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The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21

that few crimes have actually been
committed, is a poor piece of vital
information to be weaved into tables.
albeit 1T shows that crime Is ALWAYS
on highly encouraging decrease.
Take the court records in the divorce
mill, where the plaintiff almost in
variably alleges penal offenses, and a
variety of them, against the defend
ant and the court takes judicial
knowledge of them to the extent of
granting decree, yet In the whole
history of Idaho jurisprudence there
has been no instance of prosecution
OF the crime so alleged and proven
80, the failures to punish men for
their crimes are not evidences to
prove that crime is decreasing. but
just the reverse, yet such is the ma
terial out of which our statistics are
about to be concocted. Despite these
unfavorable conditions it is still be-
lieved that many timely and useful
facts could be collected out of the
unfortuDates who come within the
grasp of the law.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
Invention to Save the Gold.

The Houser Bar, below Lewiston
on the Snake river, says the Lewis
ton Teller, has been leased by Mr..
Lane of this city and number of as
sociates and the Lewiston Foundry
q Machine works have just com
pleted for them an entire gold saw.
ing devise of which Mr.. Lane is the
patentee. Mr.. Lane has been work
ing on the invention for some time
past and from tests made recently
the machine has proven a success in
saving the flour gold from the black
sands of the Snake river. The large
machine just completed will revolu-
tlonize the placer mining of the
Snake river bars should it be sue
sess and from what Mr.. Lane saws
there is no doubt.
This morning teams began the
hauling of the large boiler made by
the foundry people and the balance
OF the equipment Will be moved as
soon as teams can take it. The in.
ventlon is something new in the line
OF placer machines and is worked on
entirely different lines.
The rocks and pebbles are run over
system of block rifles and is sepa.
rated from the black sand. The sand
Vnen runs off into a huge cast iron
concaVe which, operated alternately
IN motion, washes the black sand
throwing the light sand off and
dropping the heavy through an aper.
lure IN the center into amalgamated
basins. The gold is then amalps-
mated making 1T impossible to get
away.
Inc devise is simple and practical
ana from the information CLEANED on
One subject is likely to be means of
making Mr.. Lane and his associates
wealthy. There is no little amount
Oh gold in the bars along Snake river
ana there is an endless field to work
over The large engine which goes
WIN 'ne plant will be completed by
'ne foundry people within few DAYS
'i'er which it will be shipped to the
'ar' Operations will begin at the
placer diggings about the first of
January.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
SOCIETY GOWN MAKERS.
Young Women of indianapolis Have
New Fad.


A school for teaching the art of con.
structing tailor made gowns has been
opened in indianapolis, Ind. There
are few pupils in the school who are
really pupils in the strict sense of the
word, says a dispatch from that CITY.
one or two are taking the full course
with the idea Of becoming dressmak.
ers' but most of them are society girls
who have a fancy for making their
own clothes and find the work under
instruction much more satisfactory
than their own unaided efforts.
Its lots of fun, really" said one
girl, who has taken one Of the shorter
courses and emerged with a handsome
black tailor suit. There are always
ten or twelve girls, you know, and we
nave lot Of fun gossiping. 1t isn't
IKE breaking your back all alone I'm
your sewing room and getting tired TO
death because you've nothing TO think
about but your sewing"
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
Saturday, May Fl, 1904.
SEARCH FOR PRISON FACTS.

Recently the census bureau sen,
out inquiries to all the prison ward.
ems, sheritfs and other peace officers
asking for the number of persons
coming into their custody and GER
tain facts concerning them, saws the
Lewiston Tribune. The purpose is
10 secure an answer to that FREQUENT
and Important social question, els
crime increasing" from which it was
hoped much valuable information
would be secured in the interest of
humanity. The bureau is now send
ing out another circular, noting that
the replies have not been received
from many sources and in others
they are incomplete and unsatisfac-
tory The Tribune complies with
pleasure with the bureaus REQUEST TO
publish the notice, and suggests that
the subject matter is of sufficient
moment 10 justify the attention of
the officials. 1t is to be feared
however, that even full responses to
the inquiries will be hardly enough
10 enable one to answer with certain
W the important question. A great
many crimes are not punished or
prosecuted at all From some omar.
ters highly favorable reports NAV
come when the facts might be utterly
discouraging Only a few of the
laws are enforced against only few
OF the criminals in other places. The
record OF the court, for instance
which has tried over two thousand
persons for murder, and which has
never hanged a man, is hardly TO be
relied on IN its statistics. The record
OF court which acquits great ma. |
''n'y OF criminals, thus declaring
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21

away from western Washington, the
new state would lose the right to
regular freight rates to the coast.
Such traffic would become interstate
commerce and beyond the control of
an individual state. Our status in
that event would be the same as the
present status of Idaho. We could
regulate freights and fares only with
in our own borders.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
Made Young Again.

one OF DR.. Kings New Life Pills
60 eAcn night In two weeks has put me
~ my teens again" writes d n
turner OF Dempseytown, Pa. They're
sne best in the world for Liver,
stomach and Bowels. Purely ve0e
"a 'IO,e' Never grippe. Only 25c at
all Druggists. ~
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
TALK OF A NEW STATE.

Mayor Boyd expresses the belief
that the interests of the East Side
and the West Side are so diverse that
the ultimate solution of the railroad
trouble will be the creation of a new
state, including eastern Washington
and northern Idaho, which would
handle the railroad commission cues
ton satisfactorily to itself, says the
Spokane Review.
The suggestion is interesting, but
the remedy is remote, and so far as
the commission issue is concerned it
would not be satisfactory.
The erection of new state from
parts of Idaho and Washington is not
impossible, but it would be difficult
to accomplish. The United States
constitution provides method for
the creation of new states from terri
Tory of old states, but it is difficult
to apply. Before new state could
be set going in the Inland Empire.
the consent would have to be had of
the legislatures of Washington and
Idaho, and then Of the congress of
the United States. The constitutional
provision on tins matter is as follows
"New states may be admitted by
the congress into the Union; but no
new state shall be formed or erected
within the jurisdiction of any other
state nor any state be formed by the
junction OF two or more states or
parts Of states, without the consent
0f the legislatures Of the states con.
'erned, as well as OF the congress f"
Once eastern Washington rs cut
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
All the news in The Signal.
Quick Arrest.

j. A. Gulledge of Verbena, Ala,
was twice IN the hospital from a
severe case of piles causing "a
tumors. After doctors and all remi-
dies failed, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
quickly arrested further inflammation
and cured him. 1t conquers aches
and kills pain. 25c at all Druggists. s
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
ADVERTISING RATES..


twenty cents per inch first insertion Fifteen
cents per inch subsequent insertions of same
Standing advertisements per month inch
si.e0. Each additional inch S1 20 --'-
Advertisements run in either tho "Wednesday
OK saturday issue alone at following rates:
Small standing ads 70 cents per inch per month
single inch. per month, 81 90
Legal Notices 90 per inch in (non-pareiD
Insertion. ~ ~DSequene
Cards OF Thanks. o.. co.
Obituary Poetry, 10 cents a line.
NO FREE PAPERS TO ADVERTISERS
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
Planting Acre. OF waInu, rx...

IEAAn.
Ten acres OF walnut trees have re
Gently been planted on the Indiana for.
estry reservation by Secretary Free
man OF the state board OF forestry
which are expected to develop into val.
liable property. In the planting OF the
seeds the utmost care was taken thai
tDeV would have the best chance 10 de.
yeiop' In preparing the soil secretary
FREEMAN broke the ground with a sort
~ nesFy sled made OF beams and iron,
70 which was attached a sharp steel
prov, The Walnuts were buried hi
sand last fan 10 permit the outside hull
70 decay aud thus facilitate the growth
Wien the seeds were planted perma.
henily' They are expected 10 be up al
a short time, while had they been
planted without any preparation n
NYula nave been two years before the
sprouts appeared above me surface.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
Notice TO Farmers.

- I rn. so0elOsEe Mfg Co. will shin
ana - " ',.,' car Of Fir Derrick Poles
' ana Filing. Anyone wanting spv.
.s Jung OF this kind Or a special length
can order same from Geo. S. Good.
ing, agent, Weiser,
1S'7 >, H. soHELoskE, MANAGE,
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21

=, INC new bridge over the Zambesl Al
victoria rails, vii cross ne river "a
tsel above the wafer, being he hlgbest
bridge ~ the world, s"'''
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21

IN the District Court Of Che Third Juale
Ilct N the state of Idaho ID Az
County Of Washington ~. e,,nl
Joseph Whitley Piainfln, %, ChailH ~
epu Mona Dee Defendants, 100
fotlce 3 hereby given thaf NJ ~ rfd
i,tled action lhert has been iaalea oi
ApoYe named Court = VIII Of h..nA|
ekalhsi ne Properly "a ne lalq p'''
lstALl 49, FniRF \
$40 Clrfk of 80 ~
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21

40 rS' rent. renlTFiye-r0Om cottage, furu.
Harvey - - 7o.s ~
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21
The WEISER SIGNAL.
R. e. LOCKWOOD, Enron
r. S. HARDING, MANAapp

Entered April 49, 1902, as second class matter
March 3. 1897. Vi
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21

Fsne ~ - cents for ths semi Weekly
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The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-05-21

-. f9r r'ni-ThFse rooms furnished
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One copy month, n advance. 25
One copy one year, in advance. 3 90
saturday or Wednesday issue alone. l rs
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-08
DEMOCRATS ACCEPT NEW LEADERSHIP
tContinued From First Page

real
the field. Belmont B. but
Bryan gone quarter
Of hour today, Mr. Sheehan
states that supporting
a- - 80,
This began for
Bryan SPECTATORS
from the DELEGATES.
the today reveals
the Judge that Brya
is beaten and beaten badly.
successfully bolt the Nomination Of Judge Parker.
PLATFORM rs CONSERVATIVE
The platform will be will
Parker platform Albany
likely existing money
beaten that. leaders they
money
with gold. 1oss
MAY NOT. ADJOURN TILL SATURDAY
The convention will its work 10 o'clock tonlor
morning. Champ Missouri
elected permanent chairman today will require gait
ling and gave order impossible
the convention complete its and adjourn
Of Democratic object
nominating ticket Friday because they consider Fri
day unlucky day Judge Parker will be named
and the ticket completed Saturday
The vice presidency still unsettled The in control
the convention been beating
sitting Tanmany hall that they have really
to the candidate for second place
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-08

Yet the Republican gang has the in
finite gan to prate about its patriotism.
Our boys are rushing off to face death
in search of gold in the Klondike region,
when the oceans of the world contain a
million Flondikes, if the Republican party
would only permit them to work the
watery main.
knox's Appointment Straw
Republicans claim in public to be the
great and only trust busters. notwith-
standing the fact that under Republican
miSrule trusts have sprung up like
mushrooms in damp cellar and have be-
come plentiful as berries in June.
1t is said that straws show which way
the wind blows. Here is a straw which
indicates that the trusts have nothing to
fear from Republican trust busters. It is
the appointment of Attorney General p. c.
Knox, Republican trust buster par ex-
celIence, to succeed the late Matthew
STANLEY Quay, of Pennsylvania, in the SEN
ate of the United States. There would
have been nothing strange OF suspicious
about that performance were it not for
the influences which secured the appoint
question about his intellectual qualiflca-
lions for the position. The same can be
said truly of some other Pennsylvania
Republicans Congressman John Dalzell
and Joseph C. Sibley, for instance.
People will open up their eyes in as
constituent and begin to inquire as to the
why and wherefore of his appointment,
Knox from the attorney generalship to the
senate was procured by the earnest and
successful efforts of Mr.. Prick. Mr. Cas-
satt and Donald Cameron to induce Unit
ed States Senator Boise PenroSe, the new
Republican boss of PENNSYLVANIA. to per-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-08

felony to get propertynef any sert-zor to
the same rule appaen 10 the getting sof Of
fees or to attempts TO get them the whole
Republican party could be sent, to the
penitentiafy, s. stIt
:. Democrats Don't Favor. Free Trade
One of their false opretenses- one
on which, they harp the most this year,
is. that the Democratic party is I'M favor
faase-4a lie out of whole cfoth.i There are
individual Democrats who are free. trad
ers just as@there are individual Republic
ans. swho are atheists but it would be
the Republican as the party of atheism
as to Genominate> the Democratic party as
the party of free trade.
1t never was a free trade party and is
not now The man who charges that it
is does SO because of his ignorance or be-
cause of his mendacity.
Democrats favor the cutting down of
basis. They believe that in many
schedules of the present law the rates are
too high; those that are too high we are
in favor of cutting down.
I'VE favor any modification of the tariff
schedules that may be feqnired to pre-
vent them becoming shelter for monop-
oily 1 wonder if Mr.. Secretary Shaw ever
heard those words before They, are taken
form of, 1901. The secretary whooped it
Up at a great rate for Gov A. B. Cum
minis and others nominated on that plat
form He denouPees it now as The dead
declaration borrowed from 4. Democrats
and is not dead-not event dying.
Where tariff rates are SO high that they
enable American manufacturers to sell
their wares abroad cheaper than they do
to Americans here at hopaesSWe say that
they ought to be reduced sssIssfhis anarchy
or treason? If SO, make fhesnaosfsef it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-08

= That is the Democratic party's, position,
from which it will not be driven or coax
ed Or bullied- No amount of miSrepre
sentation will cause them to bulge from
one dollar more in the shape of tariff
taxes Or any other sort of taxes should
be taken from the people than is neceS-
sary to pay the expenses of a government
economically administered. On these prop
ositions We believe We are right and on
them We confidently rely in our appeal
to the American people in November.
Decay Of Merchant Marine
When Napoleon signed the title deeds
to this vast country west of the MiSsiS-
sioners and said: Now I have given
England maritime rival, and SO he
had until its Unsuitable greed and crimi-
nal maladministration banished the starry
and abdicated the rich domain of the
ocean. In 1859 we had the second largest
merchant marine in the wor1d-our sails
whitened every harbor and our flag float
ed in every breeze under the heavens.
How sadly all this has changed after thir-
ty-fiye years of Republican miSTulel OF
all the merchantmen that went through
the Suez canal not single vessel, great
American flag at its masthead. and our
flag is seen in foreign waters only when
flying over man-ofwar.
Worse than fhis-more humiliating than
thiS-a few years ago when congress ap-
propTiated a large sum of money to buy
corn and wheat and meat to send to the
famine stricken East Indians. we could
not send it in an American Ship for the
all sufficient reason that there was none
to send it in. but to our great humiiia-
tion had to hire a foreign ship in which
to send over charity to our starving fellow
men.
When an American goes abroad he
must sail under foreign flag, on a for
eign ship, under foreign officer
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-08

the government without impairing the
efficiency of any branch of the public
service. and we shall insist upon the
Str1ctest economy and frugality COM
patible with vigorous and efficient civil
military and naval administration as
right of the people too clear to be de-
MED or withheld.
HONEST PUBLIC SERVICE
p 2. The enforcement Of honesty in the
public service and to the end a thorough
legislative Investigation of those. eX-
ecutive departments of the government
already known to TEEN with corruption.
as well as other departments suspected
of harboring corruption, and the pun
ishment of ascertained corruptioniSts
without fear Or favor or regard to per-
sons. The persistent and deliberate re-
fusal of both the senate and house of
representatives to permit such investi-
cation to be made by either branch of
congress. demonstrates that only by
change in the executive and in the
house of representatives can complete
exposure, punishment and correction be
obtained. In broader substance of that
end the federal government should not
permit itself to be robbed by entering
into contracts with convicted trusts,
or unlawful combinatio in restraint of
trade, existing in violation of Law. We
believe that one of the. best methods of
procuring economy and honesty in the
publlc service is to have public Off
Gals, from the occupant of the White
house down to the lowest of them. re-
turn as nearly as may be to Jefferso-
MAN simplicity of living.
NO EXECUTIVE USURPATION
8. We favor the nomination and
election of president trained in the
ways OF the constitution who shall set
his face Sternly against executive usur-
patton or legislative or judicial func-
tons, whether that uSurpation be ruled
under the guise of executive construc-
ton OF existing laws or whether it take
refuge in the tyrant's pleas of neces-
sity or superior wisdom.
4. The Democratic party has been
and Will continue to be the consistent
opponent of that class of tariff IegiSla-
ton by which certain interests have
been permitted, through congressional
favor. to draw heavy tribute from the
American people. This monstrous per-
version of those equal opportunities
which our political institutions were es-
tabilshed to secure, has caused what
may once have been infant industries to
become the greatest combinations of
capital that the world has ever known.
These publicly favored enterprises have
through the trust methods been convert
ed into monopolies, thus bringing to an
end the domestic competition which was
the only check upon the extravagant.
profits made possible by the protective
system. These industrial combinations,
by the financial assistance they can give
now control the policy of, the Republican
party.
TARIFF REVISION AND REDUCTION
We favor wise and conservative and
business like revision and the gradual
reduction of the tariff by the masses and
for the common veal. and not by the
friends OF its abuses, it's eXtortionS and
its Determinations, keeping in view the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-08
=ATF0RNN BUILDERS COMPLETE WORK ON DRAFT

Following is the text of the Demo-
cratic platform submitted by the sub
committee to the full committee on
resolutions:
I'VE, the delegates of the Demo-
cratic party of the United States. in
national convention assembled, de-
principles of the Democratic faith
which brings us together in party
communication.
Under them local self-govern-
ment, national unity and prosperity
were alike established. They under
LAID our independence, the structure
of our free republic and every DEM
ocratic extension from Louisiana to
California and Texas to Oregon,
which preserves faithfully in all the
states the tie between taxation and
representation. They yet inspire the
masses of our people, guarding
jealousy their rights and liberties,
and cherishing their fraternity, peace
and orderly development. They re-
mind Us of our duties and RESPONSE
bilitieS as citizens and impress upon
us, particularly at this time, the ne
cesslty of reform and the rescue of
the administration of government
from the headstrong, arbitrary and
Spasmodic methods which distract
business by uncertainty and pervade
the public mind with dread, distrust
and perturbation.
PEACE. SAFETY AND PROGRESS
"The application of those funda-
mental principles to the diving issues
of the day constitutes the first step
toward the assured peace, safety and
progress of our nation Freedom of
the press, of conscience and of
speech: equality before the law of
all citizens; the right of trial by
jury; freedom, of the person defend
ed by the writ. Of habeas corpus;
liberty OF personal contract untram-
meled by sumptuary laws; the SUI
premacy OF the civil over military
authority; we'll disciplined militia;
the separation of church and state;
economy in expenditures; low taxes,
that labor may be lightly burdened;
the prompt and sacred fulfillment of
public and private obligations; fidel-
ity to treaties; peace and friendship
with all nations, entangling alliances
with none; absolute acquieScence in
the will of the majority, the vital
principle of republics-these are doc
trineS which Democracy has estab-
lished as proverbs of the nation, and
they should be constantly invoked.
preached, reSOrted to and enforced.
REDUCE EXPENDITURES
made in the annual expenditures of