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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
THE OUTLOOK At MINERAL.
But Few Men at Work and
Mines Idle.
Silver the Cause-A Wed
ding, in Camp.

A wedding and charivari consti-
tutes about the bulk of our news this
week.
Messrs. L. Il. Logan, son and Ma
jor Huston returned to Boise the first
of the week.
Mr.. J. II. Biddle, of the B. q l..
Smelter Co., came in on Saturday
and returned on Monday
Mr.. Smith, of DeLamar, arrived
on Monday.
The present outlook is not alto
gether encouraging for business in
Mineral this summer, no immediate
prospect of the mines starting up.
The depression in silver is the prin-
cipal cause of inactiveness in the
mines.
On Sunday, the fifteenth inst, Mr..
Joseph Jockey and Miss Mary Wha-
lin were married by w. H. Gray, j.
P. The groom is hard working
miner and a jovial good fellow, well
liked by all who know him. Miss
Whalen is a very accomplished lady
and has the gift of making friends OF
all with whom she comes in contact.
They have the good wishes of all the
community for happy and prosper
Gus life, and yet, with all their gooC
nature and good qualities, the boy
had to disturb their peaceful slum
bers with music that we would no
call pleasing to the ear. We though
as we listened to the unearthly musi,
that portion of the nymphs had es
capped from the internal regions-be
tween tin cans, COW bells, triangles
: revolvers and horse fddles. Well, t.
make it short, the groom told then
to 90 take drink and stop thei
noise.
We were sorry the correspondent
: from Mineral to the Weiser gentle
men last week attacked the men
wages; would much rather see hi1
= attack the cause than the effect. Frol
l communication we have on our ts
t BILE relating to the silver question W
see that the SIGNAL reaches the Cer
n d'Alene mines. We will answer a
next week
n 1t is almost embarrassing to stat
that there are only seven men at woI
in the camp, yet such is the fac
On the Davis mine, five men, the Joll
Traveller one, the Boone one, and
few prospectors digging in the hill
The snow is all gone, the wealth
, fine and roads good.
We hope to have more encouragir
news from Mineral for the SIGNl
soon. MEMORABILIA.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

of the mountains, you can find mud
holes from one to three hundred
miles long. l have lived on this very
bad road for eleven years and the
mail has failed to reach this Office but
one time in that eleven years, and |
am proud to say this is the grandest
record that | ever heard of off any
road or railroad. Old Washington is
not the worst place in the world, and
she has some pretty good roads; at
least / find it so, I'll be burned if |
don't. AS for making new roads we
must do like man taking medicine,
make them because we have to have
them, not to bring in capital or to
drive it out. Some men have the cheek
to compare roads in England with
roads in Idaho. England has been
hundreds of years making her roads
and they are as good as can be made
and every bit of filth is gathered off
them and taken on to the gardens and
farms, and her broad tired miss-t track
wagons are not to make roads but
protect and save what was made be-
fore. To put such wagons on our
roads by force OF, law would be a
silly outrage, but of course an editor
knows how to make roads and wag-
ons, but it takes a farmer to run q
newspaper. This is written with the
best of feeling. If others have a bet
ter way we stand corrected.
Middle Valley, April II.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20


Governor Mcconnell has issued the
following Arbor Day proclamation
State of Idaho, Executive Depart
ment: |, William j. Mcdonnell, gov
ernor of the State of Idaho, do hereby
proclaim as Arbor Day, Friday, May
5, A. D, 1898, and recommend due
observance of the same. 1t is espec-
tally recommended that the trustees
and teachers of the various schools
throughout the state, each district for
itself, adopt some appropriate exerci-
ses and devote portion of the day to
the planting of trees with view of
beautifying their grounds and making
the same attractive. In future years
the children of to day, grown to man
hood and womanhood, weighted, it
may be, with the cares of family, of
business or of the state, will find it
pleasant to spend an hour beneath
there trees which their childish hands
assisted in planting. Given under my
hand and seal of the state of Idaho,
this eleventh day of April, one thous-
and eight hundred and ninety-three.
(Signed) W. j. MCCONNELL,
GSeal] Governor
By the governor
JAMES +. CURTIS,
Secretary of State.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

We have opened the finest line of
spring Dry Goods ever shown in this
market. Don't purchase until you
examine our stock. Wash Goods,
Lawns, plain and fancy Sateens, etc.
The only one-price store in Washing
ton county. SoMNIERcAMP's
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20


The jury returned verdict of ''not
guilty" in the Howard French case.
Coal has been discovered near
Lewiston in. Nez Perce county.
Cattle thieves have commenced op
erations near Salmon City.
A Baptist parsonage is being erect
ed in Payette, to be occupied by Rev.
Gee.
Hay is all gone in parts of Logan
county and a good many cattle are
dying.
The grade is being established for
the extention of the Idaho Central
into Boise.
A bar association has been organ
lied in Boise and is going after the
black sheep.
Base ball clubs are being formed
in neighborlng towns. There'll soon
be bats flying in the air
Charlie Ling, Nampa's American
lied Chinaman, has been arrested for
receiving stolen goods.
Sheep shearing has already COM
menced at Mountain Home, and
J 10, 900 pounds have been brought
} in for shipment.
Representatives of the Burlington
road will confer with Boise and Cald
we'll in regard its proposed extentior
to the Pacific slope.
The accountants appointed to ad
lust affairs between Ada and Canyon
counties have disagreed and an arbi
u TRAITOR called in.
Miss Frances Galloway, of Weiser
was appointed one of the legistativ
committee of the state teachers asso
citation at its recent meeting in Boise
h Shopmen and machinists on th
i line of the U. p. from Omaha t
Portland are on a strike. Some 20
!, quit work at Pocatello last Monday
If A little boy of Bear Lake count
IS was adjudged insane but was refuse
e admittance to the asylum at Black
n foot on the ground that he was to
1t young.
Is Some of the convicts brought int
d court to testify in the Howard Frenc
,e trial succeeded in getting whisk
d from some source and went back
is the pen in a drunken state.
IN Dave Smith and Geo. HefermaI
lie of Nampa, thought Bill McGree,
il Coeur d. Alene miner deserved licl
'd ing. McGree didn't want to figl
y but Smith and his pard sailed I'M
him. Smiths dead.
le Twenty prisoners are kept stead
ST. at work in the quarrles at the sta
al penitentiary, getting out the rock tn
is is to be used in the construction
Ill the walls around the buildings. IL
er prisoners are employed constant
er dressing the rock, under the directio
10 of prisoner named Mccoy, an exp
ld rienced stone cutter, who will be Ell
rs ployed by the state after his time
er up. Already 1000 linear feet
I'M rock is now ready for use, while t
we material is being piled up at the ra
We of 100 feet per day. 1t is estimat
.os that "a, 900 feet of rock will be !
- quired for the walls. And all Il
nc entails the expense of one mans wor
ne the prisoners doing the balance.
TO
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
Bucklen's Arnica Salye.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required.
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satis-
faction, or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by Jenney s.
Waterhouse.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

In thy Declining Years Live on thy Glory, Old
Dog of War
Boise Democrat.
1t is said to have been decreed at
Washington that no democratic edi-
tor shall be appointed to office. Edi
tors as a class have so fattened upon
treasury drippings, especially in Ida
ho, that it was found something must
be dcne to keep them from becoming
purse proud plutocrats. Henceforth
the Idaho editor may go to the post
office with his half bushel basket
without fear of its being encountered
with proffers of foreign missions,
collectorshps of important seaports,
ect., which he would feel it incum-'
bent upon him to decline on account
of his private business interests.
There is nothing so lucrative as run
ming democratic paper in the far
west, and the administration should
be commended for the consideration
shown the editorial profession IN re-
lieving its members from the expense
of wasting money in the purchase of
postoflice stamps in declining public
positions. The editor may still be a
delegate to city and county conven-
tions,and have the privilege of taking
down proceedings and printing them
at his own cost, and keeping the
names of the big little men prominent
t ly before the puplic gaze.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

Or Come Down Here And Get to be Mayort
Payette Independent.
Don't lay in the manger and growl,
but get out and hustle Join hands
with your fellows and try to do some
thing for the community. No man
can wrap the cloak of selfishness
about him and make life a success.
You may think so, but you are mis-
taken. We are all dependent to a
certain extent, one upon another, and
as we SOW we shall surely reap. Get
out of the rut and assist in shaping
the destinies of this magnificent vel
ley. Strangers come among us and
say: "You have the finest country
in the west, and we say, "that's so, :"
but do we believe it? That's the
question. If we do, let us show our
faith by our works. Enroll your
name as member of the Payette
Borad of Trade and become a worker.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
O. s. L. Time Table.

BOISE BRANCH.
Close connection made at Nampa with
trains Nos. 2 and s.
A. E. ROBERTS, Agent.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
n M. HARVEY,
NOTARY PUBLIC
AND LOAN BROKER.

AND LOAN BROKER.
M0NEf to loan on improved ranches at a
low rate of interest. | have land ONCE
plats of all surveyed land in the county;
also blanks for all kinds of conveyanclng'
Am agent for Home, Phoenix, Royal. Ian
cashire, Lion, Imperial and Hamburg
Bremen Insurance companies
wEISER, I'D AHO.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
Hope We May Not Hear of an Editor Horse
Whipped"

DeLamar Nugget
Within one hundred yards or the
Nugget office can be found, in one
house, three ladies whose combined
weight is over 78O pounds. Two more
of .our lady neighbors put on the
quartz scales with them will make this
bevy of female loveliness pull down
every nearly twelve hundred pou nds'
Oil these grand Owyhee mountains
have the atmosphere which conduces
to greatness.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
HARVEST Of The SHEARS.
Stolen Notes from Our Exl
changes
Under Homemade Head
lines.
The Sunny Cline OF foneidsi

The Sunny Cline of oneidsi
Malad Enterprise
May 9th, will be arbor day. Get
your ice pick and deposit a frost plant
In the softest glacier you can find.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
ROAD OvERsEERs APP0TNTH

District No. l., n. p. Haven, Weiser.
" 2, Hyrum Smith, Weiser.
" 3, VIM Stacy. Weiser.
d" 4, VIM. II. Gray, Mineral.
e" 5, James Galloway, Weiser.
2, d. Lambert, Brannon.
o, J.H. Reavis, MiddleValley.
10, b. Edmundson, Salubria.
II, r. H. Martin, Salubria.
~, J.W. Hubbard, Crane.
13, VIM. II. Coriel. Ind. Val
IA, Frank Matthias, Council
Is, Nose Elliott, Dale.
q" l6, ]. c. Rogers, Bear.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

Ex.
An eastern paper gives manageable
girls the following hint: "There are
no old maids in Japan. If woman
does not get married at a certain age,
a husband is picked ont for her by
the local authorities and she is mar
ried whether or not.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

New Spring Suits at extremely low
prices, at Sommer & Sons.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

Two OF the "Poor Devils who Can't Get Work"
Statesman.
Two tramps were placed on the
chain gang yesterdy. They rebelled,
however, and their refusal to work
resulted in their being confined in
the city jail and placed on bread and
water diet. The tramps say they
will subsist upon this meagre allow
ance until they are wasted away &C
mere skeletons before they will work.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
THE MEETING OF THE DADS.
County Money Muddle as
Officially Recorded.
Bills and Mis-
celIaneOus Business.

The board of county commissioners
met on the second Monday in April
in regular session, with a full at
tendance.
The following business was trans
acted:
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

Girls, the Fare to Japan is $Ioo.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
BILLS NOT ALLOWED

VIM. Thompson, not legal. ....
WV. Reynolds, " .......
B. Snow, covered by another bill. 2
NJ. McCarty,
Jacob Groseclose, delinquent for
"a
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-01-13
The Madonnas of Eotticelli.

As we examine the various madonnas
by Botticelli in the galleries of London,
Berlin, Paris and Florence we cannot
fail to be struck by the ardor of emotic~
that seems to have animated the painte,
in his search for the perfect type
beauty realized in the "Crowning of t.
Virgin" The construction of the head
Of the Virgin is essentially the same in
all Botticel S pictures. but the flesh
mask and e expression vary, and the
final charm of each one remains an I'M
decipherable puzzle.
We feel t t this madonna is an init,
mate vision OF the ideal woman who
Unparalleled" the painters soul; 81
Dante speaks of Beatrice, the object OF
surprising desire. We marvel at the
mouth. at t. eyes, at the eyelids. at the
sweep Of the brows, at the thick golden
threaded hair. at the splendor of the
draped head over which angels hold a
crown. at the beautiful color of the
flesh, which suggests a souvenir of the
Vita Nuova."
She hath that p~aleness of the pearl that's fit
In a fair woman; so much and not more:
She is as high as natures skill can soar;
Beauty is tried by her comparison.
Theodore Child in Harper's.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-01-13

Swearing, it is presumed, c = in
with the original man, for as Adai- was
AN agriculturist it is not presumed that
he was free from the trials and troubles,
vexations and weaknesses of other farm
ers. The old Greeks and Romans were
most proficient and picturesque swear
ers, and were accustomed to rattle up
their gods in the most finished style
when things weren't coming their way.
To speak colloquially, it was a cold day
when the Olympian deities did not hear
their names taken in vain by the impa-
tient mortals who pursued their ordi-
nary duties or paved the way to classic
textbooks for future generations. This
reprehensible practice has prevailed in
the Latin countries to the present day,
and the French woman says ''mon
lieu," and the Italian or Spanish woman
swears by the sacred properties with as
little conjunction as Octavia or Corne-
LA would have emphasized the name Of
Jove or coupled the altar of Vesta with
an ordinary statement of fact.--New
York World.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-01-13
One Mans PessimisIn.


"The pessimism of some men is sim
ply astounding" said a visitor in the
city. "Why l know a fellow who actu-
silly insulted another man for saving his
life. The way it happened was this:
"a devilish, bright but k~nockabout
sort of a chap named Whitaker was one
day sitting ON the veranda of a country
hotel in a southwestern town chatting
with a number of friends. Some one
happened to call him by name, and an
cid white whiskered gentleman stand
ing heal by came waltzing up to the
crowd, and holding out his hand to Whit
taker said:
"'Is your name Whitaker:
eyes was tho reply.
"sAin't You little Willie Whitaker,
e B~alesville, Ark.Y
Eyes again.
"'Well, don't you remember the time
you fell off anatboat into the river about
twenty years ago, and how you'd a. got
drowned if | hadn't dived in and saved
your
Eyes Whitaker said, 4 dc, you old
fool. What good did it do? I've been
playing poker for twenty years and never
won a cent. I've been kicked and cuffed
ever fourteen states. and I'm out of a
Job now. Goodby.' And the really in
dignant Whitaker stumped off down
the steps, leaving his innocent bene-
factor aghast with SURPRISE - Louis
Republic.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-01-13
Charged CorsetS.

Now that electricity is being more and
more widely used it is no longer safe f,
a woman to carry her watch in the
place where It has always been most Sc
cure-in her corsets. A New York
woman a few days ago was going to pay
a visit of curiosity to an electric light
plant. She was warned that her watch
might be charged with electricity, and
SO she did not take it with her.
The precaution was useless. The next
day the movements of the watch were
most eccentric. Now it was fast, now
slow. but " right. She asked her
husband, who was an electrician, what
could be the matter with it, and he soon
found that her corset steels had been
charged with electricity during her visit
to the plant, and that next day, when
she placed her watch in its usual resting
place, the charge had been communi-
Gated to its works.
Of course women have often worn cor
sets that have been "charged"-at the
shop. But here is q new idea.-New
York World.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-01-13
Last of the Seine Swimming Baths.

Last of the Seine Swimming Baths.
The great floating baths which from
their large number form SO conspicuous
8 feature of the Seine in Paris will be-
fore very long cease to exist. Under an
order Of the project, dated some years
ago, they are gradually disappearing.
No new ones are allowed to be built, and
TIE old ones must not have any substan-
tal repairs done to them, but must be
broken up when no longer, if the term
may be permitted, seaworthy.
The largest Of all is called LA Samar-
isaine," and as this does not seriously
Impede river traffic, and it is owned by q
number of small shareholders, whose in
6erest in it is being gradually extin-
gnished, the new rule about repairs is
less rigidly enforced than in some Other
cases. La Samaritaine is, moreover, con-
sidered as in some sort a public estab-
ishment, inasmuch as it grants tickets
at greatly reduced rates to children in
public schools and to the poor of Paris.
London News.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-01-13
A lCENE.
Happy School Children In an IDdianapo.
lis Schoolroom.

Happy School Children In an I~pdianapo.
lis Schoolroom.
In indianapolis | entered one Of the
rooms containing the youngest children
at the time of the opening exercises.
The scene | encountered was a glimpse
of fairyland. | was in a room full Of
bright and happy children. whose eyes
were directed toward the teacher, not
because they were forbidden to look in
any other direction, but because to
them the most attractive object in the
room was their teacher. She under
stood them. ~sympathized and loved
them, and did all in her power to in
terest them and make them happy.
The room itself was charming. The
window sills were filled with living
plants, and living plants We're scattered
here and there throughout the room.
The teachers desk was literally strewn
with flowers, and upon each of the chill
dren's desks flowers had been placed to
welcome the little ones to school.
The book used during the reading les
son was the book of nature-the plant
they had just been studying. The scene
presented by the happy little children.
each with a flower in his hand, surround
ing the teacher, who was smiling upon
them. was truly beautiful.
For reading matter the children were
called upon for sentences expressing
thoughts concerning their flowers. The
sentences were written upon the board
by the teacher. and when a number of
them had been written the pupils began
to read them. The children were inter
ested because they all took an active
part in the lesson from the beginning to
the end. They were all observing, all
thinking.
Some of the little ones even committed
the crime of laying their hands upon the
teacher, and she SO far forgot herself as
to fondle them in return. Yet the dis
cipline was perfect. What is perfect
discipline in the classroom but perfect
attention? here was no noise, there
were everywhere signs of life, and such
signs of Lii as become a gathering r
young children.-Dr. J. M. Rice in Fo
rum
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-01-13
Forest Planting.

In the coal regions Of Pennsylvania
nearly every piece OF. available timber
has been cut away to form props for the
archways and for various other uses in
connection with coal mining. Nearly
every stick and every piece of plank
used in these regions now all have to be
brought from a distance. The Girard
estate has endeavored to solve the pro-
blem by making some small plantations
as a test. Eight years ago a large num-
Der Of larches and Scotch pines were
planted; pillow burrows were simply
driven through the underbrush growing
up where the old forests had been cut
away, and one-year-old Seeding larches
and pines planted. The larches now
average some seventeen or eighteen feet
high, and are particularly healthy and
thrifty. There can be no doubt, from
these experiments, that forest planting
in these regions would be an undoubted
success.
1t may be noted that the larch was
the most popular of forest trees in the
early planting on the western prairie,
but the leaves were attacked by a fun
gus; the timber therefore did not prop
srly mature. 1t finally fell into dis
favor for forest planting. On these early
experiments the larch has suffered much
in reputation, but it must be remem-
bered that the western prairies furnish
unfavorable conditions for the larch.
1t is a mountain tree, one thriving in
comparatively poor soils, and the low
altitude and rich earth of western prai-
ries were entirely foreign to its nature.
The Girard paintings are some 1,400
or 1900 feet above the level of the sea;
these are the conditions of its own home,
and the remarkable healthiness of these
trees shows that they appreciate the po-
sition in which they find themselves
Meehan's Monthly.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-01-13

In the neighborhood of Turin there is
to be seen, at the entrance to a field, the
following notice in large letters:
Horses admitted to Craze at the fol.
lowing rates:
'First-Horses with long tails, three
francs.
"Second-Horses with clipped tails,
one franc"
If you 60 to a countryman and ask
him the reason for that difference in the
charge. he will reply:
The reason is very simple. The
horses with long tails can easily drive
away the flies, while those with clipped
tails cannot do so, and they are so tor
mented by these insects that they eat
absolutely nothing. - Monde Umoris-
tico.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-01-13
A Fortune in "Attendances."

A certain hotel keeper in London de-
cided not to charge his customers for
attendance, but he found that many of
them objected to the omission, and ac-
cordingly there appeared the charge of
eighteen pence a day in each bill. That
eighteen pence produced $4,000 a year.
He began business with only 81, 800,
and he recently retired into private life
worth e150,000 He was at one time in
domestic service, and he has recently
bought an Essex estate, with its old
mansion and deer park.-London Tit
Bits.