The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-06-07
MINERAL.

vi lne ore snute OF Tie Egan mine.
AT school election on the 4th
inst LOOMS Neer was elected treas
urer for the ensuing term.
Milt Crabtree, of Scott creek, is a
visitor in Mineral this week.
j. NJ. Peck was up from his Snake
river ranch and says he IS about
drowned out and the river still rails
ing.
At the Mineral ferry the Snake
river is eighteen feet above low water
mark. A horseback mail, with two
portages, from Huntington, arrives at
Mineral regularly
The Contrary Club had its regular
meeting. The first speaker was from
Virginia, the Beagle:
"Mr. President and gentlemen: |
wish to suggest that, in my opinion,
it would be very wise and appropri-
ate, and be OF great benefit to all
those who come after us, if we of this
Club, and all others who take interest
in reform, would keep record of all
those who apparently are only waiting
around to be summoned by u. S.
marshal or sheriff. For my part
would prefer to do time and take the
medicine like man rather than APP
pear with authority as hireling to
punish my fellow man. would not,
for the handsomest consideration,
make the record for myself that
certain exsheriff of Oregon has
made, a man eternally looking for
favors at conventions and at the polls,
who recently very willingly jumps in
to be deputy marshal No less
heinous is his crime than is that of
the son Of certain aspirant to the
senatorship of the state of Idaho. In
reality the crime of the latter is the
more attroclous as he did cripple
poor wealer. Such men and their
actions can be remembered at time
when they would wish they were for
gotten and to call their attention to
things that might happen. Coxey is
now nominated for member of con
gress from the 18th district of Ohio,
and received advice of his nomination
by the populists while in Jail in
Washington. We know and grant
that a U. S. marshal or county
sheriff are bound by their oath to adj
minister the law, yet they are not
expected to perform miracles or im-
possibilities; nor are men who may
be called on expected to risk their
lives to annihilate principle or re-
form that, if successful, would bring
about state of things alike benef-
cial to all.
A Wolverine: "Mr President, |
must take exceptions to the Beagles
latter statements. Did not our Idaho
marshal go clear to Wyoming and
arrest poor devils and bring them
back to Idaho to be tried and pun
ished for what? A voice, For
walking on the grass. No, no, my
friend; not for walking on the grass,
but for stealing Il box car ride on a
road that the company had already
stolen from the government and peo-
pie. Gentlemen, cannot talk longer
on this subject; my heart aches for
the wrongs of the poor. :"
The president called Wolverine No.
2, saying: "What have you to say?"
Nothing, sir, replied No. 2.
President: "But you are down for
speech tonight.
No 2: "Mr. President, do you not
understand? l said nothing. All
that this Club has said and done
amounts to nothing; all that the peo-
pie are doing amounts to nothing; all
that congress is doing amounts to
nothing; all the Coxey's are doing
amounts to nothing; produce, silver
and labor is nothing
Wolverine No. 3 gets in: "Gentle-
men, | am sorry to see man from
my own state so full of nothing.
Hasn't this Club blackened their own
reputation and the reputation of
everyone that had anything to do
with it, until | am almost ashamed to
acknowledge that | am member?
lie says the people are doing nothing.
| VIII ask if it is not fact that one
portion of the people are making
money by keeping the other portion
from doing anything? Has not Coxey
in less than two weeks time got fined,
walked on the grass, got into Jail and