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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1902
Page
2
J F Lowe and others file on three sections along a middle fork area, reporting promising signs of coal deposits. The filing names the claim group and outlines location in the disputed land tract.
Sufficient development work is under way to decide if the Wein is paying. Three sections of coal land were located on the middle fork of the Weiner river by Weiser people. J F Lowe Yao She Emil Matzdorf are doing development work at the claims. Sam Adams reports a shaft at mountain foot hits a five foot vein. Fourteen Weiser residents are invested and will fund further testing to confirm coal viability.
The Idaho Free Library Commission met at Rathdrum on April 12 to prepare its annual report to the governor. Senator E. P. Donnelly, who framed the free library bill, was present. The commission appropriated 3000 dollars and received 14 fully equipped library cases from the Columbian Club of Boise plus 3068 dollars from Hailey women. During the year 23 new cases were added, totaling 37, with 1927 books. The state is divided into three circuits northern central and southern with identical book circulation per circuit. Three copies of each book are bought, one per circuit, and the circulation has pleased the public. Cooperation with Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota and Delaware yields a uniform small-library book list.
A noon fire swept through Roosevelt's business district destroying the bank and many key structures. The hotel’s two upper floors burned while the Tower stories were saved by nearby snow used to extinguish the flames. The landlady was unharmed and the water works and ice plant were also burned.
Progress publishes Idaho testimonials from Governor Hunt and ex-attorney-general Hays praising equal suffrage. Hunt says extension cleaned politics, elevated conventions, and trimmed saloon influence, while Hays credits better men, easier law enactment, and indirect benefits from women voters.
The British treasury secretary reports a last year deficit of 261 million dollars and announces a bread tax. The outlook is described as the gloomiest character with economic strain expected to deepen.
Placer gold from Heath and Jalie Landsman's ounce bottle panned on Snake River at the Heath district. The piece says Heath is fine and its value will grow with a concentrator working the exposed ore. It urges opening the Weiser smelter and building a concentrate plant at Heath, and notes business opportunities and cheap food lists. Also mentions malaria germs, Electric Bitters cure, and eye tests at Vendome parlor.
County superintendent Seto Mise Mary Harper continues a county tour visiting school districts. She has already been to Crane and Heath and is now in the Seven Devils country surveying local schools.
Misses Roses Johnson and Kye Toney announce millinery and dress making parlors, a branch of Mode at Baker City, now open in Barton block inviting the Indies of Weiser and surrounding country to inspect. Also notes on lace braids, patterns, gloves, a Gordon Hat at Sommercamps, a Jersey cow for sale, White Spray flour, silk waists $3.50 to $7.00, and cautions on biliousness, coughs, and colds with DeWitt's Little Early Risers and One Minute Cough Cure endorsements.
Notice states a ten dollar per share assessment on stock of EAJON, Idaho town stockholders must pay by August, delinquent by August 1, 1902, with sale conditions if unpaid. Also notices for real estate sale by probate administrator in Washington County Idaho, April 10, 1902, including described parcels and ten percent down, balance per court, sale location in Welser City.
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