Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1884-02-14

a. sutherland, y. SuHy ana Mat. hite
writes to the Portland. Standard that the
Occur d. lene mining excitement is the most
outrageous that has been for many year
and is bound to ruin many a man. and adj
vises their friends to stay away from the
mines.
Panl Schultz denies that the n. p com
pany ever agreed to sell their lands for s., 90
per acre. II we mistake not resolution of
the board was passed to that effect III 1850
and was published i'll very many of the papers
west OF the Rockies and it has never before
been denied
This cold weather has \ great effect on
people ho are travelling, and also those who
are the least exposed to it. But there is
one thing that will be sure and keep You
warm and that is Cutter Whskey The
Palace Saloon, kept by F. Ross, on Main
street, has it for sale.
Fruit men say that the late cold snap has
destroyed all chances Of peach crop this
year Last year very large portion of the
peach trees themselves, in this section, were
killed by the frost These mishaps though
creviuus to be borne, must be met with hope
of betrer luck by and by
On Saturday the wrong letter bag was
y
was sent back, and on Monday no letter bag
at all was Brought up Thus our mails are
neglected and complaints made about these
and similar irregularities seem to lodge on
| the guilty parties like water on ducks
back.
Henry Benke, from theoCsrriboo mines,
near Dear Lodge, writes from Occur 'Alcne
to Henry Tompke that he has seen only
GALA
sit &c he went in there last fall, that he has
his own drain down Is feet and has not rails
cd the color yet and he advises those of his
friends who have the fever to wait and let
it cool of before deciding to start.
We have received copy of printed pla.
of Ainsworth and the confluenc # Snake
and Columbia rivers, with a vivid descrip-
ton of the place calling it one of the greatest
inland cities on the Pacific Coast, and then
it shows j. f. Centcntin's addition to AIMS
worth. The greatest draw back to this ar
tistic portrait of the great city, is that it APP
pears to be very blue. as though emblemat
ical OF something that has not yet been SEEN
The Pioneer Press says the Jay Gould
syndicate bought of the o. Z. ami O. II 4
y. Co. so as to modify contract between o.
5 L. & o. r. 4 n. Co. That may or NAV
not be as stated. The reason for the pur-
chase is not made public by any reliable
authority. Ii the Northern Pacific has
leased the o. r. " n. Co. S lines how is the
Short Line to make terms for rival line
with the n. Z. unless the U. p. and N. =.
form consolidation, thing not at all prob
able.
Monday morning at o'clock the there.
mometer ut Colfax registered $50 below zero.
at Cotton 81 below little later and at
Uniontown "a below, freezing J. o. Bar
bcr's well. On the top of the hill opposite
Lewiston the mercury was 30 below, while
at the signal station here it was l2' below,
and at Lagwai POP below. On Tuesday
morning a. the signal station here mercury
ran down to lS0 below, and we suppose it
must have gone much lower at the other
points named above.
A letter from Gencsee of date 10th
INST. informs us that tie people there are
having lots of fun aud enjoying themselves
hugely, IN sleigh-ridng in new cutters with
bells, attending " c. T. L. meetings, sing,
ing schools, preaching meetings and that
Their school Is very prosperous and progress.
slve under teacher whom the scholars love
and it goes b; ok to Christmas, ana tells how
the young folks and old bachelors cnioyed
themselves and the embryo theatre they had
and o1 the stars that appeared iii tn play,
and how these gatherings cultivate the
friendly feeling in the neighborhood The
writer says that the stock viii do well there
this winter, if not much cold there after
this. He says the people there are not go.
ing to rush OFT to the mines this prns ms
they have enough to do at home, and in this
we think they are sensible.
The S'andard publishes from the Pacif,
Coast report about the Oregon Short Line
, to the effect that said line has purchased
Dr. Bakers 20 miles of narrow gauge road
running east FROM Wala Walla, and because
Dr. Baker has not denied the report, there.
fore 1t must be so, and then infers that Jay
Could is going to cut loose from the o. X
. n. Co. g Baker City route and is going t.
utilize this twenty miles of narrow gauge
a. part OF the Short Line and come
through the Blue mountains via OF route
OF his own Who this Pacific Coast" man
is, we know not. But his predictions are
wondrous wise and the chances are that Jaw
r Gould has told him to announce this new
programme, and therefore, we must accept
the prediction as matter soon to be tul
filled. Ii would be folly in any one to dis
pute such wise prediction. What next
good Lord,