Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-06-08
INGRAINED FALsEHooDs.
We clip the, e,following from the owyhee Dr.
dEanche of last Saturday:

wv CUP IH0 lOkoW1Ig lEOLII bne- -OVVylee- Dr.,
dlGnche of last Saturday
go, whistle and I viii come to you, my love, &C.
Some months since it occurred to the editor of the
Idaho WORLD that it would be very nice practice of
the sptef Sort to copy the locals Of the AUGIdnce
regularly without creda species of revenge entire
ly unwarranted by the circumstances. Now it so
happened that two could play at that gale and this
concern concluded to see who could stand it the
longer. 1t appears very plainly in the WORLD 29th
ult that the silence had become very painful-aost
tolerable and not to be endured" He whineth
muchly about the way got his account Of the fire.
''To be certainly, truthfully stated that got
our news from the Statesman Ectra; it would have
been kindness onlg-no compromise Of truth other
wiseto have added that the contents of the Extra
was mostly obtained from the WORLD. But we were
unkind through good cause. The files will show who
commenced this dis-credtable style-the least de-
slrable on our part There certain matter in every
No. OF the WoELD which we want and are perfectly
willing to give credit for in every particular only ask
ing a like courtesy in return. That's ALL
Now, there is not one particle of truth in the.
whole of the above, down to the sentence in
which the writer admits that there is matter,
in every numberof the WoRED which the Ar-,
alaache wants. All above are not only gross,
perversions of facts, but are unmitgated
studied, wantonp transparent faEsehoods. The
truth Esy the Aralancke has acted scurvy and
dish0nOrable part towards the WORLD ever
since we have controlled its columns. It was
so contemRtlbly mean, even, as, to.publisA ~
paragraph full of small malice against our pre-
decessor, Mr.. II. G. Street.. after that gentle,
man had ceased his connectiOnwith the paper .
and it has never yet said one courteous word
or acted anything but mean and spitefiIl
course towards, the WoRLDs 1t copied from
our columns, without credit, while we were,
weekly and always giving it credit for every,
thing we copied or extracted from it, Finally
in pure selfdefence, finding that there was
neither honor, nor courtesy, nor propriety in.
its conductor, and that he would not credit the,
WoRLD4for what he extracted frOmsit, we did
this we excluded the mere name of his paper
from our columns, but all the time gave credit
to it in a manner that every one understood
He reiterates the bold falsehood, which alone
is sufficient to convict him, that he got news of
the late fire from. q Statesman Extra of May
18th, when, the fast is, the news did, not reachs
Boise City until the 10TH And to extricate
himself from the Transparent untruth, he has
recourse to, a. despicable but characteristic,
quibble. But we care not to waste more space
or words on the thing. We will. merely add
that we have always taken to extend due
courtesy to.alL cotempOraries, whatever their
political character; WE have always given
credits for news Items or paragraphs derived.
from then.; and that, in the course of pretty
long newspaper life, we have never known or.
encountered an editor or a conductor Of pa
per who has displayed so much and such per-.
sistent meanness and discourtesy toward his
bretlreBaof the press, as.theeditor Of the Owy-
hee AvalaRche has been guilty Of