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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

year, ana VIII leave out tnlS Time tne
regular item about wool rolling in.
Married, on Middle Fork of the
Weieer, May 10, by R. E. Wilson,
Chas. A. Barbour and Miss Nancy
Shaw.
Judge HAWTHORN has been quite
low the last few days. His son
Nerve arrived last evening from
Astoria.
A man passed through Weiser yes
terday on his way across the continent
on bicycle. He was seven days
out from Portland.
A new fence will soon be built
around the courthouse grounds. 1t
will certainly improve the appearance
of the county property.
Master James K. Fritter, of Boise,
son of W. G. Frittel, president of the
Weiser Mercantile Co., is the guest
of his aunt, Mrs. W. j. Stuart
Judge Richards has consented to
deliver the Grafton in Weiser on
Decoration day. That is a guaran-
tee that it will be masterpiece.
There is rumor afoat that Clark,
of Montana, and an English syndicate
have bought some mine in the Seven
Devils. 1t cannot be traced to any
certainty.
Will old soldiers please meet again
next Saturday at 2 o'clock p m. at
A. Searss to make further arrange
ments for the observance of Decora-
ton Day. II
Yea, verify, the Weiser land losetl
none of its wonderful prolificacy
Charley Hale has two COWS that eacl
became the happy mothers of twir
calves this week.
Mr.. H. A. Lee came down t.
Weiser from Boise last Friday, and
we understand, will remain and make
this place state headquarters for the
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Rev. E. B. Sutton, of Boise, ant
H. A. Lee, of Weiser, have beer
elected delegates from Idaho to tin
National Prohibition convention t.
be held at Pittsburg, Pa. next month
There will be temperance meetin!
at the Congregational church mex
Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. TIL
program will consist of song service
music by the choir and an address b,
II. A. Lee.
Kurtz & Ennor are out buying
cattle. Every little while we hea
that the beef cattle have all bee
cleaned out, but buying goes RICH
on and the supply in old Washington
seems inexhaustible.
The young Monroe boy, who ha
his skull so badly crushed som
weeks ago, died from his injuries las
Monday. 1t was inevitable from tn
first. Rev. Pearse came down fror
Payette and preached the funeral.
Judge Richards adjourned codl
. last Thursday until Monday in orde
to allow witnesses and jurors to b
summoned in the Curtis case TIL
Judge returned on Mondays trai
and opened court in the afternoon.
A Nampa mother gave her boy
handsome scrap-book a month ag'
S and told him to paste scraps of beat
: tiful sentiment in it. She asked
see it the other day and found
had it full of records of the scraps
!, had had with other boys.
John Keegan, of Canyon count
was in Butte short time ago and
70 is lavish in his praise of Fosselms
a. on account of the work he is doir
re- for Weiser. John says every one
Butte is talking Of the wonderf
! Weiser land and longing to bask
- its gentle smiles.
W One Minute is the standard time, a
10 One Minute Cough Cure is the standa
preparation for every form OF cough
cold. 1t is the only harmless remedy Ii
produces immediate results. Jenney
c. Warehouse.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Prices and qualities that will so far
distance our competitors that they
can't even catch our shadows.
The One Price Cash Store.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Trade with us and your pocket
book won't have any grounds for
complaint. -Sommercamp & Co.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Bulk and packaged Teas and Cot
fees, Spices and Extracts, of fine quail.
itv, at bargain. -Weiser Mere. Co.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

One Swallow does not make spring. but
one swallow of One Minute Cough Cure
brings relief. Jenney e. Warehouse.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Big line of building papers, paints,
oils and wire fencing at Haas Bros.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Spraying season is here. The Gel
ebrated Mayors Spray Pump at Haas
Bros. Whale oil soap &c, for
spraying fluid.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Our low prices are drawing the
buying public. -Sommercamp q Co.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Full line of John Deere cultvntors
at Haas Bros. They are also agents
for the celebrated Acme Harrows.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Shoes from 81 so up. Best value
in town. Weiser Mercantile Co.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14
Counting.

Fine factory Cheese at Weiser Mer-
camille Cos.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Bcehives and Supplies
am manufacturing the best patent Bee
hive now on the market. Best polished
Honey Boxes 60 cents per hundred On
sale at my place on Mann creek and at
Tin Shop of John hawthorn in Welser.
L. LANSDON. Weiser, Idaho.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

The Signal Has For Sale
Note books, three kinds.
Receipt books.
Acknowledgements
Proof of labor.
Mining claim deed.
Quartz location notices.
Placer location notices.
Undertaking on attachment.
Affidavit for attachment against resi-
dent.
Bail bond.
Real estate bond.
Mortgage bond.
Short form warranty deed.
Bill of sale.
Legal covers, district and probate court.
Lease.
LIQUOR dealers bond.
Justice summons.
Justice subpoena.
Chattel mortgage, long form.
Release of mortgage.
Marriage license.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

The most complete and fresh line
of Groceries in town. Weiser Mer-
camille Co.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Values have been let loose and cost
of production made plaything Of
Sommercamp.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Received daily, fresh groceries, a,
the G. o. D. Store.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Our hats and other spring stock of
fancy millinery is fresh, stylish aud
above all competition.
CURL q FRAZEY.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

After all the best place to trade is
the G. o. d. Store.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Great varieties of the latest styles
Wash Goods at the 0. P. Cash Store.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Best Vinegar in town. -Weiser
Mercantile Co.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Goods fresh, and low prices, is what
draws the trade. -Weiser Mere. Co.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

In the spring young mans fancy
lightly turns TO thoughts of-DeWitrs
Little Early Risers, for they always cleanse
the liver, purify the blood and invigorate
the system. Jenney e. Warehouse.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Did you ever think how readily the
blood is poisoned by constipation Bad
blood means bad health. and premature
old age DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the
famous little pills, overcome obstinate
constipation. Jennev q Warehouse.
Trade at the G.. O. ID. Store
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Eczema is frightful affection, but like
all other skin diseases it can be perma-
nently cured by applications of DeWitts
Witch Hazel Salve. 1t never fails TO cure
Piles. Jenney g. Warehouse.
DRESS MAKING, Cutting and
Fitting done by the tailor system.
Also Dyeing done by an entirely new
process. We use no chemicals to
rot your goods.
Mrs. ALICE WEIsER.
With Mrs. Drake.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

1t always pays to trade at the c. U
d. Store.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14
THE SIGN AL
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One copy 8 months 8 70
One copy 6 months, u 20
One copy one year, il paid within -
two months W w
If not paid within two months from
date of subscription, gu
Entered in the postoftice at Weiser as
Second-class matter.
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HOW ABOUT
YOUR
EYES?

Nearly every human being has de-
fectlve eyesght. Our skilled optician
examines eyes free, prescribes and
accurately adjus s eyeglasses. IT
you don't require glasses he will tell
you So
Jenney & Waterhouse'
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Studio just east of new Town Hall
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-05-14

Admission will he 25 and Is cents.
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circumstances will demand it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29

rays out, All this suggestion ProfessoE
Lenard adopted.
In the preparation of his apparatus for
this important experilnent-an experiment
whose success now promises such remark
able scientific Observation-Disclosures Lenard
sought to obtain piece of aluminium foil
which would DO free from holes, but still
not too thick to permit the passage of the
rays, for he believed that the rays with
which he was experimenting would not
pass through any but very thin piece of
metal. The foil he selected was more than
seven times the thickness of ordinary foil,
but still very light and thin. This foil
he cemented across an opening 1<7-1O mil
limeters wide in a metal cap at the end Of
a vacuum tube. This tiny opening with
its aluminium pane was the window"
through which the wonderful cathode ray
was to reach the outer world, the first
time in the history of modern science and
probably in the worlds history that it had
been released from it's airless birthplace.
At the end of the vacuum tube opposite
the aluminium window was Introduced
brass tube, within this glass tube of
some thickness leading to an aluminium
plate - millimeters in diameter. This
glass tube extended 10 millimeters be-
yond the brass tube. Tho aluminium
plate was the cathode and the brass tube
the anode of tho experiment. They were
connected by platinum wires with the
poles of q galvanic battery. The whole
apparatus was inclosed in a tin box:
1t must have been with anxiety and q de-
gree of nervous excitement that Professor
Lenard set his battery in operation and
started the rays from anode to cathode.
The brilliant rays from the anode were i'm
prisoned within the tube. They could not
penetrate metal, though they could pass
through glass. The cath ode rays, impris-
oned within the glass, passed through the
aluminium window and made faint glow
in the dark room-mind, not a glow
through the dark room, but in it, for their
penetrating power was limited to five CEN
timeters beyond the metal window. But
they actually shone through the alumni
UNI, through which no ray of light could
possibly have passed. I don't know the
exact date when this experiment was
brought to its wonderful fruition, but it
was some time in 1898. Not once, but
hundreds of times, was the peculiar ray
made to shine through the metal window.
Other apparatus was constructed, and it
was made to shine through other metals.
Its effect on phosphorescent bodies was de-
termined, and its diffusion in the air was
measured. Its diversion by the use of
magnet was peculiar property demon
strated. And finally Professor Lenard
took photographs with it on an ordinary
dry plate.
What NikoIa Tesla Discovered.
Nikola Tesla tells me he found some
time ago that when a strong, rapidly vi
brating current passes through conductors
there are propagated from them certain
waves-'sound waves of electrified air,
I called them. They are pfopagated in
straight lines, like sound waves and they
penetrate bodies, and they cannot be stop
ped by interposing metal plates. If it
had only occurred to NikoIe Tesla to put
a dry plate in the path OF these Sound
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29

gen to discover the means of making a
popular application of the discovery of
Lenard and of Lenard's predecessors
Crookes, Hittorf and others. For this
reason Roentgen is popular hero and
Lenard is ignored. But the scientific world
gives Lenard the credit which is his due,
and if he is, not a person of narrow mind
he is, no doubt, content with that.
Nikola Tesla, who believes he came very
near a somewhat similar discovery, smiles
when he speaks of the public excitement
over the cathode photography and says ev-
erything will find its place when history is
written. Mr.. Tesla has large interest
even now in the development of the IA
nous discovery, for the Tesla converter is
used universally to produce those powerful
rays with which Roentgen was able to ac-
complish what would have been impossi-
BILE to Lenard without the Tesla apparatus.
In fact, but for Tesla's invention there
would have been no photographing of the
bones of the hand. Lenard never got be-
yond the point of making the rays pene-
trate pieces Of metal foil.
If you have ever been in scientific class
and studied electricity, you know the Ley
den jar, with it's brass knob, from which
sparks Of electricity pass when it is
brought close to conductor, provided tho
jar is charged. This is static electricity,
or electricity which can be produced by
ordinary friction. 1t was the first cleo
tricity known. Probably also you remem-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29

The Pacific railroads owe the govern
ment $1SO,OOO,OOO, principal and interest,
or about three times what it cost to build
and stock them. They pay no interest
on this debt, The roads are mortgaged
for $4,000 a mile. The patrons of the
road are taxed to pay interest on this lat
ter debt. The government is now asked
to accept new bonds, running so or 100
years at 2 per cent for its claim. Either
the interest would not be paid or an addi-
tional tax would be laid on the patrons to
meet it. 1t would be cheaper for the peo-
pie to build road to the Pacific and pre-
sent it to somebody than to pay the ex-
tortionate rates which these roads must
charge in order to make the earnings
sufficient to pay interest on their obliga-
tions, although they pay none Oh the
$64, 100000 loaned them by the govern
ment A better plan yet would be for
the government to foreclose its mortgage,
let the roads go to sale, take some of the
$262, 000 900 proceeds of the bonds sold
during this administration, which is now
lying idle in the treasury, and buy them
in. Then they could readily be leased to
somebody for enough to pay interest
on the govern nent claim. Unless some
thing of this sort is done the people will
never see cent for all the money and
land which has been squandered on Hun
tington and his pals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29
DIRT WILL FLY

On the Lower Dam, Worse Than It
Has in the JOIlnsOn-AndersOn Cam.
PaiSm.
Work on the lower dam has not been
very active in the past few weeks. The
iniun ction issued against the work had
its effect.
"There has been some very good
weather." said ]. B. Bartholomew today,
''but it is hardly certain. AS soon as it
certain that we are to have good weather
and not be interrupted by a storm and
frozen ground, large force will be put
on Immediately and the dam finished up.
Som ething Ike 100000 yards of dirt have
already been moved.
81 do not know exactly how many
men will be put to work, but it is safe to
say several hundred. perhaps thousand,
will be at work in a short time. 1t is
expected, if all things go we'll, to have
the dam finished by July. The plant
will be the very finest modern mechanics
and money can give US.
"The dam should have been almost
finished by now. If il hadn't been for
that foolish inj JUNCTION it would have
been. Topeka is full of people who
would rather kill the town than keep it
going, and of people who would rather
stand by and see it and themselves
strangled than raise a hand. AS q result
of this spirit property here is not worth
more than thirty per cent of what it was
four years ago."
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emily the receptacle, the anode the proCfu-
Ger and dissemination, of light. In the bril-
liant rays which streamed from the posi-
tive pole the negative pole was thrown
completely in shadow until Hittorf and
Crookes almost simultaneously discovered
that it, too, propagated ray.
Crookes' Achievements.
Crookes' achievements in the direction
of producing vacuum resulted in the
Crookes tubes which have become famous
popularity as we'll as scientifically of late be-
cause of their use in cathode photography.
1t was in one of his vacuum tubes that
Crookes hunted down the cathode ray, or,
as a recent scientific writer puts it, ''vital-
ized' the ray for the benefit of the Royal
society and the British association in
1879. In the scientific world the discovery
was regarded as of grave Importance, and
the scientific journals made much Of it.
But If there was any mention of it in the
daily or weekly newspapers it must have
been very brief, and to the reader of IN
scientific mind must have seemed very I'M
interesting, for who, by the widest stretch
of the imagination, could have associated
the fact that a ray of some kind, iInper-
ceptible to the eye under ordinary condi-
tions, proceeded from the negative pole of
a vacuum tube with the possibility of pho
tographing the human brain? Certainly
CroOkeS did not, and it was not until S91
peculiar rays would penetrate solids. Vie
demann and Ebert noticed in that year
that gold leaf coatings on vacuum tubes
were transparent to the cathode rays.
This fact being made known to the sci
entific world, was developed by the late
Professor Hertz, whose assistant was Pro
fessor Philip Lenard. Professor Lenard
became deeply interested in this peculiar
property of the cathode ray and made ear
nest efforts to classify the ray, forming a
theory that it was of etheric nature and
basing his experiments on that idea. Up
to the time of his experiments the rays
had been studied only in the vacuum.
The glass of the vacuum tube seemed i'm
pervious to them. Professor Lenard want
ed to get them into the air. With other
scientific men, he believed that they could
not be led through glass, and he did not
know that they would pass into the air,
but their ability to penetrate metal seemed
to offer means of leading them without
the tnbe. Professor Hertz suggested the
use of an aluminium window to bring the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29

In the speech of Mr.. Calderhead. as
printed in the Congressional Record is
found the following passage:
Can American agricultural products
be sold in any foreign market for more
than other countries will sell them for?
If Egypt will sell her cotton for cents
a pound and Argentina sells her wheat
for so cents a bushel, can America sell
her wheat or cotton for more? If not,
how then would you raise the price of
agricultural products?"
Mr.. Calderhead states an imaginary
case. The fact is Argentina does not
sell wheat for 60 cents. There has been
little if any decline in the prices of cot
ton or wheat in any other country but
ours, when measured in the money of
those countries. An ounce of silver
coined buys about the Same quantity of
those staples that it has done for many
years. But the prices of these staples in
this country have declined about one
half since 1878, because they are meas
urad by the gold standard, while our sill
yer is purchased by the same standard
and exchanged in silver standard coua-
tries at its value there for wheat and
cotton. Twelve cent cotton and $120
cent wheat in Argentina, India, Egypt,
Japan, China means cent cotton and 60
cent wheat in the United States. Eu-
ropean farmers are not affected because
they do not produce these staples.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29

waves of electrified air." photography
through Opaque substances might have
been known before, for Nikola Tesla tells
me he has found that these sound waves
of electrified air. will mako impressions
on dry plates like the cathode rays
But sound waves are not supposed to
take photographs, and ID could have been
beyond all reason to expect it of them
The cathode rays illuminated very faint
ly, but perceHtibly. It was natural for
the experimenter to test their effect on the
Photographic plate and on sensitive paper
for the purpose of creating an analogy be-
tween them and the rays of light which
come to US as i1luminants, but which, I'M
ike the cathode rays, will not pass through
Opaque substances.
The cathode ray was not light, but it
produced this one effect of light at least
1t decomposed the chemicals on the dry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29
AND A "COUR7D' DID IT.

Chicago Journal: Some low-down
people who have not the entree into So
ciety may not relish the distinctions that
came out in the trial, sentence, and i'm
prisonment of Miss Elizabeth Flagler.
Miss Flagler shot and killed a colored
boy as he was stealing pears from tree
in her fathers yard. She is full grown
woman, but her act was that of reck-
less and irresponsible child. Boys, white
and colored, have invaded fruit trees
from time immemorial in defiance of the
law, but the toughest of old farmers have
been content to punish them with pro-
family, a charge of fine salt fred from
shotgun, and the horsewhip. This So
ciety woman took revolver and large,
coarse bullets, without hesitation, and
punished a preccadiIlo with death. 1t
was not deliberate murder, of course.
But there never was a clearer case of
criminal recklessness.
For punishment she was fined $500,
driven to jail in a private carriage, and
compelled to remain there three hours,
with her aunt and father for company.
Now, although the death of the Negro
was accidental, it was not joke, and
somehow the carrying out of this jail
sentence in such fashion makes it appear
like joke. 1t would have been far bet
ter to take the punishment out in the
fine. There was no good in emphasiz-
ing SO conspicuously the difference be-
tween the laws treatment of the rich and
the poor.
1t is that kind of thing that breeds
anarchists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29

WALL street having called off the pro-
posed war with England over the Ven
ezuelan boundry, because it disturbed
the stock market, it is now proposed to
get into q squabble with Spain about
Cuba. The present administration is very
much in need of war or something else
to distract public attention from the con-
temptation of its misdeeds. A war at
this time would insure the denomination
of Cleveland and he has given abundant
evidence that he will stop at nothing to
gain his own ends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29

Der the tube in which electricity was made
to pass from the positive to the negative
pole of an interrupted circuit through a
partial vacuum. The operation was ac-
complished with brilliant display of col
ored lights, suggesting a fireworks show in
miniature. The jar charged with static
electricity and the vacuum tube are the
foundation of the cathode photography.
Faraday gave the title "anode'' to the
positive pole and "cathode" TO the mega
tive pole.
Between Hittorf and Crookes lies the
credit of the discovery that from the cath
ode as we'll as from the anode in the
vacuum tube proceeds a ray. For nearly
half century the cathode had been appar-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29

THE seating of Colonel Van Horn will
give to the people of the Fifth Missouri
district a congressman who will correct
ly represent their views on the most i'm
portant question now before the public
the money question. They should
congratulate themselves that they were
not forced to wait until they could vote
Tarsney out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-29

IF the agitation of the subject of con-
gressional funerals by Senator PETER has
stopped the extravaganza attendant upon
such occasions it has been productive of
good results, even though his bill do not
pass. The funeral trip of Congressman
Grain is said to have been a very "dry'
affair