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more of the productive land than the
river route can possibly do.
From all indications, however,
the Northern, Pacific is not going to
sit around doing nothing while its
rival gathers in the plums of Camas
and Nez Perce prairies. President
Howard Elliot was visitor to Sites
the first of the week, going back to
Spokane after brief inspection. He
is due to return again within few
days, and this is believed to mean
Immediate beginning OF the Clear
water extention. He is quoted by a
Lewiston newspaper representative as
saying that they would certainly
build at once, though he did not say
what route they would take. What
ever route it is, whether the one from
Sites up to Grangeville, or longer
one from Ouldesac or some point on
the Clearwater, is not half 80 interest
ing as the fact that they are going to
build somewhere.
Prices on farm and town property
have gone up quite perceptibly in
view of the prospective railroad
building. 1t is anticipated that
this section will have bigger boom
than ever came here before.
1t is reported from Lewiston that
Engineer Klippel's party, the one
which started the o. R. & N. work at
Mohler, will go fom there to the Sal
mon river, to survey for connection
with the P. & 1. N. road, now at
Council, but contracted to be built
this year as far as Meadows, and thus
forestall any effort of the N. ?. to
capture the Salmon river country.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-03-25
HAVt INCORPORATED
TOR F|Fn THOUSAND
Plan 10 Utilize ws5sT RiVd Water
ha5 Taken Definite
Shape.

IN line with the facts given in last
Signal, the weiser Electric
Power Co., has been duly incorpor-
s,ed under the laws Of this state with
a capital stock Of $500 The pr'n-
e,pal place Of business is weiser and
the purpose, as stated last Saturday
20 build an electric po wer plant on
tbs weiser river The ineorporeto's
and directors are John y, PiereN
pitas Ellis, w. a. Adams Pb's .
Galloway and =, a. Morrison Na'p
of tho above has sobserlpsq i''
sl0. 600 Of the atoek 9be plant con
tsmplated gill eost $4,000 - y
the lntenilon % noef bonds ~ p''.. .
lllo N oomplo,e the plant l'''.N
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The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-03-25
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
WILL DANISH p0L1dAhI5T5
The E(ds5ia5ti0 Getting thei1
Fingers Into Legislatures
There IS HsIs.

Ottawa, Ont. March 2l.-The
Mormon trouble in Canada is coming
to head. Some time ago reference
was made TO the large number OF Nor
mons in the West, TO the fact that
some, including Apostle Taylor, were
hiding there TIL the Mormon inyesti p
CATION in the United States was IN
ished, aud 10 the suspicion that sew
eraI Of the Mormous living there nov
we're guilty Of polygemS
Within che last few TeeSs o. 20 'h'
Northwest mouDted police have ''
eolgod strlet orders 10 prosecute H''
lhose Who Re polypemis's eysp y
they Only aetually lige vltD ene va
and order theu 0ui N the eQnn'fy
ghe laoal peFspepoV ~ Hlbe''e
tho Yovlioy shef0 ihe glesie1' A1e'
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lioal. ~ lplNed lnlQ Provinces a.
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branch can be put through in time
to both the Salmon river region and
the Thunder Mountain country.
1t may not be this year or next, but
there is every reason to believe that
the Short Line will be the first in the
field. Then the st. Anthony branch
has great future. The Short Line
secured all its information as to the
region beyond each of its termini
long ago and when the time comes
the road will be ready to extend.
Just at present the company Is
devoting its time to the two branch
es already planned and now being
built, but it has its eyes on all the
other regions and it is freely pre-
dicted that the Short Line Will IN
the next five years increase its ldAno
lines by at least 500 miles and every
mile will add TO the States proouH,
tion. IL was on the trip metioneo
that Mr.. Bancroft went over the n
l&I. N. Line, last week, and u "
rumored that the purchase OF tn'
p. &LH., may be included IN tn'
Short Line expansion, Should ihi
occur, Il Is not unlikely that y 40 %
tension Is ever made into Tbupos
MountaiD by Che Short Lane, - wy
be from Council, ~ that ~ pnqo'p
todly tho most feasible route,
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the o. r. & N. Both we're scram-
bling to get to Grangeville, and the
N. P. built as far as Sites. The
o. K. & N. partially constructed
grade from Rlparia to Lewiston. A
truce was patched up and work stop
ped. This truce is now at an end and
it appears that both roads are about
to build to Grapgeville and it is pos
sible the N. P. will build to con-
meet with the P. /. N. if not headed
off by the o. R. & N.
Relative to this the Grangeville
Standard says:
It will be surprising indeed to
many people of the prairie if the To-
comotive whistle is not heard here in
Grangeville long before the summer
is over. For that matter there are
not few who predict two railroads
here before snow flies.
A dispatch from Lewiston, Thurs
day morning, says that the party of
reputed o. r.. & N. surveyors, who
we're announced at Lewiston last
week, actually began throwing dirt on
the old OR. & N. survey at Mohler.
The party is not large, but will be
increased and the work pushed with
all possible speed. 1t is announced
that other parties will be put to
work, and grading will be carried on
at several points at once.
The o. r. & N. survey follows
the Clearwater up to Big Canyon,
near Peck, and from there starts up
on the prairie. 1t is known to be
fine grade, and will reach some tine
farming country almost all the way
II is considered by most people to bt
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The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-03-25
REPORT RICH STRIKES
IN NORTHERN MINES
THE SIGNALS PREDICTIONS ARE PROVING
TRUE AS DEVELOPMENTS PROGRESS
THE SYNDICATE GROUP.

The ore will be shipped by boat
to Lewiston and from there trans
ported by rail TO its destination.
steamer is now making regular trips
from Lewiston to China creek, about
% miles south of the Imnaha dis
tirict, where strong company Is
operating the Great Eastern group.
The Syndicate group is only about
IS miles from the Iron Dyke and
McDougal Mines and an effort is be-
ing made to tap that whole section
with steamer transportation from
Lewiston. Messrs. james Potter and
Gherm. Winchester we're visitors in
the city this week on court business
and gave out the above 10 Signal
reporter. Speaking generally OF the
Rapid river and Seven Devils dis
tricts, they stated that very busy
season IL anticipated. They report
rich strike 0f tell1rium ore made In
the Iron Springs mines . few days
ago. but did not Learn the ssteot of
the deposit, The company 70 prose
optine aeyslopmeDts With fofee q
eboot 80 mep aud eyerytbipg n ppogr
NV along yegy satisfactorily 4hsg
elso lepolt tbsf Althpf pegia hee 30
oently made > splenaia,eil1he ep hif
lgeai f'aategp RgQpp, n0 ~ Npn
lanaQfe fewllla9y knesp ~ th'
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will % TO CANADA
AID 70 htA(o
Congressional Committee will In
large Scope Of is H.
VeStigdion5.

Washington, d. O., March TO-
Unmistakable indications point to a
resumption of the Investigation Of
Senator Smoot within q short time.
Just what line the investigation will
follow in this, the third edition of
the inquiry, has not been definitely
decided. With the reports of the
Government agents as a basis, there
is no knowing what ramification the
invetigation will assume, and it may
be that the Government Of Mexico
and Great Britain, as far as it relates
to the Mormon settlement in Canada,
will be called upon for cooperation
in serreting out the conditions that
obtain in these countries. Chairman
Burrows is unusually reticent over
future plans of the committee. he
avoids all discussions of the case
with the newspaper crowd. But he
wears a knowing look and is sound
ing himself with much mystey these
days. To use a slang expression
there's something doing.
The action of the Mormon church
In communicating ex Senator Frank
]. Cannon continues to be the topic
of great deal of discussion among
Continued on Page
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-03-25
OREGON SHORT LINZ
BUILDING Up idaho
ONIEMPLATES 500 TO 600 MILES OF NEW
ROAD FOR THIS GROWING STATE IN
THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

'uS Salt Lake Tribune says that
4 Sus'n OF time being taken up
4i bancroft and other officials
'le trip over the field in Idaho soon
4 penetrated by the rails of the
wy Line indicates a season of ac-
|~ |'. Ii That state on the part of it's
r. sa's, raiload. Since its incep-
|.,s us oregon Short Line has very
b,.., concentrated its efforts
a ~ building up Idaho, as that
sn vu'ains the greater portion of
|,... mileage and the State itself has
NJ 'sa V most alluring region for
n .' VINO know how to build up a
H. "un'fy. 1t seems but a few
s,.., W that the state was but
n'" settled and in those DAYS a
ksIs VINO ' had predicted that the
~ river desert would one day
M bss'' ."a agricultural valley would
|a., ,a rldiculed right and left.
|Ad,, ,as a1'"e'er, the whole section
ih A.. w" canal Is being turnad
N 1 ,sS. sueD . valley aud the rails
s. ON, 'a''s ~ shep the tbresher
Eut n n. 'as W, prst car of wheat.
'lsy iss S'sdsl nlplq0ts line, the Mala,
N lls '. sa' !, Apq the Boise oxten
w LINZ "'' ~. NE only now lines IN
's,''''p ''' ~ Wow Tho Maol,a,
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-03-25
/ f|I1[r'} WORK
On LAID LEGISLATION
ND congress lbs Done in The
Irrigation and Forestry
| Matters.

A,tsr long struggle OF years the
- vss passed consolidating all OF
|.ss |ss torestry work of the government
~ ana bureau in the department. OF
|.s.,,ulture; this in place OF having
/. .olit up among some five various
|,,~,bes in different departments.
MI, gives over 60 million acres OF
,.,.st reserve into the care OF the
,,,sst,v bureau of the department OF
.,,iculture with adequate authority
fairly protect the forest, allow
\, The cutting and sale of ripe tim
M and with power to arrest trespas-
en, etc.
The really great legislation of the
session was the repeal of the forest
reserve lieu selection law, thus pre-
Vsutpg the location in the future OF
ii forest reserve scrip, socalled,
d, rspealing the right of a man
i corporation owning land within
forest reserve to relinquish it to
IL government and select Sin lieu
hereof any other unreserved nom
mineral public land.
This is great step for.
I'd in land law reform and
Ios away with one of the most
pomious and scandalous forms of
baud and graft under the federal
nd laws Under this law enormous
sss have been put upon the govern
bent the right to select these lieu
|nds having been transferable and re-
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Var News.

Toxic, March 21.-The Japanese
losses in the battle of Mukden are
now estimated at so, 900. Revised
estimates Of Russian losses ending in
the fighting at Tie Ling are ITS, 600
killed, wounded or captured.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-03-25
A Lady's Accident.

Mrs. P. e. Ellis, wife of the post
master, at Sites was thrown from her
horse, had her skull fractured and is
now lying at the point of death.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-03-25

1t is reported at st. Petersburg the
Russian soldiers are deserting to the
Japanese side by thousands.
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-03-25

the really practi-
cable route for this
part of the state,
as it reaches much
The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-03-25
THE RAILROAD WAR
IN NORTH IDAHO|
MAY RESULT In BRINGING ABOUT CON-
NECTI0N WITH THE P & |. N. OVER
LITTLE SALMON ROUTE.

Five years ago
there was war on in
North Idaho be
tween the NJ and
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suit the couture. They must also
suit the costume with which they are
worn and the color Of the hair they
adorn.
The best plan is to have them re-
peat some color in the costume, but
| a color must be used that will not
deaden by contract the natural color
women should shun white-very few
heads can stand it, especially brown
| ones. Pink is also trying.
Pale blue, on the contrary, like
black velvet, is nearly universally be-
coming worn in the hair. The manu-
facturers realized this when they sent
out SO many turquoise combs this
year.
For the evening head-dress flowers
and ribbons are mostly used. But
they are generously mixed with
spangles, jewels and sparkling things.
Little mounted brilliants are the
most popular. By means of the
of decoration. They sparkle like
jewels and they are universally be-
coming.
Nos. 1 and 2 in the cut show them
used on simple flower arrangements.
On these they make you think Of
drops of dew. No. is a coronet Of
green leaves, and No. a simple wild
rose.
No is made Of narrow blue vel
vet ribbon, wire and thickly adorned
with steel beads.
No. 4 shows a combination very
popular this season, that of daisies
and ribbon. The ribbon in this case
was run with gold threads, and the
same threads were wound in among
the stems of the flowers.
No. 5 is made of three shades of
ribbon. 1t is a combination of tiny
rosettes and twisted, wired loops.
No. Z is pert and saucy. 1t is a
bunch of tiny roses wired to stand
up very stiff.
No. is a string of forget-me-nots
to be twisted in with the coils of the
hair or to be used as a wreath.
No. 8 is a modest little bow made
of wired ribbon, with a knot tied in
the center of each loop.
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LONDON, July 19-British high
life is in fermcnt over recently
disclosed scandals. Several divorce
suits have been brought, and more
are threatened if broad hints ex-
changed over the tea cups have any
significance.
AS usual, the inevitable house
party figures In most of the scandals
and discreet Wallets and chambermaids
are at premium.
In the case of the countess of
Stair, one of the handsomest women
of England, against whom the earl
has just received a decree of divorce
on account of her relations with Sir
Neil James Menzies of Castle Men
zies, Perthshire, the servants were
her undoing They told enough to
give the earl his decree in the court
of sessions at Edinburgh and saddle
the costs on the correspondent be-
sides. The countess and Sir Men
zies were represented by counsel, but
did not offer testimony nor cross
examine the witnesses.
1t developed that the earl had part
ed from his wife in 1891 because of
her alleged temper. extravaganza and
disinclination to live in London, but
the divorce suit was based upon
charges Of which the nobleman re-
ceived the first hint only in 1904.
1t concerned the countess fondness
for Sir Neil, whom she had first met
at a Scottish noblemans house party
in 1885. Upon this tip, given by a
friend, the earl had matters looked
into and struck pay dirt when he
got hold of servants who had at
tended Sir Neil and the countess
while she was following her own de-
vices.
Did 'Arriet ever notice anything
suspicious between milady and the
Perthshire baronet?"
'Lor, yes" And so on.
William Smith, a SNUG waiter, who
said he had ben valet to Sir Mem
zies in 1900. made good" as the
Americans would say, to a startling
degree. He was able to testify that
in May of that year the lady and the
baron were together at the Hotel
Regina for three or four days.
After that. Smith and other serv-
ants testified, the couple lived in the
same house at Maidenhead. This
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the English marines and some of the
government buildings partially de-
stroyed and archives burned. Bosch
Ike saw that in case of another war a
Typographical map of the District of
, Columbia should be in actual exist
/ enee and at his own expense with
, time taken from before and after Of
, flee hours, he set about his task Ris-
ing before daybreak, Boschke would
ride away on horseback into the field
where he maintained surveying
party at his own expense to assist
him in his work. Here he would
work until the time to return to his
office. His frequent journeys In and
out of Washington, riding at full
speed, soon earned him the sobriquet
of the Flying Dutchman."
The map was completed Just as
the first gun was turned on Fort
Sumter
Boschke comes from family of
engineers who for generations have
been identified with all the great
wars in Europe He was born in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-07-19

| one church does 50; while not one
authority, legal or ecclesiastical, asks
for any proof of the moral, mental
physical or financial fitness of the
parties who are to marry. And out
of this maelstrom of accidents, So
ciety expects successful and perfect
marriages! 1t Is a magnificent tribute
to humanity, and to the marriage re-
, lation itself, that so few divorces are
asked for.
No one class is so responsible for
these evils as the clergy themselves
| The vast majority of marriages are
! performed by them and the cases are
rare where they make any inquiries
as to the applicants or refuse to
perform the ceremony. OF late years
| there has been a furry of reform on
| the part of a few to the extent of re-
| fusing to marry divorced persons, but
this is the most superficial and in
, efficient of remedies.
What an absurdity, yea, what a
crime, to refuse to marry a man who
has been divorced and then, without
a question, to unite to a pure woman
one who has lived a life of immoral
ity and intemperance! Or to decline
to perform the ceremony for a di-
vorced woman and then, without a
qualm to bind in wedlock one who is
a child in years, and often evidently
a runaway from home! And yet 1t
| will be noticed that, almost without
exception, the marriages of the unfit
which come before the courts for
, annulment have been performed by
, reputable ministers.
l have no sympathy whatever with
the cry which has been raised in re-
cent years by the clergy and their
,narrowminded following among men
and women, that there shall be no
divorce except for adultery. While
1 regard that as the objectionable
sin, there are others which render
married life just as much Of a hades
l would of course recognize the same
causes of divorce for a man as for
woman, yet, as wives are the petit
TONERS in at least three-fourths of
the divorces, I naturally consider
them more especially. / maintain
that it is a crime against herself
and her children for a wife to live In
marriage with an habitual drunkard.
l hold it sin to demand that a wife
shall continue to live with a husband
who beats or otherwise maltreats her.
Nor can l see how the wife, her chill
dren or society is benefited by refus-
ing her a divorce when her husband
has permanently deserted her.
These are the causes alleged for
divorce in ninc-tenths of the cases.
They are legitimate. rational and
just. Not one of them should be re-
moved from the statute books-and
not one of them ever will be. Those
members of the clergy, and others
who unite with them in the demand
for no divorce. or for recognizing
only one cause, are medieval in spirit
and wholly out of touch with the
broad, humane tendencies of modern
thought. SUSAN b. ANTHONY.
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Seven" Shorthand-Touch tipping.
Ten pupils wanted to give exhibitions
after one months training. Good
writer's do double work and receive
treble wages than the other sort. The
one or two finger operators are not
worth their salt, nor will good Of
fee have them. Pay each lesson
stop when you like. Business men
and women with three lessons can
make their private notes in snort
hand, and costs but 50. Reporters
completed within two months. If you
haven't the money, we will take your
note for payment for full course, $4e;
cash, $35. Call for two minutes free
lesson, then write any word. 1t ism
a school or class. You come for ~
minute lessons when you like; so
easy, so convenient. Our eldest pu-
pill is 50, the youngest 10. Lincoln
street, Spokane.
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years of labor; self-denial and bitter
disappointment, success has at last
come to him, but only when the fruits
of his toll have been all but taken
from him by money sharks who have
been advancing him from time to
time at exorbitant interest the neces-
sary funds for the completion of his
work.
The dredge, the plans of which he
has been working on, is to be used
in the digging of the canal across
Cape Cod. Boschke made investiga-
tions for the Cape Cod canal in 1863,
but the dredges then in existence
were not suitable for the work, and
1t is only after years of labor that
the proper one has been planned and
built
The new dredge will also be used
by the government in the digging of
the Panama canal.
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found. On Boschke's reply that It
was in the hands of the printers, a
squad of soldiers was sent to seize
the map and two copper plates that
had been made of it.
The finding of such a map by the
north was n source of great relief to
those having the responsibility of the
defense of the capital, as there was
not in existence at the time even
the crudest map of the roads leading
to the district.
President Lincoln sent for Bosch
Ike and impressed upon him the in
estimable value of the map. saying at
the time, "Do you know that If 1t
were not for your map that jefferson
Davis would be sitting in my chair
today?"
Boschkc had conceived the idea of
such map in 1856. He had Just
finished his work as chief engineer
of New York harbor In looking
over the history of the country he
had seen where In the war of 1912.
Washington had been attacked by