Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-01-02

LOUIS \STDSteiIl ItluIIlti W NViiaA
yesterday, after spending the holidays
In Lewiston. He Is attending the
ColfaX College. and AT the close of the
term will accept II position with Aaron
Kuhn, who has recently moved his
large mercantile establishment from
Colfax to Spokane.
The old saying, $50 near and yet so
far is true in mining and is all the
time happening 1t was illustrated
recently, says the Western Mining
World, by an Irishman who
abandoned II prospect, which another
took up and found ore before digging
10 feet While bemoaning his luck he
SAID: "rll never quit on II mine until
pve dug 10 feet deeper"
IT is positive fact that fully one
half of the best land on the reservation
is still awaiting claimants. All of the
surveyors who have been locating
homesteads bear witness to this fact.
There was u rush to some localities but
the great body o! .he reservation was
not explored by the home-seekers.
All who tired earnestly secured good
homes last fall, but there is room for
just as many more if they will come
next spring.
Word came to the TELLER late last
evening that the Indian payment be-
gan that morning. About seventy
Indians were on hand to receive their
checks. This interest payment
amounts to $500 for every man wom-
all an child of the tribe. This is COM
Portable New Years gift especially for
the larger families. The little Indians
can have red top boots scarlet mits and
yellow tippets to the envy of the poor
white kids who are their near neighbors
now.
The Moscow Times. Democrat is pub.
lished in hot bed of political sin. 1t
Is populis; in politics and sarcasm is
the weapon with which its battles are
fought. About the keenest sarcasm
which has appeared in its columns is
in the Christmas edition. The editor
says in display headlines, Moscow,
the Queen City, its natural beauty and
happy present." and then he says fur-
ther, 1--WE trudged hither and thither
through snow knee deep to get up II
creditable number"
Alex Robinson won the elegant mu-
sic box, offered in the Kjos guessing
contest. The lucky number was 9O3,
there beng that many guesses made by
purchasers as to the number of sales ex.
ceeding 50 cents made in that estab-
lishment during the fifteen days end.
ing Dec. 3lst Miss Mounce ais"
guessed the right number, but her GER
tificate Was filed one day too late. Sew
eral guesses came within one of the
lucky number.
A mining exchange has been organ
lzed i'm Boise City. Such an enterprise
"oulN w II bSlIChl W lhiS 'liN' we
have a more extended mining field
| tributary to this city than Boise City
has. An exchange attracts capital and
aids in bringing seller and buyer to-
gether. 1t Is reported that over two
hundred capitalists, more or less inter
ested III mines, visited Boise in Oh,
month. If the mining propositions o
the Clearwater basin could be llsteC
and advertised 1t would greatly faciI
tate the development of our interior
mineral districts.
Cy Plunkett, the barber, was out o
order again Monday and Marshal RoO
took exceptions. Judge Thompson
after giving hin, a good lecture, finet
him $6 for using obscene language oi
the streets. Our municipal laws anC
Cy are avowcd enemies, and IN thu
their many controversies Cy alway'
came out secOnd-hest. His last "tilt'
discouraged him completely. and ol
the same day he sold his barber shop
and with muttercd prayers for Lewis
toms future prosperity wended his WAY
to Moscow-to "A harsher yet more con
ducive cline.