The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-10-14
THE WEISER SIGNAL.
WHICH OR. WHO2

Lovers of good clean humor cal
appreciate the following from TIN
Western Mining World, especial,
the analysis of the origin Of the nam
Kleinschmidt:
The guessing machines in Montan.
nre working double shift, trying t.
figure out what the following artcI,
in the Wciser (Idaho) Signal means
The fourteen puzzle, pigs in clover
and other intellectual problems o.
the century have been solved, as the
records of our insane asylums attest
but the Kleinschnidt marvel is still
mysticism. Says the Signal:
A deed is on record by which Klein
schmidt, of Montana transfers II grade h,
didn't own to the Idaho Railroad com
pany. They first started to bond The
grade, it appears, without asking K
about It, Itappears that X made Il roar
Then they agreed to give him part o:
the profits or the game, and he Quilted
down. The grade when new cost SIS, 900.
80 X. gets big pay. Suppose it was worth
SAC, 900, how can they bond it for $40.
600? If anything was needed to expuse
the game, this deed does it.
AS there are Kleinschmidts and
kleinschmidts in Montana the ques-
ton arises, who committed the deed
and executed the roar to which GU,
Idaho contemporary so feelingIy al
ludes? Is it possible that our CAPT
tai city, in which several varieties OF
Kleinschmidts live, thrive and have
their being, has added to its other
industries the extraction Of wealth
from an Idaho railroad company? A
man who can sell something he does
not own to railroad company for
$40, 900 is worth having in any state,
and really ought to be in congress Ii
seems that Montana has one, but his
identity has not been established as
yet. BY emitting initials the Signal
has set Montana buzzing around on
its axis, and thousands Of our we'll to
do citizens would pay an admission
fee Of ten cents each to see man
who got away with railroad com
pany. AS one studies the article
from the Signal he can see how step
by step the plot thickens Klein
schmidt, it appears, would have been
left out Of the deal entirely, had lie
not established roar with a pair of
lungs educated on the ozone of the
Rocky mountains This roar brought
him $40, 900, according to the report,
and would have made a fog horn
blush.
Interest is heightened in this mat.
ter from the alleged genealogical fact
that the Kleinschmidts originally be-
longed to the Schmidt, or Smith fam
lily. The only known instance where
man named Smith declined to run
for office was case where, owing to
a defective palate he called himself
Schmidt. Having positively refused
to accept nomination for Office he
was subsequently called Decline
Schmidt, which name was later on
corrupted into d. Kleinschmidt. But
it seems that some of the modern
members of that family of sturdy
men and good citizens do not decline
to make a roar where it will do the
most good From what light is
thrown on the Idaho affair by the
Signals editorial we are inclined to
believe that Mr.. Kleinschmidt, which
ever one it may be, and from what
ever part of the state he may hail,
is entitled to the credit that naturally
attaches to a successful business
transaction. The chances are the
Idaho Railroad company believes in
progressive euchre and inadvertently
ran up against thorough Montanian
who held all the aces in the pack.