The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-01-11

a Whatcom hrm has received an or
der for 100000 feet of cedar shingles
| from the east.
1t Is thought that an extension o.
time will have to be asked to complete
the work at the Cascades.
A boom 10 athletics has struck Ii
Grande, Ore, and a gymnasium hal
60xSo feet is being fitted up.
The first house built of lumber in the
1onchet valley was torn down last
week. 1t was a pioneer of 1860.
Ashland is bringing to its aid the
chain gang and bread-and- water diet In
dealing with the tramp question.
The Fl I'll arteslan well, with a large
flow of water, has just been bored on
1.-THE Maxse," In Yakima county.
Charles Clark, train dispatcher and
acting superintendent of the Oregon
Pacific, has been appointed receiver,
vice Hadley, resigned.
News hasreacheG Boise of the death
by freezing of Theodore F.. Shaw, neal
Saw Tooth, in the Saw Tooth mount.
aims, Custer county, Montana.
Harper, the new Umatilla Indian
agent, will not take hold for about a
month yet. He is lawyer and has
been practicing at Carrollton, Ga.
Four soldiers at Fort Sherman, on a
rampage the 'other day, overpowered
the guards sent to arrest them They
were finally taken by large posse.
Exports from Tacoma during Decem
Der amounted to over $3.50 900 Twenty
thousand bushels of wheat not included
In this sum were shipped 10 San Fran
cisco.
Architect Ware, who has been advls-
Ing with the Washington state capito
com mission In the selection of the
building plan, has made report TO the
board and left for the east
II. j. Howell, j. w. Morgan, william
Mckinney, Z. A. Preston, and Lev
Ankeny are the bondsmen of Receiver
G M. Rice of the 5. w. Smith company
Waitsburg, In the sum of 500, 600
Grav's river has a world beaten In the
fat woman line. She weighs $50 pound.
and she has to stay at home because
she would swamp any of the small boat!
which furnish the only transportation
facilities the settlement affords.
j. B. Kelsey, j. Wallace, and ]. B
Thompson of Linn county are the own
ers of new rotary harrow which wa.
invented and patented by the former
The narrowing is done by means of re
volving steel wheels In which are In
serted steel teeth.
Nv w Wv hoChd (OuuCll mas tA
tended the time when city taxes shall
become delinquent from Jan. / te
March 1.
longing to the Port Bilkely mill com
pauy, together with its contents
burned recently.
j. Laws, young ferryman at Oak
Vile, was drowned the other day, hi,
boat becoming manageable In mid
stream. Three others aboard escaped
There rs trouble at Snohomish be
tween the prosecuting attorney ant
the county commissions He ha.
fled information against them, alleging
malfeasance.
The Pomona, Ore, grange has called
4 mass meeting of Lane county tax
payers to consider the last general ap
preparation bill and If possible suggest
reductions in expenses.
/ The Montana state irrigation con
vention meets at grand falls January IL
Among the topics for discussion are
The Wright law; the disposition Of
public lands; the control and direction
of water supply, and irrigation as q
paying Investment.
AT Vancouver, B. c., the horses are
having hard time on the asphalt pave.
ment this winter. The slightest frost
makes the roadway as slippery as glass.
Several animals have been injured by
falling or strainlng themselves. The
city Will probably sprinkle gravel over
the streets.
A Tacoma dispatch says: The gang
OF counterfelters who flooded the coast
with bogus IS and $40 gold pieces early
In the year has been broken up by the
secret service detectives, and a half
dozen of the gang are now In prison
here.