Show THE GREAT SNAKE RIVER Sept l-A l l A few mil miles from here bere and aDd standing ath wart art the western sky with Uh a relief which is II sub lub- subdued dued only in tone are two mounds miscalled buU buttes fb They ar are the monuments monuments ments men menor or perhaps the joint monument ot of one oDe of the be pyrotechnic glories of ot na- na nature nature na nature ture that prevailed thousands thousand of ot years yea ago Alo perhaps at a time when tb the hard bard hardening hardening ening of 01 the earths earth's crust had not ac- ac acquired acquired ac acquired ao so much headway and wherever there was wal a fissure assure the great masses malla of 01 mother matter came oame hissing ing and hurtling forth from the realms of and were scattered upon the laDd landscape cape far fr and wid wide Great boulders surround the mound at irregular intervals looking like Ilka the he mummified remains remain of dut dusky sentinels still tUl standing guard gaard over o-er w what ha must once one ha have ye been b a table table of grandeur and aw w awe alto alto- altogether altogether gether beyond the descriptive power it If not the imagination ot of o mortal man manThe The volcano seems eem to have been possessed pos- pos d of ot a throat inclined a few tew degrees out of ot the vertical and ranging northerly ai as a it approached the sphere r of the god ged of ot day for the greater part ot of the lava Java and scoria though every every- everywhere everywhere where most molt abundant Is ii on the northside north side ide where there is r a road connecting this place with Market Lake on the Union Pacific Having called it a road I will let it remain so 0 but of all the byways byway that ever assailed L the disposition of ot moral men to refrain retrain from pr profanity this one certainly approaches approached most nearly to success It is if not a terra incognita nor could it ii properly be called terra firms for so o far tar from disguising Itself in any way it not only unfolds unfold itself itsell In plain terms at ev every ry step but gives one no cause to be as to what if is coming and in places and for tor stretches is 18 1 not at all u unyielding unyielding ing in fact dot a very light vehicle will sink link Ink so 10 far f r into the mellow soil soU oil that a correspondingly light team has bat a hard time getting it out It Is good for tor neither man nor beast and all hands bands hereabout are longing for tor the nay oay when it will be girdled with rIbs rib of ot steel teel and that familiarity with it which has hal bred something worse wone than coo con contempt con contempt tempt will wm gradually have bare an existence only in 10 the legendary lore Jore of the time and place Hurry along alone the glad da day Penetrating a grea great portion of ot this forbidding land landscape cape is ii one of ot those thole monster canals canal for tor Irrigating purposes which are only met with in the w and I Iw I w West It tap taps tapI Snake river and ba ha has a aI aDot not Dot very uneven path down to and beyond Market Lake where the water countless acres acre and m makes kee its ita beneficent j Influences felt feU in crops ot of grain rain the like Uke of ot which have no DO parallel and I believe never ba vu a one It ii is no fancy linoy statement that is made when I say lay that mor more than one patch of ot soil oil hereabout has hai yielded ed all as a amany many maDY bushels above a hundred bundred to the I acre ai as some ome o other bel places can boast boalt v o 0 I f i altogether bushels are con con- oon- oon considered a fair average in moat most localities lo twenty are good and nd twenty five very gOOd and aad this s s to the country at large larae Wh Why I in this part pt pf Idaho at least leut one man man and an perhaps a a dozen o en i of them ba Have ve been rewarded with crops of ot Wheat b at running rushing up to 10 and even even bushels to the acre in places while forty and forty forty- forty five five are net taU at all an ao uD uncommon aver aver- average average average age Think of ot of- of this thil 18 you poverty stricken and and- yet and yet bOO able bodied able led find nd capable men meD who are now handing on onto onto onto to a It mere exi existence in the cities citie and large Jarge towns town of more ad advanced oi nation and contemplate for tor a moment at least leat to te what e extent tent you are wasting your precious time and God given God faculties There Them are soil IOU ell and and- an wat water I enough for tor ten times as 88 a many an as are bore bere with a hearty bearty welcome in ad- ad addition addition and yet you will let day after day which brings brinl to you ne no substantial returns pass paN forever from your con con- control COB rol and aDd mingle with the past pait pal with nothing added to your store tore and no DO new Rew ew hope brought forth with I Ithe the rising riling of 01 the sun un There areDO areno are no DO o balks balk ba kl in ID this hi part park of ot the Ute country and aDd money I Is not Dot a at all an abundant but everybody that has hae h been beeD hr here hare for tor aD any aay I I I i i I I I length of time and has hal any aDy get et up to him has hai a living in plato plain view and It li Is not a living for tor a short time either This Is lea a substantial country and what is 18 acquired til cis is also alio sub substantial likely to stay Itay lay It ie is beautiful in this way but tut not like the line Une of ot the opera too beau beau- beautiful beautiful i to last la t The paternal hand band of President T TE E Rieke Is ii plainly visible in the splendid foundation for a great community and the general prosperity everywhere manifest Locating here bere eleven ye nago ago when nature unbroken held sway awaya a beginning was waa made and one of ot the most prosperous communities of or any other other commonwealth bears witness to the fact tact that the work 1 was wai a well weB done Rieke Ricks is 1 a Kentucky Democrat to many this thit will seem eem almost as cumulative a sentence as boiling hot 1 or cold frozen n being the land where Democrats Democrat vege vege- vegetate vegetate vegetate tate as ai naturally aa as sagebrush h on the try dry but fertile soil loll of our western plains but while in 10 earnest for the suo suc- success ceil cess of o 9 his bil party and desiring the defeat of the others he is by no means an anI I offensive partisan On the contrary he be enjoys enjoy and desires the respect and confidence of ot people of all aJl shades of opinion and is II i the friend and it if desired safe te ate counselor of ot any deserving deserving ing ing man maD whether of his religious or political faith faUb or not DOt He II ie i decidedly Iy lythe the right man in the right place her considered ai as president of the Bannock Stake of ot Zion member of ot the Democratic county committee or an round round all citizen and the general desire la is that he be may live long Jong and prosper The political caldron m so far tar gently simmering threatens to break into a violent stage tage 0 of boiling at once The county convention conventions will all aU be field within two or three brue brue weeks week that bat of the Democrats Democrat on the and aDd after atter this 00 not rapidly lowering tem tempera tur ture will Wm be able to te Ov overcome or even eD modify the heated political atmosphere At least leut eer every other man maD m D Is ii a candidate tor or other and naturally there will will- willbe be a J Rood od many many ments mo most moyt of Bien m over the action of a the eo oU bya by a keener sense enie of e on tb the part part- pa of at just two thirds of ot the candidates over oYer the decision or of the people at the polls whatever that may happen to be At A this time tyre th the Republican s 's l the be con convention for tor sheriff nom num- number nam-ber nam ber just JOlt j lift but then it Is li early eary In 10 t and the returns turn may not an all anbe allbe allbe be in iii Whether of o not anymore any more shall ban DOU ce themselves elv l it it lie fe i well under under- understood stood that the uncounted d Barki Barkl 88 e would make quite a respectable army In point of numbers Dumber going to show that there is II much confidence IU III the success of t the Republicans ai as to tota that t office aD anyway way as aa only three pem- pem Dem Democrat have bave 10 so far declared a as wanting to make the race As Ai pre pre- previously pre stated nothing I is more under ancer tai tle the Democrats Democrat have ot of late been I oB the have bave J the tables if It not Dot turned them the I to 1 to to be pursued to the close As AI A it stands it ii is anybody's fight and it may it-may my be that each of the three parties will have bave re representation re- re in the winning pools From what wha I have been been- able to toMe see Me and aDd hear in the be different parts parta part of 01 the he p 7 the he cia chances oe would seem to tI slightly Irb favor the Democrats Democrat just Ju t now but the O contingent of independent voters li Is large and everything depend depends on their their ac- ac action ac so action tion their action in 10 turn urn depending largely upon tb the amount of ot kind ot of work done dooe by the different organizations It will Ill be a hot fight for a fact I It H now occurs occur to me that the limit ot of my space is i exhausted leaving men men- mention mention mention tion of ot the gold old production on Snake river still till a matter of oC the hereafter No matter unlike same ome other things It will keep 8 S A K |