The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-15

Olympia.
Ground has been broken at Sultan
City for the first single mill in the
Skyhomish valley.
A Portland syndicate is said to have
arranged to put in a street railway sys
tenn in South Bend, Wash.
1Joseph Grande, a carpenter, fell 90
feet at Port Townsend, breaking his
neck and crushing his skull.
Mrs. e. X. Brighton, of Ashland, Or,
has just fallen heir to $25 900 by the
death of her father in Illinois.
The Hardy-Hall Arms Company OF
Seattle, capital 1000, In $50 shares of
500 each has been incorporated.
Fifteen hundred kegs of nails have left
Townsend for the midwinter fair and
1000 more will be ready this week.
Alexander Ross, supposedly deserter,
Is In jail at Whatcom, being held for
the United States army authorities.
The owner of residence in What
com automatically Induced bad ten
ant to move by taking the roof OF the
house.
There Is dreadful strife mong east.
ern Oregon towns for the beet sugar
factory, which 1t has been decided to
erect
The telephone line from Whitehall to
Plpestone Springs, Mont, has been
completed and is in good working con-
dltion.
Frank Carpenter the we'll known ne VS.
syndicate correspondent, is at vancouv-
err, B. c., where he is about to take pas
sage for Corea.
Olympia's school superintendent has
issued an order forbidding the scholars
of the two sexes from walking home
together from their studies.
The Washington farmers want the
next legislature to suppress the pink
police papers which are alleged to be
running the youth of the state.
The hotel men at Kaslo are kicking
at the attempt to raise the hotel license
from $500 to $500. If. the raise Is made
some of those now in business will seek
other fields.
The question of consol idating all the
organized and unorganized towns around
Bonner's Ferry is being agitated. 1t is
expected some action will be taken by
the rustees soon.
G. +. Russell, school superintendent
at Albany, Or, has been proven a de-
faulter of the public school funds to an
amount in excess of 81 900. He is a
fugitive from justice
The people of Aberdeen, Wash will,
for three months, pay for street light
Ing by private subscription. 1t was
either that or darkness, the municipal
ity being to poor to bear the burden.
President Hill of the Great Northern
writes to Joseph II. Falrbrook of Port
Angeles that his road can not at this
time consider any scheme which has for
Its object railroad at Port Angeles.
Bradstreets reports twenty-six fail
ures In the Pacific coast states and ter
ritories for last week, as compared with
thirty for the previous week and eight
cen for the corresponding week of 1898
Oregon's salmon fisheries produce
about 100000 cases year and its wool
clip exceeds 10000, 900 pounds. There
are $4,000 square miles of pine forests,
and the annual gold yield exceeds
Sl,000,0 900.
The local passenger rate sheet of the
Northern Steamship company for 1894
has been issued, the principal rates
quoted being SIT one way, $50 round
trip and sll steerage between Buffalo
and Duluth and West Superior.
Fire destroyed the old Northern Pa
cifc depot at Mondovia. 1t contained
about $4,000 bushels of wheat, worth
about $4,000, nearly all of which was
the property of Senator Dick Hutchin-
son. The loss is covered by Insurance.
Charles f. Blackburn, convicted of
sending scurrilous and threatening post
al cards through the mails to the editor
OF the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has
been sentenced to Imprisonment In the
United States penitentiary at McNeill's
island one year and to pay a fine of
$500 and costs.