Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-02-05
STATE NEWS.
Cleaned From tho Columns Of Various
Idaho Exchanges.

Machine shops to cost not less than
e26O, 900 are one of the future improve
ments now on record for Pocatello.-l
Herald.
Senator Shoup is about to introduce
. bin in the State Senate to amend the
and requiring polygamous
Morrnons to remain in state Of proba-
ton for five years before being allowed
to vote.-Idaho Falls Register.
A hunter and trapper, who has been
al through the mountains lately, and
here during last week, says that the
beaver along the different streams
have made no preparations for win ter
whatever. that they have laid in no
supplies. This, among mountaineers,
Il sure sign that there will be no
winter.-Payette Transcript.
Several kilograms were received by
local dealers yesterday and today ffom
buyers in Portland, st. Louis, Chicago
and st. Paul, Offering 523 cents
bushel for wheat free on board or 494
cents net, delivered before Feb. 10.
The price offered is q raise of cents in
four days, and the general lopinion
seems to be that wheat will be worth
60 cents before the close Of the next
month.-North Idaho Star.
John A. Terrence has been appointed
Deputy United States Collector of In
ternal Revenue for Southern Idaho,
with Office at Boise City, vice r. w.
Purdam, resigned. All persons re-
quiring United States special tax or
beer stamps should address him, and
Ill brewers, wholesale liquor dealers
and cigar manufacturers should for
ward their reports to him. Mr.. Tor
rance will, on and after Monday next,
b located at the Office Of 8. w. Moody,
ever the Boise City National Bank
Hts4eGman.
Arrangements have been completed
- establish grist mill Ut Vollmer a.
oson = the weather will permit. The
oeock In the new concern has nearly
I'll been subscribed and 80 little re-
mains that there IL no doubt Of the sue.
cen Of the enterprise. Moscow capital.
ists are interested. It will b patent
process, roller mill. There will DO Z
couple Of churches erected There, too
The Southern and the Norwegian
Methodists each are raising funds t.
build houses Of worship and parson
sgea.-North idaho Star.
Nampe had another sensation II
the form Of q genuine express robbery
yesterday, and although 1t was lack
ing In the dramatic effects of masked
robbers with rifles, and commands t.
sSThrow up your hands, gentlemenv
twas an express robbery, neverthe
-. About half past 2 o'clock yes
terday afternoon, while the Bois
tz1ln was 1t the station awaiting tn
survival q the express from the east, /
w. discovered that the door Of tn
combination express and smoking ca
had been broken in, and upon investi
CATION the disappearance Of one ex
press package and the messenger
ahotgun was noted.-Statesman.
A singular death was discovered
Sunday morning this side Of Mont
pelier at the bartholomew" freigh
wreck, which occurred sometime las
week. A man had been sent up ther,
to watch the wreck, at the same tim
given Jug Of liquor. When Fred
Eaton came by with his train he oh
served the lifeless form and at ono
stopped his train to investigate. Sur
enough, the man was dead. He has
built himself q camp fire, rolled into /
and died. One side Of his leg wa
burned to crisp and his stomach
roasted into q fried mass. Eaton tele
graphed Superintendent Ryder an,
the body was taken to Montpelier
Idaho Herald.
The veteran hunter, w. E. Alkire
has made another one of his catche
for the season. Last Tuesday Will
up the Occur d'Alene Lake, his Englisl
terrier freed . California lion an,
held him there until Mr.. Alkire cam
up and shot the lion, he having onl,
. revolver with him at the time, tn
animal then dropped or leaped to tn
ground, and had long struggle will
the dogs, whose days seemed for
time to be numbered, but pluck pre-
vailed and the lion had to give up
He made to another tree when MI
Alkire finished his existence. Tn
lion was 8 feet long, a splendid looking
animal. Mr.. Alkire brought him t
the city and disposed Of him at tn
POst.-Coeur d'Alene Times.