Accidents, injuries, sudden deaths, fires, and crimes that touched the valley's families.
Routine notices (meeting notices, reminders and classifieds) are left out of this list; find them under Notices.
In June 1951 Arbon Valley ranchers joined a Power County posse hunting a Michigan couple and their small daughter, who fled a theft on Bannock Creek and walked more than 30 miles over the mountains to Inkom.
On a rainy night in November 1950 a light plane out of Pocatello went down near Rattlesnake Creek in upper Arbon Valley, killing a flight instructor and his two students.
Hauling supplies to his family at a summer sheep camp, herder Dick Staker died early on July 24, 1948, when his truck left the grade on the Arbon road and came down on him.
In April 1948 Harold Grant Moss of Malad, a member of an Oneida County road crew, died in Arbon Valley when the tipped-up bed of a dump truck he was greasing fell on him.
In December 1944 a Stinson cabin plane bound for Salt Lake City went down in deep snow west of Kinport Peak, killing its pilot, a Bozeman mother and her baby, and two men circling Arbon Valley in a search plane spotted the wreck.
In the fall of 1938 a land salesman from Washington state told two Arbon farmers they had won a mattress, a tract of land and $35 a month for life, and each paid him $88.50 to collect.
Sixteen years after a blizzard took her husband within sight of their house west of Pauline, Augusta Kulock died at Pocatello in August 1938 and was buried after a requiem mass.
In May 1937 two sheriffs hunting a red-haired man in a Downey disappearance drove out to Pauline to see a young drifter two farmers had found, and turned back when he proved too young.
In the hard February of 1937 a young Fort Hall road worker died after a snowplow pinned him on the Pauline road, while valley people fed starving ducks and the drifts froze too hard for the plows.
When a road tractor crushed Willis Bullock's leg in snowbound Arbon Valley in February 1936, a county commissioner got him to Pocatello by sleigh and borrowed mail truck, and two years later a jury heard his $50,000 suit.
In January 1935 thieves emptied a garage Crystal farmers shared for bad-weather parking, three men were soon under arrest, and a jury at American Falls convicted one of them of burglary that March.
J. E. "Ed" Keeler, who homesteaded at Arbon in 1909 and grew some of the valley's best grain, took his own life at his farm in October 1932 after writing of money troubles.
In 1928 J. R. Munn recalled Tom Sparks's cattle on the Arbon and Crystal range, the Fleming sheep that crowded them, and the sheepman found shot near Sunbeam creek, a killing other papers place in 1894.
Brought into Pocatello at 3:30 on New Year's morning 1928 with a ruptured appendix, twelve-year-old Earl Lewis of Pauline lived eighteen more days.
In October 1925 the woman who had kept the Arbon post office was arraigned at Pocatello over $419.06 in missing funds, and the man who had carried the valley's mail was fined $100 for turning mail sacks into grain bags and saddle blankets.
In August 1924 a smut explosion on the Ray Hatfield place in Arbon Valley burned Clive Hatfield's threshing outfit, 75 sacks of wheat, a wagon, a derrick and a stack.
Days before the 1922 Roundup, a lantern led two Power County officers to a copper still hidden at Sunbeam, where a young Kentuckian was caught at work and charged with his uncle, a Pauline farmer.
Coming home from Pauline with the mail on February 11, 1922, Frank Kulock lost his way in a blizzard and froze to death in his own field, where his wife found him three days later.
On St. Patrick's Day 1921 W. H. Ball shot a neighbor on the road near Pauline and a deputy sheriff at his cabin, and before the year was out two Power County juries had let him go.
Before daylight on December 23, 1918, B. O. Kelley, hauling Pauline wheat for the Zaring Grain Company, drove his truck off the Bannock Creek bridge at Pauline and was killed, two days before Christmas.
In the fall of 1918 the Spanish influenza reached Arbon Valley a few weeks after its one doctor had gone back to Pocatello, and whole families fell ill together.
In November 1917 a Pauline wheat buyer followed a stolen load by lantern, and Deputy Sheriff Hy Secrist waited for the thieves behind a telephone pole.
Arbon's first community fair, held at the Central school on May 10, 1916, had a band, exhibits and speeches until a borrowed car overturned, and a few weeks later William Allard answered an unsigned critic of the day.
Through 1915 Arbon Valley carried its sick and hurt over the mountain to Malad, across the reservation to Pocatello or down to Ogden, until a long-distance telephone line reached the valley in December.
Frank Phelps, a South Arbon farmer who first turns up in the papers in 1915, froze to death in 1934, and his only son, Bud, quit school at 14 to run the farm.
Jailed at Malad in 1915 on a forgery charge, L. E. Howell of South Arbon was suspected of an old West Virginia killing until two officers from that state came west and said he looked nothing like their man.
In July 1914 the Pocatello Tribune asked readers to help Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, homesteading on Rattlesnake Creek, whose house had burned with everything in it.
In June 1913 John Ryan, a hand on the Evans and Daniels ranch on Bannock Creek, sold a load of hogs in Pocatello, left his team in a shed and dropped out of sight.
In November 1911 four children whose father, known in Nevada as "Indian Mike," had once farmed on Bannock Creek as Jim Taggert were brought from a Nevada school to Fort Hall after the fight that killed most of their family.
A January rainstorm in 1911 drowned three Arbon children and took the bridges on Bannock Creek; that spring Oneida County put new bridges to a bond vote.