Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Cleaned From the Columns of Various
Territorial Exchanges.

The Judges have decided not to hold
special term of the supreme court at
Boise City in the month of july a.
agreed upon last winter. -Blackfoot
News.
A gold brick worth almost $1,000
was brought in from the Camas No. 9
last evening, as the result of the last
five days run. The sulphurets saved
during the same time will probably sell
for as much more. Hence it is fair
to state that the yield is at the rate of
about $500 per day.-Wood River
Times.
$500 has been offered as a reward, by
citizens Of this county, for the arrest
and conviction of the thief or thieves
who have been making the wholesale
larceny of horses from the ranges west
of this place. Several hundred head
have been stolen. If the thieves are
caught with the seek, they should he
promptly shot, and thus end their
operations.-Weiser Leader.
There are piles or banks of snow in
the Little Smoky mining district that
are yet fifty and sixty feet deep-and
probably some of it will lay where it is
for two or three years. Most, if not all
of these banks came down the noun
tain sides and gulches in slides during
the past winter. If all this snow could
be collected and set down in the right
places on our arid wastes it might as
sist in solving the irrigation problem.
News Miner.
Mr.. Bradbury, Of the firm Of Brad
bury & Bray, the contractors, was in
the Democrat office to-day, and said
the line of the Phyllis ditch for thirty
two miles west of Nampa was covered
with men and teams hard at work
making the dirt fly. That distance
will Ike finished by the 25th of this
month. The remainder Of the seven
miles, which will complete the entire
contract, will he done about the 10th of
July.-Democat.
About two hundred new houses are
being built in Pocatello this season as
an absolute necessity to supply homes
for the railroad employees and new
corners. Work in all departments is
active and mechanics are in good de-
mand. Local prosperity Is what will
start the boom in Idaho. Nearly
every town and mining camp is looking
brighter, and if the people only knew
Idaho is to-day one of the most pros
porous sections in the Union. This is
a fact.--Republican.
The prisoners in the Murray Jail who
We're carried to Osburn for arraignment
at the opening of court, we understand
were highly indignant ut the food set
before them at the hotel at that place.
These blue-blooded gentry have been
h,Rnored in the Jail here until they have
about arrived at the spelling point.
They have been accustomed to have
pie, and we understand arrangements
will be made to furnish the gentlemen
with quail on toast, humming birds
wings and ice cream.-Sun.
Idaho now stands third in the lists of
States and Territories in the produc-
ton of precious metals, and If the pre-
dictions of Secretary Curtis be correct,
she will this year climb up to the
proup position of first place. The secre-
tary thinks the silver output of Idaho
this year will reach So, 900, 600, and
that the output of gold will be from
Sl2, 900, 900 to $4,000 900 and bases his
opinion on facts. Last year Montana
headed the list and produced $31 900,
600; Colorado was second and produced
S28, 200, 600; Idaho was third with a
production of ST ,OOO, OO0.--Mail.
w. A. Sifers reports that grasshop'
pers are coming down from the hills
about Camas prairie, and are attack
ing the ranches along the edges of the
valley. The best expedient he has YET
tried for destroying the grasshoppers il
a large torch, which, passed along
few inches above the ground after
dark, attracts the pests in large swarms
They fly into the blaze and are at once
done for. Sometimes they come in
such quantities as to smother the torch
out. He thinks II this method of ex'
termination had been tried on. High
prairie when the grasshoppers first
made their appearance, most of thu
damage caused by them in the last few
years would have been prevented
News-Miner.
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