Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-08-31
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out aud showed It's hand. 1t is sImp-
IS III keeping with the honest opinions
OF honest men. 81. ). District Attor-
ney Hawley recently made speech
III Bose, in winch ne used the follow
ing language:
Un the question of Mormon dis
reimbursement, Mr.. Hawley was
equally frank. He opposed disfran-
cnIoIIg any man Tor O Unions sake.
lie would punish ali the vlolaturs of |
tic Edmuuds law, bat would not
punish men VIII br-iiev Il ia but did !
not practice the forbidden thing. |
Ills Remarks implied but he did not
say that he expected the Mormons |
Ia vote this fall; out the reference to
Democratic cdnvassiIy board " hich
would see To All ''houeot count" lndi- |
Gates that The Mormon vote Is among
cratic management.
If the anvthIng-to-g get there Re-
publican anti Mormon Office ecker
fails to receive sufficient comfort in
the above, they NAV stop and reflect
Oh the following resolution adopted at
meeting recently organizing Dem
ocratic club Ia Boise:
Resolved, that we are una terable
! opposed to any restriction whatever,
OF the elective franchise, and deman4
the repeal of all laws in Idaho re-
strirting the same.
These are the opinions held by ev-
cry free-thin ing non-otfice seeker
IN the country. 1t matters not what
Il man believes SO long as lie himself
keeps Within the law, aud tine eAls-
tance of such a law as the test oath
i'll idaho mas cast disgrace on the
Territory.
SrATE,MAS, Aug. Is: Yesterday
morning .bout O'Clock two con-
vets III the penlteutlary succeeded III
making their escape, aud at this writ
ing are still at large. Their n-mes
are Holhrook and Jackson, under
sentence fer horse stealing. From
Deputy Root we learn that they ef-
fected their escape by taking up one
o. the large stones with which the
ground tloor cells are paved, aud Dig
glng down through TWO courses Oi
brick laid III cement, ani by tunnel
ing under the door and the outer wall
to the penltentiary yard, and once
outside the building it was an easy
matter to scale the board fence en-.
closing the yard and making their es
cape. The tunnel is ten or twelve
feet long aud must have required {
: number of days to complete it. The
1 cells are in the center ,f the build
ing, and are three tiers high. Elk
4 Vending ali around the cells is a cor
ridor or open space about eight fee
1 wide. Holbrook and Jackson wer,
o in the lower or GROUND ler, and the,
with all other prisoners, were locked
n in their cells every night. The mos
5 difficult part of the tunneling was dis
). posing of the dirt. The dirt, one o
d the guards informs US, was tied up il
y bags and old rags and secreted bacl
e and under their hunks. How lon.
I they were in digging the tunnel /
not known, but it must have take
II several days. \ posse has been sen
+" out on the hunt and it would seer
: impossible for the convicts to escape
-. 4 few wears ago the land on tn
bench on the south side of Boise riy
s err was considered worthless, but eac
IS year its productiveness is demonstrat
r, ed where intelligent labor and waite
:. are combined to reclaim it from il
II desert condition. This land turns out t
h be the best clover land, and this Sc;
= son three crops of clover will he c,
d bv several settlers who have settle