Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1885-08-27
GENERAL NEWS.

1t is now thought that Ricls sentence
OF death will be committed to imprison.
ment for life, for fear of trouble with
French half-breeds, in case Of his execu.
ton.
The Pal0use Ne'rs says that man
in that vicinity went out to borrow some
wood from his neighbours wood pile and
while gone his neishbor borrowed his
stove.
1t Is now claimed by the Portland
Standard that Asahcl Bush wrote the
famous letter to President Cleveland
which brought forth the PRESIDENT
scorchins reply.
A $4,000 fire recently occurred al,
Sprasue and burned a large brewery.
The shipment Of tea from China to be
taken TO New York via the Northern
Pacific bids fair to become an important
factor i'll the business of the Northern
Pacific.
1t is telegraphed that Secretary Endi-
colt is sending all the fancy officers in
the army out west.
w. S. Ladd's artesian we'll is sunk
1900 feet and no water yet.
Il. I. Gum, editor of the Olympia
Transcript died suddenly of neuralgia
of the heart on the morning of Aug. 90.
He was associated with 7. j. Dryer in
the publication of the Oregonian in
Portland, and was a worthy man. His
last paper was issued August %.
Hank Vaughn says he harvested
$4,000 bushels of grain from his Una.
tilla ranch.
Political power must be transferred
from the Eastern and Middle States te
the Western States aud Territories befor,
our Indian reservations can be thrown
open to settlement by the whites. S,
says the Shoshone Journal. The friend
Of the Indian must be outvoted in Con
gross. That will not be in this genera
ton.
Ed Stokes, who killed Jim Fisk an,
served tour years in the Sing Sin,
pcnitentiary, is now the President of tn
United States Telegraph company, whicl
is now rivalling the Western Union. S
the void goes.
The liberal terms upon which tn
Northern Pacific offers to take wheat cas-
in contrast with the price charged by tn
o. r. & N. company causes the farmer
aud shippers to praise the managers @
the n. 7. greatly, and well they ma
when by the N. P. offer they can Sc
their grain from 10 to IA cents more pc
bushel at stations on the N. =. than 9
stations on the q. r. & N.
The Union Pacific may yet see wherei
they lie. their foot slip in not going ahea
with their Short Line down Snake rive
or extending their Utah Northern wes
through the Bitter Root pass and dow
the Clearwater They have had all tn
warning necessary to make them alive t
their own interests in the matter.
A man lost IS tons of hay near Per
dleton by means Of his little boy saturat
ing his dogs tail with coal oil and the
setting fire to it. The dog ran into tn
hay and set it on fire. So says tn
Chronicle.
Many market men in Portland ar
beginning to fear the scarcity of bet
cattle this fall, so many cattle have bee
purchased and shipped to Montana, to b
re shipped further east when fattened
and it is thought that some of them wi
have to be shipped back for the hon
supply, and that prices of beef will raj
as high Or higher than in Chicago.
The project is now to build a railroa
down the west side of the waters
Puget Sound and reach either Port Di
covery or Port Townsend, SO as to cut c
the trade of the Canadian Pacific fro
the Pacific Ocean.
The Idaho Reporter says the ne
Judge, Hayes, in place of Morgan, is
much fornenst the polygamous Mormon
IS Morgan ever dared be, and the Nc
mons, with HALEY, who got Mrgan I
moved on false afidavits, can gather
comfort for their lecherous system lro
the new appointee.
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-Secrcta