The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-08-09

wear and tear OF track. .O1
Pro rata of ultimate injury to pas
Sengers ..Ol
Salaries of officials ..Ol
Interest on investment. ..Ol
Total cost of the stop. .sOO7
This makes a dead loss of two cents
each time the car stops for a Scent
fare. 1t is estimated that the car stops
1Oo times each day for as many Scent
tares, making grand total loss of
$4oO on this kind of business.
took the trouble to aximine the
hieroglyphics made by the youth on
the station houses of the Boise and
lnterurban this week and then your
Hired Man without asking your per-
mission went to see General Manager
Dalton on the subject For dirty
heart work, mean contemptible and
obscene words and sentences and
phrases commend your readers to that
upon the walls along the line. The
work is usually done by young men
who patronize the individual stations.
In one sation woman had tried her
hand at the wicked business. One
would hardly suppose that these young
men we meet from time to time at the
little wayside waiting places were of
that sort of stuff that will indite vul-
garity there to be seen by others.
Your Hired Man asked Mr.. Dalton to
set the Sheriffs in both counties after
the perpetrators of this crime and
catch few of the worse than bur-
glars and send them to a felon's cell
tor while. Mr.. Dalton made a note
OF the affair and is after it in the best
way and will doubtless bring about
entire satisfaction. Until this has
been done and the public notified of il
your reporter suggests that decent
people remain on the outside on the
platform with their backs to the sta
ton and enter the filthy places only
Tor cover from the severest storm
and lend every aid possible to the
Sheriffs until the guilty are run down
and punished. 1t has become so ex-
tenslve that all young men along the
line will be looked upon with suspi-
cion until they enable the officers TO
seize the guilty ones.
"A young man who attended one of
the Caldwell churches last SUNDAY
remarked to your Hired Man Tues
day that he and another made up the
sum total of his class at that church
There were about $50 people in the
congregation and only two young men.
lie gave the matter more than a
passing thought and wondered if the
big boys and young men were through
with the churches. He went over the
list OF names in the town and admit
ted it looked bad. Others have made
this same complaint. Church workers
know there comes time in the big
boys life when he stays away from
church. This question has always
come up for solution. Caldwell work
ers are after it good and hard and the
churches are bearing down hard o,
the fact that the dangerous age shall
be met with strenuous gospel preach
ing, coupled with gospel living. 1t has
been found true every where, and no
less here in Caldwell. that the bright
young man must be given something
about which to think if he is to con-
tinue to look to the sermon for heart
TODD. In we olden times, the daughter
was taught to go to church and be-
have herself, and the young fellow who
went with" her usually was found
sticking around church too. If he got
drunk that settled it. If he habitually
absented himself from church and fol-
lowed up those things which are gen
orally found in the class who had lit.
tie to do with the churches, the par