Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-07-09
NUNBER III.
A Few Prophecies.

ton this year, which would start the
ball rolling, we have advanced five
years hence, when items will appear in
the Lewiston Daily TELLER, something
after the following manner:
Seventy-tive new dwellings have al
ready been erected this season in West
Lewiston, besides four large business
houses.
Three negroes We're arrested last
evening by Chief Of Police Leland for
raising II disturbance at the market
house and were given ten days each
on the rock pile.
An accident at the power house
caused the Main street cable line to
suspend operations few hours yester-
day; and, on account of which, the
mule car did II thriving business. ats
an i'll wind that blows nobody good.'
The good ship Ocean Queen arrived
here yesterday direct from San Fran
cisco, loaded with rice, bananas and
oranges. Captain Baughman, jr., re-
ports fine trip and says that the pas
sage way ut the once-formidable Cas-
cades is in fine condition.
The first shipment Of ore from the
celebrated Butcher Boy and Consoli-
dated Silver Bell copper mines, up
Snake river, to the new smelter here,
just completed, was received yesterday
over the Union Pacific, and comprised
fifty tons of high grade ore.
The property on the fiat above the
old town of Lewiston, owned by the
Portland syndicate, has been plated
off and will be known as Lewiston
Heights, to be sold for suburban resi-
dences. The motor line will be run
ming out to this property within few
weeks.
John Keenan,, the contractor, has
forces busily at work on the fine five
story Hotel de Laclede on the corner of
Fourteenth and Atwater avenue; also
on the city hall building which is to be
four stories in heighth. The dome and
spire on the former building will be
seventy-five feet above the roof.
The suspension bridge across Snaie
river, connecting West Lewiston to
Lewiston proper, was yesterday turned
over to the city authorities, the work
having been completed. A TELLER
reporter was the first representative of
any of the city papers to cross over the
booming Snake on the new bridge, he
being invited to go over by the mayor.
The Lewiston Roller Mills shipped
two carloads of flour to Grangeville
; yesterday via the Lewiston & South
eastern railroad. Five years ago Mr..
Booth remodeled his mill and put in a
, complete roller system but since that
time has increased his capacity four
E times as great, until now the "Patent
Roller" has become as famous as the
K celebrated "Davis Mills" of st. Joseph,
j. Missouri.
A little girl was nearly run over yes.
J. terday by the cable cars at the corner
e or Fifth and Main street, near the Ray.
r mond House. The cars were full OF
q passengers, on the way to the Union
e depot, and some of the ladies screamed
:. when they saw the child crossing the
y track just in front of the cars. The
% gripman, however, slackened the speed
of the cars and fortunately the child
:. escaped injury.
d The last special sale Of business lots
in Nez Perce Addition will take plact
tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock
y Special trains will arrive from Sal
=" Lake City, over the Boise, Salt Lak'
y 4 Seattle railroad, and from Helena
. over the Midland Pacific. From al
- accounts the larger party will arrive
from the latter city. All street railway
lines, leading to the addition, will
n carry passengers free.
- A TELLER reporter took trip day
before-yesterday to what was know
. four years ago as the Nez Perce resel
| | vation country. He had not visite
that section but once since the openin
. Of the reservation, and was wonderful
" surprised at the change that had take1
,g place. Instead of barren prairies, as wa
"a formerly the case, the reporter found
ty thickly inhabited with prosperou
le, farmers. The wheat crop this yes
1e will be larger than ever before knowl
ke and at present cannot even be estim,
OF ted as to the number of bushels tn,
OF will be marketed.