Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-05-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS


y bill has passed the senate creating a
now judicial circuit Of he United States
Alderman Jaehcn was convicted Of re
ceiving bride on the Broadway franchise
steal.
The Union Sentinel speaks elowinelv
Of the Pine crack mines and the route to
them through Union.
\ $4,000 fro occared ut North Yam
hill, Oregon on the 18th, destroying a
large eriat mill and three warehouses.
\ steamer is being built to navigate
the Willamette river to carry $50 tons,
and to draw but one foot of water.
In Madria, Spain, on May II, thirty.
two persons were killed and six hundred
aai twenty injured by hurricane.
Engineer Zlhncr is engaged to survey
IN extension Of DR. Bakers railroad from
Dry creek to Ain>worth, via Waitsburg.
Senator Dolph has given nelice of an
amendment to a bill arpropriating 500
900 for salmon hatchery on the Colum-
bia.
Disastrous floods in Ohio towns have
caused great loss Of lives anl property.
Xcnia is the heaviest sufferer. Twenty
five bodies have been recovered.
A Mormon paper says that if the
practice Of plural marriages were made
a crime punishable by death, those who
believe in its divine origin would believe
50 still.
Yaquina Bay gets fifty per cent. of the
estimates of the appropriation recomcnd-
ed in the river and harbor bill for Greg
on This indicates that the friends Of
the Oregon Pacific in Congress are numer-
Gus.
Secretary Lamar has oyerrulod an
other of commissioner Sparks decisions
in which he decides that the fact when
a claimant mortgages his land before pat
ent, he does not renderss the entry Illegal
or void.
The Western Union Telegraph Co..
has announced a reduction Of its rates for
| this coast and cable messages The price
for ten words from any state or territory
on the Pacific Coast to the east will not
exceed fifty cents and three cents for
each additional word.
Senator Mitchell has introduced a
resolution diroctin. the secretary Of the
Interior to suspend action for the present
against innocent purchasers Of lands from
settlers who have proved up and who
have final certificates but to whom patents
have not been issued
The Portland News says that the
Oregon Pacific will be extended 500
miles further eastward, and the ter
minous Of the road will be Boice City
where it will meet the Chicago 4 North
Western, and in fact that the Oregon
Pacific is really the Chicago & North
Western.
A Mormon wife said upon the witness
stand that she consented to her husband
taking a second wife, not from choice,
but as religious duty. How many
wives in Lewiston would be so religious?
We think shovel and tonges and mops
aud brooms would come in play, and per.
haIs oil of yiuiol.
Maj. John NJ. Graham, father Of
Jessie Ii. Graham, Of Cathamct, recent.
ly died. aged l0l years. mos, 26 days.
He had always been a healthy person
until his centennial. lie was born when
there were but 100000 of colonists on
narrow strip Of Atlantic sea coast, and
he lived to see over G0,000,000 of peo-
pie covering the fairest portion of the
American continent.
The eoroners jury who investigated the
causes Of the death Of James Clark,
a fireman on the Utah & Northern, &c.
euses the Utah & Northern officers Of
great criminal neglect and carelessness
which led to tie collision Of trairs at or
uear Dry creek, and the death of Clark,
and the serious injury of several others,
and the Obstruction of three engines and
a large amount Of other property.
On Thursday morning May 10, on the
Utah d' Northern between Camas and
Dry creek a construction train of eleven
cars loaded with steel rails gol started on
down grade Of thirty five feet to the
mile, and the inexperienced switch man
opened the switch and let the train out
on the main track which went down the
grade with lighting speed, striking an
extra freight train demoiishino three
engines, and made fierce havoc, killing
one fireman, badly scalding an engineer
and injuring several others seriously.
The Reporter says that the accident
was entirely due to employing incxperi,
enced men on tile train.