The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-11-07

ZSth Will be attended by a great
crowd. Everybody seems to be in
tending to go.
Weiser Lodge No. II l. 0. O. F.
will hold its first meeting In the new
hall next Saturday, the 9th. All
members requested to be present.
A stove CRATE costing thirty five
cents in Leavenworth, Kansas, re-
quired ninety cents to pay transpor-
tation to Weser. That is fair sam
pie of the way the railroad compan-
les are skinning the country. N
II. A. Hitchcock is back from the
mountains and is on his ranch down
the Snake for the winter. He spent
the summer doing assessment work
on the claims of himself and John
Cobbs on Horse Mountain, and on
the Aurora. All are looking well,
The test run made by the Warrens
dredge showed the gravel to yield an
average of about 80 cents per cubic
yard The company will handle not
less than 1000 cubic yards a day
next season.
A club has been organized for
social amusement in Weser, and will
meet once q week in the l. o. o. +.
lodge room. At present thirty-two
members are enrolled The club will
hold its first gathering tomorrow
night. Meets tonight at Harvey's
office to adopt bylaws, etc
"Dd you observe, said a mer-
chant to customer, ''the handsome
advertisement | have had painted on
the - brdge?" ono, - replied the
customer, "but if you will send the
bridge around to my house | will try
and read the announcement. | have
read the papers and | havn't time to
90 around from place to place to read
the bill boards.
In all probability Holms, the noted
murderer, sojourned in Washington
county in 1888. A man of the same
name and initials and answering the
murderer's description in every way
travelled in this country representing
fraudulent insurance company. He
caught few for small sums o
money.
In the matter of Jerry Burke thu
state entered nolle prosequi and thu
defendant was dismissed. The sam,
evidence used in the conviction o
Allen was not as available now as a
that time. The witnesses in the ex
| animation of Allen got no fees, Their
is no provision for witness fees il
, any justice court, and this takes til
romance out of examinations for thos
who have testimony TO give.
Jimmie BARLEY will certainly b
president yet. The other day hi
father gave him five cents to 90 t
the train for a daily paper. II
marched into the train when it pulle
in and said he wanted paper
The news agent handed him a Bots
e Statesman. Jimmie threw it dow
in disgust, 81 don't want that,
: want WEIs Err SIGNAL"
Mr.. j. H. Williams called in an
ordered the SIGNAL and incidental
remarked that the "Flat'' had NJ
been slow in pushing along this SCI
SON. Mr. Williams has new hou'
y on the forty acres which he purchase
il of Charley Ross last May, and the
have been six or seven other dive
y lings built on Flat property the pa
% summer He expects to see an u
/ usually marked advancement in h
neighborhood next season. I
s. A letter from Warren to the edit
lie of the Idaho Free Press says: ct
a. steam shovel now at work on the o
Brooks & Mathison ground is We
Id pronounced success. The way
of plunges into the solid bank of 10 ft
ny or so of gravel is wonder to c
miners and Chinese alike. The SEQ
al holds "a cubic feet and would ra
&C that much about once minute if
n washing appliances were in ord
nm But the water is low in the cree
and no adequate preparations h
VI been made for washing this gr'
a amount of gravel or taking care
az the tailings. By the time anotl
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