Rosa Bishoff of Pauline, who came from Switzerland, dies in 1928
Rosa Bishoff, 59, of Pauline, who came to Idaho from Switzerland in 1893, died in Pocatello on December 6, 1928.
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Rosa Bishoff, 59, of Pauline, who came to Idaho from Switzerland in 1893, died in Pocatello on December 6, 1928.
In 1928 an old cattleman remembered Tom Sparks's herds on the Arbon and Crystal range, the Fleming sheep that crowded them, and a sheepman found shot near Sunbeam creek.
On New Year's Day 1928 Earl Lewis, 12, of Pauline was brought into Pocatello at 3:30 a.m. for an appendicitis operation; he died at a Pocatello hospital on January 19.
In January 1928 a newspaper reported that a national survey of place names had found the mountains between Arbon and Rockland valleys nameless, and two Power County old-timers chose a name.