The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-06-06
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uding Four Officers Was WILING
to Drill, but Not XIII.

without saying a word And he didn't
mean to be unsociable. either. Cor
poral York took after him.
The York estate comprises 40 acres
OF iand. OF which part Is rich bottom
land. but most is hill country. The
mousse has one room on the ground
moor, which is dining room, sitting
room and all, while the loft is every
Dody's bedroom. The kitchen Is n
iean-to, built against the house. The
Iarm crops are corn and hay and the
i've stock consists Of pair of mules.
COW, some hogs and chickens. All
ABOUT the place Is tall virgin timber.
| Lived Life Of = Pioneer.
SO Corporal York. before he went to
war. lived in the one-room house in
clearing, which was the usual home
or the American pioneer, and the life
ne lived was just such life as his
forefathers had lived for generations
When not engaged in tilling his 40
acre farm he commonly went hunting.
All OF the men thereabouts go hunt
ing and are good shots, but York
was especially efficient with the rifle.
The standard and favorite game of
the section Is the squirrel Every man
has a squirrel dog, and good one Is
worth $50 or $40 The dog trees the
squirrel, ana the hunter shoots If
always through the head, so as not to
mangle the meat. If you want to know
low Corporal York learned to shoot.
try to knock a squirrel out of taIl
hickory tree with a rifle. shooting al
ways for the head They also hunt
foxes here. running them with dogs
ana bringing down the swift quarry
IRON stand On autumn nights
coon hunting is in order. The coon
Is chased up tree by the dogs.
In the old days the tree was then
always chopped down. so that the dogs
and the coon could fight il out, no mat
ter who owned the tree or how yalu-
able 1t was. Recently, owing to the
nigh price of lumber. sentiment
against cutting down SO tree to get
81 coon has developed and this is
regarded with contempt by the old
timers as q sign of the degenerate mod
ern mercenary spirit
The law in this section is whatever
local custom approved, and II does not
approve of restricting a mans personal
freedom. This Is fact Of prime
Importance to the understanding of
Corporal York. Every man here car
ries gun, and is prepared as a mat
ter of course, to shoot anyone who
presumes to trespass on his prem
Uses.
Men Make Their Own Liquor.
Every man who wants to do so
makes his own whisky keeps it In his
house and drinks il when he pleases.
Stills are operated somewhat quietly.
in Difference To federal regulations, but
the revenue officer does not intrude
much. II would be impossible here
to enforce the Mann act, the Harrison
drug law, the prohibition law, or any
other law which involves opening bag
gage and invading premises. These
people stand by the Constitution as it
is written. not as ii is interpreted
Their creed in brief is that as long as
man does not interfere with anyone
else, no one has a right to interfere
with him. That was the gist of Pat
rick Henry's bill of rights.
Like most men who value their lib
erty, these mountaineerS have strong
sense of justice. They believe in the
proper use Of liquor by responsible
persons. When n couple of bootleggers
came into the neighborhood and began
selling whisky 10 boys. posse was
organized and the bootleggers dlsap-
peared. The law was not invoked.
Mountaineer Is Religious.
Next 10 his personal freedom. the
thing that mountain man takes most
seriously is his religion. He believes
in the Bible as the source of truth, and
as a guide for human conduct.
In these regions the church is a
place of sincere worship. a plase Of so
eial gathering and an emotional expe- |
rienee. No doubt in all remote re-
gions the church takes somewhat the |