The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1922-02-09

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| for the visitors to go, the visitors ga,
they've had such good time, bu
they must 60. Every one works hi
or her head OF to make the parting
4 long-drawn-out Formally; to gel
up and go would be contrary to al
law and order. We all know wha'
happens, but nobody does anything
about it; every one loiters in the liv-
ing room, again in the hall and agair
on the doorstep, and if an automobile
happens to b. waiting, 1T the curb
Somewhere between the living room
and the doorstep or the curb Mary OF
Henrietta always remembers some
thing important that she has forgot
ten TO talk about and after that il
settled they have to arrange their
schedule for the next week or two.
II we ever 60 TO congress, this habit
will be one Of the first things we shall
try to reform.
Speaking Of hard luck" said Old
Bill Misgivens, there was the case
Of Tobias Timpkins, who came out to
Idaho and took claim in 1885. Claims
that were real good we're then getting
scarce In that part Of the state
and particularly in the neighborhood
where Tobias lit, 80 that about the
only lands left were mostly sandy
and thin Of soil Tobias hunted
around and finally found homestead
er who had bully good claim, but he
was homesick and desired to get out
Of the country. So he relinquished his
right to Tobias for $500 and hit the
trail back East. Tobias was tickled
nearly to death over what he thought
was his good fortune in getting this
rich claim and he began to break it
out and put it in cultivation. Several
months after Tobias landed, long,
lank Missourian also landed in that
and settled Down on
sandy claim that everybody else had
rejected as practically worthless. To-
bias was heard to say that any man
who would take that claim and under
take to live on it ought to be put in
rome institution for the feeble mind
ed. Well, the next spring was the
and driest ever seen in that
country soace the earliest settler came
here. The wind blew "a hours day
right along for two months without
my rain. Now, the sandy, worthless
,laim taken by the Missourian was
lacked on the north side by sort of
.idge that stopped the fight of most
# the dirt that came that way as the
Wind blew all the time from either the
outh or southwest the flying dirt
Yearly all stopped on the Missourian's
and. At the end Off month the wind
lad carried all the soil of Tobias
flowed land which joined the Nilsson
ian's claim on the south, over to the
land. For a week or
wo weeks the land belonging to To-
las that wasn't. plowed held, but by
nd by the wind began to work on
hat and at the end of the two months
here wasn't enough soil left on the
md of Tobias Timpkins to sprout
cans even in a wet year, but the :
andy claim Of the Missourian was
overed with six inches Of the riehest
;rk " khAt nounfx, A. <ha sor.a %i,.,o IN
nat the wind had carried the dirt it
ad deposited several hundred tons of
seep manure which it carried from 4
leep corral in neighboring county. II
his added fertility to the soil, but
lat wasn't all. Tobias had sowed 60 II
res Of wheat and 20 acres Of oats. H
he seed hadn't terminated when the II
ind began to blow and all Of it was II
altered over the claim Of the Mis- II
'urian. After the wind had whooped u
up right straight along for two
onths it suddely quit and then fine
'ntle rain began to fail and kept it
, for three days and nights. Every
ain Of that wheat and oats grew
ID that fall the Missourian harvest
40 bushels of wheat to the acre and
bushels to the acre Of oats There
rs shortage of feed and he sold the
raw for good prices. Tobias aban-
ned his claim and borrowed hun
ed dollars from the Missourian to
y his way back to Illinois"