Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-01-13
less Importance have been introduced,
but your space is too limited to emu
inerate them all.

meFale tnem all.
There is some talk of the erection
Of q roasting furnace here. which at
any other place situated as Boise is,
would mean something. There is
here large quantities Of ore that will
pay, which can only be worked by
roasting or the cyanide process, and
as the latter is not 4 demonstrated
success, roaster should be put in
operation, and the money now locked
up in our base ores put into circula-
ton for the upbuilding Of the city;
but as our capitalists do not see i'm
mediate 100 per cent. returns in it
the work will not be done.
BOISE Cry, Jan. 1O-But little of
general interest was done by either
House Of the Legislature to-day. In
the Senate bill was read, and under
suspension of the rules, read second
time, providing for the purchase OF
postage stamps and the laws Of the
Fifteenth session, for the use of mem
bers of the Legislature.
The Senate refuses to accept ver-
bal report from Worlds Fair Com
missioner Wells, and j. is said that
gentleman is ready and willing to
render written report, SO there will
probably be no hitch in that matter,
and the appropriation called for be
made. Surely Idaho people would
not permit their proposed exhibit to
go by default or be curtailed for lack
of few thousand dollars to make il
the success it should be. We have
the resources and the products, and
the great fair offers us the greatest
: of all possible opportunities to make
these facts known abroad.
The House passed a bill to-day
: appropriating $1,000 for improve
: ment of the penitentiary and grounds.
Il Mccarthy, of Custer, introduced a
l. bill providing that mortgages, dues
y of trust, contracts and other obliga-
l. tions, by which debts are secured,
J except such as are held by the State
: and except railroads and other quasi
corporations, shall for the purposes Of
9 taxation be treated as interests in the
property affected by them, and as
J sessed to their holders. The fault oi
: this bill is that 1T exempts railroads
. Not being public property nor quas
r public property, they should be
If treated in all respects just as otbe'
II private property is treated.
l. Stephens, OF Idaho, introduced {
at bill making county warrants lega
tender for county taxes. This meas
y, ure is inopportune. Later it nigh
O. be good thing, but my impression
ch is that If some of our counties wer,
ez compelled to take up all of their out
or standing warrants in payment o
in taxes, they would be swamped, o
to compelled to borrow money to de
v fray current expenses at rates of in
lie. terest that would bankrupt them a
mt once; for several of our counties ar
an heavily in debt, and must have none
no to meet their interest payments, an
expenses. This money they can onl
be get by borrowing or through taxa
al ton, and to compel them to receiv
Ike their outstanding warrants in pay
10 ment of taxes would be to depriv
of them of money from that source.
if A game law was another goo
;re measure introduced into the Hous
"a to-day. 1t prohibits the killing I
RS elk, moose and mountain goats in tn
of State for three years, or offering Il
ms flesh of deer or antelope for sale
ns this State for three years. Anoth
ere bill by Suydam of Lemhi proposes
tbe authorize the Governor to appoint
committee of three to codify the las
Tho of the State and TO appropriate III
oas 900 for same. Twenty thousand dc
Ia lars is proposed to be appropriate
to pay salaries of members and q
taches of the Legislature.
o There was Peoples party confe
ence convened in town to-day, but
G adjourned till tomorrow evening.
, as main purpose is to indicate lines
;m legislation that will receive the fav
=, !, of the party, and those lines will
radical.
JOHN DIcKERsoN, a mining man
9 to Salmon Meadows, was killed on
gis- 4th inst. by Frank Perkins. Jan