The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-08-03

ti"Hh YOU a9aln anu again FOR
yonr attention and the exercise of
your patience and submit this mat
ter for its final adjudication in the
court of your own conscience.
Governor Steunenberg has been in
Fremont county the past week.
The towns of Pullman and Palonse
are experiencing diphtheria cpl
demic.
The hosting works of the Flint
mines, at DeLamar, were destroyed
by fire last week.
Judge Stockslager is in Oregon
seeking rest from arduous court
duties. He will be absent from the
state for several weeks.
5. Z. Donnely has been appointed
receiver of the mining properties
held in the name of the Cmur ID Alene
Railway & Navigation Co
Senator Teller, of Colorado, ac.
companied by his wife and party of
friends, have been visiting in the
northern part Of the state the past
week.
Work on the grade of The branch
road of the Short Line has commenc.
ed in earnest out of Idaho Falls
Carey Bros q Co. have the contract
for all the grading on this proposed
line.
Some of the farmers in Nez Perez
county, who have leased 40 acres of
land from the state and are working
100 or more are liable to have some
trouble with the representatives off,
the state land department.
The Payette Independent saws the
new dredge now being operated near
that place on the Snake is success
in saving the -four gold. Two thous
md cubic yards are worked each day.
averaging l29 cents day
The famous hotel at the HALEY
hot springs burned TO the ground the
other day. The building cost 1925
poo. Many of the guests narrowly
with their lives, losing money.
Jewels and valuables.
The Pocatello papers are complain
ng of the large number of tramps
who are inflicting themselves on the
people of that place 1t seems that
hey are so numerous that the police
orce is almost unable to cope with
hem and hardly a day passes that
ome women are not frightened and
citizens of the town insulted and
threatened forrefusing their demands
or help
The subcommittee of the Indust-
al Commission on mining indust.
les, composed of Senator Daniel. of
virginia, Congressman John c. Bell.
If Colorado, ex Senator Lee Mantle
IT Montana, Hon Theobold Often. of
Wisconsin, Senator G. j. Harris of
Worth Carolina, Hon M. D. Ratch.
ord, of Ohio, and Hon John L
Kennedy, of Washington, D. c.. is
low in session at Wallace, Idaho, in
'estigating the troubles there.
W. Clayton Miller, mining enei-
eer, met with serious accident in
he Cenr d Alenes Friday afternoon.
lr. Miller was coming from Burke
0 Wallace on push car when 1t
Jumped the track on bridge, throw
no Mr. Miller into the rocks. His
boulder blade was fractured in two
r three places aud his arm was bro
EN- as a result of the fall. He was
AIKEN Immediately to Wallace. where
c is dong RS well as could be ex-
ected.
The Lewiston city council have is.
ned licenses for gambling houses.
nd now every game is running as
pen in that city as it was before the
assage of the Anti Gambling Law
the last Legislature. 1t is claimed
the Lewiston ''city fathers" that s:
lelr corporation was formed under ,
,ecial act which conferred authority
pom the city to license gambling,
ld that The general act of the leeis- ;
ture could not take away such au-