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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
ABSORBED CITY FUNDS.

Cashier Thompson Did Not Confine His
Operations to Banks.
SEDALIA, Mo-, May 26.-Developments
indicate that the total of j. G. Thomp-
sons peculations will reach into the
hundreds of thousands. In 1889 the
Sedalia school board issued $40, COO in
bonds to take up former issues of bonds,
and appointed Thompson, cashier of
the First National Bank, their fnan-
cial agent. Thompson redeemed the
old bonds, but used them as collateral
for loans and kept the money. Legal
opinion is that the city must iquidate
both issues. Similar crooked trans
actions comes to light as the inquiry by
Bank Examiner L1timer progresses.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
AT IDAHO'S CAPITAL.


4rpOrt iOh1hent.
BOISE, Idaho, May 25.-At yesterdays
session the Grand Army encampment
elected the following officers: Com
mander, Il. ]. Groome OF Star; Senior
vice Commander, Peter Martin of Poca-
tello; Junior vice Commander, J. L.
Fuller of Bliss; Medical Director, G. B.
Beverly of Boise; Chaplain, c. N. FL
ton of Salugrtn; Council of Admins
tratlon, Lindal Smith of Moscow A. S.
Senter of Shoshone, w. p. Hard of
Boise, w. c. Maxey of Caldwell, c C.
Carpenter of Moscow; delegate to ma
tional encampment, X. A. Curtis of
Boise; alternate, w. A. Dodge of Black
foot. The next encampment will be
held at Coeur d'Alene City on the second
Wednesday in June, 1895.
The Grand Army encampment com
pleted It's session today and adjourned
after installing the new officers. A
resolution was adopted condemning the
Ellis history ia use in the public schools
iOi ITO VI paw AOhiS hiSubh VI INC QUIZ
ject of the rebellion.
The populist state central committee
has made the following apportionment
for the state convention to meet in
Boise August /: Ada s, Alturas s, Bear
Lake 6, Bingham 5, Boise 9, Bannock G,
Cassia 4, Canyon 7, Gilmore Fremont
G, Idaho 8, Kootenai r, Lltah 8, Lemhi
3, Logan 6, Nez Perez 4, Oneida 4, Owy-
hee A, Shoshone 8, Washington s; total
107. District officers and joint repre-
sentatives will be nominated at the
time of the state convention by dele
gates to the latter from the counties
interested. County conventions are
recommended to be held July % and
counties are asked to instruct their del
egates to vote on platform plank ia
voring equal suffrage. No proxies will
be admitted to the state convention un-
less held by resident of the county
represented and no person will be al
lowed 10 vote more than one proxy.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
LAPLANDERS AT KALISPELL
Fish Oil. Dogs and Bud Odor Permeate
the Train.

Fish OIL. Dogs and ID I'd Odor Permeate
the Train.
KAIIsPELL, Mont, May 25.-The dele
CATION of Laplanders imported by the
United States government from their
native land to go to Alaska to form
colony for the care of government rein
deer, arrived here last night in the pri-
vate sleeper Winnepeg. Owing to wash
outs west they could not proceed. They
will be taken east in the morning to
Helena and thence to Seattle. They
attracted great attention today as they
wandered about the streets, ana it was
amusing to see them and the Indians
trying to converse. W. A. Kyelman,
superlnt endent of government reindeer
at Port Clarence, is In charge of the
party. They have ten dogs. One died
crossing the ocean, another died yes
terday at Havre and one escaped here
today. The baggage car is filed with
their curious belongings and a strong
odor of fish oil emanates from their car.
They wear their native fur dress, re-
gardless of warm weather.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
THEY STRUNG HIM UP.
Livingston vigilantes Try to Extort Con-
fession From IA Negro.

Living ston vigilantes Try to Extort Con-
fession From IA Negro.
The following special from Living
ston appeared in the Anaconda Stand
ard:
At about 12 o'clock last night mob
of fifteen heavily masked citizens took
Eugene Turner, a 17-year-old colored
lad from his bed, placed a rope around
his neck and by stringing him up sew
eral times forced him to acknowledge
that he robbed the postofice Sunday
night. Asked what he did with the
money, he said he gave 1t 10 Charles
Williams, colored.
The mob then repaired to the New
YORK. house, called Williams from his
bed, anr with rope around his neck
fushed him through the rain in his
night clothes to Coughner's lumber
yard, not more than two blocks from
the postofiice. With eyes starting from
their sockets he pleaded for his life,
and strenuously maintained that he
knew nothing about the robbery. The
next second he was jerked from his
feet into the air. Upon being lowered
he again denied any knowledge of the
affair Again he was strung up, and
the mob kept him in the air this time
till he was more dead than alive. AS
soon as he was able to speak he again
denied that he was the guilty party.
Becoming convinced that the Turner
lad lied about it, the mob then escorted
Williams back to his room and ordered
him TO Stay till they called for him.
What the mob did with Turner is not
known. The boy has not since been
seen.
Williams is an honest, hard working
man, and proposes to swear out war
rants for would-be vigilantes whom he
says he knows. The pseudo lynching is
denounced in no measured terms as an
outrage
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
DOES NOT KILL MRS. LEASE


She Is Closely Guarded and FL s Sent
Her Are Thrown AcL.y.
OLATHE, Kan, May 26.-The appear
ance of the Minnesota crank who has
threatened the life of Mary f Lease,
was anticipated. Unusual precaution
was taken In guarding the premises of
the state deaf and dumb institution, es-
pecially the halls leading from the
rooms occupied by Mrs. Lease, where
she lies seriously Ill, suffering from
fever aud nervous prostration. A sus-
picious looking character made his APP
pearance at the institution this afte +
noon with large bouquet of flowers to
be given to Mrs. Lease. Fearing the
flowers might contain poisonous per
fumes they we're thrust aside and the
stranger hurriedly excluded from the
premises. Mrs. Leases present condi.
tion, in fact, is largely due to being
constantly ANNOYED by the threatening
letters received from unknown crauks,
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
RIVER IS COMING UP.
The spokane is Now Three Inches Higher
Than Ever Before.

The spokane Is Now Three Inches Higher
Than Ever Before.
SPOKANE, May 2G.-The river rose
about an inch and half last night and
gained another inch this forenoon. 1t
is now said to be about three inches
higher than 1t was in 1890. The Mis-
sion street and Dennis & Bradley bridges
have been tied with cables so that If
washed out they will swing in to snore
and not float down stream and cause
jams at other bridges. All the rest were
pronounced safe this morning.
The water is still creeping around
more houses in Peaceful valley and on
Havermale island, but has done no dam
age except to wash away firewoo tubs
and chicken coops and drive people out
of their homes.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
PINNED DOWN BY CLAY.
A Slide at Tacoma Kills Two Well Known
Men.

A Slide ut Tacoma Kills Two Well Known
Men,
TACOMA, May ga large cave-in &C.
Cured at the bluffs near the wharves
this afternoon. Two men were killed
and two Injured. The dead are Major
w. T. Gillespie, a well known mining
man; Arnold Berrenberg, stationary
engineer, aged 40. The center OF the
bluff, 10 feet high. had been washed out,
leaving ovcrhanging an immense piece
of blue clay. This came down almost
in lump. The workmen got away, the
killed and injured being spectators.
Berrenberg's body was taken ont Is
minutes later, Gillespie's in two hours,
it being pinned down by piece of blue
clay, weighing % tons.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
COXEYITES TO MEET.
Leadt re- to Gather in Des Moines to Form
uiafe National Organization.


uisfe National Organization.
DIES MONIES. May ga scheme is on
foot TO perpetuate the commonweal
movement. A meeting of the leaders
will be held ia Des Moines soon 10 form
national association. The Olney
brothers and others of 507 Mulberry
street, have charge of the local end of
the movement, and this evening at
meeting in Trades Assembly hall many
laboring men signed an agreement to
join the contemplated association.
The Olney brothers say there are al
ready local associations in San Fran
cisco, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City,
Ogden, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Paul,
Cleveland, Columbus, and in fact many
of the large cities of the country. They
say that the order, which is to be of
political nature, will be as rapid in its
growth as the A. p. A, but, unlike that
order, will have nothing to do with re-
ligious subjects. 1t will invite the la
boring and poorer classes to gather
and force congress and state legisla-
lures to accede to their demands.
Within two or three days call will be
issued for national convention to be
held here, at which some fifty promot-
ers of the movement, which they say
will sweepthe country and exterminate
the two old political parties, will be
present and form a national association.
The association already has 500 mem
bers in Des Molnes. 1t /. proposed to
have county, state and national bodies
and, according to the two brothers, it is
the biggest movement of the masses
this country has ever seen. OF course
General j B. Weaver and his friends
are in it, but as yet are in the back
ground.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
BUTTE WAS A LIAR.


The Senate Bribery Committee Makes
Their Report.
WAsHINGToN, May 25-The report of
the senate committee to investigate the
charges of attempt to bride senators to
vote against the tariff bill was sub
mitted to the senate today. The re-
port after reciting Butiz's prefer of
money to the son of Senator Hunton
and to Senator Kyle says:
"Your committee Is abundantly JUS
tilted In stating facts then established
by the evidence, notwithstanding the
denial Of Charles w. Butte. There Is
no evidence of truth in RuttEs state
ment to Senator Kyle and Eppa Hun
ton, Jr., that syndicate had raised a
sum to be used for the purpose of de-
feating the pending bill, or that there
was an agent of such a syndicate in
Washington or money in Washington
for that purpose.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
Was Aided to Escape.

BLuEFIELDs, Nicaragua, May Oar
guello, the murderer of the American,
Wilson, has escaped, and the Ameri-
cans are indignant. They charge the
Spanish officials with collision and
trickery. Even high American officials
discredit the good faith of the Nicara-
guans. General Lacayo says the escape
of the prisoner at this time is very en-
barrassing TO Nicaragua and that fifty
men are searching for him. On the
other hand the natives say Arguellos
wife visited him on the day of his
escape and gave him 500 with which
to leave the country.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31

LEAD, S. d., May 26.-Thomas John
son, in the jewelry business here, was
shot through the heart by revolver in
the hands OF Minnie Van Aiken early
yesterday morning. Johnson and the
girl had been keeping company for
some time, and he was insanely Jealous
of attentions shown her by others. 1t
is alleged that Johnson insisted on an
immediate marriage, and upon her re-
fusal be shot at her, missing his mark.
10 return she drew revolver, and her
aim was so true that the first bullet
killed him.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31

PORTLAND, May 25.-Prevalling warm
weather has melted the snow in the
mountains, causing the waters of the
Columbia and Willamette to rise until
they now stand twenty-three feet above
low water mark. All the lower wharves
In the city have been abandoned. Ad-
vices from the upper Columbia state
that the river Is rising rapidly.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
HANKS is FREE AGAIN.

The Jury Found That lie Was Innocent
of the Crime Charged
HELENA, May 26.-rhe jury In the
case of win Hanks, charged with mis-
apply ing the funds of the Merchants
National Bank of Great Falls, returned
a verdict of not guilty. This is the re-
suit of one of the longest trials of re-
cent years in Montana court. and the
verdict seems to meet with general APP
probation. 1t is believed that new
trial will now be granted to Harry
Bachelor, with the more than probable
result OF his acquittal
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31

LONDON, May 26-The Pail Mall Ca
zette publishes two column story of
alleged grievances of Nouri, the arch
deacon of Babylon, who claims to be
wrongly placed In the asylum at Oak
land, Cal by DR.. G. Smith of San Fran
cisco and others. The arch-deacon an
nounces his intention of suing the
United Stalls government for $780,
600 damages as he was ambassador
from the Queens Malabar subjects.
He demanded the intervention of Great
Britain.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
two Buried cities Found.

MAPIMI, Mexico, May 2G.-The Amcrl-
can aicheologists, who went to the re-
Gently discovered deserted city In the
Sierra Madre mountains, have found
another hidden city five Spanish leagues
north of the first. Leader c. w. Pantion
says these cities are evidently twin cap
itAls OF wealthy district long before
the Aztecs. Two connected underground
passages hewn out of solid rock have
been discovered.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31

WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator Per-
kins has introduced bill in the SEN
ate intended to grant the use of the
Springfield rifles and their equipments
now on hand for the use of the regular
army to the military of the various
states and territories. These arms are
to be distributed upon the requisition
of the various states. but are to remain
the property of the United States.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 20 Governor
Alteeld yesterday received a telegram
from the sheriff of williamson county
saying that 300 miners from Murphys-
borough, many armed, arrived at Car
terville this morning and encamped
within half 4 mile OF the St. Louis &
Big Muddy Coal comPany's works,
threatening 10 destroy them and kill
the manager and uperintendent. Gov.
ernor Altgeld declined TO send troops.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
To Pat Lead On the Free List.

WASHINGTON, May &c Senator Hill
has notified Senator Dubois that he in
tends to move to put lead ore on the
free list. Dubois and Teller consulted
the members OF the finance committee,
who assured them they would defend
the duty Of three quarters of a cent per
pound.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-05-31
Going Via Milwuukee.

MADISON, Wis, May 26 Fifty Mon
tana commonweealers arrived today
from Prairie Du Chine under command
of John d. Wilson. They wifi 20 to
Chicago via the Milwaukee railroad.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-26
TO SECURE AMuLETs.

Reason Why Primeval Men Cut Holes In
the Skulls of Their Dead.
We are disposed rather to accept DIR.
Broca's first suggestion than the last,
and to regard trepanning among the
prehistoric men as having had a thera-
peutic motive, says the Popular Science
Monthly.
The perforation of the tomb was al
most certainly intended as a door of
eAlL Tor spirits. Even IN later times,
when the dead were burned, holes were
often bored or knocked in the urns that
contained the ashes, for the same pur-
pose. Some cinerary urns have been
found with little windows, as it were,
made in them, and a piece of glass
placed over the hole. Macrobius, in
his Saturnalia, quotes an Etruscan be-
lief that door should be opened for
the spirits to pass IN and out.
The writer remembers case of dy-
ing woman some few years ago in Sus-
sex. She was gasping, and apparently
was undergoing the last struggle in
great distress. The nurse went to the
window and opened it. AT once the
dying woman breathed deeply and eX-
pired. The writer said to the nurse
''Why did you open the Window
The answer given was: Surely you
wouldn't have her soul go up the chin
ney?"
One can understand how that, if a
piece of skull had been regarded as in
contact with-a demon or spirit, it would
be respected as an amulet, and that sc
the rondelles removed from the heads
of men who had been subject to epf
leptic fits would acquire a virtue in the
eyes of the ignorant and superstitious.
and be employed as charms. And this
seems to be both the simplest and
most Ineligible explanation of hole.
pierced heads, and of the wearing OF
the portions removed from those heads
by men and women who had not them
selves been trepanned.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-26
JINRIkSHA SERVICE.
Three Thousand Japs May Wheel Their
Carts About the Park.

Three Thousand Japs May Wheel Their
Carts About the Park.
Those who looked with so much curl
osity upon the two jinrikshas, intro
1uced into Chicago last summer by an
anterprising merchant, and which were
sent back to Japan because they were
thought to interfere with alien contract
law, will be interested to learn that
there may be fifteen hundred or per-
haps two thousand of the same ve-
hicles at Jackson park next year.
At the meeting Of the ways and
means committee recently the matter
was discussed, and it was decided not
to take final action until it was learned
whether it would be possible to i'm
port the jinrikshas without again
clashing with the law. There is in
America sentiment against allowing
human being to convert himself into
beast of burden. The Japanese en-
)erer also opposes the idea that his sub
ects are to take degraded position be-
ore the world. And if the jinril<shas
are introduced both of these opposing
elements must be overcome.
AS a matter.of fact, the opposition to
the jinriksha is by many considered
mere prejudice. At Jackson park they
would prove of great service. The
Japs who propel them are hardy little
fellows, who can travel further in day
and keep up harder pace longer than
a horse can. They are all intelligent,
and they would find their way along
the boulevards in an easy manner and
would avoid a crush. If they are
brought into service blockade will
never occur, and persons using them
will be able to get about the grounds
easier than with carriage ard horses.
If it is decided to bring the jinrilsha
into use not less than fifteen hundred of
them will he imported. 1t is probable
that this legal question will be at once
referred to Attorney Carlisle, and as he
decides SO will the committee act.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-26
IN A DILEMMA.

The gold reserve has run down stead
lily, until at present it is barely $60,O00,-
900, or $40, 600, 900 below the amount re-
quired. 1t is considerably lower than
when the bond issue was made few
months ago, and the situation is becom-
ing decidedly annoying to the admins
tration. To issue more bonds would be
to raise storm of indignation, for the
practice in times of peace is generally
condemned, and yet unless the banks
come to the rescue and turn in gold for
treasury notes, this will have to be
done. With any further shrinkage of
the reserve fund, gold will probably go
to premium, and once there, it will
probably stay. Under the law 1t is the
duty of the q. S. treasurer to maintain
the parity between silver and gold, but
unless bonds are sold, this he cannot do.
1t looks as though the bond issue was
going to be forced, and if so, that our
democratic friends will have their wesa-
ther eye dressed in another suit OF
mourning. A party with full power of
raising revenues for the country at its
disposal, that cannot collect enough
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-26
OUR TURN NEXT.

The assassination of President Carnot
was a cowardly cruel and wanton crime.
He was beloved by his countrymen, and
looked up to as an exceptionally strong
leader. 1t is, proper to note that his
murderer is a foreigney one who had no
interest in France, and who could not
speak its language. That a similar crime
will be committed, or attempted here,
is almost a certainty. The commission
of one such crime invariably causes
some crank to try to duplicate it. One
result of Carnot's death will be the ex-
pulsion from France of great number
of foreigners, and that example should
be followed here. Today armies are
kept in this country, for the purpose of
intimidating armed bands of Slavs and
Hungarians, and to prevent them from
numbering American citizens whose only
ofense is thai they desire to work at
jobs the other fellows want to control.
If this government will profit by the
warning from France and instead of
bargaining with lawless foreigners, use
force upon them and expel them from
the country, it will do well. There are
plenty of people of the old world, who
come here and make good peaceable,
patriotic citizens. For such there is
plenty of room, and plenty of welcome !;
but for the class that has colonized the
coal and iron regions, who neither learn
our language nor our laws, who defy the
authorities and raise perennial hi
there is neither room nor excuse. The
people are to blame, for congress will
take no action until it is backed up by
public sentiment, expressed in party
platforms. Heretofore on account of the
foreign vote, both old parties have been
afraid to broach the subject, and in so.
doing both have been guilty of cowardice.
The respectable foreign-born Citizen is
just as much opposed to the lawless
element as the native-bor citizen can
be. His liberties, his property and his
rights are just as much at stake as
though he had been born here and he
will vote just as. quickly to stop the
further coming of the lawless horde as
anyone. The party that insists upon
the stopping of immigration generally
and of the lawless classes particularly
is the party that is going to win. Itl
will not get the vote of the mobs of
Pennsylvania or of the Gogebic range
but it will catch the vote of the Ameri-
can and the law abiding foreign born
citizen. 1t must be DONE, and wisdom
would dictate that it be done before this
nation like France finds itself mourning
the loss of its chief executive, murdered
by foreign-born anarchist.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-26
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

Representative Geary has drafted a
bill providing for government aid in
constructing the Nicaragua canal. It
provides that the government shall sub
scribe for 100000 shares out of total
of $50, 1000, the value of which at par
wonld be $7O,000,O0O. 1t further pro-
vides that the president shall appoint
eight of the eleven directors, and that
the governments shares shall be pro-
tected by first mortgage on the canal.
a sinking fund is provided {in. the bilD
and the whole scheme is elaborately
worked out that the canal will pay off
all the governments interest by 1924.
1t strikes us that if the government
is to put up seven-eighths of the money
and turn the proceeds over TO the COM
pany, that it would be a stroke of bust
ness policy to put up the other eighth
and own it itself. 1t really looks as
though this country had had object les
sons enough in building railroads for
other people, taking paper sinking funds
and pretty promises for security, and
that congress, especially in these times
of a depleted treasury, will hesitate a
long time before presenting the Nicara-
qua canal ring $40 200, 900.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-26

Adjutant-Genera Tarsney of Colorado,
was kidnapped by half dozen masked
men recently, being knocked senseless
with club, hurried into carriage and
rapidly driven away. His captors tarred
and feathered him before letting him
go. It was one of the most cowardly
and brutal .outrages that has occurred in
this country, and is another indication
of the trend of Americanism, run by
people who being given an asylum here
are not willing to obey the laws of the
country