The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-05-31
That POstOffice Matter.

signitied its intention to lift the dis
elimination against the Weiser Signal.
Postmaster Pritchett has a lengthy
explanatory article, which does not
explain, in the Record, and while
there may be plenty of room for diff
ferences in the post masters article,
our only desire is to get the discrimi
nation against the Signal removed
and not to wrangle over what some
body said to somebody else, especial
ly as it does not effect the matter of
discrimination and the only correction
we care to suggests in relation to
an affidavit, which contained nothing
at all in the line suggested, but SIM
ply referred to the character of the
papers offered. Mr.. Pritchett re-
presented that if he sent out papers
that were not destined for bona fide
subscribers he might be severely cen
sured by the department, and to re-
lieve his fears, the affidavit was made
which read as follows:
r. e. Lockwood, being first duly sworn
upon his oath says that copies of the
Weser Signal, (of which he is publisher)
wrapped, addressed and offered to the
Post Master, w. w. Pritchett at the
United States Postoffice at Weser, Idaho,
this Goth day of April, A. d. 1900 are
copies of the regular edition of said Weis.
er Signal and are sent to bonafide, paid
subscribers and that in no way do they
infringe upon the Postal Laws relating
to second class matter in any other way
than has every member of said paper at
each successive issue heretofore mailed.
r. K. LOCKWOOD.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
Goth day of April 1900
JOHN w, AYERS, Notary Public.
This was to assuage the sudden,
strange and unaccountable alarm of
Mr.. Pritchett, and the document was
offered under the superstition that it
would entirely clear the postmaster
and make the publisher alone respon-
sible and subject to prosecution by the
department as having made false
affidavit to secure admission to the
mails And this professed frighten-
ed condition of the postmaster has
since appeared to us to possibly be
the result of threats or suggestions
from another source. Astronomers
frequently know of the existence of
planets not visible to the eye, simply
from the influence exerted over the
others. 80
1t strikes us as being out of
the postmaster's province to be con-
tinually running to third parties Gas
very plainly shown in his letter.)
on matters which interest and lie clear
ly between the paper and the postoffice
department only.
During the past week the Oregon
Ian has published matter relating to
Thunder Mountain and the Thunder
Mountain company, similar to the
news articles in the Signal The
company furnished the Oreganion
with $50 addresses to which marked
copies were to be mailed. Other
parties did the same. All copies
$1,000 in alD were mailed by the
Oregonian without one cent stamp at
tached, and those which came through
the Weiser postoffice were not held
by Mr.. Pritchett for postage, though
we are told he has reported the case
to the department. Any efforts Mr.
Pritchett may make to get the dis
elimination against the Signal remov-
ed and the results of his own action
alleviated, will be duly acknowledged
by this institution and strict justice
rendered where it is due.