Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-21
LETTER FROM CATCHALL.
EMMETT, Idaho. March II 1900

Ed. WoRLD:-There seams tn ha
new administration hold of the wealth.
or TINS spring. 1t still freezes nights,
ana darned near it days. A big rise
In the river in the early spring
brought down much needed wood for
US.
Thousands Of sheep-ssven bands
IN all-are now being herded ON the
north side of the river, and the cattle.
man cusseth.
Ben Baker is teaching in our man.
moth school house. (The mammoth
part is the taxes on the bonds to paw
for it.)
Dr. Mahan was called to the resi-
dence of Thomas Lancaster on the
eve of Washington's birthday, and
before going away handed over to
their daughter, tho wife of John
Williams, a boy weighing eight
pounds. John feels big, and grand
ma and grandpa Lancaster, "oh, my!"
Again, on March 4th, when our Pres
ldents are supposed to take a seat,
Doc was invited to the house of VIM.
Fuller, Jr., and while there discover.
ed another boy, and you can believe
1t or not, but he kicked the beam at
fourteen pounds strong. Bill says
'its dandy" Both mothers are
doing we'll. On the same date there
was born to the wife of VIM. Woody
boy, nine pounds, and to Mrs. Phil
lps' boy, and few days before to
the wife of Mickey Moreton, lusty
pair OF twins, a boy and girl. Now
Mrs. Clayton Moulton comes up smil-
ing with a boy, and about Feb. 9th
Mrs. Fulton presented her husband a
hne boy. There are others, too nu-
merous to mention, they being born
to new arrivals here whose names are
unknown to US. And there is more
that ls-they say-well we never
hardly ever-give anything away
so this will be continued in our next.
Anyway, it's all boys.
Your homely correspondent has the
grip, and can hardly talk for sneez-
ing.
The WORLD is a great paper.
learned, through one of its correspon-
dents, one thing l never knew be-
fore; that is, that foreigners created
this country, and made it what it is
| had read somewhere that G. Wash.
ington, Abe Lincoln, U. S. Grant-in
fact several American born citizens
had hand in it. The English are
the foreigners that had most to dc
with the creating part of it, and
don't hear them Dragging much ol
the part they played.
The valley is being cleared very
fast of sage, and the Settlers Ditci
will be completed about April 1st
The big ditch company's men art
roaming the valley over, and telling
what they are going to do.
Grass is fine, and there will not b,
much loss of stock.
The log men will soon start. Th'
biggest log drives ever run here will
be brought down this spring. Not
! withstanding the big drive Wardwel
brought down last summer, there i
no lumber in the yard. It's haule'
, about as fast as sawed. The hig
water last month mashed up MI
Wardwell's booms and ruined sever
al hundred dollars worth of them.
A great many acres of Alfalfa wi
!. be sown this spring.
John Wittle has ten acres OF wal
< nuts planted.
Mr.. Womack has sold his residenc
in Emmett and rented Mr.. Perkins
: farm for three years, we are told.
q The deer don't seem to be goln
back from Snake river much ye
We saw one the other day on the sid
hill above our house, but when W
e qot to him he was dead. There is n
n law against finding one dead,
d there? OArohAiI'