The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-05-21

you would not reach out to grasp the
only board of your salvation, and
you have sealed your own doom,
dug your own grave and upon your
own head be the consequences of
your Gf you wish it expressed that
way) political death.
No one realizes more than we do
what a poor way you have taken to
advertise our fair city, for we know
with what disgust all interested spec
lators will look upon such a news
paper war as you have started. But
as you have made certain charges,
thrown out sundry insinuations and
spent your vile wrath through the col
-umns of your best county news
paper, NE deem it not only
our right but our. sbounden duty
to reply in as condensed form as
possible to these bursts of i'll humor,
seeming harmless though they be.
You start in with a warning to Che
good people of Washington County.
Do you take them for fools like your
selves? Is not the history of Weiser
for the last eight years like an open
book? Open SO that he who runs
may read2 Do you not give the
people credit for having the same
qualities Of discernment as you have?
Who are you any way that you set
yourself up as a model for soberness,
chastity and virtue? And were it
only for those whom you warn we
would forever hold our peace, for
they know you for what you are, but
it is for the benefit Of those who dc
not know your baseness that we. wish
to show you up in your true colors.
When the Oregon Short Line was
built it missed the little village O
Weiser, about mile and a quarte
and while neighboring towns situated
Immediately on the line of the roaC
have gone on rapidly and built W
large trades with inland points
Weiser with twice as good count,
to back it, with mines rich beyont
comparison Immediately within it.
calling has been practically at
standstill. p. This is no rantingi it j
a well known positive fact and ever
e one knows the reason why it va
y thus. ,f..'f s-
n We were so far from the railroad
S that outside capital was afraid to il
e vest, and why? Because it was
It sure and certain thing that some OF
+ would at some future time start
d town at the depot and well they kne
n it was certain death to their inves
n ments were such a thing to happier
e With this black eyela W.eiser had a
T.. ways worked and against such odt
was working when the great fire j,
May 29th, 1890, came and swel
almost every business house in tow
in fact with just one exception the
was nothing left in the way of bus
, ness property, except few "shack
= through which the wind would bic
as though it were through mhiskeI
Then the people awoke to the ste
- reality that they must rebuild th'
e demoralized town. But wher
Would it not have been suicide
them to have rebuilt and havi
done SO have to contend with t
: same conditions which for yesrs n
=, blighted our progress almost our We
existence, when by small sacrif
perhaps to few, location could
had by which Weiser could come
the front and be on an equal FOOT
with the best of our neighbori
towns.
" To the credit of the majority
" the business men of Weiser be
said that they took the right sta
and we have to day. in our new to
~ of West Weiser, made more progre
-" done more to build up new thri
y ing permanent town than old Wei
did in the whole sum Of her exi
ance.
~ Now we are here to make this
~ sertion and we are able to prove
also.
~ That the prime movers in the W
W End town, if by their efforts b
,lepreciate the value Of property
-" the old town, which we do not
" nit, they are heavier loosers th'
JUS selves than any two men in y
whole town. g.
" Now having removed the cause
no our retarded growth, taken away