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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17
SUIT FOR ISLANDER.
Theresa Shimetz Demands $500 from
Adam Witco for SANDER in Action.

Through her attorneys, Hastings and
Clarkson, Mrs. Theresa Shimetz has
brought a suit against Adam Witco,
charging SANDER and demanding dam
ages to the amount of $500. In the
complaint the woman alleges that Wit
co made series of defamatory state
mentc against her in company of
Cr0atians and that the statements were
absolutely false. Both parties to the
action are well. known among the
foreigners of the city. The suit is
slated to come up for trial at the next
term of the municipal court.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-17

Money to loan. F. W. Reinold
Phone I'll. 81
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
Train Loads of Stuff
Men, Materials and Working Outfits
for New Road Pouring Into Rich
Notwithstanding Camps

Work on the Central Idaho rail-
road OF of this city is beingu push
ed as rapidly as possible and the
company expects to have trains rur
ming through to Camas Prairie this
year.
Powell & Sons, who have the con-
tract of grading the Y and the sidin
in this city together with the first
mile, have a large force of men and
teams at work and are getting along
rapidly with their contract and ex-
pect to have it completed early in
July and when this part of the con-
tract is completed it will help the
other contractors to push their part
of the work more rapidly, asst will
give them room to unload more OF
the necessary machinery.
During the past week there has
been several contracting outfits CONF
in and there is now scattered out
over the road hundreds of men and
a large number of teams and other
contractors are looking over the
ground with the intetio of takig part
of the work.
large outfit of its ow the works
The Utah Costructio compay has
ad will add more me ad teams II
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
Richfield 18th of July
Big DOin's In the New Town on indie
pendence Day---Bring All Your
Friends for A Good Time

Richfield will celebrate and it will
be one of the best celebrations in
Southern Idaho.
An enthusiastic meeting was held
at the Commercial club last Satur-
day evening and was attended by
fifty of our citizens. all anxious for
Fourth of July celebration.
Meeting was called to order by
H. NJ Moore, after which an exec
utive committee consis ing of R. r.
Mickelwait. M. j Unger and H. B.
Jones was appointed The com
mittee then proceeded to appoint the
following committees to take charge
of the various departments of the
celebration.
Program H. Wright, Rev viii
liams. Mrs Diesem and Miss Ava
Mcmahon.
Dance and bowery-F. w. Taylor,
VIM. Herbert Jack Hainees, Hugh
Fowler and owen Youngkin.
Advertising J. Lisle and V.
" Bower
Fire Works-W A. Denecke and
H. M. Moore.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15

they are eeded. About a hudred
Italians, horses and stone carts left
here Moday for mile 20 where there
is to be some heavy stoe work and
they are now at work blasting out
some big cuts at that point.
Every freight brings in several
cars loaded with horses, machinery
and supplies and large force of me
is kept busy unloading cars so as to
keep the empties out of the road
so that trains can pass here and
the amount of local freight handled
here is more than all other stations
combined along the branch.
When the new siding is completed
ties. rails and other necessities for
building the road will be brought
in and unloaded here in the yards
and it is understood that another
freight train will be put on as far
as this city to enable them to get tn,
material here as soon as possible.
The boarding houses of Rihfcield
are crowded to their full capacity
and. the merchants are all enjoying q
good trade and several new business
industriesare contemplating starting
and every businss ehouse in town is
now occupied or rented.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
Time to Kill the Potato Bug
Colorado Beetle Deadlest Foe of Potato Grower Can
Be Kept Down By Work Right Now

Now is the time to watch the
potato vines for this insect which
has already become quite widely dis
tributed in the northwesterly part
of the state, and is spreading con-
siderably each year Shortly after
the potato vines come up in May or
early in June, the beetle makes it's
appearance on the vines in new To-
calities; if taken in time its spread
can be prevented for the year, as it
doees not fly to amount to anything
in the season.
The insect which is the common
potato bug" of the country east
of the ocky ountains, is plump
beetle, nearlRMy half an icnh long,
reddish below and in front, with
yellow and black stripes lengthwise
on its back. 1t deposits its eggs
in clusters on the under side of
the leaves of fthe potato, from ten
to forty in a clusteer. A single bee-'
tie may deposit IL or more clusters
When the eggs hatch, the young thai
emerge are soft reddish grubs. which
devour the potato leaves rapidly. 0
The insect occurs at present in
Latah Clearwater. Lewis, Ne zPerce
and Idaho countless, but may make
its appearance this year at some
distance from any known case last
year, as the adults fly we'll in the
spring. To illustrate its spread.
single adult beetle was found in
potato patch at the Experiment Sta
lion in Moscow, in June, 1909 1t
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
Music-T. B. Brush.

MUSIC. IS. Brush.
Horse Racing and bucking CON
test-R. A. Miller, Pat Byrne and
VIM. Strunk.
Base Ball-Mr Schuster, r. A.
Mills and H. E. Essley.
Foot racing-C. E. Harmison, c.
A. Templeton and w. C. Edwards
DecOration-Yo York Denton, Lem.
mon Bros. and B. W. Reeves.
Grounds-G T. Macarthur Percy
May. o. C. Burton and R. A. Miller.
Reception-T b. Brush, H. b.
Jones, R. S. Haines and NJ. J. I'm
ger.
The committees are all busy and
there promises to be something do
ing every minute of the time from
sunup when a salute of twenty-onee
guns will be fired until as late at
night as the crowd wishes to stay.
This will be Riehfield's first cell
ebration and every one of our cit
liens seems determined to make it
a success.
Come to Richfield and enjoy your
self
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
BASE BALL.

Two Pickup Teams Play the First
Game of the Season.
The first ball game of the season
was played in this city last Sunday
afternoon between the home team
and the railroad boomers and re-
suited in victory for the railroader
by a score OF II to IL, The de-
cisions of the umpire, Jimmy Britt,
were bum, although he stood by
his decisions at all times even when
he run several narrow chances of
being tarred and feathered. He ia
vored the railroad boys at all times
and gave them every close decision
and some that were not so close.
The game was witnessed by large
crowd, the grand stand and the
bleachers being taxed to their full
capacity, mostly the bleachers r.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
Busy Lincoln County
Many improvements Being Made In
All Parts of County and Much
Money Being Spent

The year 1911 will witness the
finishing touches on the immense
reservoir dam of the Twin Falls
North Side project located between
ShOshone and Jerome, and also the
finishing of the Magic reservoir dam
of the Idaho Irrigation project To-
Gated just across the line in Blaine
county. Out of a total acreage of
100000 acres that will eventually
be watered by these two systems of
Carey Act enterprises, only small
fraction have been cultivated. The
water is now ready for every acre
and a lot of people who own land
on these projects are expected to
settle on them this fall, preparatory
to raising crops next season. The
Hageerman Valley railroad from the
town of Hagerman to a connection
with the Rupert-Bliss cutoff is
about completed and ready for the
tees and rails. 1t is expected that
this line will make a connection
later with the main line at Good
ing and already an extension of the
same road in the opposite direction
into the Big Bruneau regions is
being agitate yy the pbeople of Ha-
german. The electric power line
from the Lower Salmon falls already
extended as far west as Glenns
Ferry and work is rapidly progress
ing on the new power plant of the
Telluride company at the mouth of
the Malad river in the Hagerman Va
ley. Two fine, modern school build
ings are in progress of construction
in the cities of Jerome and Wendell
and a third will soon be commenced
in Hagerman to cost $4,000. The
touches have been given
to the 100000 wedell Inn, one of the
finest hotels in the state.-Dietrich
Promoter.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15

per time irrigation would be unnec-
great evaporation which takes place
in certain of the arid districts the
would produce larger crops than are
sometimes now produced with irri-
cation. especially where an excessiv
amount is used. The average duty
of water in the state of Idaho at the
present time is one cubic foot per
second continuous flow for so acres,
or one miners inch
If this amount could be cut one
half. it would add millions of acres
of tillable lanr to the great state of
Idaho. which is available provided
wateer can be applied and If on in
vestigation and demonstration, the
bureau of investigation together
with others who are interested in
th is worIz, com bine their efforts and
bring about a higher duty of water
in my judgment there would be lar
ger crops produced, more intensive
ad double the tillable area the
state of Idaho, or of the great arid
plais of the orth ad weset. AS mucl
of our agriculture is, ad always will
be. depedet upo irrigatio. this is a
every ma. as it will create more
homes for the people add millions o
dollars to the nation and it is every
citizens duty to lend his best eff
forts in furthering tn is work. to the
end that all may be benefited
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
ALMOST A DISASTER.

First Fire Alarm in Two Years Was
A Narrow Escape.
A great deal of excitement was
created for a while Monday after
noon when huge columns of smoke
were seen issuing from the rear OF
the Lincoln Hotel. The cry of fire
was raised and in less than three
minutes the volunteer fire departme
was on the ground with string OF
hose laid from the hydrant at the
corner next to McMahon's store, but
it was then discovered that the fire
was under control, having been a
large box in the rear of the build
ing that was burning. The rear Of
the building was badly scorched and
might have proved very destructive
fire, but luckily there was but very
little wind.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
SWAT THE FLY.
What to Do to theWorst Living En-
emy of Mankind.

The health department of Boise
has issued the following fly bulletin:
1T is eestimated that at least 80
per cent of all the flies in the homeC
of this country are what are termed
the ordinary house fly of recent yea
called typhoid flies, the greatest
and most persistent of germ car
riers in all the world.
Dirty homes, dirty people, dirty
surroundings and typhoid flies are
invariably found together
Manure, garbage and filth read.
lily breed flies and they carry the
germs of death, consequently keep
your premises clean and sanitary at
all times and under all circumstan-
ces.
ut is universal fact that flies
feed upon fecal matter and then the
notorious little pests, literally alive
with deadly germs, swarm upon the
dining table where. perhaps, babies
are being fed
Files eat tubercular sputum and
consequently they excrete the germs
of consumption or tuberculosis.
ut is a we'll established fact that
typhoid fever consumption and man
flies produce dysentery, diarrhoea,
ather fatal diseases.
1T is common knowledge that
flies are born in indeseribable filth,
live in filth ,eat filth and carry filth
thing in your power to rid your prer
from one place to another. Do every
ises of these most deadly enemieese
of human kind. Go at once to your
druggist and get some kind of an
and use it freely around
your home or place of business.
In any event screen your win
dows and doors and protect your
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15

That something is doing in Lin
coin county this season notwith-
standing the closeness of the mon
ey market, the following summa y
of important enterprises will tes-
tify: Grading work is well under
way on the new railroad from Rich
field to High Prairie, the line be-
ing known as the Owinza-Boise
cutoff 1t is the intention of the
Oregon Short Line officials to have
the line completed in time to car
ry out the big crops of the Camas
Prairie, now in process of culti-
vation. The town OF Richfieid is
headquarters for the new work and
that it will be greatly benefited
is beyond the peradventure of a
doubt. Shoshone will also be ben
efitteed by the new road because
tht is the branching point from
the main line and the rich terri
tory of the Camas Prairie will be
thrown open to her markets.
The Rupert-Bliss cutoff of the o.
S. L. is now being rushed to COM
pletion The town of Wendell has
recently celebrated the coming of
the track through her suburbs and
Jerome will soon have the pleasure
of celebrating similar event as
the track layers are pushing east.
ward at the rate of mile or more
a day There will then remain only
a short gap to fill east of Jerome
with the grading all complete. A
few more weeks and the iron horse
will run hte entire course of the
road from Rupert to Bliss. Besidees
local trains, this road has the prom
ise of through freight trails goig
neast. A fine depot building has
recently been completed at Dietrich
commenced in Shoshone in the near
future
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
100000 Acre Flower Garden
Wonderfully Beautiful Valley of Camas Prairie, Where
The Central Idaho Railroad Will Build.

the hard-headed, hard-handed old
farmer who tolls daily to keep his
family, is cheered and helped by the
sight OF these wondrous gardens
Towers. They are not wasted---not
single flower.
But the land that will so produce
flowers, will produce other things
as well; and miles on miles of fine
grass and grain stretch out over the
valley Perhaps few who have not
been there, fully realize how big
country 1t is. 1t Is at places 10
to IL miles wide, between the hills
on the north and the south; and it
Is near SO miles long. For miles ant
miles the valley is as flat and as
level as a billiard table. No one
who has not seen the Platte valley
of Nebraska, or some equally and
rarely level alluvial valley, can be-
lieve what level country the main
part OF the prairie is. Alluvial in
its nature, made up from the silt
sent down from the hills in count
less ages OF time, the soil Is deep
and fertile. The winters are cold,
the country has been isolated, one
or two years the grasshoppers and
the crickets have devastated the val
ley, but the country has prospered
through it all, and with the coming
of the railroad this season a wave
of progress and prosperity is as
sured
There are great mining prospects,
and some producing mines, in the
fronting on the valley;
miles of the finest stock range trib-
utary; three hundred thousand acres
Of tillable soil in the valley proper,
good for grain ad hay; ad l all, it
Is a coutry worth talking about 1t
is not rival, but possible COM
plement and sure neighbor, of the |
Richfield section, and the people off |
both sections ought to get acquaint-
ed Just as soon as possible.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15

Three hundred thousand acres OF
flowers.
That is the census of Camas Prai-
rie, as taken this week by thee ed
itor of the Recorder, who with R.
e. Mickelwait of Richfield made q
tour of inspection of the Prairie;
clear up beyond the line of survey
for the Central Idaho railroad. 1t
is true that there are a few thous-
and odd ad extra acres of bloom
maybe two or three more towships
but in round numbers the figures
here given are substantially correct.
Flowers may be considered by
some utilitarian persons as an i'm
providential waste of energy; if all
that riot of vegetation wer only art
ichokes or turnips to feed the pigs,
or pumpkins for the cow ,or hay
for the horse, Nature would seem to
be a sane working power instead of
a frolicsome, thoughtless one. Yet
there is some real wealth all that
profusion of bloom. There are close
to fifty varieties of flowers now In
bloom---miles and miles and miles
of flowers, three stories deep. Two
varieties off wild clover make feed
for thousands of head of stock. AL
most all the plants are edible, at
some time of the year There are
hundreds of settlers scattered out
over the prairie, who wouldn't stay
long enough to harvest their crops,
if this wonderful annual pageant of
colorful decoration were omitted.
Pink, purple, yellow, blue, white, al
most the full rainbow schedule of
colors is presented. And it doesn't
cost cent The women and child
rem, shut up from most of what is
their right of pleasant life, harass-
ed by poverty and isolation, can take
in all that marvellous picture, and
be measurably contet; for theyn see
beauties that money without measure
could not buy in the city And eyel
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15

already had deposited several eegg-
clusters on two or three adjacent
hills of potatos. The insect was de-
stroyed and the surrounding vines
carefully searched for all the eggs
that had been deposited, which is
also destroyed
No more beetles were seen that
year, and none up to the present. time
So the introduction of the insect
was postponed at least two years by
this operation. there being no bee
ties kow at preset nearer than ten
miles from the Experiment station
The insect yields readily to ar
senical poisoning The usual meth
cd of treatmet is to sprikle the
vines with a mixture of a rounded
teaspoonful of PParis green in a.
bout three gallons of water. A
comon sprinkling pot is generally
used to make the application, but
shaken from a whisp broom or a
sametimes on a small scale it is
handful of hay. Arsenate OF lead
may be substituted for Paris green
if more convenient. but in paste
form it is OF nearly so strong as
the latter and about four times as
much should be used. In applying
Paris green it should be remember
ed that it rapidly settles to the
bottom of the receptacle and re-
quires frequent stirring to maintain
a uniform strength.
j. NJ. ALDRICH, Entomologist
OF Idaho
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
PROFITABLE RAINS
Soon for Dry Farmers as Well as
for the IrIigators.

for the Irrigators.
The fine rains which have been
coming along with such regularity
this spring, promise to make the
dry farmers Independent in this one
season. Out on the butte, above the
canal, there are several fields of
grain that are fully equal up to the
present time, to the best there are
down on the irrigated lands. For
that matter, very little irrigation is
being done here this year Enough
rain has fallen to maintain a gooC
growth without irrigation; and up
to the 1st of June, only 16 acres of
ground had been irrigated in the
Robert Elliott, ditch rider for
district around Richfield covered by
Robert Elliott ditch rider for six
or seven thousand acres. Most of
the grain on the tract---indeed, it
can be said all the grain that was
well put in---is looking as fine as it
could possibly have done with irri-
cation. Some of the most promising
fields will make good at harvest
without any irrigation at all The
feeling that there is a great reser-
voir off water up in the hills, ready
to be turned into the bitches, how
ever, will help a lot in satisfying
the average farmer that he is going
to get a bountiful harvest.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
WATER AND YIELD
In Irrigating Cut the Flow Half and
Add More TiIlabIe Land

In Irrigsting Cut the Flow Half and
Add More TiIIabIe Land
Speaking of the duty of water be-
fore the irrigation congress in Spo-
kane, Recently, Alex Mcpherson,
who has studied the question ex-
haustively in Southern Idaho, said.
up to a certain amount the ap-
plication of water increases the
yield, but after then the yield was
decreased aproportionately with the
increased amount of water supply.
Twenty inches of water was the
average amount applied on adll the
most successful farms where twenty
or more different crops were pro-
dueed giving a maximum yield.
include that of rainfall during the
months that the crops are growing
so that the actual amount off water
was leess than 16 inches on the aver
age. The time that the greatest
amount of water was required was
during the months of July and Au
gust on long-seasoned crops but the
greatest amount of water on grains
was in the month of June.
1t is really surprising how lit
tie water is actually required to pr,
duce crop, and in many localities
off the rainfall occurreed at the pro-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15

food supplies from these dirty. fill
thy, germ carrying peests at once
This simple precaution may save the
life of your baby. if you chance to
have one. Do not delay this mat
ter. for o doubt nhealth, and peer
haps livees, are at stake. In short,
make war in all that the term i'm
plies on the common house flies.
Reader, it is worth while"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15

R. E. Mickelwait and Chas. j.
Lisle spread from one end of the
Camas Prairie clear to the other,
the gladstone news that Richfield is
going to celebrate the Fourth of
July. They spent the first four
days of this week in posting up bills
on the Prairie, inviting the people
to come to good time.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
PACIFIC COAST EXCURSION

Via. Oregon Short Line. Special
low round trip rates to various Pa
cific Coast points during the month
of May, June and July with long
limits. See any o. S. L. agent for
rates and particulars.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
IDAHO STATE CHAUTAUQUA

Boise, Idaho, June % to July g..
Reduced rates via Oregon Short Lin
Tickets on sale from Idaho and Ore
gon points June 20, 81, % and 23,
"a, 27 and 29., limited to July 5.
See agents for rates and further
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-15
EXCURSION TO PoCATELLo

June 20, 81, % and 23, via Orego
Short Line for Inter-M Mountain Good
Roads Convention; Tickets limited
to June 26th. See agents for rat,
and further particulars.