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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
Inspector DedOlph Badly Hurt
Horse Falls With Carey Act Inspector In RchfeId and
Victim Sustans Dangerous Injuries.

Frederick Dedolph, of Boise, rep
resenting the state engineers office
in inspecting Carey Act projects. is
at the Richtield Hotel badly injur-
ed by the falling OF the horse which
he was riding the first OF the week
Mr.. Dedolph went out to the dam,
Saturday with /. w. Mcconnell man
ager Of the company. After making
his inspection, he got a horse and
proposed to ride out over the canal
linee Monday morning, here in
Richfield, the horse which he was
riding slipped and fell as he at
tempted to turn from Main street
to go west to thee Burton barn. The
street was slippery from the rain
Che horse was going at good speed,
and horse and rideer fell with great
iolence Mr. Dedolph was thrown
10 the concrete sidewalk; his nose
his face badly bruised. and
le was battered almost all over. He
gas taken to the hOteel, and doc
or called Since then he has been .
4 a comatose and fainting condition .
rom injuries which were not at first
Epected. His wife, who was living
4 Boise. was notified of the acci-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
Graders AT Work On Central Idaho

of the railroad army. and not one
man is here now where there will
be fifty or a hundred later in the
season. Several land sales at stead
lily increasing prices, indicate that a
land boom may come 1t would be
strange indeed if it did not, for no
other lands in the state, or in the
west are selling for as low a price,
all advantages considered The one
who buys while the old schedule
of prices is still in force, is making
one of the incest speculations. to be
found any here.
There is a good deal of specula-
ton as to just where stations and
towns are to be located between
here and the terminus Of the road.
The survey misses Soldier about
mile and three-quarters, and Corral
by about a mile farther. These dis
tances are so far as to practically
put the old towns out of the busi-
ness race, and new towns are almost
a certainty A town, New Soldier.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
Great calamity

Disaster riding in on every cloud
hard times coming over the hill to
grab the unwary, the poor house be-
ing moved in closer so as to meet
thee needs of more peopleli
That's one way to look at te rains
tat ave been coming ere almost one
a day; destroying our reputation as
an arid hcountry, driving the farm
ers to the house. or to loaf in town,
because it's too rainy to irrigate
Never saw such luck in all your
Idaho born days---and 13O feet OF
water up in the reservoir fairly ach-
ing for chance to go to work in
the fields.
Yet there is a ray of light from
the silver lining of these many dark
clouds. There perhaps never was
SO good a prospect for the dry far
mer. The wet farmer, too, is in a
fair way to profit thereby. These
rains have supplied his fields with
water lot easier than he could do
it himself. 1t is true, of course,
that he has already paid for ditch
water for the season; but if Old
Probabilities VIII only handle the
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

While not quite all the right OF
way has. been contracted for, most
Of. the delinq9ents being the non
resident land owners, it is expected
that other contracts Win be closed
up amicably this weeek. SO as to
right to build Once or two condemn
alton cases are expected here, o.
probably as many, OF more, up on
Camas Prairie. How any one up on
the Prairie, now 35 miles from the
nearest railroad. could attempt to
block new road that doubles the
value Of h hi; own farm aHd every 0tH
er farm in his neighborhcod is one
OF the mysteries. But condemnation
action win give the road a right
of way on a fair basis.
Richfield promises to be a grea
gamer through the railroad activity
Several new business houses have
already come in or been projected
and others are being talked of. Old
firms have already done
trade with the vanguard
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

the righ. Of way are now being un-
loaded at the depot Material for
the office buildings is already here,
and carpenters came today to erect
tie structure. Ties are heree to lay
The sidings for a material yard A
contractor who has been working at
Bliss secured the grading for the
first three miles, and his entiree out
fit should be here Friday, to begin
grading for the Y and the material
tracks. Two long tracks Will be
laid for a storage yard where ties,
fence posts, telegraph poles. bridge
timbers, rails, cement, spikes, and
all the stuff required in building a
railroad can be stored. Some stuff
will be takeen out on the job with
out unloading, as soon as some Of
the track is laid out of town; but
probably the greater part of mater
ial that goes into the entire road
will at some time be unloaded here. (
No announcement has been made
Of any work on the south side Of the I.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

1t is doubtful whether in many
years there have been as many small
contractors gathered together in one
place in Idaho as have been here
in Richfield this week, to bid on por
tions of the Central Idaho railroad,
to be built at once from Richfield
to High Prairie Not all small men,
eitheer; some of them could put on
a thousand horses and other things
to match The road has been fairly
lined with their teams, going out on
the line to inspect with a view to
bidding on a portion Of the work.
A number of contracts have been
closed up for various sections of the
road; about one-halff TO the entire
line, it is understood Theeree are
enough other contractors now in
the field to take up most off the re-
mainder, if they conclude to take the
work
Materials of all kinds are now
coming in for starting the work.
Two cars of barb wire for fencing
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

present track, looking toward imme-
diate building Of the QWinza end Of
the line. The survey crosses the low
er end Of the Richfield townsite,
400 or 500 feet below the present
depot 1t makes the crossing With
i the corporate limits, and by plac-
ing it a little off OF Main street, is
about as ideal for business .condi-
tions as one could wish 1t is not
probable that the Owinza end viii be
built now--not until the line is ex-
tended on the west to reach Boise
but it IS a fail. f;siii. ss,iess that the re
newed activity of the Pittsburg 6
Gilmore road down the Salmon river
may make the rest Of the Central
Idaho, from Owinza clear through
to Payette, a thing OF the nearer fu-
ture than has been announced.
A water tank and some sort of an
engine shed will be among the ear
iy buildings put ap here, TO caree 70
the engines as9they are brought on
the job,
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

has been laid out on the railroad at
a point nearest the old town of Sol
dier, and it is reported that very
extensive sale of town lots has been
made. No tOwnsite has as yet been
laid out to meet the needs OF the
Corral people. As the railroad has
not announced any of its town plans,
the field is open for all aspirants,
and a. merry war may be precipitat-
ed. 1t is expected that a siding will
be put in somewhere near Burns, al
so one at or near the dam; and 9th
er -sidings Tor shipping purposes at
convenient points wherever the ship
ping business will warrant it. In
general. the company policy is to
put in a siding wherever there is a
prospect of shipping. and
the people interested will do the
grading.
Powell & Son, who have the first
contract for grading. including the
and the Richfield yards, are now
n camp and at work, heree in town.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
Make RichfeId a Model City
Let the Whole Community Pay For and Share In Ben
efts of Progressive Help Each Other Policy.


! pay for it, for it makes better
town, property is more valuable, and
the general public can well afford to
pay the bill in tax form The goo1
health that comes through giving
the children, young and old, place
and an incentive to play out doors,
is so palpably a public asset that it
should be supported by taxes 1t is
public duty to provide place for
public gatherings, and to encourage
everybody to take interest in public
affairs; cnly the whole people can
or will provide such a place One
of the most serious problems for a
town like Richfield, that determines
to abolish the saloon and other pub
lie evils, is to provide a place for
the homeless men who make up so
large a part of the average new,
growing town 1t is more than a
moral quertion, more than church
or religious question, to find some
thing better for them to do, some
thing better that they will do. The
recreation parks answer admirably
for the summer; but fer the rest of
the year, when the nights ere cold +
and long, an indoors place must be
provided 1t is. because municipal
tiles have been SO slow to taking
up this matter, that the public sa-
loon has gained such strong hold
as the poor mans club A public
reading room, with gymnasium,
and with baths free or almost free.
,ould and should be part of the
own hall equipment. Instead of a
Commercial Club kept up by sub
public funds should pro- /
'ide fer all booster purposes And 4
hese are only few Of the newer, :
,etter Things that may come hero
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

VIM. Herbert, chief of police of
this city is erecting new residence
in the Underwood addition.
e. G. Merrifield. the Shoshone
photographer, will be in Richfield
soon with fine tent gallery.
Mrs. Farmer is having an addition
built to her restaurant and bakery.
She will add another story to the
kitchen and erect kitchen Il. the The
rear OF the building.
Childrens Day is to be approprf~
ately celebrated in the Richfild
church, eSunday, June 11th. with
program given by the little folks,
1t is not as yet decided whether to
hold the exercises in the morning or
the evening, but announcement will
be made in due time for all to know
and be prepared to attend. The
various programs given in the past
by the children of Richfield have
shown rather exceptional talent, and
this one promises to be the equal of
the very best There are many wild
flowers now in bloom. and these
church cordial invitation is ex-
tended to everybody to attend.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

1t has been proposed by some Of
those who take deep interest in
public affairs here in Richfield, to
try to make this the model for all
young and growing towns. Some of
the proposals are here given:
Bond the town for enough money
to put in municipal electric light
and power system; town hall, big
enough and good enough for any ant
all public meetings; the purchase o..
on the Litcle Wood river, to be de-
a 40-acree tract adjacent to town
voiced to public recreation---free ball
grounds, picnic grounds, shade for
everybody, and whatever else it can
be used for; the purchase off
tract of ground, perhaps that now
used as a public tennis court, to be
the extension of the irrigation sys-
tenn all oveer town, and the plant
ing of trees around every block in
town, with the possible exception of
the main business streetsthe secur
ing of whatever property is neces-
sary to make a good location for the
county seat that might some day be
forced on Richfield; and in general, |
the abolition of the public subscrip- I
tion paper from the business life of /
the town---the general taxes being
levied SO as to put all the burdens
off fcity maintenance on a property
instead of residence basis
1t is coming to be moree and more
recognized that the general public,
being the gamers by every public
improvement, should help pay all
the bills Everybody gains some-
hing by having good ball team
and grounds---let every body help to
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
Wage War On the Deadly Fly
Graphic Story of How He Brings Contamination and
Disease Into the Home---Start the War Now

The house-fly exists only through
the toleration of men-a federation
which, were it not ignorant, would
be criminal
The house-fly is the most terri
bic single enemy that mankind has
amoug living creatures. Beasts of
the jungle have slain their thousands
but this prowler in the houshold
has slain his tens of thousands. Of
all the verminhe is the most filthy;
of all purveyors Of disease the most
deadly.
The house-fly is born in offal-
nowhere else. And his life is in
keeping with his birth He lives, to
the day of his death, in filth. The
manure pile. the cuspidor and cess
pool are his home. 1t is from these
haunts that he comes to visit the
kitchen, the dining room and the
nursery He drags his filthy feet
across the bread. dips them in the
Duttcis wipes lutu Oh luc meat,
and bathes in the milk He seeks
out the sick-room and sips the de-
licious excretions Of the consump-
tive, the typhoid fever patient, and
the child with summer complaint !
Then he flies to the kitchen and
deposits the poison on the rim Of (
the milk-bottle, and to the nursery, T
where he lights on the baby's lips.
Don't mind rattlesnake or two
sbout the house, but kill every fly
es yea. value your life AM an the the live
Of your children. Dent buy your
groceries or your milk or bread or
iruit of any dealer who is not as
particular as you are yourself. There
would be little typhoid fever with
out the house-fly, and little chance I,
an be no fiies where there is no
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
SAW WAR IN MEXICO.
Engineer Osborn Was There Where
The Bullets Buzzed.

Engineer Q. S. Osborn. in charge
of construction for The Central Ida
no railroad out Of Richfield, was an
eyewitness to part Of the Mexican
revolution which has just ended in
the resisnaion OF President Dia2,
He was chiel engineer Of the Kan
sas City Mexico ( Orient railroad,
and flor six or seven years made his
home in Mexico. He saw one of
The first battles, whore the federals
came through near 81 Paso on
train, and the insurgents, ambushed
behind rocks. trees and everything
that would shed bullets, opened fire
on them. He says that there are
some real fighters in Mexico, and
that bullet from even the most ar
rant coward hurts as bad as if it
were fired by all the crack Shots Off
this cf any country.
Mr. Osborn does not believe that
real peace viii be established in
Mexico for some time to come. The I
average native population needs
strong ruleer like Diaz, to put down
'nd keep down brigandage and 9TH
sr violence. With the feear Of Diaz
'eemovedo, he expects to see rob +
'ery very prevalent, and it may be
goodwhile before the new reepub-
lean government con establish or
lar
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
Hard Luck for Idaho Farmer
So Much Good Rain That He Can't Irrigate Even After
He Has Paid for Whole Seasons Water

gates and WELD the irrigation sho-
vel, and sit up o'nights to keep the
water going. the farmer and the
hired man can settle the poker cham
pionship that has long been in de-
batee, or help the good wifee with
the washing. or fix the hen coops.
or do any or all OF the important
little detail work Of the farm in
stead of letting it so until next win
ter---and then forgetting it
The growth of grass out on the
range has not in the recollection Of
the oldest inhabitant" been so lux
uriant as this year This always
was a great grass country, and the
stock men lamented that it should
ever be cut up into farms. Still, it
is so cut, and so it promises to stay.
There is a good deal OF land as yet
and thousands of cat
lie and horses could feed here now,
harming any one. There is
only a fraction as much stock here
Is will utilize the pasture and the I
grain, and the one great misfortune
If the season is that so much stuff
s going to grow that can't be fed
lp this summer.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
MODERN WOODMEN.
Organize the First Secret Society or
Lodge In Richfield.

Organize the First Secret Society or
lodge In Richfield.
The Modern Woodmen' of America
is the first fraternal organization to
be introduced in Richfield, and they
have organized with q large mem-
bership which viii doubtless be con
siderably increased in a.short time.
Forty-threee charter members met
at the Commercial Club room Thurs
day evening and organized by elect
ing the following officers:
Venerable Council, Jas. Green.
Worthy Advisor. J. G. Pearson.
Excellent Banker John Haines.,.
Clerk, II. NJ. Moore.
Escort, NJ. J. Unger.
Watehman, Van Gossett.
Sentry. F. s. Watson
Managers. R. A. Miller, Percy MayI
and James. Britton.
The members are all very enthusi
astic over the Organization and a
great deal of interest was shown
and it viii prove af benefit to the !
financial way.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

filth. Keep your kitchen. cellar and
yard clean; let no refuse accumulate
Put lime about the stable, and keep
the garbage-pail tightly covered.
Kill every fly you see; burn insec-
ticides (pyrethrum is the best) use
fly-traps, stickp paper, and the wire
paddle until the house is clear. If
you cant drive out the enemy un-
aided. call on the Board of Health.
Worlds Work.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
POSTMASTER MALONEY
New appointment at Burns, to Sue
ceed John ByIne, Resigned

John c. Maloney, of Burns, has
received notification from Washing
ton that he is the new appointee as
postmaster at Burns, to succeed
John Byrne. resigned. Mr.. Maloney
has good right to ask for, and to-
receive federal recognition. He serv.
ed eight years in the army, going
first as one of the volunteers at the
time of the Spanish-American war.
and remaining in the service for sew
eral years thereafter He closed his
as a commissioned officer in
the Philippine scouts. He come to
Lincoln county little more than a
year ago.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

Surprising Number of Native Wild
Flowers In This Section


There are few who have ever Sc,
up the claim that this is the orig
inal and only fower land. the home
Of the honeysuckle, the columbine.
che rose and the daisy, an famed IN
song and story no poet bearing the
Richield brand has as yet bursted
into the magazines or the books.
immcltalizo the sweet breath of til,
otal prairie. There have been q
thousand who only saw the sage,
one VINO ever thought of flowers.
Yet there are flowers here; more
of them perhaps, than most people
would expect. The Recorder famib
took sIol down to the river one
night this week, flower-picking. An
hours search found 26 varieties out
in full bloom; not counting any OF
those that had already doomed, or
the lateer onees yet 10 bloom, or
the numerous grasses In places.
the air is fairly redoient with the
Ilowery perfume The wild cur
rent is the most fragrant OF the o.
lal flowers; but some others are dc
.icient only in quantity. An herb
lrium off fthe flowers from this sec
ion would show many a bloom tAa-
would be esteemed prize if ABEL
ID with long name and set forth
II a gaudy flower catalogue
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

Messrs. Macdonald and Christen-
son, Of the Utah Construction Co.,
arrived in Richfield the first of the
week, to be with the company dur
ing the construction period of the
Central Idaho railroad The COM
'Dany is one of the strongest con-
traetilses g firms in the country and is
in big work all through the
West Thee two gentlemen named
viii occupy responsible positions in
the work here, and viii be here the
whole season Net much has as yet
been put into their hands for pub
iicatiOn, but there viii be, later.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
FARMING FOR PROFIT
Experiment Farm to BE Object Les
son IN Scientific Agriculture.

Experiment Farm to Be Object Les
son IN Scientific Agriculture.
While the experiment and show
department of the company farm ad-
joining town is to be dropped this
year. the farm will nevertheless be
one OF the finest advertisements the
Richfield tract can boast. Superin-
tendent Pearson is farming it this
year with the one ideea Of proving
that farming pays, and pays we'll
A good acreage off grain has been
sown, and it is a real revelation to
the average farmer to see how much
Better crops grow when the ground
is prepared in the Pearson way A
yet larger acreage Of alfalfa is be-
ing put out The alfalfa grown last
year, which made two tons to the
acre, was enough to show what to
expect, and the new crop put out
this season seems to have an even
better chance to make a record Al
iield Of 35 acres that is now just
showing through the ground, could
hardly be surpassed, if equaled, in
the whole state. The sowing OF so
large an acreage so close to town,
and the successful farming methods
that make it show what the soil is
good for, make the experiment farm
one OF the best advertising assets of
Richfield this season
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01

dent, and she came over on the first
train to care for him While the
victim is still in a serious condition,
it is expected that he will soon be
out and around again, and very glad
that it was no worse
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1911-06-01
o Richfield.

to Richfield. E..s~
While this is d pretty elaborate
program to be contemplated by a.
village Of little more than 800 peo-
pie, it is quite significant that it is
proposed by the heavy taxpaye
those who usually fight shy Of every
thing that increases taxes. And, the
300 people in Richfield are going to
be several times that many before
a great while. 1t isn't too early to
start work to make Richfield the
model town Of the whole west
J.. J. Poteet has sold the stone
barn on Main street to a MIR
Smith OF DIETRICH, who viii put in
. livery stock in this city in the neal
future Mr. Smith has been running
1 livery at Dietrich and has large (
number of good rigs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-04
sERvICEABLE WATERWAYS.

Congressman CampbelPs suggestion
that all business interests, all political
parties, all legislatures and congress
should unite in an effort to solve the
problem of making the waterways of
this country serviceable for the trans
portation of freight, ought to appeal
to most people as being the right
thing to do.
No nation in the world is so blessed
with so many gigantic systems of nat
ural waterways as is the United States.
Of late years they have. been used to
little or no purpose, chiefly because
they are not in shape for steamboat
tr--ffic. 1t will take many millions of
dollars to put them in that shape But
neither the federal government nor
the states could spend money to better
advantage.
Many millions of dollars have been
spent on them already but most of
this money has been wasted. 1t has
gone for local project here and there,
which has been allied in no way with
a comprehensive and complete plan
for the development of waterways
system. And until some such plan is
brought forward and decided upon, it
will be of no practical benefit to dump
few more millions of dollars this
year and few more next year, as has
been the custom in the past, into any
projects to fix up a part of a river here
and part there in improvements that
will be of benefit merely to the neigh
boring localities.
President Taft has urged this point
ever since he has been president, but
congress has failed to act accordingly
and the last rivers and harbors appro-
priation bill was about like most of
them that have gone on before it.
But the time is approaching when a
change must come, if this country is
to have serviceable waterways. And
the sooner it comes the better.