The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-04-25
GENERAL NEWS.

Cear d'Alene is getting ready to eel
citrate the Fourth. WHAT will Cald-
we'll do?
Governor Mcconnell granted Frank
Smith, the murderer of Emmett Fox, of
Latah county, thirty day reprieve.
Mrs. NJ G. Sisson, wife of a promi-
nent citizen of Hope, Idaho, died last
week suddenly. She leaves a husband
and five children.
The Blaine county hospital burned
to the ground, Wednesday morning.
Loss not not stated; insurance 81, 800.
VIII not be rebuilt.
Boise has a pugilist, named Con
Orem, who % years ago was known all
over the world as the champion middle
weight. There's where Boise is a little
ahead of Caldwell.
The recently elected treasurer of the
city of Moscow declines to serve. Sal
airy cut down to figure inadequate to
the honors and responsibilities of office
the reason of his resignation.
Gen. Weaver, prominent Populist and
Greenbacker, addressed the people of
BAKER City, Oregon, last week on the
political issues of the day. The Populists
down in Oregon evidently are green
hackers.
An editor who has experienced a
dragging sensation about the heels has
the following to say: "When man
goes to church and the shingle nail that
holds his pants fast to his suspenders,
drops out and goes rafting down into
the seat like COW bell, and lets his sus-
penders slip up around his neck, he
might as well get up and go home, for
the sermon will do him no good"
But what blessed thing it is for a
man or woman, and an editor in partic-
ular to have true friend-one human
soul whom he can trust utterly, who
knows the best and most of us, and
who cares for us in spite of all our
faults; who will speak the honest truth
to us, while the world tlatters us to our
face, and laughs at us behind our
baeks.-Hope Examiner. Better get a
cat.
The meeting of the Jeffersonfan Club
at Boise City Wednesday for the pur-
pose of effecting fusion between the
Democrats and Populists resulted in a
complete smashup and almost a free
forall fight. The club was disrupted
and the chances for fusion in Ada
county are now very slim. CIaggett
figured quite conspicuously in the deal
and the death of the club is largely at
tributable to him.-Moscow Mirror.
The county commissioners have been
in session since last Monday transact
ing routine business and putting I'D
the usual number of jobs on the tax.
payers and those who do not agree with
them politically. 1t appears very much
as though these Populist officials
imagine that public Office is private
snap for themselves and their friends,
aud that they have the right to resort
to any kind of trickery to gain the de-
sired ends.-MoscOw Mirror.
A gang of solicitors have been work
ing smooth game in some of the VIII
annette valley towns. 1t is to take Or
ders for porcelain photographs. After
awhile a woman who claims to be the
wife of the first solicitor, turns up with
the work, which is of the poorest quail
ity and will probably be refused. Then
the female informs the customer that
it doesn't make any difference if the
picture is not taken, as a saloon keeper
has contracted for those refused and
will hang them up in his saloon.
The Boise Mail assumes that because
the people of Soldier have stated their
determination to lawfully protect
themselves in their rights, they, being
Republicans, are inconsistent. The
Mail may be right, but we can't quite
see the connection. Protection as a
fosters home production, but
allows home competition. 1t does not
say that if we protect the woolgrower
from disastrous competition we must
open our fields to be ravaged by his
sheep. Such an argument would be
silly.
Boise, the capital and the biggest
town in the state, has no brass band
although two sets of instruments Zone
Of them belonging to the cityl have been
wing idle for months. A band has been
here on an average of about
once year for thirty years, but for
some reason unknown each has been
short lived. Some Of them have been
irst-class, too. We have plenty of cap
lbls teachers and talanted windjam-
ners, and have always had. Why can.
lot we have creditable and perman-
mt band ?-BOise Democrat.
1t is curious paradox that precisely
n proportion to our own intellectual
weakness will be our credulity to those