The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-02-17
INAMPA LANDS
ANOTHER Plum
PLOWHEAD SAYS NAMPA is A
LITTLE SHREWDER THAN
THE REST OF THE STATE

Gets Institution for Her Own Espec-
ial and Particular Benefit at Ex-
pense of the State-Asylum for the
Feeble Minded Goes to Sister City.
East or Us.
The bill introduced by Represen-
tative Johnson of Bingham county
provides for the location and estab-
lishment of a state asylum for the
feeble minded and carries an appro-
priation of $25,000 One remarkable
feature of the bill is the provision that
the institution must be located within
20 miles of Boise. Without mention
ing names, Nampa is the place select
ed for the asylum, and Nampa is to
be congratulated upon getting the
state of Idaho to erect and maintain
IN establishment for the especial care
of her own people. If there is any
thing Nampa needs at the present
writing, it is an institution for the
feeble minded. AT this particular
4NdIlpd IDS IIOIC 1CCOlC
minded than any six towns in the
commonwealth. Nampa thought she
wanted county division, or at least
annexation to Ada county, but Re
preventative Johnson took look at
Nampa and at once knew what Nam
pa needed, hence the bill for the home
for the feeble minded
Mr.. E. H. Plowhead is of the opin-
ion that Nampa is about the slickest
town in Idaho. This county division
and annexation talk is all a bluff,
thinks Mr. Plowhead. The people
Df Nampa knew that if they went
Strong enough on the annexation
game it would be self-evident to the
legislature that Nampa really needed
In institution for the feeble minded.
And so it worked out. Nampa landed
the plum and we congratulate her.
II is hard to put one over on Nampa.
toming when most of us are asleep.
And she is SO realistic. No halfway
measures go. For several weeks the
people of Idaho were amazed at the
] antics of E. H. Dewey and the Nam
pa newspapers. They could not un-
aerstand the pickering and bowling
md knocking the people OF Nampa
gere indulging in. Now it is as
lear as day. Nampa wanted that
! asylum for the feeble minded and de-
ermined to convince the legislature
bat she could stock it. Nampa sue
eeded in her purpose. You will now
Re Ed Dewey and the rest of them
Auiet down. They are not really
feeble minded, but they gave DEM
pnstration SO realistic as to be I'M
amy.
The Tribune offers Nampa its sin.
Eerest congratulations. Such push
Energy and originality are deserving
pf success. There are few towns
Which do things like Nampa does
md there are very few towns which
actually come through with the goods
Ike Nampa does When the citizen,
Df that community want a sugar fac
aory or brewery or an asylum TO
he feeble minded they convince tn,
promoters that such an institution i
\ decided. For fair and for instanc
lake the sugar factory Severa
kears ago Caldwell, Nampa and Pay
tte each wanted factory. Cald
Rell experts analysed the soil an
nade elaborate reports on the foo
falue of sugar beets to hogs; Pay
Ute gave an elaborate demonstratio
pf the fact that beet culture was th
cal thing in the Payette valley, an
Y b the valley, and Nampa, why Nam
! pa got the sugar beet men in th
Il Dewey Palace, gave them good fee
ind said: Behold 2S7,1l7 acres ,
y and pining for the sugar beet; heI
re the transportation facilities; hei
hre the laborers; here is Nampa an
we want that sugar factory" An
Nampa got it, II was the same wit
4 pther things that have come Namp
way
"a If any other town on earth HI
WANTED an asylum for the feeb
y minded she would have presentt
her advantages in the way of climat
soil, healthfulness, enterprise, Ell
But that is not the way of Namp
Nampa said. 1--WE want this asylum
we have got to have it; look and b
i hold, we have got the inmates for
we can fill it ourselves. It would co
Idaho $423,7lo.4s to transport L