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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01
PROFIT IN TRANSPORTATION.
Earnings OF Railroads of the Unit ed
States and Comparisons.

Earnings OF Railroads of the Unite
States and Companions.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The prelimin-
airy report of the income and expendi-
lures of railways of the United States
for the year ending June 30, 1893, pub
lished by the interstate commerce com
mittee, includes returns of 479 COM
panies and the operation of las, 1863
miles of road. The gross earnings are
81, ,0s5, 100000 operating expences,
$735, 900 900; net earnings, $3.50 900 600,
about 311 per cent on the capitalization
Tue increase of gross earnings per mile
over the previous year was $230; the
increase of operating expenser, $233,
resulting in a decrease of net earnings
of SO per mile. The increase of net
earnings over 1892 was 50, 900; in
crease OF dividends, 81 ,963 900.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01
PENSION APPROPRIATION REDUCED.


subcommittee Preparing the Bill VIII
Lop on $3O,00O,O0O.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Thirty million
dollars is the reduction which will ap-
pear in the pension appropriation bill
to be reported from the subcommittee
to the full committee on appropriations.
For the present fiscal year, including
deficiencies, have been SIS, ,676, ,434, and
the estimates of Commissioner Cochren
last fall were $162 ,63l $40 for the next
fiscal year. The turn of the tide in pen
sions has been so marked of late, how
ever, that the subcommittee will feel
justified in reporting an aggregate ap-
propriation of $3.50, 900 for the fiscal
year beginning July next. They have
reason to believe that this will be more
than sufficient, as the expenditures for
the six months which ended Dec. 81 were
$73 ,249, l07, or more than $1,000 900 less
than for the same period in 1892 Com
missioner Raum, when he appeared be-
fore the committee year ago, express
ditures had reached their maximum and
that the tide had turned his judgment
has been justified by events. Fewer
cases have been allowed during the past
year, because the cases where the proof
was early completed had already been
passed, and the remaining cases are
less complete and more likely to be de-
layed. II is the first payments of ar.
rears In old cases which swell the annual
disbursements, and the annual value OF
pensions already allowed was only $780,.
5l0,179 on June 80 last.
The reduction of new cases allowed
causes a falling off In the payments In
one direction, while the death of those
drawing the largest pensions causes o
falling off In the annual rates THE
high priced men die quickest" as ex-
planned by Commissioner Raum last year
because they are the most disabled. II
the falling Off which has been going on
during the past six or eight months con
tinues another year the appropriation
proposed for next year will be above
rather than below the actual necessi
ties of the pension oiiicc and several
millions may be converted back into the
treasury. The subcommittee on pen
sions will report no changes in the gen
eral pension laws in the present bill
because the natural course of events
and the rigid inquiries instituted by
Secretary Hoke Smith are accomplish
ing what they sought to accomplish by
amendments last year, the reduction Of
the enormous drain upon the treasury
They are hopeful that before the pres
ent session of congress is over they will
have statistics that will indicate a re
duction in the pension payments which
will be help to the treasury and to the
ways and means committee In solving
the problem of adequate revenue under
the new tariff and excise laws
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01
WALTZ MUSIC GOES IN CHURCH.
A Preacher of Iowa Says He VIII Stand
ON His Head III so Inclined.

A Preacher of Iowa Ssys He VIII Stand
ON His Head II SO Inclined.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Jan. 30.-Rev. Mr..
Wilkinson, of the Grand Avenue Meth
odist church, has called on his people
for show of hands on the proposition
that airs good enough for the home is
good enough for the church. He denies
that 'Ta-ra-ra" was sung at his church
last week, but admits that waltz music
was played. He says the church's
right to popular airs is as good as the
streets and that he win stand on his
head in the pulpit If thereby he can
attract people to hear his gospel. 81
want to be an angel and with the angels
stand" said the reverend gentleman.
from his pulpit, to his congregation
sis silly trash and hypocrisy, too
Who wants to be an angel while he car
cling to this earth2 Besides, a mar
who stays here and does his duty is
big Improvement on any angel Go,
ever made"
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01

under the guise of employment, as far
IS possible, to ender relief.
The Children's Aid society is another
of these organizations that has risen to
the wants of the poor. They maintain
twenty-one schools in the most denseiy
populated portions of the city. Their
purpose is 20 teach the young ways of
thrift and self reliance, but they are
now using these schools as distributing
centers to supply 1000 families with
groceries and the children with clothes.
The parents make the clothes to pay
for the provisions they get, and the
children get the clothes as rewards Of
MERIT in school.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01
CRAIG OWNS THE LAND.


non Acreage settled.
BOISE, Jan. 27.-United States Judge
Beatty decided the noted case involv-
ing the title to 600 acres Of land in the
vicinity of the heart of the Nez Perce
Indian reservation, and ISSUED an order
restraining the heirs from the reserva-
tion. Craig settled on the land under
the Oregon donation act of 1854. He
became a stanuch friend of the Indians,
and they recognized his right in the
treaty which the government subse-
quently ratified. Craig applied for a
patent in 1869, but died before It was
granted, and the patent was never Is
sued. Judge Beatty held that Craige
acted within the law and his title was
valid, Notwithstanding the lapse of
time. The land in question is worth
S35 900, in view of the fact that the
reservation Is soon to be thrown open
and hnndreds OF boomers are waiting
already to make a grand rush for land.
The case is peculiar, as it is one OF
the isolated instances of the interior
department being enjoined in order tc
allow a white man TO hold land In an
Indian reservation. Colonel Craig was
the man to whom joaquin Miller gave
credit for the true derivation of thl.
state
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01
FELL THROUGH A 1RAP- DOOR.
Editor Murphy of Olympia Receives se-
rious Injuries.

Editor Murphy of Olympia Receives se-
rious Inj uries.
OLYMPIA, jan. 2s John Miller Muir
ply, editor of the Washington Standard
and proprietor of the Olympia opera
house, fell through trap-door on the
stage Of the theater last night and
dropped fourteen feet TO the floor be-
low. He lay where he fell velve hours
and was discovered this morning, still
unconscious. Murphy at the time of the
accident was making his way TO his
room, and as the stage was In tota
darkness he was unable to discover thai
someone had left the trap-door of the
stage open. The patient has recovered
consciousness, but 1t Is feared the vet
eran is seriously injured.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01

OMAHA, Jan. 2s George Parsons and
Paddy Ford, lightweights, came to-
gether for points and a $500 purse at
the Natatorium tonight. In the fifth
round Parsons landed on Ford's jaw and
sent him ont. Both were locked up for
fighting.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01

SPOKANE, Jan. 29.-Rev. w. II. Cor
nett closed two years pastorate 10
Spokane last evening. His final ser
mon was on the subject "Contentment, /"
and was practical lesson In the ways
of life. He goes to Tacoma.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01

The fire department of Sprague gives
a grand ball Feb. S at the Herbing hall.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01

and some people never feel so well as
when just little sick-just enough to
ask a DOCTORS advice. Our local physi-
clans are fully prepared to advise, con
sideration always expected.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01

Idaho Is classed with the mineral
states and in this portion no crops are
expected without irri CATION. Our
water supply comes from the Weiser
river, and while not managed so as to
give entire satisfaction, yet 1t has ans
wered the purpose. The opportunity
for Improvement in this is an easy
question to settle. Coming in from the
north the Welser river after leav-
ing Middle valley runs through
what is termed canyon for several
miles and coming out into the valley
known as Weiser ten miles from the
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-02-01

Thompson Compbell has five sapphires
taken from the gizzard of a Montana
turkey, which was bought few days
ago at Park street, Butte, market.
The sapphires are all of good size and
one Of them weighs about two karats.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16
THE WHlSPERER.

II propose to enforce the law
said County Attorney I. A. Blair
this morning in answer to a ques'
ton from Whisperer.
"Have you instructed the officers
to close up the saloons on Sunday
He was asked.
~ simply intend to enforce the
law, or rather TO prosecute vlolators
to the best Of my ability. | have
given no instructions, but whenever
| hear of violation propose to
prosecute the offender.
of there are to be regular arrests
of Sunday law violators,' said AL
derman Ed O'Brien, II want the
city to get share Of the proceeds
Now that the county attorney has
declared war on Sunday opening,
the police can keep lookout and
beat the constable to the swinging
back door.
"The Old Alcalde has been To-
Gated % said James /. Moore, vice
president of the Cotton Palace this
morning. 81 have written to him
at Austin inviting him to deliver
the address at the corner stone lay
ing, but received no reply, Tele
grams were sent and | have received
notice that he is at Marble Falls
and so have telegraphed him ex.
tending him the invitation. Gov
ernor Roberts is a good speaker and
an address from him will be APP
preclated
"We propose 70 make the Audi
torium more popular every week, .
said Mr.. w I'D. Harold, one of the
managers of that summer theater.
1--WE are corresponding daily with
attractions and will endeavor to
make each succeeding week of
more interest to .heater goers than
the one previous Summer amuse.
ments are wanted in Waco and a
more pleasant place cannot be found
in Texas"
HDid you ever see anything more
beautiful" said M. l.. Lands, the
artistic jewelry engraver, showing
Whisperer watch upon the inner
case of which was an engraved por
trait. "That is new work in Waco
and | propose to make a specially
of it. A portrait in watch with q
facsimile of the PERSONS signature
is certain naturalization and thiet
never steals engraved jewelry.
The specimen shown Whisperel
was excellently executed and per
feet copy Of the photograph.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16
Cheap Railroad Tickets

To Little Rock, Ark, Milwaukee,
Wis, Ashbury Park, N. Y, and
Toronto, Canada, via the "Co,ton
Belt Route"
On July %, 23, "A, %, q, and
2S, account Omitted Brothers of
Friendship and Sisters of the Mys.
FERROUS Ten" meeting, tickets will
be sold to Little Rock, Ark, and
return at one fare for the round
trip, good to return July 30.
On June II, is and 10, account
of L. p. A. meeting, round trip
tickets will be sold to Chicago at
one fare, limited good to return
within fifteen days from date Of
sale, tickets TO be sold at Chicago
to Milwaukee and return at rate of
fare and one.third, or So. 40 on the
certificate plan.
On July and T, account Ma.
tional Educational Association meet
ing, tickets will be sold to Asbury,
N. Y and return at rate of one
fare for the round trip, plus 81,
limited good to return July 3lst.
On July l6 and II, account Bap.
fist Young Peoples Union meeting,
tickets will be sold to Toronto, Can.
ada, and return at rate of one fare
for the round trip, good to return
July 3lst, with the privilege of ex.
tension to September 18th, by de-
posting with the joint agent at
Toronto.
For further information address
5. q. WARNER,
G. p. A, Tyler, Texas.
A A, Gibson,
T. p. A., Fort Worth, Texas.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16

Base ball Saturday and Sunday.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16
HOGS on HOG Creek.
Mr. M q NIason. livinp AZ

Mr.. M. o. Mason, living az Ryan,
on Hog creek, was in the city yes.
terday and reports crop prospects
as fine. He is also very proud of a
registered Berkshire SOW which he
has which presented him with a
litter of sixteen pigs, which breaks
the record. He believes that hog
raising on Hog creek results in a
hog-kllling time.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16

q. 7. a, Tyler, Texas.
A A. Gibson,
T. p. A., Fort Worth, Texas.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16
Two thirds of a bottle.

Two.thirds of bottle of Comet
Pile Remedy cared me of very
bad case of Bleeding and Itching
Piles of over two years standing,
after all other medicines failed to
give any relief. j. 7. Stebbins,
Shiloh, Mich.
For sale by II. c. FISHER Il Co.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16

The finest collection of carriages,
carts, buggies, ph@tons, ETC., in the
city, are to be found at the reposi
tory OF t. p. Sparks, No. SIS Aus
tin avenue. Call at his place and
don't fail to go up stairs.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16
Don't Read This.

Fitzgerald, Texas, May 10, 1894.
Catherine Medicine Co.. ! am
still using the medicine sent me, am
we'll pleased with it. Have received
marked relief since using it. 1t is
q good remedy. 10 KELLY.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16

That the people appreciate the
effort of THE NEWS is making to
give Waco one of the best evening
papers in the state is evidenced by
the way in which new subscribers
are being enrolled.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16

For the tenderest aud greatest
variety of meats see Crippen, corner
Fifth ar5 Franklin streets.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16

To our lady friends: Is your
hair falling out? If it is, go to
Dismuke and get a bottle of "47ll."
He will guarantee to stop it.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16

H. w. Johns Liquid Asbestos
paints are the best made. G. +.
Smith sole agent for Waco, 404
Austin avenue.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16

Ask your butcher for Refriger
ated meats
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16

Neapolitan quartette at Audito-
rum tonight. Take Hobson cars.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16
A COMING BOOK
And a Valuable One for Waco
Cutters Guild.

Charles Gutter of Hot Springs,
author and publisher of Cutters
Guides to :. HOT Springs, Ark. Mt.
Clemens, Mich; Eureka Springs,
Ark; Mineral Wells, Texas, and
other health resorts, is now at work
on a Guide to Waco. 1t is 20 con
tain between forty and fifty illustra.
tions of the best buildings in the
city, public aud private, views of
the city from Provident Heights,
principal streets, churches, colleges,
schools, flowing wells, etc. 1t is to
be the handsomest and most com.
plete work ever issued in the inter-
est of Waco The citizens of Hot
Springs give"Cutter's Guide"to that
famous resort the credit of having
done more to advertise that city
than all other mediums combined;
and he has book full of testimon-
ials to that effect from the leading
citizens of Hot Springs, and repre-
senting all lines of business. Mr..
Gutter promises better guide for
Waco than he has ever issued.
The folio wing is partial list of
the subscribers to his Waco Guide,
and the number of copies sub
scribed for A full list will be
Published when oompleded
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-16
NAPLES BOYS SPORT.
Throwing Stones at Each Other Is Their
Savage Pastime.

Throwing Stones at Each Other Is Their
Savage Pastime.
The boys of Naples have been having
"a high old time" 1t is their custom
in the spring to play at throwing
stones" the usual place of combat be-
ing the square of Mercato, which all
carriages coming from the railway sta
ton have to pass. The boys divide
into two parties, the white and the
black, each carrying a flag of the APP
propriate color, and that party wins
which carries off the others flag, and
the neighbors watch the battle and
For some time the daily battles have
this year ragged unchecked and with no
definite result On the evening of the
Sth the fight was at its height, when
towards 7 o'clock the project of Naples,
going to receive the family of Signor
Crispi at the station, passed in his car
riage. Astonished at what was going
on, he sent orders to the police that
the savage game should be at once pro-
kibited. AT first the police were
obliged to retreat and send for rein
forcements. About forty policemen
fastened to the field of battle, while
two companies Of infantry prepared to
issue from the nearest barracks. The
boys fetched large baskets full of big
stones and began to run along the
neighboring streets, throwing stones
at the trains, the carriages, the Ian
terms and the windows of the houses.
When the infantry reached the spot,
trying to arrest the most violent riot
ers, serious conflict took place. More
than two thousand persons blocked
the street near the square. Some one
fired revolver, to which the police re.
piled by firing in the air, but the noise
increased the alarm and fury. Several
persons were wounded by stones. The
Bersaglieri were sent for and the force
thus increased; the tumult was sub.
dued at about II o'clock at night, when
the rioters, seeing that the troops
spared them, began to retire. About
six of the most violent were arrested
London Daily News.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-16

land in sending federal troops into
the state of Illinois over the protest Of
its governor.
"Resolved further, That we endorse
Governor Hogg's address in all its
partsn
The resolution was voted down by
A to 6. The following resolution wss
then introduced and adopted without
opposition:
1--WE, the Democrats of the Fourth
congressional district, in convention
assembled, do hereby endorse the ad
ministration of James s. Eogg as gov.
ernor of Texas and the entire Demo
cratic administration of Texas"
At IL s'clock the convention after a
nine days labor, and after registering
a total of 1864 ballots, adjourned. The
vote standing at the last ballot pre-
cisely as it did on the first, viz,
Crawford %, Sheppard 16, Hodges IA
The convention will meet again at
Paris, Tex on Aug. l3, when 1t is
predicted that the matter will be
settled either by the nomination of
Judge David B. Culberson or the re-.
submission of the claims of all the
candidates to new primary election.
The platform coDgratulates Presi-
dent Cleveland and recommends the
Wilson tariff bill and calls for legisla-
ton that will carry out the demands
of the Democratic platform regarding
silver.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-16
WHERE NEW YORK ExogLs.
The City's FREQ Hospitals and Dispensaries
The Great Work They DO.

The City's FREQ Hospitals and Dispensaries
The Great Work They Do.
In but few of the great cities of the
world is there better provision made
than in New York for the relief of the
sick and the needy. Dispensaries, hos
pitfalls, and infirmaries, which are
mainly free to the poor, abound in the
city, and the amount of money ex-
pended in their support runs up to
millions of dollars year. Bellevue
hospital is the largest of the municipal
institutions of its kind and it is GER
tainly one of the most serviceable.
There are special hospitals for eve,
ear and throat affections, for the Grip
pied and ruptured, for children and
women, for the aged and infirm, for
colored patients, for surgical cases, for
contagious diseases, and for mater
nifty cases, in short, for all afflicted
people. There are institutions sup
ported by Catholic, by Protestant, and
by Jewish beneficence. There are a
number of hospitals where the homeo-
pathic system of medicine is prac-
ticed, and which are fortunate in the
possession of large funds. Then the
free dispensaries render service to hun
dreds of thousands of the people of
New York every year.
There are plenty of physicians who
complain that the provision made here
for gratuitous medical service is far
more extensive than it ought to be.
They say it "cuts into private prac-
tice" and is taken advantage of by
some people who are able to pay their
doctors. They say, also, that on ac-
count of it they have often to reduce
their fees to patients, who would
rather seek help at dispensary or hos
pital than pay heavy bills for attend
ance at home. The reply to these
complaints of the faculty is that the
great majority of the sick people who
go to public institutions are certainly
unable to meet the charges or
dinarily made for private medical
care, and would be subjected to I'M
necessary suffering if provision for
their relief was not made by benevo-
lent men and women.-N. Y. Sun.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-16

the eonferees. Others insisted that
the OIL was out of the hands of the
mousse while in conference ana if the
senate took any radical stems
such as laying the bilI
ON the table, or incidentally
postponing consideration, il would
not be within the power OF the honse
TO pass the senate bill and thus con.
summate the tariff legislation. In
case the conferees are recalled. The
mouse conferees say they will bold the
OIL and wait tor the senate to SCI d
them other eonferees. 1t the senate
does not do so the house conferees
VIII OF necessity report the facts, the
OIL ana the papers back to the house
take.
Senator Briee, speaking of the W
alton tonight, said that for the first
time he had TO admit that the
chances for tie bill are not good.
but he believed that the parliament.
airy tactics tangle would be straight
ened out 80 that the senate bill could
be passed. brushing aside all par.
liamentary coDW ebs," he said, "and
using no nonsense. there is no reason
why the house cannot at any time
concur in the senate amendments and
pass the bill. If the senate should
now take some further action like In,
definite postponenent, it might be 70
complicate affairs"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-16
MEXICO.
DUEL TO THE DEATH.

CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. 10.-ln g
duel with pistols last night Jose Ever
astgue, chief of the government stamp
department, was killed by francisco
Romero, we'll known congressman.
The seconds were Appollinio COstill,
president of the Mexican senate and
editor of the Ell Partido Liberal, and
Ramon, a congressman and editor OF
Ell Universal, tor Everastague The
seconds of Senior Romero we're Senior
Parao, Spanish general. and Larno
Carnillo, ex governor of Chihuahua
and a member OF the senate. The
duel was the result of a quarrel over a
woman On the first fire Everastague
fell with bullet through the heart.