Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-01-20

UAouuoy usSsus"8 - ~
broke on our town showing over focr
inches Of snow, which Il still with ~,
but is melting little to-day. This
is the first time the ground has been
covered this winter.
"A t25,0 eco hotel Is 70 be built It
Shoshone, and Boise City carpsn-
ter named Brennan is urged 70 ac-
cept the contract without tho formal
ity Of bid.
Chinese laundry ladies in this city
are charging 20 cents apiecs for DO
ing up white shirts. They know bow
70 work .ye legislator"
A joint stock company is in con-
temptation, and will probably be Or
ganized to publish the Sentinel Of
this place. The capital will be S2O,-
600, and it is proposed to raise the
paper to tho dignity Of : daily before
the next election.
A goodIy number Of politicians
and place hunters have been in town
the past week.
The railroad managers are making
war on the bill to reduce fares. and
to make that work effective arc do
ing it In the name Of their employees.
But Legislators that have conversed
with are not deceived by the ruse.
The question involved is not SShall
200 employees in the State receive
few cents more or less wages?" but
aShall the State control the railroads
in the interest of the general publc?"
Card par,ies, skating parties, shad-
ow parties and other society fol-de-
rolls enable the young folks of the
city to while away the long, dull
evenings of winter, and apparently
TO extract some pleasure from their
melancholic sameness.
The price of meats in this city still
hugs high water mark noswithstand-
ing the low price of cattle.
A gentleman just in from the
awheat belt" in Eastern Washington
reports thousands of tons of wheat in
that region that could not be cashed
for 40 cents q bushel. A wealthy
gentleman from Northern Idaho said
to me few days ago: "You know
nothing about poverty and hardships
in this part of the State. Where !
live people are helped to bedding,
clothing or provisions, and sometimes
to all these, almost every day, and II
has to be DONE" What = gloriou.
thing it is to be prosperous! But
why not tell the truth and admit that
no section of the country is prosper
Gus, or can prosper, until we have
more money in circulation?
There is not much of general inter
est going on in Legislature. A Mr.
Mills, of Bingham county, has intro
duced bill putting the maximum
> charge for irrigating land at $3.50 Al
: acre per year, and the irrigation cor
! morants breathe easier than they did
but their buoyancy of spirits will b
short-lived. The Legislature vii
not pass law that shows plainly, o.
y its face, that it was drawn up in tn
. interest of, if not by the irrigator
themselves. Such law might hav
been acceptable few years ago, bu
> people are thinking now, and will de
mand justice. 1t is beginning
5 dawn upon men of modern times tn,
they are parasites of the earth; thi
they cannot live apart from the eartl
y that the right of one to exist and sui
. sist is as great as that of the res
\ that while land and water are sui
20 iects of proprietary ownership, Il
'f few will inevitably exclude the man
'e Therefore the trend of all future LEI
Is islation will be in the direction
4S public ownership of these indispens
y BILE elements of social life.
do not believe in Sunday law
!; They are generally humhugs, and G
" attempt to close the Worlds Fair
~ - Sunday is an especial all-round hui
. bug, devised by the beer men for I
=. benefit of their gardens. cellars al
~ saloons. They realize that were t
people debarred from the privilege
visiting the Fair on Sundays th'
" place of final resort would be I
80 breweries, and are active in proc'
ing the closing of the Fair. New
;" theless, think the bill introduced
to the Idaho Legislature to close
Icons on Sunday is good one a
~ should pass. l can see nothing
good that can result from closing