The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-10-27
s1anEss OF rHE vs..
A Few Stories, Veraeious Of Course.
Leave No noom for Doubf.

makes Il inarye. Here Is a portion Of
this last season crop Of big stories
Of the things Of the vest says the Los
Angeles correspondence Of the New
York Herald
During corn growing time a Kansas
newspaper printed a startling dispatch
from the southern part OF that State
saying that a boy climbed cornstalk
TO zee how the clouds looked and thai
the stalk was growing faster than the
boy could climb down.
Al the date Of the dispatch the boy
was clear out Of sight Three men
were engaged TO cut down the corn
stalk with axes 70 save the boy from
starvation. but the stalk grew 80 rapid
~ that they could not hit twice in the
same place The boy was living on
green corn alone and had already
thrown down more than four bushels
Of cobs.
The later fate Of the boy Is net
known That Is Of minor Importance.
anyway The great and burning ques
ton is: Does corn really grow thai
fast In Kansas?
A man whose word has never been
disputed with any degree Of success
went east with this story from south
western Kansas His two brothers
were working clearing out the weeds
IN deserted pasture lot After a trip
to the farmhouse one Of the brothers
returned to ind the other missing.
Where are you. Edg' he shouted.
Here ] am. be heard the answer.
ing voice Of Ed coming from some
where near the fence.
Well. shake a weed. so I can tell
where you are" commanded the
brother.
They tell down east that n q farm.
er IN the west plants HIS ground with
corn and takes first class care OF Il ne
viii get 100 bushels 70 the acre, and II
he takes middling care Of II he win get
seventy-hve bushels 10 the acre. and Il
be does not plant al All he VIII get
nfiy.
Il Is also told in the east that west
ern farmers have been known 70 start
out in the spring and pillow a furrow
until fan and turn around and harvest
back; while a man IN Detroit has
friend IN Dakota who owned farm
on which be had TO give a mortgage
and the mortgage was due on one end
before they could get Il recorded on
The other.
Not 20 long ago a man-perhaps Il
was the same man-was telling some
lcquaintances about a pathetic scene
be witnessed on one Of those big Da-
kota farms three years ago he said
be saw an entire family Frustrated
with grief-women yelling. children
bawling and dogs barking. One man
had his camp OUTFIT placed on seven
lour-muie wagons and was going
around bidding everybody goodbye.
Where Is be goingg- asked one Of
he party
Half way across the farm 70 feed
he pigs was the answer.
Some one wanted to know II be ever
got back to his family again. but the
narrator said Il was not time for him
Q get back yet
One man. Il is said. started In to cut
/ tree on his place. When be had cut
way a. one aide for about ten days
le decided to take a look around the
rec. and when he got around on the
lther side he found a man who had
zen cutting At that same tree for
hree weeks and they had not heard
be sound Of each others axes.
The quick growth OF Western cities
} a matter OF common talk and the
asst no longer doubts these tales. An
ngine drivCr OF a train crossing the
rairie was surprised one day to see
,Wn Of considerable size just ahead.
{ a spot where there was nothing the
ay before. He yelled over TO his fre-
ian. asking what town that was. but
he fireman was stumped. too. When
e pulled into the station there were
early 1000 persons waiting TO see the
rst train come In. When they pulled
at the conductor stationed a brake.
ian on the rear platform to watch for
~ towns that sprang up after the /
ain got by.
They never have anything small or
out in that section at all.
blow down wire fences
raw stoves out Of ohimneys and blow
ie bottoms out Of empty bottles. Dur.
g one OF these remarkable wind
orms a whisky barrel standing in
ont OF a saloon was sucked out Of
le bunghole and turned inside out,
I'd the dirt was blown from around a
'st hole IN the hillside. leaving the
Die sticking out Of the ground about
70 feet with no dirt around Il