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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06
NATIONAL ROAD SUPERVISORS

Other matter discussed at the meeIns
was that of better roads in the fnlnP
pines. The internal commerce Oh 'no
islands, it was said imperatively demanIs
better means of communication, through
Luzon particularly. The government
has received a request for permission
extend the one railroad in buzon ~ .
point about so miles to the north. lni,
request will be granted, if possible, a. ',, ~
would greatly aid in getting the prouu'''
of points north to Manila.
Strange as it may sound the ABOVE
is nothing more nor less that an ca
tract from the report of a cap'ls'
meeting at Washington. 1t appea'
that the Philippines are grea'e'
cause for worry than our own teri'
tory. A Washington county m'H
will doubtless wonder why ldano
roads are not cause for cabinet worry
being nearer home, and it IS cer''''
that the ''internal commerce Vi
large part of the northwest "lnipe''
lively demands better means Oh 'oI
munication. But of course 'n'
gray headed sages of the cabinet -
not so worried about commerce 'n''
can be carried on in peace as 'n''
are about that must be carried Oh y
powder and bullets The means
''getting the products otpoln's w.
to Manila" is of vastly greater -
portance to Washington county
pie than the getting of the proo'
of points north to Weiser, Oh GU ~
The cabinet grsvely engaged IN pun ~.
ing wagon roads and hgur'0s
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06
THE HUMANE AUTOMOBILE.
Under this title the Electric World
and Engineer says:

Under this title the Electric World
and Engineer says:
During the record hot weather of last
week. the lower creation SUI ffered equally
with human beings, and only too often
could suffering or dead horses be seen
lying around the streets. When the
trolley was being pushed and introduced,
it was one OF the arguments of this
journal and others that its coming would
be a great boon to the horse. That this
is "a mere matter of fact is shown, for in
stance, by such IA road AS the New York
Third Avenue, which during one very
hot season when it had 3. 900 horses lost
600 of them in II few weeks, and had 300
more in hospital To-day, with the same
system operated electrically, no such
scenes of animal distress AS were then
frequent are possible. There. and on
hundreds of other lines, electricity has
scored heavily upon the side of human
lty, for the street-car service was even a
hard and killing one. 1t is now the turn
of electricity to emancipate, as far as pos
sible from service in the torrd CITY, the
horse of the cab and the dray. 1t is well
to take steps to relieve them as was done
last week, but it is better still not to en-
ploy them at all. The cruelty NAV not
be intentional in many instances but it
is cruelty all the same; and where the
driver as too often happens. is brute
and drunkard. the punishment taken
by the poor, inoffensive horse in hot
weather is something frghtfu. Let the
automobile accomplish furtherits humane
mission by banishing the horse utterly
from our streets. Human life itself will
then be longer, too.
From an economic standpoint, how
does that strike you? What will be
the effect on the horse raising in
dustry? Why not extend the benef-
icent effects so as to include human
ity? Are horses of more moment
than men and women? Is it not the
wear and tear of animal fibre, human
or brute, after all, that keeps the
world moving?
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06
Do you want war taxes to be heap


Do you want war taxes to be heapec
up by the hundreds Of millions. es-
pec'aliy while the party in power re-
fuses to let the rich pay their share
through an income tax, while the in
famous gold standard makes it con.
stantly harder for you to pay taxes
and easier for the rich? Do YOU
want a system that will eventually
lead to obligatory military service for
the young men of the land, as ia
some of the old countries? 1t is
time for the American people to dc
their own thinking and let out those
now holding the job.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06

In 1891 we imported l, 036, 4S0 ora
pounds of tin plate fol which we paid TO
foreigners 49, TAG, 900; in 1899 our i'm
ports amounted to 10S. 4S4, S26 pounds
valued at S2,613, SOS In 1900 imports
will be still less, although the consump-
ton of tin plate in The United States will
be much larger than it was in 1891 the
year in which Democratic free traders de-
clared Americans were incapable of max
ing tin plate We now make nearly all
we use. and the forty millions or more we
would have had to pay for imports now
goes into the pockets of the American
working and business men.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle
Will any Republican or other jour
nal kindly inform the Signal where
the supply of tin mentioned above is
produced? Until the proofs are
given, the Signal states plainly that
the differences given are simply lies,
repeated for political effect, method
by no means unique in all Republican
political statements, Give us the
facts.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06

with the simpering syc0phants who
have adopted that motto of the bully
'Ewhere the flag is once raised it shall
never come down, and the soil on
which American blood has been shed
shall never be given up" If it is
good to take under this government
piece of 'yellow terror" in the
Philippines, it is good that we should
take slice of ''yellow terror" in
China, as indemnity for our trouble
and expense; and, to make it easy,
we could pay the Boxers a round
sum and tell Lii Hung Chang that we
had bought the land and could not
disgrace ourselves before the world
by retiring. If the flag is to he made
huckster banner to smell out trade
in the Philippines, why not smell a
little in China. If it pays to spend
$40 and a human life to get one
dollar of trade in the Philippines. it
would be just as well to do so in
China and if the peace of the west
ern world were disturbed it would
furnish additional war prosperity be-
hind which the Tribune could defend
its abandonment of the cause of hui
manity and its surrender to the gold
standard. The Tribune seems to be
losing its wits.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06

The list of prominent men who
supported Mckinley in 1896 and
this year have declared for Bryan,
is getting too long for publication,
even by the big dailies. They con
tent themselves now with simply the
announcement of new arrivals as
they land in the Bryan camp of true
Americanism This list was run fol
time and added to as new arrivals
were announced, but the list has now
grown too long to be given in full.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06

The Boise Statesman says the
words of old John A. Dix should be
an American principle just now
Right Whoever attempts to haul
down the flag in China, shoot him
on the spot. Shoot Mckinley for
hauling down the flag in strip of
Alaska and handing piece of Amer
lean soil over to King Johnny Bull
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06

Gov. Roosevelt steady visits to a throat
spec ialist in New York have Gre
ated the fear that his throat may not be
strong enough TO endure the wear and
tear of the arduous campaigning cut out
for him. 1t is to be hoped that he will
have no breakdown of that sort. Spring
field Republican.
There NAV have been a wrong
diagnosis. Possibly from association
with Hanna, Rockefeller ct al of the
same kidney. The true conditions
affecting the distinguished gentle
man may be of fundamental char
acter.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06
The Salt Lake Tribune bewails tina

The Salt Lake Tribune bewails that
we should "call away the American
soldiers from in front of assassins
that have been killing American sol
diers for eighteen months. The as
sassin certainly did not come over
here and begin killing our soldiers.
No American soldier was shot until
lie went 5000 miles across the sea
and attempted to take away from the
Filippinos the soil which he had
wrested away from tyrant which
had oppressed him for 300 years
and the robbery is simply in the in
terests of gold standard beneficiaries
and syndicates who want to exploit
the Philippines and manipulate them
as England manipulates India. If
the Tribune editor went out to steal
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06

What seer can explain why every
rabid republican paper in the state
is publishing the call of Johannes
Hansen-by the powers, true anar-
chist name for a Middle of the
Road populst convention?
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06
Says the Philadelphia Public

DAYS Jlle THllauelpnla PuDllc
Ledger:
at is clear that Mr.. Bryan is as radi-
Cal devotee of the free silver heresy rs
he was four years ago. He does not con-
tent himself merely with accusing IN e
republicans of being inconsistent. Prac-
tically, he declares himself To be consist
ent and to have at heart as greatly us
ever the overthrow of the gold standard
and of the national banks as banks of is
sue. In one breath he gorifies the Dec
laration of Independence and the disrup-
ton of our financial system. He is for
liberty in the abstract and license in the
concrete. The Populists are Socialists,
and he makes no objection to any part of
their platform except the declaration for
irredeemable greenbacks, and this he
does only by indirection. No man can
vote for Mr.. Bryan without doing so in
the full knowledge that the Democratic
and Populistc nominee is opposed TO our
present financial system
We wonder if the Ledger put that
out as reproach to the Salt Lake
Tribune and ex-silver republicans
who have embraced the gold standard
candidate and declare that they know
naught ofany such thing as ''silver
issue "
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06
For President
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN
For Vice President
ADLAI E. STEVENSON
For President

More than eight millions in gold
bullion was shipped from New York
to Europe on the 18th inst. That's
where the money goes to pay for
British war bonds.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06

Accommodations of wealth in the
United States by reason of the gold
standard, high protective tariff and
trusts, make it possible for this
country to make loans to foreign
countries to the extent of $4,000,
600 in the last eighteen months, dis
tributed as follows: City of Montreal,
So, 600, 600 at 81 per cent; Mexican
Government, s25, 900, 900 at per
cent; Russian Government, $1,000
600 at 4 per cent; English Govern
ment, s2S, 900, 600 at 80 per cent;
Swedish Government, $4,000, 600
at 4 per cent The money is wrung
by cunning legislation from the po-
litically blind people of the country,
and the loaning of it to outsiders
will be pointed to as evidence of
the prosperity of those from whom
it has been filched.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06
ANOTHER TRAITOR. -

Discussing the Chinese situation,
the Salt Lake Tribune says:
by the way, it was most welcome news
that came yesterday, that Russia had
proposed to Withdraw her forces and thai
the proposition was at once accepted and
seconded by our Government Surely
that is wise. for any other course would
put in ieonardy the peace of the whole
western world, and China is not worth
taking that risk. An adjustment on fair
terms can be reached. for China is now
thoroughly scared. Let the negotiations
be pressed, but so soon as possible recall
the armies.
Why should the Tribune desire to
'dishonor the flag" by Withdrawing
our troops from China? 1t has
abandoned the silver cause to stand
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06

Mckinley would haul down the
flag in China until after election.
Hanna, doesn't think he can afford to
pack two wars during the cam
nainn
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-09-06

a mans horse he would feel insulted
if the owner stood him off at the
muzzle of gun.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28
UsEMENrs.
Sherlock Homes to be Presented at Academy
of Music Tonight.

There IS maximum of action and
minimum of talk in Sherlock Holmes.
due to William Gillettes nervous desire
to hurry to conclusion once he has ex.
cited interest. He employs no explana.
tory asides or illusion-destroying solilo.
quies. Literary charm as such is not /:
feature with Gillette. He does not care
to write beautiful speeches for the edi
fication and often justification of hi.
audience. He keeps the detail of the per
Torrance as close as possible to the fact.
of our every day life and in doing SO ha,
evolved as real a picture of an imaginar,
story as could possibly be done.
O'Flyn's Birthday, clever musica
farce comedy, will be presented at the
Academy of Music, Saturday night, Sep.
TENDER 18th. 1t abounds in comical stu
ations, bright music and laughable Incl
dents. Seats now on sale. Prices rs, 8;
and so cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28
STATE FAIR PROSPECTS.
Much More Space Than Usual is Being Assign
ed to Exhibitors.

Preparations for the State Fair are pro-
crossing most satisfactorily. One of our
best stock raisers in the country had
stalls assigned yesterday for twenty cows
also five stalls for pens of sheep, two for
mules, and several for hogs.
The Sydnor Machine Company is putting
in Facilities for display from their great
works in Richmond. Va. This will be
the first time in years that machinery
has been shown in running order.
The west is preparing to send the beau
tiful apples of unequalled size and variety
for which It is famous. They will be
here from Yancey. Haywood. Macon and
other counties. The horticultural display
will be moved this year to the great agri-
cultural hail. where it can be seen to bet
ter advantage. Mr.. Bruner Secretary CT
ly given his valuable aid to this division
of the Fair which has for it's director
o. W. Blacknall Esq, of Kittrell.
Fayetteville will be represented by a
display from the famous nurseries of
James NJ. Lamb. more especially in the
line of shrubbery and evergreens.
Anthony will be here will nursery stock
and fine peas and other points.
The fact that the Biltmore exhibit,
while present for the enjoyment of visit
ors, will not compete for the handsome
premiums for agricultural products, has
stimulated a keen competition by farmers
generally, and entries are coming in for
the field products.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28
THE APPLE SHOW
The Exhibit at the Museum
Contains % Varieties.
Secretary Bruner Cortemplates Securing *
hibits of Other Products of the
State Later.

The agricultural department is every
day demonstrating that it is of prac-
teal benefit to the farming interests
of the State. Since its establishment
it has ia many ways aided in better
ing the condition of the agricultural
interests of the State.
1t is in view a number of projects
for the near future for assisting the
farmers of the State IN giving promi-
nence to the excellence and variety
of their products. At present, the APP
pie show is Attracting great attention
Next winter Secretary Bruner intends
giving another show. and in the
spring he will make an exhibit of the
berries of the State.
There is displayed in the State Mus
cum about twenty-five varieties OF
apples from two or three farms in
Yancey county, as follows:
Fallawater, Finetta. Queen Pippin,
Slime, White Pippin, Dessert, Newton
Pippin, LAWYER. Bell Flower. Virginia
Beauty. Worlds Wonder, Hoover, York
Imperial, Brigham, Shannon Pippin,
Sheep Nose and Gloria Mundi.
The grccerymen and consumers of
apples in Raleigh are invited to call
during Friday. Saturday and Monday
and see this display. if interested.
The design of making this incidental
exhibit in the State Museum, just now,
is. not only to encourage the apple
growers Of our mountain region, but
to try to induce conditions favorable
to shipping this fruit into this and
other parts of the Atlantic Seaboard.
The chief obstacle now in the way of
delivering this fruit in the southeast
ern part of the nited States, is the
one of roads over which to transport
the apples to the railroads. Those
mountain people are crying to the
Legislature and to the business ele-
ment of the country to aid them in
the construction of proper roads over
which they can transport the wonder
full wealth locked up in their region.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28

the clemency of His Excellency, extended
under different and less startling circum-
stances than surround the present apph-
cation.
If the Governor wishes to pardon man
who sets his authority at naught' VINO
refuses to bring himself within his Jurls-
diction, who dickers and bargains WIN
the Governor of the State, while refusing
to trust himself in his reach, whose very
whereabouts are unknown, or supposed to
be unknown to the source from which he
seeks relief; let him do so on the ground
that he has suffered much already. and
his faithful wife and innocent children
still more.
That he has gone in and out before his
fellow men wherever he be, and but for
the dark Islander that no pardon can re-
move. he has led better. it may be.
blameless life. Put it on the ground that
he has long ago repented with bitter
tears his awful crime, and that he seeks
for pardon here. as we'll as hereafter.
But if there be no better reason ad-
vanced than that he may qualify as Re-
publican sheriff of some county in one of
the ear Western States. not far from
the Rockies" as We are confidentially
informed by The Times correspondent. or,
if pardon is to come, obtained by Islander
of the dead. as well as the living, by
SANDER of jury, witnesses and communi-
ties. Or still, come, If it is asked, on the
ground that Anderson lis the victim of
partisan rancor and perhaps perjured tes-
timony," that he is an innocent and
much prosecuted man. then in the name
of Truth and Justice, protest against it.
EDMUND JONES'
Lenoir n c. Sent 26 1900
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28
MAKING 1T HOT FOR THE ELDERS.
A Citizen Of Salisbury Protests Against the
Mormon Missionaries.

1t seems that the Mormon elders now
doing missionary work" in Salisbury are
not meeting with quite as cordial a re-
ception as they could wish.
correspondent of the Salisbury Sur
calls attention to 'tbe pernicious efforts
of Brigham Young's satellites declares
that 1.-The very presence of these tramps
is an insult to the intelligence of our citi-
zens," and adds:
''The dirtiness and depravity of this
organized nastiness' should not be allow
ed to leave slime and pollution on the
threshold of our homes. nor should oul
doors be ocen for one moment to give
entrance or encouragement to set O.
tramping vagabonds who have the inso
lence and audacity to debauch the homo
in which hey receive hospitality.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28
SCHOOL LAND SOLD
BY THE STATE BOARD
Ten Thousand Acres OF
Swampland.
IN ONSLOW AND JUNES
Twenty-Six Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars the Price Paid.
CHARLES vEDDER, OF PHlLA., PURCHASER
The State Only Had Tax Title TO the Land;
This Was the interest Sold 10 Vedder
Who Also Claimed It.

Yesterday the State Board OF Educa-
ton held a meeting and authorized
the selling of thousand acres of
school lands.
The land in question lies in Jones
and Onslow counties, and constitutes
part of what is known as the White
Oak Swamp. The price to be paid
for the land is S26,500, of which
amount $1,000 is to be paid cash and
$500 on July list, 1901.
The title to the land is in dispute,
and is the subject of case now pend
ing i'm Jones county. 1t is claimed by
Chas. Vedder, under n grant made to
Daniel Allison, and the State claims
il through tax title. The agreement
made yesterday was in the nature Of
n compromise and practically amounts
TO Netlder giving the State $4,000 for
it's interest in the land.
At the meeting of the board yester-
day at the Governors office, there
were present, Governor Russell, Sec
rotary of State Thompson, Treasurer
! Worth and Attorney General Walzer.
Mr.. Baylus Cade was made secretary
of the meeting.
Mr.. Frank Thompson, of Onslow,
stated that S. w. Isler, of Goldsboro,
as the representative of Charles We'd
der, Esq. of Philadelphia, had offered
to pay the amount named above for
all the land claimed at this time as
the Vedder lands in the counties of
Jones and Onslow, now a part of the
schol land of the State. The board
thereupon directed that its attorney,
Mr.. Frank Thompson, be directed to
take the necessary steps to accept the
proposition.
The land is a part of the large
White Oak Swamp that covers large
part of several counties in the east
ern part of the State. 1t will not adj
NIT of cultivation, and there is no
timber on it. A gentleman who is ia
miliar with the country said yester-
day that he would not give $1,000 fer
this same property. 1t could not be
learned what the purchaser intends
doing with the land.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28
A RAPIsr BROUGHT TO THE PEN.
Sheriff Johnson Thinks There Are Hard Times
Ahead of Farmers in Chatham.

Sheriff j. j. Johnston, of Chatham
county, was in the city yesterday. lie
came to bring to the penitentia1y
Haywood Council, negro who was
convicted at the recent session OF
Chatham court of an attempt to rape.
His victim was young white girl, aud
the crime was committed more than
eighteen months ago. 1t was a year
after the crime had been committed
before he was tried and the Fusion
magistrate before whom he was tried.
acquitted the negro on the ground
that the case was outlawed. one year
having expired since the commission
of the crime with which he was
charged.
The papers took up the matter and
gave publicity to the facts. Before
another magistrate the negro was
bound over to court, and at the last
term of the Superior court of Chatham
county. was convicted and sentenced
penitentiary. He yesterday began
serving his term.
When asked about the condition of
crops in Chatham, Sheriff Johnston
said that not more than half a crop
of corn or cotton had been made.
''They may talk about prosperity all
they please" said he, out its pretty
slow out our way. True, the farmers
are getting 10 cents for their cotton,
but it cost them double as much as
usual to make it. They only made one
bale where they expected to make
two, and their expense for labor and
gHano was douL4e what it should be
to make the same NUMBER of bales.
There is not enough corn to last them
over to the next season. and the most
of them are in debt. 1t looks pretty
blue for them, / think. Politics, sea-
sons and everything else went wrong
this year." said he with a laugh.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28
SATISFACTORY.

Last Monday we called attention to Tho
handsome shipment of cream Dughi made
to Henderson. Yesterday afternoon Mr.
Ought received the following letter show,
ing how satisfactory the cream was:
Henderson. N. c.. Sept. 26, 1900.
Mr.. Dughi, Raleigh, n. c.:
return your packer per express today
The cream was very nice and entirel
satisfactory Respectfully
MRS. d. Y. COOPER.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28
St. Mary's Alumnae.

A special meeting of st. Mary's Alum
nae Association will be held in the Par
ish rooms of the Church of the Good
Shepherd Saturday afternoon at O'Clock.
A full attendance is requested
KATE McKIMMON,
Sec. St. NJ A. A.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28
EATING AND SLEEPING.

Food supplies the substance for repair
ing the wastes of the body, and gives
strength. Sleep affords the opportunity
for these repairs to be made. Both are
necessary to health. If you can't eat and
sleep, take Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t
creates a good appetite and tones the
digestive organs, and it gives the sweet,
restful sleep of childhood. Be sure to
get Hoods.
Biliousness is cured by Hoods Pills
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-28

The baseball player never settles down
to business; he is always looking for a
change OF base.