Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-06-05
The editor of the Russian River Flag

Is Inau DeCdISC ALL Scto Po,0oo
night singing and a talented editor
can only earn $ll week in Heads
burg. On this he bases az argument
that the world is not equalized.
A rich old man Of seventy, in New
York, has married lady Of thirty
eight. The telegraph informs US that
it was runaway match. The bride.
groom's pa will probably spank him
when be gets him home.
The discovery of fraud in the New
York city government has led to an in
vestigation in Philadelphia, which re-
veals the fact that ex.City Treasurer
Southworth had falsifed the books and
appropriated $lO,s7o of the tax col
lected forhis own use.
Kate Kane, the female lawyer who
threw water in Judge Mallory's face
in tho criminal court in Milwaukee,
has bean released faom the County
Jail, where she has boon confined for
thirty days for contempt of court. Her
female friends took her away in car.
rage and presented her with a purse.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
ny has ordered that the six hundred
men thrown out Of employment by
the destruction Of its shops at Hacken-
sack Meadows be retained on the pay
roll at full wages until the structure is
rebuilt, They will also pay every man
the loss he sustained by the destruc-
ton.
John Kelly aud Tammany have been
greatly assisted by the gerrymauder-
ing achieved in the redistricting of the
state. New York city is so cut up by
giving some districts 40, 900 more than
others as to insure Tammany Demo,
cratic and county Democratic members
in equal numbers, Republicans cast
nearly two ljfths of the entire vote,
but get no representatives. at all.
However, as says the paper which la
ments this state of things, the Repub-
licans would have done just as badly
if they had been in the majority.
Since the large capitalists came in
to the business of cattle raising in
Texas great bodies of land have been
bought up for ranges, and soon desi-
rable free pastures will be a thing of
the past. Having the money to fence
as well as buy the land, most of the
large ranges are being enclosed with
wire. More than 800, 100000 would
he required to purchase the cattle now
roaming over the State. Half of this
value, according to the best testimony
Is the increase of cattle within two
years, -
The Count de Chambord, who now
lies fatally i'll in Vienna, has been a
somewhat conspicuous figure in Europe
ever since he first saw the light-sixty.
three years ago. His life has been
one long scramble for the throne Of
France Probably the Count has is
sued more "proolamations' to less et-
feet than any in the tide of times.
Full Of ambition and prolific of plat
forms and plans. he utterly lacked
backbone, and has been thwarted at
every turn In the present state Of
Ffench affairs, Henry V, dead, could
hardly be more harmless than Henry
v, living,
The plan Of numbering the Italian
laborers on the West shore road )" says
the Kingston Freeman, works like
charm. Finding it impossible to keep
track OF men by their Jaw breaking
names, the contractors concluded to
number them. The number of each
Italian is printed in plain figures on
the seat OF his DantaloonS Raforo l,