The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-04-05

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claims to be 204 years old.
The Methodist revival at Dallas, Or,
has resulted in some IT'S conversions.
Insurance men have offered reward
of $3.50 for the incendiary of Walla
Walla's recent fires,
Grant county's bridge across the North
Fork at Canyon City is to be of steel,
and will cost $500
Report comes from Weston that three
of the bridges there have been swept
away by high water.
Mrs. w. j. May was put up by the
populists for school superintendent In
Tillamook county, Oregon.
The postoffice department has refused
the request for a mail route between
Waterville and Coulee City.
AL Ruhman Is tired OF leila Nicolaus
and is said TO have left Wabash, Ind.
with her sister, Mrs. Witherbee.
Reform has struck Port Townsend
and committee of FIVE is on the high
road to retrenchment suggestions.
Work Is about to begin on the third
and last bridge of the Northwest Di-
agonal road, Bellingham bay. 1t is to
be 500 feet long
Horticultural Commissioner Maxey
has found the San Jose scale in good
many Yakima orchards, and will en-
force the law.
The snow on the summit of the Cas-
cades is higher than the tops of the
telegraph poles along the line of the
Great Northern.
Emily Rhodes has been awarded S3,-
600 damages at Mount Vernon against
William Hamilton for seduction under
promise of marriage.
p. j. Cowley was fined 500 for con-
tempt Of court at New Whatcom. He
had been talking about Judge VIM,
who imposed the fine.
Walla Walla bemoans the absence of
flowers for Easter, but draws solace
from the fact that the cold spring means
the salvation of the fruit crop.
1t is costing Whatcom $75 to feed the
oxen and watch the logs, which are
covered by the citys blanket attach
ment on the Isensee property.
Comptroller Eckles says If certain
conditions are complied with the
Columbia National bank, Whatcom, will
be permitted to reopen within 80 days
Three men of the Northern Pacific
Mil company, at Prescott, have been
arrested on a charge of destroying the
mill dam at that place. The trouble /.
the GU growth of a water.power war.
Five Townsend boys have been ar
rested for some unusually bold FRANKS
They broke the windows of the new
brick school house and upset things
generally, doing considerable damage.
The Northern Pacific has issued a
neat little pamphlet giving valuable
information regarding the Yakima val
ley. 1t is handsomely Illustrated and
Will be extensively circulated through
out the eastern states.
Ex-Treasurer A. H. Smith, of the
Pullman -gricultural college regents,
has filed his appeal and supersedas bond
for S3G, 900 in the suit against him of ].
w. Stearns, the present treasurer, for
Sl7,5oo, which Smith refused to turn
over
Some 200 head OF he, cattle and 100
head of hogs have arrived In Baker
City from Pine, Union county, and If no
market is found a shipme emit will be
made east. The cattle and hogs are
owned by various farmers of the Pine
valley section.
The preliminary hearing of Ned
Waterman, the Skokomish Indian, for
the murder of Syrian peddler, Nadir,
near Hoodsport, in September, was con-
cluded at Shelton. He was bound over
to the superior court with bail set at
$4,000.
Prosser Falls has a unique advertise
ment in the shape of big sign board
thirty feet long by ten feet eigh, stand
ing so that 1t can be seen from the rail.
road, and upon 1t the following, in big,
black letters, appears: "Thus saith
the Lord; Make this valley full of
bitches. Ye shall not see rain, neither
shall We see mud yet the valley shall
be filled with water, that ye, your ami.
mails and your beasts may drink-II
Kings, iii;16."
High Water I'm Latah County.
MOSCOW, March 31.-The water in