Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-05-20
TAKES EASTERN PAPER FOR DE.
CLARING WEST A WILDER
NESS.

An open letter received this wee
from j. j. Pulse, who with his wifi
are at West Lake, Oregon, and bot
well and happy, will be of special in
terest to the many friends and ac
quaintences of these esteemable people
The Free Press is pleased to print tn
same and allow its readers to share il
the news from j. J. 1t is as follows:
In Camp, West Lake, Oregon
May IA, 1915
/ see by the Youth g Companion, pub
lished in Boston, and having circu
lation of over a million subscribers
among our young Americans, that the
paper remarks that "the opening of the
canal in the Columbia river at The
Dalles, in Oregon. in the first week in
May, is an important event, for the
new waterway makes the river naviga-
bile for 500 miles farther into the will
derness.
How do you people in Idaho like
l.
for New York few years ago, be-
came acquainted with very refined
and highly cultured gentleman who
said he was going tWest.o He had
not left home for twenty-five years.
Naturally, | became interested and in
quired where he was going. He re-
piled, .Well ] am going up the Hud.
son, through Lake Champlain then via
the st. Lawrence to Buffalo, then / am
going home by way of the Mohawk Val
ley to Albany, visiting Connecticut and
Rhode Island on the way
/ questioned him if he called that
west and he seemed injured. The con.
versation then worked around as to nv
home, which told him was in Idaho
and he exclaimed, "Why that is away
up in Alaska, ism t itqo Then / ex
planned that Idaho County was large
enough to embrace all of the New Eng
land states and then some. Another
fellow in Richmond, Va, asked me if
Idaho WASH t the capital Of Boise.
| am Informed that the soil around
Boston is fortified with shiploads of
mummies that have been imported from
the tombs of Egypt. They grind them
up and flavor the beans that make
the Bostonians so brilliant lot. The
geographical grey matter in the Uranium
of the Youth s Companion reporter
must have developed from the beans,
At any rate the gentleman is 5000 years
behind the times. They are certainly
mummies on information about any
thing west of Chicago or Buffalo. The
Youths who read the Companion must
consider our country as bowling wild
erness and land of tangled forests,
with desperate ridden plains whore the
chief diversion is Indian fighting
hunting grizzlies, mountaion lions and
the like.
1t is a deplorable fact, this state of
which also extends to
the elders. Some of the "Savages.
attending the high school should write
to the eastern readers of the Companion
and invite them to come out to the
wilderness and penetrate its awful
grandeur. Tell them that the wilder
ness to be opened by the Cello canal to |
vessels from the Pacific are boundless |
yrain fields, great orchards and produc-
i've irrigated lands. where there are |
he most prosperous cities with paved |
streets, modern schools, churches, and /
very improvement of progress.
Mrs. Pulse and I are camped here on
he banks of the Tsiltoos lake having
he time of our lives, leading the simple
ife. | am feeling better than have
or five years and find that it does a
nan good to get away from business
md seek change. We are revelling
n flowers of all kinds and wish that
We could send some of the beautiful
mes that grow wild here.
The Japan current strikes in on the
cast here and keeps it an ideal climate
could tell some fish stories but do not
esire to injure the prestige of DR..
'toekton of Bob Walker. We have
'een eating crabs, CLANS and trout for
he past 6 weeks and we are beginning
o get tired of game.
We will leave here in about three
weeks for the fair, going back to Port
and on the new Northern Pacific five
million dollar ship which beats the s.
,. Shasta limited by two hours. Mrs.
'ulse is afraid to go. She says the
APPS might torpedo us. I told her if
hey knew big German like me was
n board they might, but I would pass
1yself for an Englishman, or a Jew Il
ave Roman nose.)
We will probably go East from there
nd Their trek back to the "Wilder.
esq., Business conditions are Quiet