The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-03-08

rlie DIT the NedH bay luuian agency
destroyed the girls dormltory.
The Bankers association of Califor-
MIA Is in session at San Francisco
Prospecting for coal Is being carried
on at several points in the Olympics.
Hull, the Oregon murderer, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
I 1.-THE whaleback being built at Everett,
Wash, is to be completed this summer.
Snohomsh county, Wash, collected
$50, 900 in taxes up to the 18th of Feb.
The Catholic ladies' of Old Tacoma
have given 2.732 free dinners this win
ter.
Mount Vernon, Wash, will purchase
a hook-and-ladder truck for its fire de-
partment.
-Four tons Of fish were shipped from
Aberdeen to the eastern market in one
day last week.
Oaly 1000 ont of the is, 900 Chinese
located in southern California have so
far registered.
Seattle, 1t is announced, is to have an
iron furnace and freight car shops, en-
poy ing over 900 men.
Chehalis county, Wash, has tax
payers association whose object is
economy In public affairs.
The secretary of state OF Washington
will soon issue small pamphlet setting
forth the resources of the state.
Edward Charles Brislcy, three years
old, was killed at Snohomlsh, Wash
by falling into boiler of hot water.
William M. Nelson, a well known law
yer, lecturer and editor of San Francis
co, is penniless In that city and dying
Six of the eight contraband China
men captured near Port Townsend few
days ago, have been ordered deported.
Sheriff Matthews of Pierce county,
Wash, has returned to Tacoma from
Baltimore without Hart, the Buckle
absconding banker.
The works at the United Concentra-
tion company's works at the Monte
Crlsto mines, are completed and reduc-
ing will soon begin.
The Pacific Coast Salmon Fishing Co.,
has been Incorporated In San Francisco
to do business in Oregon, Washington,
Alaska and California.
The Tacom News is authority for the
statement that the city employees of that
city are being systematically assessed
for the coming municipal campaign.
Errors in the Pierce county, Wash,
assessment have been detected amount
ing To between 100000 and $500. 900.
This will result In refndipg taxpayers
SIS 900.
Governor McGraw has withdrawn the
nomination of Mrs. Julia Il. Smart to be
assistant state librarian. the nomination
not having been confirmed by the libra
ry board.
There is dispute over the member
ship on the school board of North Yak
ina that will have to be settled In the
courts. Eshelman and Saylor are the
contestants.
Yakima declines to abandon its state
fair in order to help out the Tacoma
enterprise. 1t has spent slo,o 900, raised
by subscription, and 900 of state
money, and win go ahead. All the fruit
in the Washington building at the worlds
fair is there and will not be permitted
to so to Tacoma until after the state
fair is ended.
In recent Spanish book of travel,
"Costumbres Yankees: Wales por la
America del Norte.n by Jose Sanchez
Somoano, Is the following account of
the origin of Boston Common: "a
great phllantrophist, named Common
nad the happy idea of presenting the
children of Boston with a leafy grove
of great frees"
An Industrious Minneapolis Thief.
MINNEAPOLIS, March Phil Scheig,
ex-tiller of the Bank of Minneapolis,
has practically completed the confes-
sion OF his gigantic steal from the bank,
admitting the embezzlement of over
$4,000. One of the strange features /
ofthe case Is that he robbed the bank |
OF $50, 600 prior to January /, 1898. The |
bank people discovered this, blu: Scheig /
was re-employed at an increased salary /
and got away with an additional S73. 900.