The Caldwell tribune., 1905-07-15
INVASION THREATENED. }.
c,asshoppers in Utah crick-
pts in Fremont County.
0,,.MAN CHIEF DOES BLOODYMuRDER
cote Crazy Mad Because of Being
Ficed.-Happened in Pocatel'O. a5
Ex.Attorney Genera'..Mc Far @ 4
land Adjudged a Bank
rupt. . H.. II.

The farmers of this section OF
1dsho will do we'll to keep it fresh
IN mind that there are signs OF an
other invasion of grasshoppers and
crickets. True these devastating
nests may not reach us, but the
danger is TOO apparen! to be wholly
ignored, and it can do no harm to
exercise every possible precaution
~ avert it. The crickets are al
ready in Fremont county, although,
through ill.advised efforts to con-
ceal it, the fact is not widely
known. According to present Gay
boom etI les, it is criminal offence
to give information that may, for a
dav, suspend activities in real estate
no matter how much loss and sut-
ferine the Withholding of such in
formation may cause. There is no
immediate cause for alarm, although
it might be very prudent to indicate
TO the pest ridden people of Fre-
mont that we who are not afflicted
svmpathize with them in a substan-
tial way. Up there the people have
organized to combat the crickets
and their organization, it seems
was receiving outside help until
some boomists who would rather
starve family than lose a commis-
sion, published that there were no
crickets in Fremont. They had
been practically all destroyed.
This cut off many sources of fnan.
Cial aid, and compelled the commit
tee in charge of the campaign
against crickets to publish the fol-
lowing:
GAS men constituting the COM
mittees, which have voluntarily
given up their entire time and at
tention, at the expense Of their own
private affairs, and who thoroughly
understand the alarming situation,
who have been in the cricket fields,
who have seen the pest in all its
enormous numbers, we have this to
say to the citizens of Fremont
county:
With the limited means which
have come to hand 10 date, a very
conservative estimate Of the mum
Der Of crickets SO far destroyed will
number six thousand bushels. Ev'
cry living female cricket will de-
post ninety eggs during the first
week in July. Say that forty eggs
would be the average OF all; this
means that 100000 bushels of the
pest will not require any attention
which otherwise would have had t.
De fought next year. The pest has
oeen destroyed on land by boards
lined with tin, and driving them in
10 pits afterwards burying them
and On water by the installation
OF roller machines, which grinc
them into pulp.
Fhe crickets have come from tn
'aVa and sandy country to tn
northwest. They have been ant
are'stlll arriving in colonies by tn
very millions, and while there hav
Oeen at least six thousand bushel
oeStroyed) and the work still goe
On Notwithstanding the criticism
0nered no human mind can con
celVe of the billions which are left
Al the beginning the committe
never had a thought in view bu
'nst 1t could partially destroy c
u qlmlnlsh the danger for future year
Will be necessary for others t
wage the war next year and tn
years to come, es ...., :
ne cricket pest is living rea
'y IN Fremont county, and we,
al sincerely, send warning 10 e,
s'y loyal citizen taxpayer therei