Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-13
A Fiery. Fisay Fahr.eat.aa

a' "eeh teiephoniDg TO
'he Statesman from this place in re-.
gard to forest fires and the res,,ts
IN reading the dispatch there is moth.
ing startling nor far removed from
she straight line of truth until the last
sentence is reached, when the reader
is fairly lifted out Of his boots, and
one OF two conclusions bounds sud i.
denly before his mental vision. One
IS that the sender of the message is
. monumental, mastodonian, high
towering prevaricator who endeavor-
eth to outstrip Bill Nye in the art Of
exaggeration with the funny element
OF genial Bill not put in as an adul-
teration of pure fiction. This is an
instance of "well taken before shak en- %
The other conclusion might be tina,
following undue evaporation, torrents
tumble dow.. from heavy laden clouds,
and the inevitable consequences
would be onrushing floods such as
swept away life and property and
left the beautiful Conelnaugh valley
desolate waste. Such would be
the conclusion of those who take the
statement of the sender of the message
at its full face value. To be better
understood we will quote the sentence
referred to: "From Long valley the
startling news comes that the upper
end OF the valley is being burned,
and that the fierce heat that has been
prevailing among and around the
Pavette Lakes has at length dried up
all the water of the lakes and left
their shores and bottoms strewn with
millions of red fish," There are fires
all around Long valley-ferce fires
the hottest kind of forest fres-but
nothing short of the eternal fires of
the brmstone furnace tended by that
old honored gentleman with the
forked tail, with the aforesaid
furnace planted in the very
depths of the aforesaid lake, could
accomplish such a result short of at
least ten thousand years, considering
the depth of the lake and the big
stream of water flowing into it. The
lake has been sounded to the depth
of about half a mile without finding
bottom, and the body of water is six.
teen miles long and two or three
miles wide. When we picture in
Imagination the millions of beautiful,
delicious reddish withering and baking
in the bottom and on the shores of
the lake frcm the effects of the
scorchng heat of the raging forest
fires, we are led to arse and move
that the inventor of that ferv, fshv
fabrication be crowned with the chief
laurels for outstripping all competi-
tors in that breed of hes wherein fish
prominently figure, and that he be
awarded the stakes and be allowed to
pull down the gate money. The Ma
lad Enterprise man can now take a
back seat. OF course the Enterprise
mans prevarications are more tragic
and blood -curdling, but are not SC
highly exaggerative or imaginative,
nor do they come SO near the border
land of the realm of the impossible,
In regard to this matter we are
brought face face with one conclu-
sion that can not be knocked out:
That is, that the conscience of the
sender of the above referred to mes
sage has become SO withered, dried
and hardened by the effects Of The
heat of forest fires that it has los, all
feelings of sensbilitv, and We are fur
ther of the opinion that he is no he
lever in the doctrine of fu'ure re-
wards and punishments. We warn
tho h., xnrtiot,c .,hnnt
publishing anything coming from
Boise county that has a fish or fishes
mixed up in it. Whenever a Boise
county man uses the word "fsh," it is
a gentle hint or warning that he
will not solemnlv swear that every
thing i connection Herewith is "the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth"