Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-09-20


urday evening by the City Council. The |
Pacific Bridge Company's bid was S37, 600,
that of A. 5. Miller and Son was S2S. 00O !
Mllers being the lower by $1,000. The
Council ordered call for a meeting of the
citizens to decide whether either of the bids |
should be accepted, and If SO, to suggest the
means of obtaining the excess above their
ellartered limits.
The city school tax is now due and paya-
bic at the office of the City Treasurer. Tax
es become delinquent, by the new school
law, on the 30th Of September.
S. G. IsAMAN.
Ex-olIcer
Treasure OF School District No.
&c ct
No TRANSFORMATIONS Wheat shippers
COMPLAIN strongly Of the lack of cars for
transporting the grain they have Accumulate
ed. They have not been able to get cars for
a week past, owing, they say, to the demon
alzation of traffic consequent upon the VII
lard excursion, - Udta WdHa Journat
What does it matter as long as Willard is
glorilied?
To WHOM IT MAY CoNcERN.-A meeting
will be held at the court house on Saturday
next Sept. 22) for the purpose OF taking steps
towards building suitable warehouse either
at Lewiston or at the mouth OF Iammany to
protect grain from the storm instead OF hav-
ING it exposed on the banks and rock piles.
Everybody, both in the city and country are
invited to attend Remember If you have
grain or expect to have, it is to your inter-
est to do your utmost.
$40 REWARD for the return or informa-
ton of the whereabouts of four head OF
horses strayed OF stolen from my ranch on
the Potlatch at the mouth OF Bear creek
about the last of July 1883: One bay mare
nnd colt branded T on left shoulder; one
gray mare four years old branded the same;
one cayuse branded X on the right hip 6
ON She left shoulder.
JOHN GRIMES,
Moscow, l. T.
WELL MANAGED. To keep from view of
the Willard guests the bad lands between
Spokane Falls and Ainsworth, was the ar
rangement of time for the trains passing over
the whole between pm. and + am, all IN
the night, when 90 one could see the char
acter of the lands of Eastern Washington
through which the Northern Pacific belt ex
tends If they return over these lands IN
the night time, visitors will obtain 10 per-
sonal knowledge Of the character of these
lands.
On Saturday we received the following
dispatch by telegraph "rhe steamer
Proteus, sent to the relief Of 1t. Greedy s
expedition, who are near Lady Frankhn's
bay, was crushed by the ice and sunk in
the Artc regions. Alton board were
saved. They took to their boats and after
a months fooling around icebergs were
picked up" subsequently we received
| Oregonians giving more particulars. That
| of Monday intimates that the situation of
It. Greedy is very critical.
To COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. you
want to take in the whole country when
you start in the Spring you want to come to
head of navigation on the Snake river and
thence by NJ H. Lietch's stage line via.
Uniontown, Leitchville, Cotton, ColfaS
and on to tn front. lott.
SNUBBED.-All the towns of Eastern
Washington We're snubbed by the Willard
party although they had all made extensive
preparations to do them homage AT Spragut
they did, in the night time, stop long enough
to allow Gov. Newell to make short speech
and introduce Hon. MIR. folly, Of California,
to say a very few words. When they reach
ed the town of Wallula, where the N p
meets the o. r. & N. Cos road through
Oregon, they here remained two or three
hours to await the train upon which Mr.
Willard was, which train had been detained
in getting transferred across the Snake rive
and then stayed two hours afterwards an,
had their photographs taken in a group.
YOUTHFUL ARREsTs.-A complaint wa
lodged before Judge Wing against severa
small boys for malicious mischief, charging
them with breaking into the old schoo
) building and destroying property, on Sun
! day the 10th. Some of the miscreant
were members of the public school, and 9th
ers were not. 1t is high time that lad
should know the majesty of the laws, ant
if their marauding propensities cannot b'
checked in any other manner, and thei
parents cannot hold them in check. then tr,
the penalties of our laws. They were brought
before probate judge Wing on yesterday af
ternoon, five plead guilty and each wer,
plead not guilty and will be tried to-day a
10 O'Clock.
CHURCH DEDIcAT1oN.-T Pullman
Methodist Episcopal Church will be dedicat
ed on Sabbath, the Both day of September
/ 1888, the Rev. Levi Tarr, D. D., presden
of Lewis Collegiate Institute, officiating
There will be preaching al o'clock, Satur
day, and lecture by DR.. Tarr, on Chris
tan Education, or the Relation of the Churcl
to our Higher Educational Civilization" a
1870 pm. There will be Love Feast on Sab
bath morning commencing at $50 o'clock
followed by the dedicatiory serniony by DIR
Tarr, probably childrens meeting at o
$3.50 p, m. and preaching at night by DIR
Tarr or some one OF the visiting brethren @
whom we hope there will be many. We ex
pect good time and everybody is invited
to come and enjoy it.
THEODORE HoAGLAND, Pastor.
ALMOST A ROBBERY. MIR. Alb. Small hire,
an Irshman who had before been in his EN-
ploy, about a year, and was taking HIM ~
from Walla " ALA to his mines on Salmon
river in his buggy. When at Dayton he re
ceved about $4,000 in coin with which b
proposed to pay help at the mines, and plac
ed it i'll a small trunk in his buggy. The
stopped at Pomeroy and while there the Ir
} ishman gave some demonstrations to tn
stablenen that he was not true blue, an
) they notified Small of the fact that he ha
} better look out for him Small then too
} his money from the trunk and secured it i
another part of the buggy. They starte
on, and at dinner time they stopped at Free
mans and drove the buggy up in front G
the door where it could be noticed while a
dinner and took the horses to the stable f.