Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-07-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

a $500, 900 fire took place at st. Louis
the 18th.
Gladstone will resign before Parlia-
ment is proroeued.
Chief Joseph and White Bird are now
on the Colvlle reservation.
Douglas W. Taylor, Of Multnomah, la.
been appointed Surveyor general of Ore
gon.
The town of Revelstock on the Cana
dian Pacific went up in smoke on the
18th inst.
The Reporter is confident there is no
better and safer place for the investment
of capital than at CoIville.
A man named Albert Turner of Walla
Walla was drowned in the Spokane river
on Tuesday evening, July 10.
There was considerable doubt up to
Monday as to the identity OF Saunders,
the escaped murder from Oregon, now in
the Walla Walla Jail.
The government troops in Mexico had
an engagement with two ba 4ds of revolu.
tionists. Hard fighting, but the govern
ment troops were victorious.
On the 10th inst, at Portland, man
named j. Kelly, a saloon keeper, in
whose place of business, one Kalouse was
dragged to death, was arrested on charge
of murder.
Mrs. Fulford-once Miss Annie P,v.
ley-buried her only son, IL years old, at
Fort Stanley, Ontario, about July 5.
Her friends in this country will sympa-
thize in her bereavement.
Union 18th: "The oldest inhabi-
tants declare that they never experienced
so many successive hot nights in Walla
Walla. 1t is seldom there are two no,
nights in succession. We have had six
already with more coming" More came
at Lewiston.
The editor of the Dessert Neus, pub
lished at Salt Lake, is in Jail for having
four wives. and the San Francisco Alta
offers to pay his fine if he will divulge
to the profession, the secret of how he
managed to support four wives upon the
profit OF one newspaper.
w. ". Union: On Sunday smo-
KY haza hung over the valley. 1t is
probable that large forest fires are raging
in the Cascades mountains. Deputy
sheriff Lampkin has come to the conclu-
sion that Chestnut is not Saunders and
has given the prisoner his liberty. Ches-
nut, who is under treatment of a physi.
clan, is in no hurry to leave his rresent
comfortable quarters.
". W. Journal: The proposed visit
to this city, of the president OF tho O..
r. 4 Co., will not occur until alter his
trip to San Francisco. When he does
come, he proposes to see the people, talk
with them, hear Their grievances, and, if
possible, arrange matters to suit all around
The offcious great men, who have been
in the habit of ambling to the front on
tho occasion of the visit of railroad men
to this place, will not be urgently pressed
to give their gratuitous advice on the &C.
casion of the visit, inasmuch as their past
advice has been misleading and positive
injury to the interests of this locality.
The Portland Ne,os says: J. M.
Buckley, of Tacoma, assistant general
manager Of the Northern Pacific is in
the city, and has been transacting cousid.
cradle telegraphic correspondence. He
has corresponded with T. F. Oakes, vice
president and general manager, and that
official has ctrresponded with President
Harris, and they have all been in commu.
nieation regarding the new project. As
result, it is authenticity said that a
fast mail train will be placed between
Portland AID St. Paul. The running
time is now ninety -three hours, aud it is
proposed to reduce it to sixty three hours.
Portland and the entire northwest will
appreciate this fast mail train.