The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-06-28

cation and let the animals in to the
| streams to drink The flock masters
were wrOth.
While the reclamation service
were busy damming the streams on
the greater water courses, the stock
men were equally busy and sincere
damning the dry farmers on the
smaller streams. Both were sue
cessful, for the waters of the master
streams hesitated in their rush to
the sea, on account of the structures
thrown across the way, and the dry
farmers hesitated in their grabbing
of a dynasty because of the obstruc-
lions automatic.
First the weather man withheld
the good soaking rain that was
inevitably needed on the first of July
to mature the crop. There was the
ground squirrel that came forth with
new litter about every fortnight,
and they all lived and flourished,
now that they had somebody to raise
grain for them to white off and
suck the juice out of.
1t is said that every great emer-
gency has it's remedy in some con-
temporary happening, and if ground
squirrels had been dollars, the Ger
mans could have paid cash for the
cost of the World War by bagging
the ground squirrels bred up by the
dry farmers during the war, or they
could have paid off the reparations
bill by communicating them as they
existed in the years following the
armistice.
Seeing this old form of life in new
-
the beligerents manufactured NUM-
lions, the dry farmers hesitated. The
stockman had given the dry farmer
a bum lamb and veal now and again
for a sack Of new potatoes and a
franchise to let his animals amble
down to the creek and back, and
got on speaking terms with him and
his tribe, but while they were gone
for the winter, the satellite of the
stockman noted the calendar and
contested the claim if the settler was
gone five months and ten minutes.
1t is not a true parallel to say,
when thieves fall out" for neither
Of them has been proven a thief ex-
cepting in the mind of the other, but
they fell out all right. 1t has been
freely stated that stockmen in annual
do their full duty and file at least
one contest each year to help rid the
range of the ground squirrels thru
the removal of the man who raised
the grain for the squirrels to suck
the juice out of. The l. w. w. be-
ieve in what they call direct ac-
tion," but the stockmen are unlike
them in that they get even with the
squirrels by using the land laws to
sink their food ships.
During the World War there was
4 certain champion and his associates
who banked greatly on the psychol-
)gy of having the Lord on their side,
and expressed it in the slogan, Got
Nit Uns" Little Jeff OF the Mutt
md JEFF series, came back at them
IN cold day wearing a big NIT with
.nffs on and said, You've got moth
ng on me; I've got mittens too"
When the weather man withheld
he rain from the wheat fields that
we're expected to wave, the st0ckman
on the probability of the
Lord being on the side Of the rangers,
,ut where 1t is too dry for wheat,
he russian thistle and other weeds
Ind 1t just right, and the ground
quirrels still waxed fat in q world
If weeds. Despairing is the dry
Try farmer. Weary Is the stock
nan. But the dry farmer hasn't
'xactly quit. And the stockman
till has his lariat. Some OF the
ontests failed to function In Wash
ngton. Sometimes = homesteader
las sold his fences to . stockmen,
IN condition that he would take title
o the land also and allow the as
essor to mail the tax notices to the
lome of the ranger. Revenge is
aid to be sweet. and while the home
teader has been laughing up his