The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-02-04
Happenings Over Our Glori-
GUS State
Dainti1y Dished Out to
Our Readers.

A fire in Payette on Jan goth, de-
stroyed the residence of A. B. Moss.
Loss 50, 900; partly insured
This month the state will be
prepared to redeem 800, 900 Of
warrants upon the general fund.
Two miners at Deer Creek, Idaho,
got into dispute over game of
cards and slashed each other with
knives.
A young man named Frank Clark
has been tried and convicted at Boise
for sending an obscene letter through
the mails.
One hundred and eighty thousand
acres of the Fort Hall reservation will
be surveyed the coming season. The
contract has been let by Surveyor
General Petit.
Captain j. M. Wells, World
Fair commissioner for Idaho, has
gone to Chicago, where he will make
arrangements to secure space for the
Idaho building and to attend to other
matters pertaining to this state S
exhibit.
The natatorium, at Boise, will be
completed on or about April 1st, and
there is talk Of giving a grand ball in
the building at that time. The fur
niture, billiard tables and bar fixtures
to be used at the palatial resort are
now being constructed.
A girl was born to the wife OF
Milton Warren, at Crosby Spur,
Idaho which weighed at the time oi
its birth and after it had been clothed,
only one and three-fourths pounds.
The child is healthy and as bright as
new silver dollar.
All of the prisoners confined in the
county Jail at Rathdrum, Idaho made
good their escape few evenings ago
They overpowered the jailor, made
him give up the key and then robbed
him of all his valuables and skipped
, Marshal Dryden, of north Idaho
arrested nine Cinnamon who haC
, been smuggled into the state from
q Canada, last Monday. These ar
! the first arrests of the kind ever mad
in the state. The law says that sucl
+ persons shall be returned to the coun
: Try from whence they came, and
federal judge in Michigan has decides
n that this means Canada instead o
h China.
! Idaho's representatives in congress
q have declared their intention to assist
= in every possible way, the congress
f men from Oregon in securing th
4 passing an appropriation of $50, 90
for the purpose of making Snake rive
: navigable from Huntington bridge
n point near the Seven Devils minin
i camp, thus opening Snake river
/ navigation for distance of about 2G
miles. The Idaho delegate
>. certainly should work for this measul
# since the opening and development {
4 the richest mines in the state depend
to great extent upon the navigatic
v of the river between those points.
) The Great Northern railroad will
d completed to Spokane early next yea
b. and it is not at all probable that
ID will go no farther The va
G. agricultural country of the Palou
Of and Potlatch, with the millions
le tons of produce TO carry every yea
is we think will attract the attention
l. the projectors. The carrying of tn
I'd vast tonnage cannot be secured
is Spokane, hence the road must be bui
We into this country to secure'it. Anoth
G. year at most will see the Great Mort
or ern running through this country al
y competing for its share of trade
is Mirror.
st General Tannatt of Palouse Cit
Ill speaking of the alleged error in t
~ location of the ldaho-W Washingt'
ed boundary line, has said to Spoka
u Spokesman reporter: "lt is mista
that the correct line is supposed
run twelve miles west of Spokar
ng 1t is twelve miles east of Spokar