The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-01-28
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Happenings Over Our Glori-
GUS State
Daintily Dished Out to
OuI. Readers.

Lewiston is to have electric lights.
The city fathers have so ordered.
The state Republican league clubs
will meet in Boise on February 18th.
The DcLamar mine is now turning
out about $65, 600 month regularly.
There are now ninety-two prisoners
in the penitentiary-the largest
number ever confined there at one
time.
Cattle are reported to be starving
by thousands on the ranges north of
Boise.
1.-THE Vollmer Gazette, published at
Vollmer, Latah county, is billed for
a libel suit.
For killing Dutch John, in Bing-
ham county last fall, "Tex" Herbert
has been sentenced to thirty five
years in the penitentiary
An advance of two dollars per ton
on ore freights from the Ceur d Alene
country has caused general shut
down of the mines in that section.
Railroad news is to the effect that
the Northern Pacific will take the
Lewiston subsidy list and real estate,
amounting in all to nearly 800, 600,
and build TO that place.
Thomas Smith, the newspaper
man who by the death of a relative
recently inherited 5000, 900, will soon
begin in Boise publication of a
periodical to be known as the Idaho
Live Stock Journal
Contracts for the survey of 1870, 600
acres of the land of the Fort Hall
Indian reservation have been let by
Surveyor General Petit Contracts
have also been let for all needed
surveys of Owyhee county public
lands.
In a letter to his attorney, George
H. Stewart, Prof f. S. Squires, in
dicted for his connection with the
alleged school teachers employment
bureau swindle, says that he will
prove his innocence of all criminal
intent when his case is called for trial,
next April. Then he will attempt to
recover damages from the people who
have caused him so much trouble.
Hon. f. A. Fem, agent of the
board informs the Caldwell Tribune
that the II, $50 acres sold this year
represents not more than one-tenth of
the school land in the state available
for sale By this term is meant land
that is as favorably located and will
approximate the same price as that
sold this year. This means an annual
addition to the fund of from $500, 600
to $400, 600 for several years to come
with the expenses of sale, etc, OF
about the same amount as this year,
i. c. 5000. The So, 629. ex-
pended by the board this year also
includes the expenses incurred in
selecting some 1875, 600 acres in behalf
of the different grants made to the
state by congress for the penitentiary,
agricultural college, university, ETC.,
for which the regular land office fees
were collected the same as from
individuals.
Bingham county has just con
tributed seven convicts to the pen, as
follows. o. T. Herbert, alias TEX, ,
guilty of murder in the second degree
sentence, thirty five years. His
victim was John Andrews.
John Smith burglary; one year.
John Murphy, burglary; two years
Archie Gelwood, burglar; one year
John King, burglary; two years.
Thomas Relliott, burglary two
years.
| e. Ricenous, burglary one year.
Articles of incorporation of thu
Palouse- Pasco Land & Irrigation
company have been filed with Secre
tary of State Pinkham. The incor
porators are nearly all residents O
Idaho. 1t is the purpose of tn
company to construct an irrigatin
canal, taking its water from the Pa
louise river, Washington, to extern
the ditch through Whitman an
Franklin counties in Washington, t