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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10
TRAGEDY OF A LIFE.
Sailor Deserted by Friends Dies
Alone on q Barren Island.
His Skeleton Found In HIS Bunk VIII
q Diary by HE Side In Which ne
Had Recorded HIS Terrible
Experiences.

On ITnimak island, which guards one
of the entrances to the Behring sea-
rude mound of rocks marks the last
resting pace of Charles William An
derson. sailor, fisherman and hunter.
Anderson starved to death on the
bleak and barren island waiting Tor
friends who deserted him. He died on
June 10. 1899, and his skeleton IN ms
hunk and his diary beside it were found
| nv two hunters who were driven on Inc
| island during a storm.
The diary was addressed to Andrew
Groswold, of Unga. who arrived at San
| Francisco a few days ago with ms
| friends last writings
Several vessels passed by his lslano
prison. the pathetic record reads, pu'
none saw Anderson flag of distress
Once a vessel was becalmed close 10 In
shore and he tried to reach it. but nc
had not the strength left to iauncf~sni'
LITTLE boat. His legs had failed him ans
he could only pull himself along by hi
elbows.
He deliberated on shooting his dog
Dempsey, but he could not screw VI
q courageto STAY his faithful friend III
brought seas to me through the break
u ers.- he wrote, land fed him as long a
/, / could" Finally the dog disapps cTee
6 The diary records the terrible suffer
ings Of Anderson from thirst and IN
r Expeditions after fresh water The las
d entry says:
. Monday, June 19.-Now I must 6
- for water again. 1 am more afraid h
= time than before But with Gods hel
!. may come back again. would nc
like to die outside. But Gods will |
" done"
He had his wish, for he returned ar
died in his bunk.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10

Blank Books at the Ingram Press
Diaries at the Ingram Press
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10
Diaries at the Ingram Press.

Get Your Carpets Woven Now.
After February 1st | will charge
rs cents per yard for weaving carpet.
Before that time | will charge ~
cents. I know Of several who want
carpets, but they should not wait
until it is time for me to make hay.
w. r. BEARDsLEY.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10
Joint Installation.

Joint Installation
Welser Lodge No. II, l. 0. y. +.
and Fidelity Rebekah Lodge No. z,
1. 0. O. F. will hold joint instai'a'
ton on Saturday evening, January
18th.
All Odd Fellows and their families
and all Rebekahs and their families
are cordially invited to be present
BY order of j. A. McCune, n. y
of No. II, and Ruby Sommercamp
acting N. G. No. Z.
0. M. HARVEY, Sec.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10

out of Commercial street within
ninety days from the day OF service
Of said notice, the said building nov
being several feet out in said street.
according to the official plat OF the
city.
On motion the Council adjourned
till Tuesday evening, Jan. 9Th, 1901
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10

On motion Of Mr.. Burns, Chief OF
Police Rhea was granted leave OF
absence of thirty days, and =. ii.
Brizendine was appointed acting
Chief Of Police for that period, by
the mayor, and the appointment was
confirmed by the Council
On motion of Mr.. Kelly, the
Chief of Police was authorized 10
serve q notice on Mr.. Werneth to
move his saloon and brewery building
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10
About Municipal Ownership.


The town of Weiser proposes to
make test of municipal socialism.
1t is safe to Say that when once
adopted it will never be abandoned,
but expand This form of socialism
invariably results in cheap rates tor
the public service. Weiser has voted !
$45, 600 bonds for water and light
ing plant. Socialism. not in theory
but in actual practice, Is growing at
a more rapid pace, not only IN the
Tinted States. but all over the world,
than many people suppose. MOI
many years ago socialism was pro-
nounced by many supposedly wise
statesman to be vagary and an im-
practicable theory, whether applied
to municipalities, State or nation.
But object lessons are more potent
convincers than ornamental structures
OF theoretical reasoning based on
false foundations, and object lessons
have been effective in changing the
views of many of these wise states
men. The proper starting point for
socialism is in municipal affairs.
> From thence it will spread, and early
y in this century we may expect to see
: an object lesson in national socialism
. This new system will be OF slow
49, steady and wholesome growth.
j. will not come with leap and
bound, and it is perhaps better tina
it should not. But it is CROWN
he and will continue to grow, aud wi
ek solve many vexed problems for whic
no other theory offers a practical an
a complete solution. Idaho Worlt
The Welser Signal, published
,ay December 27, 1900. as a New Year
edition, is specimen OF typograpl
ical excellence which has not bet
n surpassed in the northwest. Repu
C' lican, Baker City, Oregon.
The last issue of the Weiser Sign
ies was very handsomely printed in "
colors. which showed that the NJ
chanical department OF that paper
itA in the hands of merchanics in fact
. we'll as name 1t was very nice
gotten up paper, and credit 10 a
printing office. Idaho Register
one The Weiser Signal came out
a -, 60.
last colors last week The Signal 10 {
An of Idaho's best weekly papers, an'
~ me doing much toward the upbu'ldl
for of the state in general and Washn
on ton county in particular. -Shosh'
his
,,nd Independent
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10
Advertised Letters.

Letters remaining uncalled Tor IN the
postoffice at Weiser, Idaho, for the week
ending Dec Goth, 1900.
Britain, John Tayle, w
Hodge, Ben Johnson Onas
Kelly. Al King. J w
PIERCE, w A Schener,
Stever Clarence Young, NJ E
In calling for the above please say
advertised.
w. w. PRrrCRTr P. n.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10
The City Fathers Hold Regular Session
Saturday Evening.
WATER WORKS AGAIN
Many Bills Allowed and Considerable Other
Business Done.

A regular meeting of the Council i
was held at the Council chamber
Saturday evening, Jan. 9th, 1901.
Present at roll call we're Mayor
Anderson, councilmen Barton, Burns,
Davis, Kelly; absent, Galloway and
Hit.
There being quorum, business
proceeded as follows:
The minutes Of the last regular and
adjourned meetings were read and
approved
A communication from A. Her
many Of the F. & l. N. in regard to
some thing purchased by the city
was read and placed on file.
The resignation Of councilman
Burns was read and on the unanl-
!, nous request of the other members
of the Council, Mr.. Burns consented
to the tabling of the resignation com
munication and remain in the Coun-
IA Gil.
The official bond of j. ID. Muloney
o; who was recently appointed assistant
policeman, was read and approved
= and placed on file.
Geo Tilford asked that the time
specified in his contract to fill Com
= mercial street, be extended, and he
was given sixty days more in which
to complete the work, on motion OF
Mr. Kelly.
Mr.. Kelly introduced Ordinance
No. A, making a certain map drawn
T by Charles Luck, the official map OF
the City Of Weiser, which ordinance
was passed under suspension of the
'A" rules.
w. F Sommercamp, G. S. FOSSIL
man, R. G. Mckinney and M. Som
mer. committee from the Weise
Board of Trade, appeared before tn
Council bearing q petition from tn
Board, asking that another specs
election on the question of bondln
the city for the purpose of installin
water works and electric light plar
nov in the city of Welser, be held at tt
2 earliest possible date, the bono
having been rejected owing to
: slight error in. the drafting OF Il
. ordinance relating thereto. The p
+ ution was read and placed on I'll
and the city attorney was instruct
HAM to draw up an ordinance authorizll
special election on the question
bonding for the above purpose, to
laid before the Council at meetl
(. to be held Tuesday evening, Jan.
,.t,S Tue. clerk was Instructed TO WI
Mason Lewis & Co., the firm t
was awarded the bonds, on conditit
~ to return the city's acceptance
the. bid and the receipt
$1125, the amount deposl
III with the mayor as a guaran
ly AT of good faith, and when this
quest shall have been complied W
the city would return to said
said amount.
.,~ The following bills were above
.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-01-10

The council met at the counc'i
chamber Tuesday evening, Jan 9Th,
1901. There being no quorum, the
meeting was adjourned till Friday
evening, Jan. 18th, 1901.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-26

is vacant. THE governor and secre-
tary of state are expected to return
in a day or two, when some explain
ing will probably have to be done to
set matters right.
The reason for the attempted coup
is said to be that the governor is op-
posed to the employment of more
than n regularly salaried deputy, in
which position he is supported by the
secretary of state. Donovan, however.
wants two and Higgins is not averse
to such an arrangement so long as
his man is one of the couple. Mr..
Welch does not seem to have any
choice in the matter, but his actions
would indicate that whatever he may
think he is not willing to be a party
to a job and wants matters officially
done fairly and h%onorably. 1t is con-
coded that Frazier is booked to go
sooner or later, but so far he has
been able to hang on because of the
boards inability to agree on a sue
ooc10, -=..'.. ... ....... . ....
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-26
# President Mckinley can find it in

If President Mckinley can find it in
his heart to decline the invitation
to visit Deadwood next July during
the celebration of the qu%adro-centen-
NAL settlement of the Black Hills, he
may be safely set down as a man to
whom the ~allurements of gold have no
temptations. The pioneers of that sec
ton have appointed a special commit
tee to invite the president to be with
them and to show their sincerity and
the ~earnestness with which the invi-
tation is extended, they have pre-
pared a special copy for him personal
~. The invitation is to be engraved
on a solid gold slab two and one-half
inches wide and four inches long. The
president of the carnival will be at
Omaha when the presidential party
passes through that city and will pre-
sent the card to Mr.. Mckinley. It
is certain that of all the invitations he
will receive to visit persons and
places, the president will receive
none hat is more cordial or none that
he will find so valuable as a souvenir
of his trip as the one the people of
Deadwood are preparing to extend.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-26
E~NTERPRIsiNG BILLINGS.

Butte Inter Mountain: The good
people of Billings are nothing if not
enterprising. Few things delight the
residents of that busy city SO greatly
as the hard work that comes from TAX
ing up the burden of some public en-
terprise of furthering a plan that will
push the capital of Yellowstone coun-
ty into public notice. Today a special
to the Inter Mountain tells of the lat
est wrinkle of the Billings bureau of
publicity and promotion. The hospit-
able people of the Magic City have
given thought to the fact that Presi-
dent William Mckinley is an old sol
der, a member of the Grand Army,
n is accustomed to participate in
memorial exercises as regularly as
the thirtieth day of May is reached on
the calendar. To show their thought
fulness and solicitude for the distin-
guished visitor from the capital Of the
nation, who will be viewing the sights
Of Montana on Memorial day, Billings
has invited the presidential party to
participate in the memorial exercises
held that day on the Custer battle
ground. t IT,.
1t is generally conceded that the
itinerary announced for the p%reslden-
tial party while en- route through the
state is not subject to change for any
but extremely weighty reasons, and
it is doubtful if the dates already an
nounced will be changed to allow the
people of Eastern Montana to meet
with the president pom the historic
scene lear Fort Custer. Neverthe-
less the courteous invitation of the
people OF Billings exhibits a common
dable spirit on the part of the mem
bers of that enterprising community.
1t is plain that their hearts are in the
right place and that they are not to
be outdone by any section of the state
in hospitality to the president. There
is a touch of the confident, aggress-
i've spirit of the west in the plan of
the people Of Billings, and beneath
this may be discerned evidences of
a more delicate feeling hat cannot
fail to cause the president to class
his invitation from the committee of
Eastern Montana citizens among the
most delightful incidents connected
with his trip through Montana. Bill
ings is distinctly all right when it
comes to doing the right thing at the
proper time.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-26

S. G. But if we would make the most
of our opportunities we must renounce
sectional prejudices and support,
broad, national policies, looking to
the creation of foreign markets, the
expansion q trade and the upbuild-
ing OF a common country. We must
nave a full share of the benefits as
well as the burdens of national life.
We are no longer a purely agricul-
tural section, but mining, manufac-
turing and kindred interests have
sprung into prominence, and demand
government policies to protect and
develop them. A craftsmanship so
partisan in it's character as to adhere
to old political doctrines, either set
tied by the arbitrament of the sword
or firmly fixed as governmental poll
cies. cannot solve the political and eco
nomic problems now confronting the
southern people. Such a statesman
ship cannot properly interpret present
economic movements, nor provide by
aggresses and progresses thought for
the radically changing conditions now
confronting us.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-26

there on continuous service before re-
turning them to this country. will We
found sufficient to maintain peace and
order in the archipelago. In that
event expenditures will of necessity
be greatly c~urtailed and it is possible
that at least a portion of the cost Of
keeping troops there may be de-
frayed from the of the ISL
ands themselves.
Another matter that mus be taken
into consideration in calculating
upon a possible reduction of the reve-
nues derived under the war measure
is the temper and disposition of the
next congress. Should that body
prove to be extravagant and inclined
to involve the country in OUTLAWS IN
usually great, the hoped for reduction
may not be possible. There are some
who think that the F~ifty-seventh con-
gress will authorize construction of an
isthmian canal and the laying of a
Pacific cable. If those steps are un-
dertaken, then, of course, the expendi-
lures of the government will continue
abnormally great. But as matters
now appear it is not very probable
that work on the canal will be under
taken. The necessity of a cable
across the Pacific has been recognized
ever since the nation came into pos
session of the islands of that ocean
over which now floats the American
flag and it is very probable that con
struction of the needed connection will
be authorized. The river and harbor
bill will again be presented and it is
not at all probable that it will meet
the same fate that betell it in the
Fifty-sixth congress, but that should
not necessitate the imposition of ex-
ira taxes, as the river and harbor
bill has ueen one of the steady and
regular drains on the national treas
ury ever since politicians learned it's
value as a vote maker.
Taking everything into considera-
ton. Mr.. Payne does not appear to be
guessing wildly when he says that a
still further reduction in the internal
revenue taxes may be expected in the
near future. "
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-26
SOUTH DAkoTA's oecEssloN.

South Dakota will have to do over
again the good job she did last win
ter when she SEM Pettigrew into re.
tirement. Dispatches from Sioux Falls
state that the long-whiskered anar-
chist is already in training for an
| other try next year. when a vacancy
in the states representation in the
senate occurs. Through tips given
him by President Hill of the Great
Northern, Pettigrew is said to have
made an immense amount of money in
specializing on Wall street, and thus
fortified is beginning to organize his
forces and prepare for the campaign.
The republicans of the state profess
not to be alarmed at the prospect.
| While they are free in their admis-
sions that Pettigrew is a willy and
smooth schemer. they consider the
state safely republican by a majority
of from 10000 to $4,000 and do not
believe that any fusion combination
can be made to overcome the lead
the party now has ..
AS a hint of what may be expected
it is said that since his return Petit
grew has set about diligently to make
friends and pave the way preliminary
to his final entry into the race for re-
turn to the seat from which he was
elected by the people of the state. He
is said to have put aside his acidity
of manner and to have suddenly grown
gracious and mellow to a marked de-
gree and to be a real good fellow all
around. His friends, for he has some,
strange as it may appear, predict that
by the time he gets through scheming
the state will be prepared to reverse
it's verdict of last year and again
make him n of it's representatives in
the senate. 1t is possible that he may
succeed, but it seems hardly prob
able, for the people of South Dakota,
Notwithstanding their erratic polite
al actions and record of recent years,
are not all anarchists and aliens and
IL 10 AdAu w SOACC1NC, Ill VIC" VI C1O
splendid showing they made last fall,
that they will again allow themselves
to sink to the depths from which they
raised themselves when by an over
whelming vote they once more sub
scribed allegiance to the cause of good
government and loyalty to American
institutions,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-26
NEW SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.

While the democratic newspapers
of the north are insisting that Senator
McLaurin of South Carolina shall re-
sign because of his action in voting
to support the administration in it's
Philippine policy and because he took
other steps in advance of the bour-
bon notions of a century ago, he con-
tinues to follow his new course and
is carrying the war into the heart of
the southern democracy and by speech
and writing is trying to convince them
that the new policies of the govern
ment are for their benefit and should
appeal to them above all others. Re-
Gently he made an address before the
southern Manufacturers club at
| Charleston and spoke as the exponent
Of a new democracy for the south and
of a new south. He declared that the
| civil war had settled for all time the
question of a consolidated government
structure or a loose aggregation of
states, while the Spanish war hau set.
tied the question whether this is a
purely theocratical democratic: govern
ment, or an expanding and giant re-
public. He called attention to the
fact that the democratic party did not
carry a state last November where
the issues were discussed and judg-
ment passed by the people upon them
on their merits. The party. he said,
had for some years been under the
control Of professed revolutionists
and socialists. To oppose expansion
under the name of imperialism he
declared, deceived no man of intelli-
gence who knows that no people can
become slaves who are armed with
the power born Of free institutions,
and thus there can be no Imperialism.
The senator then gave voice to the
spirit of the new democracy Of the
south and said:
I believe the time will come when
the south will be the hope and saliva
ton OF the nation. The center OF
manufacturing has been transferred
from Fall River. Mass, to Columbia,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-26
INDIAN SUED FOR So, 100.
Government Must Defend Him in Suit
Brought by kaIispeII Bank.

Helena Independent: District At
torney w. B. Rodgers has received in
structions from the attorney general
at Washington to defend j. l.. Bird, a
Blackfoot Indian, in a civil suit
brought by the Conrad National bank,
of Kalispell, to recover the sum of
$2,1O0, which the Indian borrowed to
pay for a bunch of cattle, giving a
mortgage on the cattle for security.
The point raised is a unique me-,
and is that since Bird is an Indian, he
is a ward of the national government,
and is therefore not permitted to exc
cute any legal documents without the
consent of the interior department.
Bird is in the city, and is a thor
oughly civilized red man, who wears
a modern cut of clothing, and is usu-
ally see with a first-class Havana be-
tween his teeth. When he failed to
pay the note which the Kalispell bank
held against him, the oank instituted
foreclosure proceedings, and Bird i'm
mediately awaited himself of the fact
that while he could sign a note with
out any trouble, the law provided that,
since he was an Indian by birth, the
note could not be collected if he did
not see fit to pay it, and tnat the
mortgage he had given the bank was
void for the reason that it had not
been approved by the interior depart
ment.
Mr.. Bird came to town and asked
the United States district attorney to
defend him, and Mr.. Rodgers, on in
vestigating the question, found that it
was his legal duty to do SO.
The cas- will ONE up for trial in
K%alispell some time during the sum-
mQr
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-04-26
REDUCTION,

To those who allowed themselves to
be frightened by the democratic wall
of Imperialism" it must be the source
of not a little satisfaction to realize
that despite the doletul predictions so
freely and p~ersistently made during
the past year or So, things are not
nearly in as bad shape as they we're
led to believe would be the case by the
time the second administration of
President Mckinley was we'll under
way. Instead Of being bankrupt and
advertised at sheriff's sale, this coun-
try is in a fairly prosperous condition
and it's credlr still good for any reas-
enable amount. July l the revenue
reduction law becomes operative, and
Representative Payne, chairman of the
ways and means committee, says the
outlook for the operation of the law is
exceedingly good. He pronounces the
lowering Of taxes made by the law to
be conservative and gives it as his
OPINION that if conditions in the Phil
ippines still further improve, so that
no large military force is needed there,
no reason exists why the taxes may
not be lowered more when congress
convenes next winter. ut all depends
upon the Philippines" he said, "but IL
does not look to me as if we should
need any more money than we are
now raising and that the chances of
getting along with somewhat less were
good"
1t cannot be denied that just now
the outlook in the islands is of the
best and that every indication war
rants the belief that from now on it
will not be necessary to keep as large
an army there as at present is en-
ployed in the archipelago. With the
progress made in that direction re-
Gently and the Roadway making daily
in the same direction it would seem
reasonable to expect that pa~cification
was no longer far removed and that
the need OF troops to replace the vol
unteers who are coming home no long
er is urgent. Should events justify
expectation, expectation based upon
present indications, it may be found
that the regulars now in the islands,
or at least the same number of new
ones to replace those who have served
the time it is intended to keep troops