Show lotter letter from jacob A letter which I 1 received last evening informs arilis me 71 there arc is talk till all over logon logan that lh I 1 had a d skipped to erase m my y debts if you think it worth while you can inform your readers that I 1 am not quite ready to leave my fifteen year old daughter lias has bem been in bed at the point of death for several we ks the doctor coming almost every day sly boy was brought home fourteen days ago with a broken leg and it will not do to run away from him birn now especially since his mother broke down also by prolonged night and is hardly out of bed besides this there are some gome few acres of grain and lucerne to be attended to and three sulky plows have broken over acres of new nev ground this season to be put in next spring my boys and myself cut several logs r last month to make us a be better tte r house next fall my aly partners hyrum watson A hinkley Ihn kley F L brain well fet harris and others and myself have thirty five teams steady a going to have the great F janal canal on oil fall river k completed and get the benefit belie fit of 2000 acres of land entry already by next year it is true that I 1 am sick in the same hospital as ciany many 1 others viz scarcity of money but bui that calamity will pass over like other things skipping is is in in my opinion the next worst thing to suicide I 1 am over the worst but if I 1 should have been driven to the wall I 1 would have seen th the ethin thing through given the attorneys every help and information have an understanding C with every creditor and then perhaps go and look around be how to raise raise money to pay the balance Yester yesterday dav the assessor and collector wa was s around my taxes for 3 will be 1 it would be considerably conFider ably higher but because bebau e fremont county is making 0 headway so BO fast by making 0 S scores cores of final proofs and erecting 0 new buildings the acre this year is assessed 2 less than in 1892 seeing t the approaching appio aching storm 1 I went in february to chicago to induce eastern capital to invest here bere in idaho and utah I 1 had a promise for close on oil to a million dollars and hopeful I 1 traveled around to arrange t things hiep g with good and trustworthy men to act as agents in thebe the beginning P annin of the month of may I 1 received however the stunning news that the capitalist invested over v in dakota and would not send any money further west probably some inappropriate laws in idaho were the cause that he changed his mind to those thol so of my farming 0 brothers who are arc also suffering under the present money calamity I 1 would say be not discouraged keep on oil with the soil let our sons solis study the science of agriculture mone money y panics I 1 anias are the result of some broken brokell law in finances and trade these laws are by no means studied completely ely but they will nd must and upon a science of finance and trade there will be built up a general which actuates the community outside the reach of financial frauds and cyclone the laws of fi finances narces are just as eternal as the laws of ethics or the laws of mechanics the science of these laws must be developed many a man mail is a 0 good finance er for hims himself elfand and anyhow a public nuisance and a determinant determine nt to the progress of humanity but the poorest of all poor creatures are those that amuse themselves by slandering slandering derin and tearing r down a fellow beings g character as soon as they think he meets with defeat and perhaps ruin they will be the first ones to belabor him again as soon as they see him take a turn for the better they do not seem to realize the terrible curse that is set for them viz awill cause maggots mag to come over them and their eyes shall fall from their sockets and their tongue out of their mouth auth says the lord your god ilaman if a man does wrong 0 willfully then it is right that lie is exposed to severe public censure but if he has done his best and only suffers under tb the I 1 same storm as a hundred others then lie he only needs to wait his I 1 inic ime when he is slandered there is certainly jerta a day of reckoning 0 respectfully JACOB SI ORI july 1893 1803 |