The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1890-10-04
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is visiting friends in Caldwell this
week.
No coal in town and everybody
out. Our grief commences rather early
this year.
Boise City is enjoying a regular
real estate boom. Several agencies
have been opened up recently.
The State ticket is yet in doubt,
but at last accounts the democratic
hounds were close on to the rep ublican
fox.
For limited time Dickens Works
complete aciU be gioe,a free to eeery
subscriber Of The Tribune, arho pags
one year in Advance.
Mrs. A. III. Barnes arrived in Cald
well last Sunday from Missouri where
! she has been visiting. She started for
De Lemar Monday to join her hus
band.
Stiles & Dunbar have just had
their stationery printed at THE
TRIBUNE office. The new firm expect
to open up about the 10th inst. They
are both young, enterprising, pushing
business men and will make them
selves felt in commercial circles from
the start. They will have an elegant
store room.
If there is any one thing which
the people of Caldwell ought to do, it is
to demand that the east bound fast
mail stop at Caldwell and take on
mai. The crane system is delusion
and a snare. A person never puts
letter in our east bound mail with anv
assurance that it viii get out of the
Caldwell postoffice under three or four
days. 1t is not an unfrequent occur
renee to have the letter mail going
east in the Caldwell postotfice from
tWenty-four to sixty hours. 1t is not
the fault of the postmaster nor the
depot employees. The postmaster puts
up the mail, the night operator hangs
it OF the crane, and there it hangs
while the train shoots by. The post
master reports the case and gets
explanations as follows: "The engin- |
eer failed to whistler" "The catcher
failed to work" "The bag was too full"
or something similar, and the depart
ment seems to think that the excuses
are sufficient to balance all inconven-
fences an d losses to business interests
caused by delay. This is getting
extremely tiresome and old. As bust |
ness men we don't care darn whose |
fault it is-we want our mail to go
and not excuses why it don't go. We |
have patiently borne with the crane |
and catcher nuisance now for some |
months, living in hope that when the
employees got to thoroughly under.
stand the mechanism of the arrange
ment there would be no more trouble.
But it gets worse, and we demand that |
the east bound fast mail stop at this
place ard take on the mail sack as it
ought to. This crane and catcher sys-
TEN was put on so as to give us a
quicker service between Portland and
Omaha. For those cities it might be a
fine thing, but it is notable fact that
in the interior towns the mail service
has never been so rotten as since this
fast mail was started We don't care
whether the time between Portland
and Omaha is shortened twenty four
hours or not if our mail hangs sweetly
on pole by the side of the track two
or three days before they manage to
catch it. Our business is as important
to us as the Omaha or Portland mans |
is to him, and we strongly object to
them having picnic at our expense
any longer. 1t will consume three
of time for the EAST Mail"
to stop here and take ON our sack. If !
the train cannot make up three min
lteS between here and Omaha it is
possible that the Omaha mau can wait
,hree minutes longer for his mail We
ire not talking just to hear ourselves, |
)ut are stating facts. Ask the post I
master how many times the east
pound mail lays over from twelve to S
'orty-eight hours in Caldwell when it {
ought to be on the way. The system t
S wrong; business cannot be done sat
sfactorily in this country of long dis
ances unless we can place some reli-