The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-06-01

was 8DOuJ HnlSneQ a disagreement
arose as to the new connections with
the old ditch line, and work was
suspended. pending ratification of
the senate, and Brown and Pendle-
bury seemed to be the senate. Sam
says to them that they may go ahead
and clean out the sand from the old
line and he will haul his hill across
it by airship or get it over by wire
less or something of the kind. But
it is this blamed wireless stuff that
they are all afraid of, they have had
too much of it already.
Hunter Showed Under
While all of this was going on,
other complications have arisen. Jim
Hunter has a field on the east of
Pendlebury and that hill of his
started to move over on top of his
crops Thursday and Jim couldn't
stop it. The wind increased in fury
and Pendlebury just "let 'er buck
Some of the hill moved over and
buried the road belonging to the
county, and Jim can't get thru it
with his jitney any more, but has
fixed up a one-rigger buggy and
while Jim steers, the horse pulls,
and they get thru. Mark Twins
literature gives "precedent" in
which a man was given permission
to get in under and dig his farm out,
and Hunter can probably "repos-
sess" in this way that part of his
land that is being showed under by
Pendlebury's sand. The county can
probably repossess it's roadbed in
the same way, but who in the dick
ems is going to clean out those
bitches after a big wind, and who
is to take away the sand after it is
out Of the ditch, is what Sam and his
neighbors want to know. If some
profiteer lawyer gets in among them
and stirs up litigation he might
fleece the whole bunch for as long
as did the attorneys in the famous
Iowa calf case. There is an acre or
two of sandy land in litigation out in
the Hodson- Woodland neighborhood
where fence was once built rod
or two off of the true line, that has
been in the courts of this district for
twelve or fifteen years and is now
going up to the supreme court on 1t
'stenth appeal from the district
court, and it may yet absorb both
farms to find out where the line is
between them. 1t is said that some
fellow got slapped in the face re-
Gently in a dispute about one of
these sand questions we have been
telling you about, and when he went
to a lawyer to see about having the
man "pinched" for slapping him
the lawyer, SO the story goes, told
him the man was right in slapping
him because it set him right in his
own activities. He said that this
one slap was worth more than 500
invested in litigation and advised
him to just go along and forget it.
Sue the Wind
The neighbors in Moon Valley ar
discussing fine phase Of the sane
case. 1t runs like this: If aS'ditc'
runs thru an mans field and hs
takes a pillow and fills 1T up, then OF
course the owners of the ditch can
properly demand that he clean it out
and rebuild the ditch as good as i
was before. But if the man takes
the same team and pillow in the same
field and on his own land paralleling
the ditch right of way, and plows
some burrows, and then the wind
blows and puts the burrows over in
the ditch and thus fills it up, he
brings about the same results as in
the first instance, and should he be
excused from cleaning out the ditch?
II he had not stirred the ground and
made It subject to the power of the
wind, the ditch would not have filled
up. If a man is allowed full liberty
to plow few burrows before each
wind, he can keep the owners of the
ditch cleaning it out till they have to
abandon the right Of way.
Sue the Dickens
If the owners of the ditch are to
be fully protected, then nobody will
be allowed to pillow sandy land lying
to windward from ditch for fear of
filling it up. These are burning
questions when the wind blows, but
happily it does ont blow all the time.
Various sowings of seeds in the
Moon Valley have been blown out,
and yet the wind is mild compared
to what it was before the groves and
meadows were planted that so
nearly conquered the wind in the
sand belt. 1t Is hardy lot of set
tiers that tackle these belts of
desert, and they are getting it trim
med down to few acres at the edge
Of town. In another year or two it
will be welded into sod and the
trouble will be over. If you want to
go out and view it, go east to the
end of Judicial street, turn to- the
right and watch over your left as
you go down the lane. The bare
patches are the places we have been |
telling you about, and that it where
The fine legal questions arise that
provoke people to wrath.
Rural Route No. 1
c. F. Urbach leases the H. H. Yiost
farm west of Snake river bridge,
of forty-seven acres. He
las fifteen acres of potatoes, and the
rest in hay. He has two or three
acres of orchard, but says the ap-
pies are not worth looking after.
It does not pay to spray the orchard !
and pick the apples. When we
asked him what he does with the
apples crop after it is grown, he