East Bound Schedule Fragment
Readable fragment shows a directional note for east bound traffic or train with a 4. p.m. and B:20 p.m. time reference, unclear context.
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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1892
Page
1
Readable fragment shows a directional note for east bound traffic or train with a 4. p.m. and B:20 p.m. time reference, unclear context.
At Boise on April 26 1892 fifty delegates from six counties attended the Peoples party convention. J B Wright of Caldwell was elected chairman. Delegates to the Omaha convention July 4 were chosen from multiple counties. Resolutions call for currency reform free coinage of silver, per capita increasing money supply, graduated income tax, postal savings banks, government ownership of railroads telegraph and telephone, land reform, direct presidential elections, and support for miners in Shoshone county. Also oppose Pinkerton espionage and Chinese immigration.
A Long Valley letter describes a thriving agricultural area with about 10 000 bushels of grain raised last fall and emigration rising. It notes a spring delay but confirms early seeding, new road projects to the basin, and county improvements including seven new school districts. Community efforts include a Fourth ice cream fundraiser for a school fence and plans to photograph farms for a Worlds Fair display.
A reporter tours Idaho towns from Nampa to Pocatello noting irrigation transforming desert into fertile farms. Pays tribute to Mountain Home, Caldwell, Nampa, and Payette while praising growth, waterworks, and new brick buildings. Visits Boise and the state penitent iary, praising Warden Jenne and convict cooks as evidence of progress.
County school land was offered at the courthouse last Monday and sold to settlers at appraised values. Buyers included J Swenkfelder, A Meier, B Gindheart, D N Baker, P P Dawson, T Craven, John Carroll, John Mulloy, J T Neel, Dave Madison, Fred Hemingway, W B Kurtz, J M Fisher, James Don Levy, C Ebriick among others. Total sales reached 16222 dollars with terms requiring ten percent down and balance over one year at six percent. About two thousand dollars was deposited as initial payment. the sale appeared free of outside bidders. A separate probate court item involved a delinquent suit against Washington county with publication, appealed to district court.
The Idaho state Democratic convention held in Pocatello elected delegates to Chicago and adopted a set of platform resolutions. It pledged support for Jeffersonian principles, coinage of gold and silver, anti trusts, and federal pensions while opposing special party pensions and Chinese labor importation.
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