The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-08-17
Idaho Happenings Touched
Up in Our Own Style.
Condensed News from
Every Section.


snted farms.
The residence Of Harry Compton
was burned at Pocatello.
Montpelier, Idaho, experienced an
earthquake shock on the 9th.
Cy Jacobs, the veteran merchant Of
Boise, has been obliged to suspend.
Boise City secured the Soldiers
Home. She donated IS, 900.
Six mormons at Malad have been
arrested for cutting government tim
ber.
Asa Abbott has been succeeded by
E. E. Curry as editor of the Range
and Valley at Mt. Home.
j. Quinn was found dead by the
track near Oxford on the 18th. 1t is
thought he fell from a train.
The Idaho Recorder asks, "Wbat
is man made Off" AS the editor is
a lady, this is very pertinent ques
ton.
The Northern Pacific will discon-
tinue the fast mail train August 9th,
reducing the daily service to one
overland train.
Tuesday the Union Pacific was
looking for masons to go to Boise to
work on the new depot 1t will be
the first building of the kind in the
state.
A barn, five horses, two cows, farm
machinery, first crop of alfalfa and
grain, were burned at Blackfoot on
the 9th. 1t was the property of W.
H. Danielson and was worth $5, 600.
The Union Pacific employees at
Shoshone have been reduced to five
days work a week. The Southern
Pacific forces are working four days
a week, eight and half hours con-
stituting days work.
The body of man, supposed to
be a prospector, name unknown, was
found floating in Snake river neal
Payette last Sunday. He was abou
35 years of age and had probably
been dead some fifteen days.
The Union Pacific steamer, Anni'
Faron, plying on Snake river between
Riparia, Wash and Lewiston, Idaho
was blown to pieces four miles belo,
Almota, on the 14th inst, killing
seven persons and injuring all o.
board.
Al. Markey, of Wardner, was dc
clared insane yesterday. He had fie
to the South Fork, stripped himse
r and was awaiting the coming Of Chris
in nude condition. He was
= dance house model, and his mind ws
= warped by invention. -Ceur d'Aler
!, Sun.
n DR.. Collister now has one hundre
it acres of finely growing prune tree
Y 10, 900 in number, which will cor
IS mence yielding next season. An id,
of the value of prune orchard ms
be obtained from the fact that D
Il Collister has refused $500 per &C
IL for his orchard Idaho Democrat.
% The smelter continues to run
" Mineral and a small force of mine
are employed by the different mini
companies. 1t is not likely that t
IN camp will take on much activity dr
ed ing the summer. Legislation in |
as half of silver is anxiously hoped
OF by the Mineral miners. Huntingt
'' Herald.
X Nampa Leader: Commissioners
ok ". Paul, of Parma, was in Nam
an Thursday. He is loud in his pra
Oh of the new machine that is to revo
~ tionize placer mining on Snake riv
X. He says they are positive succe
or and not a particle of gold, no mat
rs how small, can escape. There
as be five of these machines at Mr. Pal
-, place in few days.
rot John Harris, who has perhaps r
'ok tied as hard as any wood contrae
raj in camp last year and this, to
% even with. his loss two years ago vi
~ some scoundrel burned his wood pi
! is still out of luck. Out of seven