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V OL. 18. IDAHO CITY. FRIDAY. F EBRUARY 24- 1893. NO. ^Weekly World. f«MUM and OHAS. £. JONES. jo»» »«■*■ **"**»"■ , Cos. Mai» *CoMM»oui St». (Buck UiiuMW*-) n O"*" |1 OO I«* S"*"*' #r »■»••»»»**•' I Three Menthe.. B M I Three m.mm. . .«1 n -BI î» I »"«'• 00 *" a ..... l " * UfMIFTM TO fifUUT WMtl .........W «0 * *0 .......... S A gnMiuui ®* r4 * UE. WORKMAN, Lobney and counselor at law. Imho Cmr, J«n. 2.1891. 11. HASTINGS. 'IVIL AND MINING ENGINEER " BOISE CITY, IDAHO. D 8. Deputy Minerol Burveyor. Offlce , Boise City National Bank, or at Ragan's cottage, 8. coiner of kl ad Fort SU. "Aprils, 11. tf T. J. JON ES, Lawyer, fill practice in all Couru acd U. 8. Land *fflceo.erShainwald'8stor^l|oi8eCny. ■Idaho. * IjiMt* Baxter, Charles F. Baxter Iassay office I No. 1025 Rain St., between 10th and lllh Boise City, Idaho. Ijames Baxter & Son, ijers Analytical work and assaying of ores Itutlu, waters, etc. Results guaranteed , ■chargea moderate List of charges for al I ■class of work furnished upon application Boise City, Dec. 11,1891-tf. Ainslie & Gray, {attorneys-a t- l a w, ■ General law practice. Minino and Wa ItuLtiuation a specialty. Office orer Bliainwald'e Store, Boise I City, Idaho. Jan 12-tf COUNTY AND STATE. Thï DeLamar mine has new hoist I ing works. Pocatello will soon be able to Imiks her voice heard at long range I Aiyttem of telephone lines will soon lbesiublisbed. Custeb county has disposed of |WO,UOO worth of bonds bearing 7 I per cent interest. They were sold ltd s Cleveland (Ohio) firm, at a pre lainm of 1737.50. Hois* City has fifty lawyers of all Ifttdei between a high and low de I gree. To furnish enough litigation I to keep that many lawyers alive is I enough to bankrupt the people of I town the size of Boise. Pocatei.lo has a new opera house I which will be opened to-day for the j first time, for a performance of the ton Opera Company. That town j is advancing generally. It has two I«lectric light 8 y stems and has grant j * franchise to an electric street I ttilwny company. of I Ssith was placed in charge of • Lepl e y sni j Howe-Manhattan I ? rD , U P m >nes, at DeLamar, recent I M " ded 10 a Milwaukee company. 1 ■ mith came out the other day « Milwaukee. This is the J. J. °>it who spent several months in thÜ J 0unl l r * a,t year, experting for I ™ Milwaukee company. T a* substitute to Stewart's "bill hu jT"' 1 '*' l * le r 'Khts and relations of 4nd ant * w 'fi® passed the Sen Un *nitnously. It places them Each i ,n et l Ulll >ty before the law. i n COlltr °l of his or her separate I 0 f husband has control ! 6 oomm unity property, but he j 16,1 il without the wife's con Ta* Sen "te bill by Ruick, provid deh! h>t hereaf,er obligations of ii)m 8t * led ' n < *°'* ars > ar >d to he paid ftl 1°' ^' ' f 1101 dischargeable in le payable in ••»ndard silver or gold ooin of the oo"| ted ^ lat88 > a *l stipulations in JUnr" r * 0t t0 the hootrary notwith Mw H 1 >*s passed the Senate. Only two pspera in the State are kicking about the sucoess of the State wagon road bill—one Populist and the other Démocratie. The lat ter, however, is not very fieree, but the former has hauled off ita coat and veal and its voice is loud for war. Its rage is beyond all control and serious fears are entertained that it will get II the Legislators who voted for the bill in line and behead them all with blow from its gleaming, freshly ground battle ax. Its language is "scarey" enough to frighten the pay chutea out of the mines and promis ing prospects of the districts of Cen tral Idaho, stampede the blazed tree* along the route of the road and oause the old, gray granite peaks of central Idaho to rise up on their dignity and then tumble down in shapeless masses over the line of the road and obliterate all traces of the survey and render the construction of the road an utter impossibility. We await results with bated breath— bated with—well, no nutter. Ou worst fears have arisen on their hind legs and will not down, and everv body else who advocated the bill is in the same fearful fiz. Will this Populist paper please desist? Is it deaf to appeals for mercy from trembling people, when they stand on the ragged edge of hopeless des pair and ory enough? Have mercy, we pray then, especially on the poor, unfortunate and misguided Legisla tors who supported the hill, believing they were performing a meritorious act. They have seen their error since thou portrayed it with such flaming brilliancy, and accompanied the por trayal with merciless slashes of the fiery, two-edged sword of burning and cutting criticism. They are do ing pennance, and the weight of their great crime is crushing them to earth and their regretful wailings are heard throughout the length and breadth of the land, and Gov. McConnell's sor row-laden voice is heard in the chorus. Oh, wilt thy hard, stony heart wilt, melt with mercy, and plead with thy judgment ere it is too late and thy helpless victims point their toes to the starry dome where their only hope looks down and beckons them to come on high where sorrow goeth not, and all wallers are at rest. Stay thy cold, cruel, sharp-edgpd sword of retribu tive annihilation ere the crushed and cringing objects of thy howling ven geance succumb under their weight of woe and they sail from cruel earth to the sweet by and by, that sweet land of the blest, where repenters are at rest—where the weary sigh no more, on that happy golden shore. of it er The DeLamar Nugget corrects what it says is a false impression that the Hon. J. R. DeL imar prom ised to give $20,000 in aid of Idaho's exhibit at the World's Fair. The Nugget says he never made that of fer, but offered to contribute a dollar out of his own private means for ev erv dollar donated by any citizen or corporation in Idaho, and that no in dividual or corporation tested his sincerity in this offer by donating a single dollar. The Nugget further states that he offered to pay a salary of $2,500 a year to his successor, stipulating that the appointee should be some one not inimical to him, offer ing to co-operate with him and assist him. Such an appointment was not made. The Nugget says Mr. De Lamar resigned as World's Fair com missioner because a howl was set up against him. We th nk that howl was more imaginary than real. Mr DeLamar was appointed on the strength of an assurance that he would aocept the position without pay, whioh he did, but did not last long. He may have hud good rca sons for resigning after accepting on the promise stated, but the people of the State generally have not believed that he had. However, they may not have been familiar with insid facts of the case. "Hogan the Stiff," sometimes called "Hogan the gambler," is now one of the wealthy citizens of Boise Hogan is known all over Idaho. He has an uncontrollable "hankering af ter'' the liquid "that givetli its colo in the cup—"that moveth itself aright." Hogan has resolved to quit drinking, but it is doubtful whether his resolution will prove as strong as the grip of John Barleycorn. Pocatello is the largest town in the State, with a population of 0,000. TAX MORTliA «K». Moscow Mirror. The Legislature at tbit session should by all means pass a law tax ing mortgage*, and relieving the bor rowers of the State of a heavy bur den. The amount saved the people of the State would be immense. As it is now, the State is a dumping ground for all the loan companies of the country, and some from Europe. Property should be saenteed at its full value, and the owner should be held only for the taxes on that part which is not mortgaged, and the own er of the mortgage aliould be held for the taxes on the amount of the mort gage. Under the present law an in vestir can loan his money in this State and escape paying a tax to help support the government, while the luokleas borrower and owner of prop erty must pay taxes on what lie owns and that of the capitalist. Oregon has a law taxing mortgages and it has been beneficial to the State. Were such a law to be enacted, and for a time stop the inflow of monev, the State would be made hundreds of thousands of dollars richer by the amount necessary to pay the taxes on the loan, which would come out of the interest which would he other wise sent out of the State. The bor rowers of the State would have this money and would keep it in the State, while if the capitalist got il he would take it away. The enactment of a law of that nature would cause an era of prosperity and would lighten ihe burden of those who are endeav oring to carve out a home and build up the State. A Wins fall— Hogan in Lock. BuiM democrat. It has been rumored upon the streets for several days that Benja min Hogan had just inherited a third of $112,000 from the decease of a brother in New York, making his share $37,333.33. Mr. Hogan has two sisters living, who each receive a like amount. All the heir has to do is to show his identity and the amount will be paid to his order. When approached upon the subject Mr. Hogan did not seem to be at all lated. He was asked if he intended to become a member of the Boise four hundred. He said no, he feared it might have a demoralizing effect up on him. He did not wish to be asked to drink and carouse, but *o lead a quiet and unobtrusive life. He had use for the four hundred and hould let them severely alone. He savs he has been approached within the past few days by parties who would extend their hands, exclaim ing: "Why, Mr. Hogan, why don't you oall on us? My family would be delighted to see you," etc. The gentleman further says he has no de sire to extend his acquaintance, hut to lead a Christian life and be just to all mankind. Who can say that Mr Benjamin Hogan has ever committed a dishonest act or one wrongful to anv but himself? as The enrolling clerk, in copying the road bill, made an error. The amount of bonds to be issued is $135,UOO, but the three naughts were left out in copying the bill. Governor McCon nell, us soon as it was discovered, sent a message to the House, calling attention to the error. Workman introduced a bill to correct the error, which passed the House last Monday by a vote of 20 to 11, the Republicans voting solidly for it and all the Pop ulists and five Democrats against it. An amendment was adopted in the House to the bill providing that coun tv taxes may be paid in county war rants. The amendment makes it un lawful for acv one to pay his laxes with warrants that he had not re ceived from the county for actual services rendered. 1 his is a good amendment. Under the original bill moneyed men would be enabled to huv sciipt at a discount and turn it into the county for taxes dollar for dollar. in Don't fail to attend the theatre to night. The proceeds will go towards paying the expenses of hydrants. W e need better facilities for fighting fire, and everybody heing well aware of this fact, it is safe to sav the troupe will he greeteil with an audience that will fill the hall. The Chinamen are getting on to the ways of the Melican man. One was arrested the other day at Grangeville lor selling whisky to Indians. to the but to is all a way I of to so the an The the of ney lum no the as of FROM THE CAPITAL. A Mjrmpaia of Ln UlAItTS lews I From oqr regular corrc*pon t«nt.) ' Boise Citt, Feb. 21, 1893. En. Would :—Since lay last letter to yon, legislative proceedings have continued with the same monotonous same nets as before. All kinds of bills, with the possible exception of the best kind, have been up for consideration by the two houses end their discussion pro snd con has oc cupied the time of the Legislature, but whether advantageously to the public or not 1 shall not here attempt to decide. But the general appro priations bill as it passed the House a wrong on the taxpayers, and I think a studied wrong. 1 mean to be candid and think I have been so in all 1 have written about the legisla ture. Whenever in my judgment member has deserved a credit mark or a prod and it came in my way to do so, 1 have given him what regarded aa his deserts, regardless of the party with whioh he chanoed to be affiliated, and 1 propose to do so now. As your readers are aware, the bill proposes to sppiopriate $427,709.10. This bill contemplates an increase of the Governor's allow ance of $2,110 over two years ago. The State Treasurer is to have $2,450, the Secretary $4,610, Superintendent of Pnblic Instruction $1,625, Attor ney General $2,300 and the capitol building $988 more than was allowed them two years ago The insane asy lum is allowed $2,000 more than two years ago, besides appropriating $5,000 for conveying patients against no appropriation for that purpose by the last Legislature. Six thousand dollars is also inserted for the sup port of State militia, so called, in the hill. Heretofore it has been known as the Idaho Notional Guard. Here we have an increase in the allowance of $12,450 to the five principal State officers and the capitol building, more than was allowed by the Legis lature of two years ago. And what for? Two years ago the State gov ernment was just getting on its feet, and yet its officials managed to do their duties after a fashion, and to actually tide the State over to the end of their official terms without wreck or serious disaster, and with but an insignificant deficit so far as re ported. It is true a deficit of about $43,000 exists to be provided for bv the Legislature, but between $35,000 and $40,000 was expended to pay in terest on the public debt for which no special appropriation had been made. This year an appropriation of $42,134 is proposed to pay that in terest. Two hundred dollars is also added to the State library allowance. Now the question is, why these in creased allowances? If the expense of our State government is going to increase at that rate would it not have been better for us to have re mained a Territory? How long can our taxpayers afford to maintain a Slate government, if the expense of conducting it is going to continue to increase at the rate of $1,000 ■ month? Is it not a suspicious cir eumstanee that the Republican mem hers of the House all support this measure, and are making an effort to enforce its passage hy tacking it as a rider onto the bill providing for the payment of legislators and at taches? It certainly looks that way and the more so because having passed the salary hill, the House re called it from the Senate to attach this whole«ale appiopriation measure to it. It looks like an attempt to plunder the State in order to raise an electioneering fund; or is it a legis lative gift to officials? One or the other it almost certainly is, because there is no urgent demand for an irreater allowances to Stale officers this year than two years ago, and decent respect for the inability of our people to pay taxes would prompt the Legislature to withhold all need less appropriations, and this one wi be withheld unless the Senate can be bulldozed into voting as the House directs. The irrigation bill has been con sidered and amended in so many dif ferent respects that 1 am told its passage, which is considered doubt ful, would be of very little benefit to irrigators. I hope this is not so, but have not seen the amended bill. A good irrigation bill—one that wouid protect the farmer—is sadly needed in this State. Aa interesting discovery was mad» in of now bill to der oat and in any ing he in It its to to of be its to but A in connection with Mr. Workman'« wagon road bill a day or two ago. That discovery waa that $135 had been appropriated by the bill instead of $135,U00, as was.intended. This sends the bill baek to be repaseed by both Houses, and I am informed by a gentleman who claims to have* inside information, that its final defeat is now probable. It is strange that a bill of so mach importance should hsve been read with su little care aa to be passed in that way. The Senate got its law mill in or der yesterday afternoon and ground oat seventeen lews about fourteen carats fine. A GOOD BILL. Malad Enterpriae. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature, and we think, passed tbe lower House, providing that State and county monies shall be deposited in such bank as will furnish sufficient bonds for the safe \eeping of sueh monies and pay the greatest rate of interest on daily balances. That is a good bill and it should pass without any objection. The Legislator who will Oppose that kind of a measure is either mentally disqualified from act ing in a legislative capacity or radi cally dishonest. We challenge any man to produce a single substantial argument againat the bill. It cannot he done. There may be some influ ence brought to bear in opposition to this measure, but we hope, and we believe, there is sufficient moral force, sufficient integrity snd intelligence in the present Legislature to over come any corrupt influence whioh may undertake to defeat the best in terests of the people of the State. It is a fact well known and not, we take it, in the least reprehensible, that hanks do pay interest on depos its of public monies and it is equally well known that the profit does not accrue to the public, whose money earns the interest. It generally goes to the county Treasurers who are as much entitled to it under the present aw as anybody. In the aggregate, this interest would amount to many thousands of dollars a year. Tbe people are entitled to the benefit; it rests with the Legislature whether or not they shall receive it. A failure to pass the bill here referred to, will he little short of actual robbery. We, therefore, appeal to the intelli gence, honesty and patriotism of the Legislators and hope they may acquit themselves with honor and credit. the to tion The do, snd by a for ibe the It to u Representative Merrill's bill, au thorizing County Commissioners to contract for the care of oountv roads, was taken up in Committee of the Whole in the House on Tuesday. After some discussion the committee rose and recommended the passage of the bill without amendment. Senator Vest says that "whatever Mr. Cleveland's faults are as an ad ministrative officer or political leader, he left a net surplus of $100,000,000 in the treasury." That is so, but when he took his seat the surplus was $400,000,000, so he succeeded in diminishing it $300,000,000. Tbe Democrats now have a good deal to say about the Republican party leav ing no surplus for the incoming ad ministration. Heretofore they com plained because there was a surplus. The Democrats are bard to please. Harrison's administration reduced the $100,000,000 surplus to nothing, and according to Democratic doc trine promulgated over eight years ago this was right. They then said there should be no surplus—that it ought to be distributed among the people to stimulate business, etc. Harrison began with $100,000,000, paid the expenses of the government and $250,000,000 of indebtedness That is not a bad record, notwith standing the surplus is exhausted. Robert G. lugersoll, at the Lincoln anniversary banquet in New York, said: "Abraham Lincoln was a strange mingling of the tragic, heroio and grotesque; a personification of all that was gentle, just, humane and honest; meroiful, laughable, lovable and divine, and all these sterling at tributes lie consecrated for the use of man. Lincoln had no ancestors; be bad no followers, and no successor. How can we aocount for this great character in our history? He never abused power, except on the side of mercy, and knew no fear exoept of being wrong. His was the grandest figure of our times and the gentlest memory of our world." This, says the Portland Telegram, is the best brief description of Lin coln'» character ever given. DM DSniSTAAASLA If the members of the 58d Con gress are possessed off ordinary intel ligence they will discover from the result of tbe last election that finance, pare end simple, is the peressaaat question to national polities. The western States were lost to the Republicans by their oppos i t i on to silver coinage, not by their peti tion on the tariff. These States bed nothing to fear from tbe * force Mil," henoe they forced the fight on finance. The cry of "honest dollar'* is the shib boleth of tbe mooey loaner. Colora do, Kansas, Nevada, Wyoming, Illi nois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska snd Ohio were all taken ont of tbe Republican ranks by the finance, not by the tariff issue. The people need more money in circulation and they ere going to have it. Their common sense tolls them that a silver dollar, when made legal tender is just as good as any other. It in silly, a malicious slander, for any one to say that tbe people of ibe booth and West, the corn crib, smoke boose, and staple product pro ducing sections, the backbone of tbe Repnblic, would advocate anything that is not honest. Their products make and keep any dollar issued by the United States as good as gold. It is a question of more money and economy in Congressional appropria tions, that the great battis of 1898 mast be foagbt end fought to a fin isb. To squeal "honest dollar" when the people are suffering ail the hor rors of a money famine, will destroy any political party. It is very well to shout, "I am a Democrat," or that u a public offiee is a publio trust,' but this will not suffice. Democratic principles control the action of Con gress, and "public trust" must re dound to the welfare of the public good, or tbe Democratic party will go out of tbe lawmaking busin< 1896. The people of tbe South are aroused. They see, even this early, that the promises made by tbe Dem ocratic candidates are not going to be redeemed. Tbe Congressman from the South who can't even see tbe handwriting on the wall is a fool indeed. we Opp««ctf te Aasnulaa A Washington dispatch of the 31st saya: Tbe character of tbe fight devel oped against tbe Hawaiian treaty has caused its friends considerable uneas iness, and tbe understanding ia they intend to make an attempt to hasten it through, as the opposition is gain ing strength. Senator Allison is counted among the opponents of tbe treaty, and those who are fighting it say to-day it will be impossible to get a two-thirds vote for it in tbe Senate. Springer, of Illinois, and other mem bers propose to get a resolution through the House to ascertain why a treaty which will involve the gov ernment in expenditures and require the raising of reveuues was submitted to the Senate without being submitted to the House also. The effort to de feat the treaty it very earnest. This afternoon Paul Neumann, the deposed queen's envoy, called at the State department and had a confer ence with Secretary Foster. A state ment of the conference has been sent to the President for transmission to tbe Senate for consideration in con nection with other information on tbe subject now before that body. ^ cate The startling announcement made that telephony and telegraphy bid fair to be revolutionized by the formation in Chicago of whatia known as tbe Harriion International Tele phone company, with a capital of $80,000,000. The telegraph will comprise what is known as the long distance typewriter, a aytem calculat ed to abolish dots and dashes and practically deprive the art of the op erator of all oommeroial value. There is nothing especially new in regard to the typewriter. One of these mi chines is placed in an office in Bos ton, for example, and another tn an office in St. Louis, the two being con nected by wire. Tbe owner of the Boston maohine desires to communi ith St. Louis. He hands bis of of message to a typewriter; each word ia «pelted out. and an exact fao simile Ç roduoed on the St. Louis maohine. he oost, it is claimed, will be one third less than telegraphy, the plan will posseaa the value of secrecy, the messenger boy will be dispensed with snd the chanoe of error materially lessened. The chief advantage of the telephone is that it does away with the necessity of the central op erator. The ooât, too, it ia said, will be one-third less than tbe present rate. Tbe »«v Drag »<*» Vr ■ • j. \ w- ' - - I DRUG OO.p-limtft, tasUb Our aumy Mauds m Bobs Baal» wffL we hope, give us a akare of their rtkm Bra. Address, Odd Fellows Btoek, Jeae 1«, SS-tfl Boiss OMr. Maba. Adolpkt Ballot, nUMtUAIi Vitctaabr nl Jnder, BOISE CITY. IDAHO, LEMP BLOCK. Ttrsier ta - WATCHES, CLICKS. JEWELRY, SR VERWARE, SPECTACLES, EYE CLASSES. Jewelry repa ir ed and %wda to ord also, diamond» and other Moues and reset only fird-dam. Letter cutting, engraving in all sty lee •nit monograms made by a first clam ea graver, and in the highest style of tbe art ■t Mi Watch and clock work done in all ita branches. Fine and difficult watch repairing a specialty. Mail and express ardor» prims DRY GOODS, > o «M. m F anoy GJ MATT. HARZ, BOOT AM) SHOE MAKER. ALL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION. -Have on Hand AU Sixes of My Make, At Low Prices. Off- All work guaranteed. NSW METHOD ....and.... CENTS' fUBNISHINC GOODS. Own Gam Boot P&tchiag, Neatly and Suooessfnlly Done. North side of Wall street, first door below Watts' law offioe. April T. *9L Treasurer's Mette#. The following County General war rants of 1890 are parable at my office: Noe. 89«. 407. «5. 437, 580, 897, 598. 587,398. 408,518. 418,489, 411,888, 409. 41«. 492. 418. Hoad Fund, 1800—Noe. 181,168,15A F. F. Cuenca, Trass. J. A. Lippiscott. Deputy. Now W, MM. The following warrants are now paya ble at my office : cocjrrr sirul fund. All warrants registered prior to April SI. 1891 ; also, Noe. 443, 478,180.178.168, 177,167, 160, Registe red A pril 81,1861. BOAS FOND. All warrants registered prior to October 15,1880. Also, No*. 545,589, 544, of UM. hospital renn. Warrant No 487, of 1889. nninaa vuun Warrants Non 61,69, of 189* F. F. CHURCH. Jan .1,1«»