Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-12-24
From Coast Exchanges.

quake resulting from the disturbed !,
condition of Mt. Baker. 8
Dayton citizens have concluded to =,
make some preparations against future
fires. The Chronicle places the en-
tire loss of the late FIRE at $4,000 of
which $4,000 only was covered by
insurance.
Dunn who killed Mccartney at
Dayton has been held to answer to
the charge of manslaughter in the sum
of $4,000.
The Northern Pacific company will
ship to this coast in 1881 10000 tons
of rails for about 270 miles of their
road.
Willard has bought s350,00o worth
of real estate in San Francisco.
The 0. r. l. N. Co., have let their
contract for clearing and erubbing
their railroad from Sandy to The
Dalles &C miles to E. b. Sprague,
the grubbing to he completed July
LIST, 1881. There are to be five tun-
nels between Portland and The Dalles
the longest 900 feet. Tunnelling will
be commenced in February next.
A fire at Port Gramnle on the 3rd
destroyed $4,000 worth of properly.
A. J. Thomas is to be hung at Wal
la Walla January p, 1881 for the
murder of Broomfeld.
A second gorging of the Columbia
10y ice interrupted navigation on the
18th, but tie weather was moderating.
The Nor hern Pacific Co., are laying
their track east from Ainsworth at the
rate of ! miles per day.
The contractors for logs and ties
from the Yakima suspended and
turned the business over to the North
Pacific CO., since which the boom a,
the mouth of Yakima gave wa and
large quantity of logs drifted below
Ainsworth.
Careful surveys make the height o
the Sheets pass of the Cascades noun
tains only 1850 feet above sea level
Judge Deadly has rendered deci
sion to the effect that Chinese are no
eligible to American citizenship.
Brentz official majority in Washing
ton Territory is 1897
The Oregonian was 80 years oil
Dec. 18th. 1--WE we'll remember sittin
" in small room in the building use
as the printing Office of that papc
=" about the Goth of Dec. 1850, and j
company with Judge Boise of Orgo
reading the first two numbers of tn
:, Oregonidn, and commenting upon til
~ make up of the paper and the style (
=, composition, while editor I. }. Dry'
was in hearing. Dryer took umhras
> to some jocose remark we made, ar
~ in his next issue he made mention
u US by calling Boise and ourself +
" spectiyely the "band box lawyer NJ
IS, the Yankee school MASTER" and i'll tt
- +nme article told the public he new
'ie had received 3 months schooling in h
y life time. Things have changed sin
,' then. ED.)
A white beaver was killed ne
-. Skookum chuck near Olympia asho
u time ago.
ii; Hon. r.. French government au,
TO- tor of railroad accounts, who has Wis
srs ed this north west country claims tn
BILE a railroad eastward from Ainswor'
ar. and depending upon a rival line do'
no the Columbia for egress to
our Pacific, would he suicidal policy
ton the North Pacific. Nothing sh
uld of direct outlet across the Casca'
re to the Sound can be of advantages
an the company.
rty The commissioner of the Gene
nth Land Office has sent special ag
it Lewis F. Clark to Walla Walla to
IS vestigate charges against Regis
ess Morrison, Receiver Reed or clerk A
and chell of the z. S. Land Office at t
pass place. The taking of the testim'
ave commenced yesterday.
'arv John G. Swash "a practical prii
COL is about to revive the Waitsb
we Times.
] be District court at Boise City
ues- iourned till after the close of the lie
" lature.
'rtu- During the month of October