Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-06-08


And,-departing,- behind W,
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints that perhaps another,
Sailing DER fife's stormy MAIN
Some forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Heeing--may take heart again.
Let us, then. be up and doing
With heart for any fate
Still achieving--still pursuing
Learn to labor and to wait"
[Longfellow's Hymn Of Life.
There were very few, if any, Of the
Argonauts Of Boise county whose
lives were not more or less . living
exsmplar Of the above lines of tho
great American poets noble hymn OF
life. Those of them who have, some
of them, long since, gone to their re-
ward in the great unknown world Of
eternal futurity, have certainly left,
behind them many footprints Of toll
worn and weary, oftentimes lacerated
and bleeding feet, upon the sands and
adamantine rocks OF Boise county
and of Boise Basin, and the word Fin.
is has been written.by the recording
Angel with inkhorn at his side, at the
end of the scroll which contains all
the record of all their doings while in
life, whether they be good or whether
they be evil.' But the time was, even
if now it is not, when they, each and
all of them, with their joys and cor
rows, trials and tribulations, good
fortune and bad fortune, and all they
did, and thought, and experienced,
were q component part Of the true
history Of Boise county. The "IN Hoe
SIaNo yiNcEs," "Under this sign we
conquer of the cross of our Redeemer,
worn as motto, and shouted as q
battlecry by the Crusaders in the
middle ages in Palestine, was not a
more potent rallying cry and watch
word in those times, than the more
silent but equally cohesive and more
determined spirit Of adventure among
the entire molly multitude of all ages
ranks and conditions of boil, sexes Of
the primitive pioneers of Boise county
and Of Idaho, ! may add, truly, of the
pacific SLOPE"
The Territorial capital of Idaho
"the Gen." il not "the Emerald" Ter
ritory Of the United States, was de-
signated by Hon, w. II. Wallace, the
first Territorial Governor, at Lewis
ton, the head of steamboat navigation
for steamers of any considerable size,
on the Columbia and Snake rivers
The first Territorial Legislature was
convened there by his official procla-
nation December I, 1868, and there
enacted tho first Territorial session
laws, and adjourned on the 4th of Feb.
ruary, 1864. The second Territorial
Legislature convened at the same
place November l4th, 1864, and en-
acted the second sessions quota OF
Territorial laws, including removal
of the Territorial capital by legisla.
tive enactment. to Boise City, beauti-
fully located in the very heart of Boise
river valley, contiguous to the United
States military reservation and post
of Fort Boise. Boise City then had
scarcely struggling existence other
than as small aud comparatively OBJ
scure origin and existence except on
paper, hut its streets and alleys, lots
aud blocks had been duly and accu-
rately surveyed and staked out; the
streets and alleys crossing each other
at right angles, and the streets were
wide, and all the principal ones OF
uniform width, or nearly so.
During the same legislative session
Ada county was organized out of a
portion of Boise county, and Boise
City was made the county seat of the
beautiful new county, which is sur