Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-02-10
LETTE1 FR0A BOISE CITY.
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BoIsE CIrY, Feb. Z. 1893.
W0RLp:--I notice In your issue Of the Cd
communication from Taxpayer that
is, iu some points, exceedingly good. He.
deals In Seaman's paslance Is though he
had been reared aboard full rugged clip.
per from Bnsting." II takes Us back to
ls!3. when rugged with jsuniy hat. blue
shirt with wide collar, and bell bottomed
In our uns0phisticated musings, we i'm
agined bea tIful gitl. Young MILDLY,
and 4 ship, Ill full rugged, were the most
important and beautiful things in the
world. Taxpayers letter. reduced down
10 circumstance, comes under three
heads: Education, Slxte wagon roads
and m appropriation to purchase tools,
&C. for the pm This is all god. Edn-
cation seldom sends people to the pen.
exceps bank presidents, b00dlers and
f0rgers. That State wagon road Il .
grand enterprise for the State. The Gov
ernOrs recommendation for an xpprOpria-
tiOn Of . thousand dollars to purchase
tools, &c, for the prisoners to work with
was one ri the most humane acts ever done
by any Governor that Idaho has ever had.
This matter should have been looked into
long ago, but the pen and grounds he
longed to our Uncle Sam, and there was
no way to get at It. Two years ago our
legislators were too busily engaged In try
ing to make United States Senators 10
give the matter any thought What the
Legislature should have done was 10 make
the appropriation $3.50 per year for two
years, from the fact that in the first place
they must have team, wagon and har-
ness, which will cost not less than 500.
and the tools, steel, powder. fuse, ham,
mers, &C, will not cost less than $25 per
month, or, say about $500. This leaves
$500 for the second year to purchase
tools, lime and cement, TO lay up the pris-
on wall with and pay for pr0files or plans
for the wall The Legislature should
leave this matter open fer the State Com
mission to purchase what is actually neces-
sary for the completion Of the wall 1t
ought to be nea.,y completed IN two
years. Several chapters could be written
Somewhere in the Bible it says man must
earn his bread by the sweat Of his brow
What does it mean! Literally speak
ing. il means we were all created to work
and unless we take a certain amount Oi
exercise our liver don't act and q torpid
liver won't admit of good health. The
man that is experimenting the stone
quarry told me Saturday that the boys took
right hold and worked better than some
men he had at work f wages. Why not
It's great relief from being confined
They get the fresh air, enjoy their meals
and sleep all the better for it. don't be
lieve in farming out the prisoners. and
DOM think they shoula be allowed to &c
outside The reservation, but do, in ths
name of humanity, give them employ
ment. Teach them the trade of stone
cutting, then their time won't hang q:
heavy IN their hands, and they will have
something else to think of besides self
The art Of stone cutting is good trads
and demands good pay. They have /,
world Of good rock right close at hand
They have use, too, for another large
room. besides stone for the wall. Tn.
old wooden stockade has stood for twenty
years, but the first gentle zephyr we hav'
is liable to raze ii to the ground and leav'
them all exposed, as it were. and the,
could not even hide as partridge doe
sometimes. These prisoners can b
worked six or eight hours per day snt
feel all the better tor it. And my oplniol
is If they will put up sheds for summe
use many OF the men won't object to put
ting in ten hours day. After little ex
periencc the best workers should be er
coulaged and their services properly ap
preciated Our hardest workers are th
happiest people we have. When the long
est days in summer are too short for
persons to accomplish all they want Il
then there is something in life worth tn
living. Isn't it your experience that you
| hue es. Il nacco6 tho MI
antly? 1t has been shame to kee
, men confined as they have been withor
something to divert their minds from tn
past and give them proper outdoor exc
else.
|: would seem as though our great pl
gilis,s had abandoned the prize ring an
taken to The stage. John L. Sullivan, til
great, it seems has abandoned the ring an
taken to the boards. John was a gre'
man at one time, and would be yet, ha
he worked aR.i attended to his legitimai
t business, but when he neglected busine:
and went to monkeying around with Kin
Alcohol it was too many for him and /
went. And row comes Jim Corbett,
seems he has company on the road an
I wants to come to Boise, but he is preti
i high priced. However, if one hundre
| tickets can be sold at S. each he will
booked and Mr.. Pinney will take chanc'
on the balance and other expenses. Co
belts price is one thousand per night
There is talk Of getting up legislati,
+ ball to come off next Tuesday, Feb. l4t
at the Nat" If it comes off it will D
Q cessitate laying floor over the plung
and will be an expense altogether of sc
Q en- or eight hundred dollars. When II
3 Boise people start in to have good tin
: they don't believe in doing things
n halves, hard times to the contrary nj
d withstanding. 1t will be grand affa
+ Later.-It was settled to-day that Il
d above named ball will be given.
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