Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-07-27

fair house night before last and gave
fair satisfaction. The play was L. S.
Arthur's "Ten Nights III Bar-room."
Portions Of the play were well rem
dered while others were poorly done,
and some of the play omitted entirely.
The after piece, my Country Cousin"
was we'll played, and brought down
the house.
The play Of "The Hidden Hand"
Monday night was listened to by a
small audience, and the play was no
more than commensurate with the at
tendance. Portions of it were left out
and the whole performance was poor
and unsatisfactory to the audience.
We are not sufficiently familiar with
dramatic criticism to analyze perfor-
nance and give full expression in a
professional way to our opinions con-
corning it. We know it is difficult
for travelling troupe to play many
pieces to the full satisfaction of an
audience, with so little in the way of
scene paraphernalia as can be carried
from place to place through the noun
tains; but if a company would adver-
tise to play only part of play when
it is their intention to leave so large a
part of it unplayed, it would be more
satisfactory to the audience they are
attempting to entertain, and would
appear less like they were preSumlng
an audience to be ignorant.
Mr.. Samwell'S acrobatic feats ale
good. Altogether the troupe is not a
bad one, but we cannot conscientious
ly praise it much. 1t is our intention
to speak honestly, without bestowing
either praise or censure from prejudice
or partiality.
S. X. GoLDrRAP has sold his ditch
and mining property to Hon Ben Will
son. The transaction was closed last
Wednesday, the price paid being $l5,-
900, which is very low figure. The
property is a ditch that is taken ont OF
Grimes creek at Pioneervillc, carrying
water TO Centervillc and Boston, to-
gethcr with large amount Of valua-
bic placer mining ground. This pur-
chase, added to the large water and
mining property already owned by Mr.
illson, makes him the largest ditch
and placer mine owner in Idaho. He
| owns more than one hundred miles OF
: bitches, and an area Of mining ground
covering thousands of acres, reaching
: from two miles above Pioneerville tC
> two miles below CentcrvilIe; about
! ten miles from east to west. While
the loss of Mr. Goldtrap as a business
; man will be deeply deplorcd by tho
5 people Of that section, they are never
thccss glad that the property has fal
len into the hands of so able and gen
; erous business man as Mr.. Wilson
5 We understand it to be the intention
of Mr.. Goldtrap to retire to one of his
: ranches Squaw creek and give his
t attention to his farm and stock.
S. X. GoLDTRAp, of Centervillc, me
with a serious loss, the other day, by
fire. While his men, ON one of hi'
ranches on Squaw creek, were at din
, ner, stack Of grain was discovered
to be on fire, aud before it could bt
: extinguishcd his barn and granery
j some fencing, about thousand bush
els of grain and a lot of straw were
destroyed The loss will foot VI
= about 81 500 1t is supposed that
a match had been carelessly or acciden
d tally dropped in the straw near to-
Z stack, and that the heat of the sun OF
a tbo GIRO VIZ cauco1 flta match to ionitC