a marked and wonderful ot iange they are the objects first noted ou on entering this great valley and are really the most unique and malestia male stio amid all the attractive developments wrought by the nap bap hazard hand of nature they seem at a great distance somewhat like tte tie fingers ol of a titanic hand with the index pointing to immortality by a mental process known chiefly to poets and politicians one might fancy that upon them was inscribed in bold characters the classic legend legena ad astro astra it would be so fitting you know in a place where misfits and general irregularity prevail these fingers look it if fin BU gore gers can be said to down upon the yellowstone national park on the northeast and it if they could only be swung off their bass base and placed horizontally might constitute a guide board to the great reservation whose fitness and appropriateness to surroundings roun dings would be recognized by those who have only common everyday vital vitality ity in their systems as well as aa those whose immortal part is tinged with the golden hues buss of posey poesy several miles westward from teton peaks and the mountain range of which they bey form a part is an independent spur ol of pigmy mountains running nearly parallel with the others for a considerable distance bud and between the ranges is what la Is called teton basin a tolerably populous and agriculturally productive reductive strip of the public domain r it t snows snowe there earlier than elsewhere in snake river valley and the snow enow falls deeper and stays longer the mountains to lo the east abound with irith elk and these theme rapidly diminishing creatures late in the tall fall are driven out of their fastnesses fast nesses by the great deaths of snow which out oat a thear food supply they are an thus thim fareed farced luto into the baunta of end and i aall all winter long uke like the poor politician who hangs bangs on to ale partain party in spite of jil ill usage and continued disappointment live on such stray morsels as aa drift outside the corrals where the more favored are feeding they are too poor to kill and the laws of the state donot permit any one to place them in durance vile fur for fattening angur or any other purpose so the people have a perpetual zoological exhibit free of charge albeit a most pathetic one the elk like the buffalo will soon 1 exist only as a memory of the frontier except in very rare oases cases and unusual placed and yet the former when driven by necessity will seek the haunts ot of his bis hereditary enemy his bis destroyer for the surcease of sorrow which that destroyer alone can gives give and gives it only with the hope that ahat later on he may have an opportunity to take the life he saves but in another way this again reminds one of burns burnss s lines on seeing a wounded bare limping away to hoped for security from the hunter who hail had maimed it but let that pass the majority of tourists to the national park pass through this cou sua ana this gives rise to the suggestion that a ralla railway ny connecting with the union pacific at market lake would bea for its proprietors and the traveling public also it would be ample supported by the people of a steadily growing agricultural and stock raising district second in productiveness ti veness to none and during the summer season would be thronged thron ged with husenger pw pu traffic it is only about 80 miles between the points named and the country Is measurably level and easy to work through A great deal of the stock in such an enterprise would be taken by the people of and everything made as easy as possible herein is a suggestion worthy the attention of capitalists capitalism and meo men ot enterprise generally perhaps the U V P itself might be induced to give the subject consideration it is welcome to the idea and all the results that may flow from action thereon would surely be considerable and the company used need not dot PAY me a cent for having put them hem on 1 I am too busy otherwise to take hold of the scheme myself and cheerfully leave the field open to others they are still taking gold from the sands and trout from the waters of snake river hereabout one pound ol of that which has been spoken ot of as being more powerful than the sun and more creative then than genius was recently secured as the result of a brief run by one primitive machine two miles from where I 1 shook up the sheep men for their alleged selfishness and grasping disposition last night lyman this reminds me that those who are unloading so bevO ne verely rOly on the populists lists because of the batters lat weakness for flat money ought to have been in rexburg a short time ago ana seen the wife ot of a man who is engaged in gold mining trying in vain to exchange nuggets for gods she had that which with the government stamp or flat fiat on it to Is pronounced good money by all and the be only money by not a lew few it has been the cause of more crimes crime misery corruption war oppression villainy and trickery than all the 0 I 1 other acension Rg agen nelea sion ot of satan combined and yet was waa not in this instance powerful enough to obtain fot for its owner a few articles arti clea of ordinary merchandise because the flat was wag wanting I 1 having done something by way of suggestion for the railroads railroad she tk 1 foregoing la is respectfully tendered the for their thoughtful conald erosion ero tion As AB for the trout belil have caught quite a number and only paid ton ten cents centa a pound for them earlier in the season a man at Lewis lewisville ville twenty miles west ot of here ber caught one oae that weighed tweety seven pounds aver dupois and at another time one ofie chrt acalee ten pounds less ae As several of his bis neighbors bear witness to thing perhaps it will have to be recorded but it is an awful strain ou on one ano alloys his bis greenness with a quantity of incredulity K |
