Show v AN IDAHO POSTMASTER The Kind of an Official the Government Govern-ment Docs Not want to Fool With There is a sort of native freedom and candor about the Idaho people which is refreshing above all things do they hate to be he in restraint The reel I tape official at the Washington of the government doesnt want to fool with our native postmaster or he may have to take water A short time since a young boy who had been appointed postmaster in a little mining camp way up toward the top of the snowclad Sawtooth range where the entire salary for a year amounted to the sum of 12 was called sharply to account for a shortage in Iris postage or financial showing sent in for the last quarter His answer was rather sive but brief He said expres Mr GovernmentSir When Im short you want it d d quick Now me back that you pay 945 I spent last Fall in fixing up this office and you can take your dd office and go to h 1 Yours truly Of course our Grover will understand there is no disrespect intends tn th o government or the new nn administration I and we hope the feelings of thg depart ment were not hurt because familiar they are not I with our ways of talking out here and must not think that any reflection was intended on the financial condition or standing of the Washington I end of the government Probably the department was busy taking an invoice and had lected neg or mislaid our friends bill At any rate not getting a remittance turn by re mail the Galena office down to Ketchum was packed on snowshoes stored with the and postmaster for safe keep ing until that 945 shall Shoshone Journal be paid |