The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-07-19
1RlbUNE'S 1RUS1Y
HIRED Man


living in Idaho working on commits
sion. He must be paid regular sal
airy or else quit the business. Last
winter the old-timers smiled as the
rest of US foretold the coming summer
with all its bearings and if anybody
has come near to hitting it, your
Hired Man has failed to find him. The
four inches of rainfall during May
and June was not guessed by anyone
except a Socialist and he got it just
as he missed everything else, on gen
eral principles. The few hot days in
June made those who said we would
have hot summer feel that they were
getting close, but the cold nights now
for two or three weeks are shutting
them up. The near-cyclone just north
of Star came just at the proper time
to fortify the Kansans in their con-
alfalfa fields will finally bring the re-
gulation storms from which they have
run. Every time they see those little
spiral dust chimneys over on Snake
rivers dry and dusty flats, they begin
to feel like the state ought to have
commission on horse back to chase,
them down and burst them up, for the
Kansan can see cyclone in embryo
in every chimney of whirling dust no
matter if it is no larger than a Caro-
lima Popular, and they want the rud-
imentary storm put out of business
forthwith. The 1900 volts on the
three hig tension wires running thru
this region are supposed to be the
forerunner of some direful calamity
that is yet to strike US, and even the
breast bone of the early chicken is
bent little to the south and has an
extra twist in the rudder end of it,
showing conclusively that the deer
and bear will come down out of the
mountains in the latter part of Nov
ember, and that the coal companies |
are going to raise the price on coal
right along now. Your Hired Man
tries to get people to take The Tri-
bune and keep posted and this you
know is the result. The Missourians |
are going to build themselves some |
storm cellars and the Iowans will fol-
low suit whatever that means) and
in due season those of us who quit |
some certain meaness back east on
account OF storms, but commenced
it out here. will quit again.
1t was distressing last Sunday to
have Boise river drop to a trihing
little stream below the wagon bridge
here at the city. The water failed
suddenly and has every indication at
this point of putting everybody on
short about July 18th. By this time
nearly all the grain will be far enough
along to make it without water and
the second cutting of hay will be wet
enough to come through. Trees and
stock and the third cutting of alf-
alta will doubtless have ample water,
but the short period is always alarm
ing as your Hired Man finds out.
Some 'uneasiness is maifest in GER
tain local parts of this region, owing
to the poor prospects OF getting rid
OF this years hay crop Some old
hay stands in the fields where it could
not be sold last fall and winter, or
else having been sold, the stockmen
did not feed it. From year to year
now more acreage of alfalfa is coming
in, and the ranchers are finding that
something is going to have to be done
to keep up sale for their staple crop.
1t is being suggested in some districts
that cattle from the outhern flooded
territory be brought here for feeders,
but this stuff is so completely inbred
and run out that it will be poor
grade even after eating alfalfa a few
months. A six or eight year old COW
only weighing $50 to 800 pounds.
The freight rates are $225.W per- car
IN train lots of ten cars, and while
thirty five of the poor animals can
be stuffed into each car, the percapita
cost is too much. 1t is apparent now
that, the only rancher who is going
to make money is the fellow who will
put his hay into creatures that can
walk to the rail road. TO haul it off
his place on four wheels, means some
body else will come on his place with
four-legged wagons. |;
In Middleton the mental tension is
wound up very taut by a general dis
cussiOn as to whether there is a real
Devil, or just a man-made creature
to have for an excuse when we get
of on the wrong foot. 1t appears that
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church has strated every tongue to
going and every head to thinking "a
long these lines. Prof. Hart, a mental
healer of Boise, calls Mr.. Williams
down in the Middleton paper and the
comes back at him with both
[eet and good high jump. From
the stand point of Christianity and
the bible teaching it would seem that
the preacher has the best of the bat
tie and has run the healer into his
hole for the summer, but those who
believe the healer, as he does, sees
the finish of the minister. Both men
have resorted to printers ink, and the
divides on the question,
while the preacher goes on about his
business like nothing had happened
The people who have been taking
treatment have their own ideas as to
whether the devil has been put out of
commission and as to the good or
Evil they have felt from the associa-
lion with the ROise man who coptepds