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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29
HOW DID YOU GIT BURNED9

The SIGNAL expects the support Of
all classes. and liberal share at that
1t is source of local news and gen
eral happenings to the farmer, who
knows that knowledge is power, and
that even knowledge of local hap
penings empowers him to seek and
find opportunities that would other
wise pass him by on the other side.
1t is source of comfort to the
reader who desires to see the princi-
pies of right boldly spoken, wrong
exposed and the banner of manhood
waved vigorously. 1t is a firm sup
porter of every means Of securing
peace, plenty and prosperity.
Are there many who are not yet
persuaded of the truths of any prin-
ciple we have taken stand upon?
We expect their support They are
still discontinued; the sources of dis
satisfaction are still active in the
hearts of men who refuse to see or
think
We hold up the dark spots of all
parties. If it happens to be your
party, support us and help clean the
spots.
If you don't like our style or irr-
CATION, we expect your patronage,
because if you don't look the matter
up closely you may get burned, and
need water to cool Off with The
pain of the fire the burned child
breads is keen enough, God knows.
We are here to find for these a solu-
ton to the following question.
How did you get burned?
In the solution of any burning
question the SIGNAL is not fighting
men, but FIGHTING FOR MEN. The
earth should be the peoples oyster
and, in the arid regions, water the
sword with which to open it, but the
people are the oyster now, and we
know that corporations have dug
such oysters up and eaten them soul
and body.
The SIGNAL tells without fear the
conditions of the country and its
needs. Its opinions are based on
facts, the hardest nuts to break on
the face of the earth. 1t wishes the
people to read, study and examine
with elaboration. 1t is working for
the success and happiness of all
classes, and that's why it expects
support from all quarters.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29
Notice Of Hearing of Petition.

In the Probate Court of Washington
County. State of Idaho. In the m tier
of the estate of John Mccullough, de-
ceased.
Order appointing day for settlement of
account and hearing petition to sell per-
sonal property and directing notice to
be given.
Rebecca j. Mccullough. executrix of
the estate OF joni Mccullough. deceased,
having this day presented for settlement
and filed in this court her first annual ac-
count of her administration of said estate;
and having also this day filed petition
praying for an order to sail certain live
stock aud certain warrants of the Counties
of Baker and Malheur in the State of Or
egon. belonging to said estate, for the
purpose of making an equitable and just
distr button of the said estate among the
several legatees thereof:
1t is ordered that all persons interested
in said estate appear before the Probate
Court of the County of Washington. State
of Idaho, at Weiser in said county. ON
Monday the End day of September, 1898.
at 10 O'Clock \. NJ. then and there to show
cause why said petition for order of sale
should not be granted.
And il is further orderd that a copy of
this order be kept in the next three issues
of the Welser Signal, and that copy of
this order be sent by REGISTERED mail to
each of the residuary legatees OF said es-
tate a. least 20 days before said % day
of September. lS05.
r. Z. MARYATT, Judge.
Dated August 9th. 1895.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

modities went direct to the farmers
and laborers Of the land who do not
work in factories and operate big
mills. In fact, so much saved to
our home communities instead of
being paid out in dividends to east
ern syndicates and trusts. 1t would
be refreshing to see some of those
very influential newspapers, who are
so devoted to and solicitous regarding
the interests Of the eastern working
man and his owner, the manufact-
urer, devote an occasional word to
the interests of our home workers
and capitalists The reduction of
the tariff, as little as it was, has ben
Gifted the west wonderfully and has
brought the price of many articles of
every day use somewhere near what
our protected manufacturers have
been selling the same things for in
other countries. But for an Idaho
paper to be continually howling about
high or low tariff is like Mrs Parting
ton sweeping back the ocean with her
broom. We have local ills that re-
quire all our local attention and the
greatest is the railway tariff, for be-
yond all question exorbitant railway
charges have done more to keep
Idaho and this county back and pau
perize our communities in the last
ten years than any national tariff has
or can do in thousand The fact
is, as n people we of the wet are a
long ways behind on our home bust
ness and the sooner we realize it and
get down to n true conception of the
situation and allow the eastern man
ufacturer to fight his own battles, the
better for us, and this cannot be done
so long as we are run by gang of
very rotten politicians who put party
above principle, and that only for the
purpose of maintaining a status that
makes their position merchantabe
and available for the very corpora
tons that are stealing the state poor
Don't get dust in your eyes
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29
LONG RANGE CHARITY.

This world is full of people who
are big with sympathy for some other
people, provided they live in different
localities, and the further removed
the greater the apparent interest
taken and the greater the effort made
to advance their ideas. This class of
individuals seem to look at social
objects through moral telescope
sighted on plane that overlooks
immediate surroundings and brings
into the range of their vision remote
objects, and the distance lends en-
chantment and makes them insensi-
BILE to the discordant sounds and
noxious carnations incident to closer
relations. For instance, the evan
gelical enthusiast will sight his tele-
scope on some remote corner of the
earth and overlook an unlimited field
for practical good at his feet. But
this class of henefactors have the
merit of generally being prompted
by honest motives. Another class of
telescope Investigators are those who
in a political way are always able to
see the pecuniary interest of any and
all classes except the people they live
among and from whom they draw
their subsistence. Any move in
national affairs that detracts even by
implication from the material inter
ests of the manufacturer in the east
is Immediately taken up and the in
terests of the working man in some
factory is made the cats paw to pull
the chestnuts out of the fire. Sta
tlstics of importations under the
Wilson bill for the year are being
published and as given (no one knows
how near correct they are) show an
increase of several million dollars in
silk, cotton and woolens, aud then
it is taken for granted that all this
is direct loss to American working
men, never taking into account that
there must have been corresponding
amount Of reciprocity somewhere in
in the transactions incident TO so
great volume of business, and the
most important part of all, that the
direct benefits Of these cheap com
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29
Notice of Hearing. of Petit
ton for Isi@ht-Of-Way
for. "a Ditch.

- nj
Notice is hereoy gwen tnat on lne loIh
day OF july, 1919. the Nalley irrigation
Company corporation OF tne county OF
washington. STATE OF idaho' nled ils peu-
tloh praying Tor the appointment OF thrre
appraisers TO ascertain the compensation
to be made to persons over ana across
whose lands lhe ditch or canal hereinafter
mentioned VIII pass ana VINO refuse 10
allow the passage thereol over ana across
their lands
mat the dltch or canal proposed 10 De
constructed oy the petitioner ana lor
which the appointment oil appraisers is
asked IS TO head from the norlherlN oahN
Oh lhe Neiser river III section one toWn-
snip ten north. range nVe west ana HOW
IN westerly direction 10 point on w arm
springs creek III seclloh sixteen, to"hsnip
eleNeh norln' range SIN west Doise 'lIeriu-
IAN. all III the SAD county OF NaSnlhgtoh'
and IN It's course IS TO pass over ana across
commencing at Inc heau ana lollowlnS
down ana westerly, the lamds OF L; ~
galloway N Nllllains' MARY a. w u
n LA estate OF 1co.t ohaw' decesseu' ~
Werts' DaVlu MadlNoh' - L. oIearer'
NorVal uorrle' ny nh''l rerNlhs' MSron
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COMPANY MARY hanai nan, NliI HHl a.
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H. NJ Dlchersoh NJ ., DlcNersoh' MAI
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sln "n 10. Aion]U lieinehw"y' H. H. Anoiias
a" ~ 'ohii MuiioN'
nat II appears rom lhe saiu petltioh
that some Oh the persons over whose lahus
tlle 'ine Vi lne Sit u'tch or ca'i"l passes
refuse 10 aio" 'he passase Vi the sal''
o",lai Ut u''cli through anu across .heir
Salu mnus' ana IL Is alie@'u oy s''lu petl,
.lon .hat u Is lherelore necessary ana
proper 'nal such appraisers DC appointeu
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

Finally, is not many an otherwise i'm
pecunious lawyer who defends the whole
brood OF monopolists, prosperous because
he gets government ''helpT
Don't you think you would be
prosperous if government would
"help" you to a monopoly of some
thing the people were compelled to
use (say the water of our streams for
instance)?
The fact is, the fellows who are
being "helped' by the government
rather enjoy the "help;" they live
sumptuously and die comfortably
They have seized upon government
for their own advantage The
masses ought TO force little "help'
for the general benefit.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

in vogue; then shootings; then stab
bings, throat cuttings and razor CASH
ings; then a string of bloody butch
eries-wives, children, whole families
Drained and chopped with axes or
other heavy weapons and rooms
smeared, ceiling, floor and wall, with
human gore; now a series of mystic
rious murders, bodies slowed away in
trunks, shipped in barrels, etc then
a fash of startling crimes like the
Emmanuel church, Holmes of Chi
cago and others; then there is rage
of suicide. Almost every year has
a style of crime peculiar to it, a sort
of annual which overruns the coun-
try, and often does not bloom again.
The mental question comes upon us,
sis not measure of this traceable
to the sensational accounts in the
papers?" Unquestionably the press
has great deal to do with these
epidemics. Let a newspaper once
give detailed and sensational &C
count of some out-of-th way atrocity
that Las the charm of being novel,
and certain depraved minds fasten to
it like leeches They brood over and
revolve 1.-THE idea grows up hor-
rid phantasmal monomania; and all
of sudden in a hundred different
places the seed sown by the leaden
types springs up into foul towering
Sometimes even, when some terrible
notoriety IS given to a particularly
startling offence, it leads persons of
dstempered fancy to accuse them
selves of it, as in the Durant case,
where crazy man claimed to be the
murderer of Minnie Williams and
Dlancne Lamont, when III was proved
he could not possibly have done it
If the first aboriginal crime has been
attended with impunty, how much
does the initiative faculty cling to it?
lll-judged mercy falls, not like dew,
but like a great heap of manure on
the rank deed In tie famous Cor
don Brown killing in Kentucky re-
Gently, the slayer of his wife and her
partner was turned free at his exami-
nation without trial in the courts, and
within ten days the dispatches re-
ported another killing by black
smith in the same state for the same
causes, though we do not remember
how the latter offender Jared, if re-
ported at all
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at Boise City, Idaho

Land Office at Boise City, Idaho,
August II, 1895.
Complaint having been entered at this
office by John A. Ross Jr. against VIM
H. Mason for abandoning his Homestead
Entry No. 1864, dated June IA. 1892. up
on the nwl section "A, tip IL n, r 6 W. in
Washington county, Idaho. with a view
to the cancellation of said entry, the said
parties are hereby summoned to appear
before the clerk of the Probate Court of
Washington county on the LIST day of
October, 1895, at 10 o'clock. a m, to re-
spond and furnish testimony concerning
said alleged Abandonment. Hearing on
the testimony in this case will be had AT
the U. S. Land Office Boise city, Idaho
on October 10Th. 1895.
MILTON G.. CAGE, Receiver.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29
THE SWEEP OF CRIME.

The criminal courts are busy grinding
out their grists. the newspapers are filed
with accounts of crime and the procession
bids fair To wreck the treasures of cities.
counties and states and fill the prisons
with people who could have but would
not draw back in time. There is IA sucker
born every minute and fool twice as
often. -Cayuse.
And did you ever notice that at
some periods there seems to be a
special epidemic Of crime, and that
often some particular species of
crime runs through the list of brutal
deeds. 1t flares its season and then
burns out Thus at one time poison
ings and strange disappcarances are
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29
GOVERNMENT HELP.

In an exchange we find the follow
ing, credited to II paper called the
Coming Nation:
You have heard some smart and
important meu declare that govern
meDt cannot help the people" haven I
you? Did you ever think about this?
Did you ever try to find out whether
these very men We're not themselves being
helped by government Let us look at
II and be honest:
Are not national banks prosperous be-
cause they have government help
Are not bondholders prosperous be-
cause they have government help.
Are not the thieving trusts and schem-
ing syndicates prosperous because they
have government help
Are not the owners tseldom the invent
or Of valuable patents prosperous be-
cause they have government "helpg"
Are not those who hold ,aluable land
ont Of use and set legal ownership above
natural ownership prosperous because
tbry have government help,
Are not the ownrrs Of street railways
and gas plants and electric light plants
prosperous because they have government
-lalr,'
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

A circular called the weather
Report comes to us regularly from
Idaho Falls, and has been coming for
months. 1t tells us what the weather
was like two weeks ago. We don't
want it and never did 1t gives one
the stomach ache and we never open
1t, never bring it from the postofflce
1t is simply cost to tax payers that
ought to be abolished with other
useless pests
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

In the Probate Court State of Idaho,
county Of Washington.
Notice for Publication of Time appointed
for proving will in the matter OF the
estate of John Kent, deceased.
Pursuant to an order of said court,
made on the 18th day of August A. ID.
1895. notice is hereby given. that Satur-
day. the 3lst day of August, A. d. 1873,
at 10 o'clock, a IN. of said day, at the
court room Of said court, at Weiser in the
county of Washington has been appoint
ed as the time and place for proving the
will of said John Kent deceased. and for
hearing the application of Samuel Kent
and B. S. Howe for the issuance to them
of letters testamentary when and where
any person interested may appear and
contest the same
Dated August s, 1895.
35-5 r. p MARYATT, Clerk.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29
COMPLETELY CRUSHED.

The Sun, of Clay Center, Nebras-
ka, is furiously mad and squirms
like a stuck hog at our reference to
its weekly supply of gold bug sup
plements, which doesn't cost it red
cent but is furnished from the head,
quarters Of the gold robbers who are
squeezing the life out Of the country.
We did not know we were puncturng
such a bag of foul mir, but this is
only the reward of our own intrepid
ity and rashness The Sun does us
up beautifully with its sound gold
bug logic of "knave," sass, " ''big
fool, " "little fool sold fool and
''young fool, and other of the reg
ular stock of gold bug arguments, the
only style ever used except vicious
falsehood and misstatement The Sun
doesn't deny that it gets its supple
ments furnished prepaid without
red cent of cost to it, The point
brought out by our reference was
that a deep interest must be involved
to cause the blood suckers to estab-
fish bureau from which readyprints'
are supplied free to all papers vile
enough to use their slop; that this in
terest must be to themselves to move
them to do ali this at their own ex-
pense: that this interest is solely and
simply to teach gold standard prin-
ciples that it may be maintained,
holding their gold dollars up to pres
ent value of 200 cents,
The Sun has nothing, either, to
say regarding the unity of interests
between Nebraska and the neighbor-
ing mining states.
We had figured out that silver was
at 1929 when it was demonetized
and had not then the 50-cent excuse
that it did not fall until after it was
stabbed in the back as money and be-
came mere commodity that if gold,
instead of silver, had been demone-
TIED and made a commodity it
would in these % years have also de-
creased in value in the same proper
ton that silver has and efforts to get
it back to its old place would be des-
ignated as wild attempt to get a 90
cent gold dollar legislated into 100
cents; that there was no justice in
making a comparison between silver
dehased INTO simple commodity
and gold with coinage backing; that
they must both have the coinage
privilege or both be mere commodities
to be equitably compared. But the
Suns divine logic of "knave' and
good gold bug argument that we are
an lass convinces us. Kiss us,
Sun and make up.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29


We have letter, received few
days ago, in our office enquiring for
land in the vicinity of Weser, prices,
etc. The writer winds up with, allow
nbout the water does it belong to the
land or will | have to buy from a
corporation ditch?" The time is
here, and stretches along the path of
the future, when the first question Of
every intelligent buyer will be- "What
of the water?" and it will soon be
that trying to sell man tract of
land, utterly worthless without water,
and with no water attachment, will
be looked upon about the same us if
you wanted to sell him wagon with
no wheels to roll upon, If the land
about Weiser owned the water of the
Weiser river-had vested rights to its
proportion of whatever the river was
running, and canal to convey it
through, our land would sell three
times MS easy and twice as high. OF
course you may 90 to any ditch com
pany and they will tell you that a
water right gives the land vested
right, but that is an old chestnut too
dead to skin. And then the idea of
BUYING THE WATER OF A RIVER FROM
AN INDIVIDUAL BAH
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

Nineteen hundred editors were be-
headed in Picking, China, the other
day. Editors Of the wooden Indian
class in this country, who are eter-
nally looking at signs of the times
and the politics of the day, dictated
by bosses, with the same old painted
stare, don't need any heads, either
What's the use Of heads on gang
OF Journalists whose political
thinking is done by the peoples
enemies2
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

The Idaho State Press Association
will hold its third annual session at
Lewiston, September goth and Dist.
Everything indicates rousing meet.
ing. The meeting was first set for
September 18th and 18th, but on ac-
count of the Masonic Grand Lodge
at Boise on the 10th and 18th, and
the desire OF some to attend both, it
WAS CHANGED
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

Patriotism is dying in the west.
With hordes of wealthy mortgages
going to Europe to spend the rewards
OF our industry, and hordes Of hope
less nortgagers seeking pasturage,
plumber and revenge, love of country
and Its institutions is slowly waning
to death, while love of deviltry is
waxing warm and great. This is the
age of fiends.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

Political freedom is impossible
without industrial freedom. Indus
trial freedom is not possible under a
competitive system which produces
wage slavery. Wage slavery is
utterly destructive to the man ard
womanhood Of those who are at its
mercy. True social economies and
educational politics will open the eyes
of the people and, lead them into the
light We have had so many years
OF professional politics that the great
and noble functions of lawmaking
has degenerated into system of
barter and trade.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29

The administration sends out a
statement that the public debt has
been decreased 50, 1856, 611 since
April LIST, and that in the face of a
bond issue of 500, 600, 000l And
the Americans believe they have a
government If the people had rep
resentatives the officials would be
impeached for issuing such state
mpnt
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-08-29
THE WEISER SIGNAL.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1895.

Talk OF "Cattle on a Thousand
Hills" Washington county has
thousand cattle on one hill, and hun
dreds Of hills. too.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-14
MoBBING NoN-MAsKERs.
Attempt to Pelt an Audience
in a Theater With
Flour.
A RIOT NARROWLY AvERTED.
The Threat of the City Marshal to
Make Arrests Arouses the Anger
of the Crowd.

PHOENIX, Ariz., March 13.-The carnival
which has been in progress all day came
near ending in a serious conflict tonight in
front of the opera-house where the Calhoun
Opera Company was performing.
King Carnival has issued proclamation
that every one should be masked after 30
this evening. A special piece had been put
on at the theater to fit the occasion, but
the majority of the audience had failed to
observe the ruling of the King.
At IL o'clock vast crowd had collected
in front of the opera-house supplied with
large quantities of -four with which to
shower the good clothes of the audience.
They became boisterous, and the city as
sistant marshal announced that he would
arrest any one who attempted to use the
-four.
This angered the crowd and it looked for
time as if serious trouble might be ex-
pected.
The audience finally left the theater by a
side entrance and the maskers were brought
into good humor again.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-14
VICTIM OF sAcRAMENro THUGS
A San Francisco Civu Engineer Fails in,
With a Trio of Ihieues.

Nth a Trio of IhieueS.
SACRAMENTO, March 13.-R. H. Long.
head, who claims to be prominent civil
engineer of San Francisco, was garroted al
2:30 A. NJ. Monday and robbed Of
$35 cash. His gold watch and check fol
$1O7 were untouched.
Dell Murphy, an~ex-prize- fighter, well
known as political ward-worker, and JEFF
Marshall, have been arrested and charged
with committing the robbery. Longhead
claims that he cashed check for $107 this
morning at the California State Bank and
went on spree.
During the evening he sought the com
pany of woman named Nettie Wilson
They started out to make a round of the
tenderloin district. On their tour they met
Murphy and his companion. The men
questioned the Wilson woman as to the
financial status of her escort. Receiving a
favorable answer they followed the couple
to a secluded place and 'stropg armed
the man.
Longhead reported the robbery to Police
Sergeant Plunkett, who detailed Officer Ash
on the case, and within two hours the rob-
bers were under arrest.
The woman has made a full confession,
duplicating both Murphy and his confed-
crate.
Longhead claims to be in the employ of
the insurance companies and is drafting a
map of Sacramento.