Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-08-25
HrGo PLAYHOUSE the other dav
leased the Golden Fleece mine, near
Centerville, from M. F. Waldron.


total valuation of property in Alturas
county was about s3,OOO,O0O, this year
it is about $4,000, 1000; and the suisse
iquent assessment, together with the
work OF the Board of Equalization,
will probably increase the valuation
some 100000. On this valuation the
net revenue to the county will not
exceed $4,000. The licenses and
fines will probably swell this amount
to about $4,000. The County Com
tmissioners have allowed the following
amounts, says the Times, Inclusive Of
school warrants which are issued ac-
cording to law: At their January
session, 2,583.63; at their April ses-
sion, $33, 151.77; at their July session
s35,S42.95 making total Of $lOl,-
57S.35 for the three quarters. If we
estimate the allowances for the cur
rent quarter at the low total of $685.
600, we will have in round numbers
$4,000 as the allowances for the
year-leaving deficit Of $4,000 for
the year.
| But this will not be the total amount
of the deficiency. The Territorial
percentage must be paid, the interest
on outstanding warrants reckoned,
and the interest on the courthouse
bonds paid. If all these items are
taken into account, as they should be,
1T will be found that the county finan-
ces will show deficit of fully S5U,-
900 for the year 1885.
A DUCK peddler arrived in town
the other day, and one of the old
boys of this place who prides himself
on his poker accomplishments and is
fond of ducks, approached the seller
of aquatic quackers, who had the APP
pearance of man of modest mien
and somewhat green, and asked him
if he ever played poker" He replied,
"Sometimes." The old boy then
bantered him for game, proposing
to put up dollars against ducks. 1t
was agreed. The old boy says he
thought to himself as they sat down
for the game: "That fellow is ducks
for me, sure as coon can climb a
tree" The duck peddler soon had
all his dollars. He borrowed another
pocket full of rocks, and they went
the same route, to keep company
with those that had gone before to
that other shore to return no more
and made the o. b. sore to the core.
Politically speaking, they went to
that other shore, but practically,
and in reality, they just went across
the table and slid into the d. p.'s
pocket. Another poker sharp, think
: ing the fellows luck would turn Che
attributed it all to Lucky then sat
down, and down he did chuck hand
, full of hard chink, and when he got
up he did buck, for empty was his
, pockets-the chink had gone to strike
up an acquaintance with the chink
that had gone before to "that other
Shore" and added to the pile consid-
: cradle more. The p. S. studied il
DER and DER, then struck for the door
and that p. S. who before had scads ga
lore was seen no more, that night, fol-
, he was in bad plight and got out
of sight in the gloom of the night
/, mighty quick. 1t made him sick
Only three other moneyed men were
left in the house, and they were poker
E players from Pokerville, in Highante
! District, Raisemout county. The
other fellow was from Ducktown
Rakemin District, near Pocketthe-
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