Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-06-30

hiioHS OtiCl tHiuSc, ~ says. 'hO WI
nado made swath of destruction
through a thickly settled portion o
Iowa, some $50 miles in length and al
average half milo in width, extending
| from point south OF Anes, in tho
center Of the State, whence it swept
in the shape of a crescent to Soutl
English, in kcokuk county, in the
soutlicastcrn part Of the State. We
have the names now OF sixty-nine dead
and five hundred whoswere wounded
Half OF the latter are grievously hurt,
probably a fifth of them fatally. Over
three hundred families have had their
homes totally destroyed. There are
now at least !, 500 people homeless
and in want. The loss in property
will exceed 100000 and may reach
S3.0o0,0O0. Over 100000 III proper
ty was destroyed Oh none of which
was cent Of insurance, as in case of
fire. 1t will take at least $500 900 to
put the people there beyond need and
distress. 1t will take $780, 900 at the
lowest to keep the sufferers from want
and to help them to put the humblest
OF roofs over their heads.
Captain T. w. J. Ross, with his
command of fifty rangers, which left
Tucson two months ago. has returned.
The rangers trailed the remnant of
renegade Apaches 200 miles from the
Arizona line down into Chihuahua.
Mexico. They counted nearly 300
dead Indians, many Of whom were
found near the mountain trails. They
had evidently been wounded in fight
with the Mexican troops under Gen.
Garcia, and had fled for safety. The
body of Chief Loco was identified by
one OF the party. On the LIST instant
they fell in with the Mexican troops
under General Reyes, aud were arrest
ed and disarmed, and after four days
were ordered to get ont of Mexican
territory. General Reyes informed
Ross that inasmuch as he had author
ity as a Deputy Sheriff from Arizona,
the lives of himself aud his men would
be spared, but he must 60 back IN
armed.
1t saddens one, know not why, TO
sit beside q river and see the water
flowing down with never pause. 1t
saddens one still more to watch the
current of human life in a great thor
ong(fare, and feel that as it now is, so
1t was generations ago, and so it will
be for ages hence. The bees in
the hive die, and are replaced
by others exactly like them, and the
honey making goes on merrily still
so, IN great street, the wagons al
ways so up and down; the passengers
never cease; the shop boy is always
behind the counter; the work girl is
always sewing; the workman is al. |
ways carrying his tools as he is going
to his work. In the endless drama
which repeats itself like music box.
the .]e'o'e premier of to-day becomes
to morrow the lean aud slippeled pan
talaon. The dav after Tomorrow he
will have Disappeared Belgravia.
: \ Kansas liquor seller, who was
sentenced for violation of the prohbi
ton laws to u fine Of 500 and costs
and thirty days imprisonment. shot
himself shortly after his release from
IMl' The opponents of the liqnor laws
say that the mau was driven to com
NIT suicide BY persecution, and they
call him "the seventh victim whom Tho
temperance crew have upon their con-
science" The Prohibtionists, on the
other hand, say that mars suicide is
to be attributed ito mental derange