Mining Specimens Found in Dresser Ranch Craws
A Prairie Chronicle item notes B W Maxey recovered a crow with three gold nuggets valued at about $2.70 from a Dresser ranch turkey, part of several birds whose craws yielded coarse gold. The piece speculates placer gold exists on the ranch near Cottonwood and mentions locating mining claims and a Thunder Mountain mining district inquiry. It also includes assorted notices and local items from March 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Chronicle
B. W. Maxey
Dresser Ranch
Cottonwood
Miss Slocum Lectures On How Wants Create Wealth
Miss Slocum of the Industrial Institute spoke at the opera house Tuesday on how wants create wealth. The talk was the third in a public library lecture series and drew a receptive audience. Music by Misses Tindaly and Coston and Mesdames Ashman and Audley Smith accompanied the program as a carload of Early Rose seed potatoes was received from J. B. O'Toure.
Boats on the Snake Line Planned From Ontario to Idaho
Parties plan a small line of boats between Huntington and Caldwell on the Snake River. The project began today with merchants supplying freight such as wool hides and other riverbank goods. Early melons from warm coves above Ontario may be hauled as spring opens in the Big Bend country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snake
Ontario
The
Statesman
Huntington
Caldwell
Snake River
Ieigure
Big Bend
Thunder Mountain Freight and Outfit Inquiries From Idaho Letter
A Missive from Payette Idaho dated March 8 inquires about accessing Thunder Mountain routes from Council Meadows or Warren for freight or passenger trains. It asks if Weiser has miners outfitting specialists and when travel might be feasible with minimal hardship. It seeks rates for passenger and freight transport and requests contact addresses for any freight or pack train operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Payette
Idaho
Thunder Mountain
Council
Meadows
Warren
Weiser
Information Wanted on Missing Father Olmstead Heditek
Mrs Lillie Olmsted Heditek of Jarvie North Carolina seeks news of her father Thomas Jeffries Olmstead who left home about twenty years ago without his wife Mary A Fogle. Last heard of in the early 1890s he was in Idaho. He would be about fifty, a good carpenter, six feet tall with blue eyes and a defective condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Olmsted-Heditek
Jarvie
North Carolina
Thomas Jeffries Olmstead
Mary A Fogle
Idaho
Citizens Progressive Ticket formed at Weiser convention
At the Weiser opera house on March 18 1902 a Citizens Progressive Ticket was chosen with De B L Steeves as chair man and R McKinney as secretary. The platform calls for water system franchise or municipal ownership, electric street lighting, street grades maps and profiles open for inspection, systematic street improvements and drainage under city engineer control, economical city finances with published records, and adoption of a sewer system with needed portions to be built.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weiser Opera House
de B. L. Steeves
R. ©. McKinney
Citizens’ Progressive
Weiser
City convention nominates Kelley for mayor on pledge of water plant in six months
The convention endorsed a plan to use unused city credit for safe legal improvements to raise property values and population, with safeguards against unjust charges. Ticket announced includes Mayor Thomas B W Kelley and council candidates. Kelley vowed to install a water plant within six months if elected, receiving cheers.
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Thomas BW. Kelley
Clark
Stewart Jf. Travis
G. Cordelle
Tadge
M. W. Mitchell
H. WH. Abrey
J. A. McCune
al Hopkins
J. J. Puller
Kelly
Nominating Meeting Finalizes City Ticket At Opera House
A second gathering at the opera house Friday elected Festus Foster chair and Stewart H. Travis secretary. N. F. Kimball spoke pledging full service as mayor candidate. Ticket includes Kimball for mayor Travis clerk T. Williams treasurer H. Garr police judge O. W. Luck city engineer Isaac Leighton second J. J. Fuller. platform adopted as published.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
Festus Foster
Stewart H. Travis
Vendome Hotel Arrivals List Dense With Names Across Cities
A lengthy list of guests and arrivals at the Vendome Hotel includes W A Winks Portland L L Osborn Portland K Balluff Chicago James P Kennedy Portland R A Martin Sulubeta N G Phillips Cambridge James Horn Middle Valley Conda Wilson Emmett 3 8 Campbell Befelds Kan W Ewan Boise Lee Hirsch New York James Sutton Salubrin J G Beal Boise Jno W Royer Warren Ambrose Stewart Warren Mrs Jerome Boise and many others noted for Saturday Sunday and Monday entries. The page also carries a standard Sell and Want column offering one cent per word per issue and urging readers to place ads or seek employment with Signal office details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. ©. Winks
Portland
L. L. Osborn
K. Balluff
Chicago
James P. Kennedy
R.A. Martin
Sulubeta
N. G. Phillips
Cambridge
James Horn
Middle Valley
Conda Wilson
Emmett
Campbell
Befelds
Kan
W. Ewan
Boise
Lee Hirsch
New York
James Sutton
Salubrin
J. G. Beal
Jno
W. Royer
Warren
Ambrose Stewart
Signal Office
Weiser Area Notes and Local Updates Across Countryside
From Pollock court visits to California honeymoons and local hires, the week brings social calls, new jobs at Summercamp’s store, and a two story home rising in Moore's Hollow. Holy week services at St Duke's focus on crops and triumph as community health improves. A soda factory fire loss was settled with London Assurance, and D A Utter survived a roof fall during construction.
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W. D. Church
Cement Bros
Millers of
Walla Walla
Weiger
St. Duke's
London Assurance Corporation
Fosselman
Willingham
Also Mentioned on This Page
Roseburg
Oregon
Alaska
Moyer
Citizens' Public Improvement Party
Hon
T. ©. Galloway
I’. 0. Galloway
N. F. Kimball
Prof
Twiohell
J. H. Richarda
McKinney Weiser
San Francisco
Joseph Raphael de Lamar
Utal«Nevada Company
de Lamar
Issac
Blake
Monitor
Jim Grow
de Lawar
Lincoln County
Nevada
Ladies Guild of
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
A. G. Cordelle
J, B, O'Toure
Second City Ticket
H. W. Horton
Tennesse
D. C
H. A. Tuttle
Sumpter
J.P. Friend
Mountainhome
Chas
DeGrundy
I. J. Phelan
Thunder
M. Alexander
B. Crosfield
Jobs M. Loyd
Oberlin
J.T. Walker
Nepla
Sam
Warner
Heath
A. D. Fairbain
J. E. Moore
Wm. Dunaway
J. Murphy
L. L. Burtenshaw
Eee
John Martin
F. W. Wood
Noble
K. Greever
Weiser Mills
J. J. Grane
Orchard Land Company, Limited
Orchard
Aiken Weiser
Smith Fruit Tract
Mary A. Jamison
Price
Eaton
Park
Monroe Creek
Weiner
Charles Clay
Mrs
Jay Rhoades
Pollock
A. J. Davia
B. Snyder
Notary Public
John Neely
California
P. TB. Moulton
Washington County
Lulu Hitt
Summercamp
HB. Pall
L. PF. Hodge
Mano Creek
Andrew Ruf
Duuth
Ming
Ruf
Ross Krigbaum
Krigbaum
D. A. Utter
Moore's Hollow
Qohain
Kelly’s Lumber Yard
Anderson
Barton
Geo. C. Bradley
HIXON
Bank OF
A. A. Anderson
Ki. M. Barton
SM. Barnett
Fred L. Taylor
J. W. Ayers
Somimercamp
Mortis Sotntier
C. M. Hixon
Transnet
United States
Scallenge
G.d. Selwyn
Cashier
Hainwald
Herman Haas
State Bank OF Idaho
Capital Stock
Edward Shainwald
Andrew Adams
M. McGregor
Isaac Leighton
McCune
C.J. Selwyn
Boijse
Capital State
Mercantile National
Omaha
First National
Walls Fargo
Salt Lake
McCormick Co
Europe
Hong Kong
Chita
Ideal Restaurant
E. W. Bowman
Ely
Ely Prothers
Warren Stract
Esquimaux
Henry IV
Henry
Weser Siwat
South Street
New York City
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