Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1885-11-26
MARKET REPORT

day .....Sl0 per tor
Eggs. ...-.......................2 cents ger doz
Buuer .................-......Z0 cents per pount
Chickens...... ..........$2 30 to So per doz
We are prepared to take wheat, at highest
market price, and to right parties. low er oul
prize list prices. A. DAMAS.
TAXPAYERS ATTENTION. schoo
tax for Dist No !. is now due and will be
come delinquent. Tuesday Dec 1855.
+. kROUTINGER. Treasurer
The land commissioner at Washington has
decided that there is no land grant to thu
Northern Pacific along their railroad from
kalama to Tacoma.
Indian agent. Monteith, has now the full
charge of the property that once constituted
Fort Lapwai, to be converted INTO Indian
school buildings and grounds.
Coon YIELD Cal McCracken, of Fou,
Mile, threshe.l this year the product OF
twelve acres OF barley, measured land, from
which he obtained l.272 bushels.
Hibbs was arraien,d on Tuesday afternoon
to plead to four indictment for forgery
The prisoners counsel asked till Friday, al
10 NJ to plead, and the time was granted
| Geo. Christy, the Pierce City expressman
| Soy /" nv Ao"hs oiu sNbtiNo IdtueT uGaNy
aud he does not expect to be able 20 make
more than two more trips with his wagon.
All is serene in Pierce City at les. accounts.
The Mania for railroad building in East.
ern Washington and North Idaho has been
revived in good earnest, if We may Judge
by the talk and action of the railroad
men and others interested.
1t is thought that the movements of the
N. p. looking to the building of railroad
from their man line south TO Snake river
will induce the o. r. X N to early ex.
tend their Pataha branch east to the Clear
water
The case of A. G. r. Galloway, who was
being tried for the murder of the Cinnamon
on the Palouse in 1882, occupied three days
of last We k, and the jury returned YER
dict of mot guilty" at,er being out about
| four hours.
Mr.. F. B. King, of Cottonwood, came
down on Saturdays stage He thinks that
! the heart of Camas Prairie can easily be
reached from Clearwater VIA, cottonwood
creek. with railroad and in distance OF
% miles.
In OHIO wife gave birth to FIVE boys at
once, boys and mother are doing we'll The
mother is only "a years old and she has
already given birth to 81 children having
previously given birth to triplets on three
occasions.
j. {. Oylear, of the Little Potlatch coun.
try threshed this season, with his machine.
10, 600 bushels of grain Of which 4, 500 was
flax. and the balance wheat, oats and barley.
Wheat averaged So bushels per acre. oats Is
barley 40 and flax 20
EsTERTAINMENT.-T Lewiston ANA.
teur Dramatic club will produce the beauti.
full drama ''Among the Breakers on Fri.
day evening December 3rl, in the drostein
4 Binnard Hall. The proceeds viii be
devoted t. public school library. Give
them full house
To-day has been appointed by the Pres.
dent as day of national nksgiving, and
and this has been recommended by most of
the governors of the states and Territories
and it is lifting thas it should be so observ-
ed ~ the people everywhere throughout
the Union.
Gen Sheridan recomends the abandon.
ment OF Indian reservations, the giving IF
800 acres of land to each Indian and sell.
ing the balance at 81 % per acre, the pro-
cecds of which shall go to the Indians
III pouuS VI tue Oulteu states and to be
paid as needed for their susteuance,
MIR. Palmer of Viola gave us a call on
Monday and reports that a good practice
able route exists for railroad from the
Palouse river aoove the mouth of Deem
creek, across to Bear creek and the Potlatch
country an thence down the Potlatch to
Clear water, with easy grade. He has been
over the route,
Laying aside all the charges aga inst Mitch.
ellis personal c. aracter, we have this to saw
OF him while in the Senate; so far as we
could learn he worked as faithful for the
rights of the people of the Inland Empire
as any Senator who ever was sent from
Oregon. The Legislature did well in
voting for him.
We received the sad intelligence of the
death of James Silcott at Tucannon, which |
took place on Thursday. His brother John
III this place did not rive before his death |
t though starting to him as soon as hearing of |
ms dangerous illness. James was am old |
timer and was well and favorably known in |
this community
The Atlanta Neus takes the position
that Washington Territory should paw
South Idaho fixed valuation for the |
counties OF North Idaho. We always SUI.
posed North Idaho owaed her own soil |
and had. with the consent of Congre,
and of Washington. the right to 90 to
W Washington without paying South Idaho
one dime.
a. W. darlington, sheriff of Idaho coun.
ty, returned from Boise on Tuesday even
ing, where he sally lodged Hutchinson in
the penitentary. He informs us that Gov.
Stevenson issded proclamation Offering
slO0O reward for the arrest and conviction
of the murderer or murderers of Kohlcr.
whose remains were found near LAWYERS
canyon short time ago.
SCHOOL LANDs.-Can they be leased or
IN any manner disposed of by the county
commissioners of county in a Territory.
In answer to a letter from w. II. White.
U. :. attorney for Washington Territory.
addressed to Sparks, the commissioner #
the Gen. Land Office, said officer takes posi-.
tlon that these lands cannot be disturbed
by any territorial authority till statehood,
aud the U. ). attorney is authorized to en-.
ter SUIT against those who disturb these
lands. We think Sparks is right.
The Standard rejoices at the election of
because it claims that it will weak.
en- the power Of the Oreyonian AMI at the
same time calls upon democrats to rally and
make the Standard the paper of power in
The state and country. The Oregoniqn
seems to claim the election of Mitchell was
the result OF a corrupt bargain between the
friends OF Mitchell in the Republican RANK,
and his personal friends in the democratic
rank. But the people generally think that
the interest of the state and the country will