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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
STRIKE OF FABULOUS RICHNESS,
Wire Gold Rock Found In the Fa-
nous Gregory Mine.

Denver. June ia strike Of fabu-
lous richness has just been made in
the ninth level Of the Gregory Bobtail
mine at Central City, Gilpin county.
this state. The real value Of the ore
cannot be learned. as the operators Of
the mine refuse to divulge 1t, and have
placed an armed guard at the mine,
but 1t Is known that the vein struck Is
two feet in width and is SO full OF wire
gold as to run many thousands of dol
lars to the ton. What makes the find
more interesting is the fact that the
Gregory was the first lode mine opened
in Colorado, and has been worked con-
stantly for the past 3s years. 1t was
the announcement Of Gregory's find in
the gulch that was afterwards named
for him that produced the rush to Col
orado in 1859. The latest strike in the
Gregory is $50 feet below the surface.
and is said by those who have seen
specimens to be the richest in the mine.
The property is largely owned by heirs
Of the late ex-senator Chaffee, being
worked under lease and bond for
5000. 900 by the Gold Coin Miners Com
pany. a close corporation Of New York
men.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
WOOL SCHEDULE CONCLUSION
The Rates the Finance Conn mi Zee
ls willing to Grant.

The Rates the Finance Committee
Ii willing to Grant.
Washington, June 22.-The senate H.
nance committee has practically reached
conclusion on the wool schedule. The
following are the rates the finance COM
mittee has indicated willingness to
grant: First class. ten cents per pound:
second class, eleven cents: third class, if
worth over ten cents per pound, seven
cents; if worth less than ten cents, four
cents. These rates are not entirely salts
factory to the advocates of the high wool
tariff. but there is reason to believe that
they will be accepted with but little pro-
test. The rate is one cent less on both
lowed in the house bill, but the pro-
vision made for third class wool is SO
much more satisfactory than that made
by the house that they are inclined to
congratulate themselves upon the result
of their agitation and leave the matter
where these figures place it.
The senate Yesterday skipped the wool
schedule until tomorrow, and taking up
the paper schedule finished it in Is min
utes. agreeing to all the finance commit
tees propositions. The sundries schedule
was taken up next. Coal was passed over.
On matches Allison moved an amendment
making the rate eight cents per gross of
boxes, in place of the senate rate of 20
per cent. The democrats opposed the
change as in the interests of the match
trusts, but the republicans denied this
and carried the amendment. Another
arose over the duty of ten per cent on
safety fuses. Pettigrew and Teller fought
the duty as IL tax on the miner for the
benefit of the trust. A tie vote resulted
and Pettigrew lost the amendment max
ING them free.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
ALL sHEEPMeN ARE INTERESTED.


hIeR0Fvmemt Enc
force Laws as to Disease.
Washington. June 2l.--ln accordance
with the law for the suppression Of con-
tagious diseases among domestic animals.
Secretary Wilson of the agricultural de-
partment has issued to the managers and
agents of railroads and transportation
companies ,stockmen and others circular
notifying them that contagious disease
known as sheep scab,' or scabies of
sheep. exists among the sheep in til"
United States, and that it is a violation
OF the law to receive for transportation
or transport any stock affected with that
disease from one state or territory to an
other. 1t is also violation of the law
to deliver for transportation to any rail
road or master or owner of any boat or
vessel any sheep, knowing them to be
affected with the contagion referred to,
and il is also unlawful to drive on foot
or transport in any private conveyance
from one state or territory to another any
sheep SO affected. Transportation COM
panies and individuals engaged in the
business of shipping and transporting
sheep are requested to cooperate with the
department in the enforcement of the
laws for preventing the sperad of the dis
ease and orders are given that the ears,
boats or vehicles which have been used
in the transportation of the animals shall
be Immediately cleaned and disinfected.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
THE PROTEST eY JAPANESE.

Object to the Proposed Tariff On Tea,
SilSs, RAGS and OtneF Articles.
Washington, June 2l.-The protest
made by the japanese government
against the pending tariff bill is informal
" embodied in a note from Minister Tor
usoshi. The protest is couched in Inc
most courteous language. but there is q
firmness of tone observable that indicates
the remonstrance may be followed by an
act of retaliation If disregarded. The
note begins with an apology for express
ing an opinion, that under ordinary con-
ditions might be regarded rs trenching
upon domestic affairs, but cites ~ a JUS
tification, the fact that important Japa-
nese interests are involved and that in
the opinion Of the minister, the propos-
ed increase of duties will injure the
United States no less than Japan by re-
tarding the growth Of the promising COM
mercial relations. The articles of Japa-
nese production that will be most SER
iously affected, says the protest, are light
weight silks, silk handkerchiefs, mating,
hemp and jute rugs, carpets and tea.
The proposed duty on Japanese mat
ting, says the minister, will be 30 heavy
that trade cannot survive in this article
not now manufactured in the United
States. The duty upon hemp, jute rugs
and carpets will amount to nearly 30 per
cent, and this is another severe blow to
Japanese commerce.
As to tea, the minister says the sud-
den change of policy Of the United
States from free importation to a duty
Of so to 100 per cent has awakened in the
Japanese mind tho gravest fear for the
stability Of the tea industry. In conclu-
sion. the minister says;
"The imperial government is far from
sharing in the belief for which they find
no warrant, in the attitude always main
tanned by the United States toward ia
pan, but. nevertheless, they do not think
it either wise or prudential to ig-
more sentiment which, under certain cir
cumstanccs, might have a most unfortu-
nate effect upon the relations Of the two
countries"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
WAS SHOT BY A DESPERATE
StrugHle between Colorado Ice RI
nnd Desperate Criminals.

Lcadville. Colo. June 22--Deputy
Sheriff Thomas Fahey was shot and fat
ally wounded Monday noon while at
tempting to arrest Lee and Frank Bo-
hannah. wanted in Pueblo for larceny
Sheriff O'AIahoney had received a letter
from the sheriff of Pueblo county that
the two young men were wanted there
and he sent Fahey and Harrington to the
home of Ed Bohannan. on the outskirts
of the city. When they reached the
house, the men they wanted were stand
ing outside. When informed they were
wanted, Frank Bohannan asked to get
his hat and coat, and walked inside. fol
lowed by the officers. Instead of getting
his hat, he grabbed gun, and Harring-
ton grappled with his man. In the mean
time. Fahey and the other brother were
engaged in a deadly struggle, when pres
entity the wife Of the third brother rushed
in and gave Fahey's assailant revolver.
Fahey turned and dropped his weapon,
which Bohannan picked up, shooting the
officer in the back with it, He then held
the muzzle at Haringtons head threaten.
ing to kill him unless he released his
brother. After disarming the officer, the
two de>peradoes made for the hills and
have not been captured, though large
posse is after them.
Officer Fahey leaves widow and 10
children.
y large crowd surrounds the Jail and
threatens violence if the men are cap,
tured. The commissioners have offered q
reward of $3.50 for the apprehension ol
the murderers.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
FEVER AND DISEASE KILLED THEM


spanish nave OvnCp Foes ThAA yAs
surGents In Cuba.
New York, June 2l.--A dispatch to
The World from Havana says:
determination in the island is appal.
ling and an actual fact. The death rate
is increasing. A prominent Spanish med.
ical officer who has full knowledge Of the
interior says that should war be pr0lony-
ed 10 months the western half Of the a.
land will he entirely depopulated. The
death rate il likely to double next month.
Contagion will then NOV the people down
rapidly. Rains have turned the interior
into quagmire in many places The
trocha il pestilential ditch. Soldiers
are suffering terribly from fever and dys-
EMERY. Little Of the smallpox vaccina-
ton il effective. Thousands Of paciflcos
might easily have been saved BY vacci.
nation II taken earlier
"A sanguinary engagement occurred
Wednesday at Managua, Is miles from
Havana. The insurgents attacked a col.
,lmn OF Spanish, and the latter lost hesv-
lily. The details were suppressed. Mary
ambulances with wounded have arrived
here.
The rebels are concentrating arOu I'd
Havana. Trains have been fired into re-
pntedly. A Spanish force, while recon
noitering, was ambushed near San Miguel.
They fought bravely, but were compelled
to retire.
General Rivera is sick and appears in
different to his fate. He will assure,ily
be shot unless strong action is taken BY
the United States"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
THE GANG HAD A FALLING OUT,
Two WOuld-Be Train RObbers Are
Caught and One Fatally shot.


st. Louis. Mo-, June lS-B. p. Car
penter, car accountant of the Wahas oh
railroad. has brought to this city the
details OF an attempt to wreck and rob
the Baltimore & Ohio southwestern
passenger train on the culvert between
Odin and Salem. III. Carpenter said
three men were involved, and two were
caught. one being fatally shot. The
ROBBERS are residents of Salem. and
We're known about the village as hard
characters.
Abe Tweed. the robber who was shot.
was put on parole from the Chester
penltentiary; Thomas Schumacher, the
other man captured. is an ex-convict
from ON the Indiana penitentiary.
These two men. with the one who es-
capped, and fourth, banded together
not long ago to do a general business
IN the criminal line. After they had
planned to hold up the New York ex-
press on the Baltimore 4 Ohio south
western the men had a difference and
broke up in row. One of them told
snerln Barnes. upon the sheriff's prom
Use not to divulge his name, of the plan
10 wreck and loot the train but did
not know the date and place selected.
returning to his former pals he said
ne was sorry he had left them and beg
ged to be let in on the fat thing they
were about to pull off.
Inc rogueS felented, took back into
their fold the deserter. and then pro-
ceeded to lay bare the plot. The night
express was selected as the train likely
to yield the best haul, and the Shenaf-
felt culvert, between Odin and Salem
was picked out as the best spot.
All day Wednesday the three men
hauled railroad ties to the trestle
About o'clock in the afternoon, the
man who peached. who by some pre-
text was excused from the days work
reported the situation to Sheriff Barnes
The sheriff collected posse Of six men
and started from Salem along the
track. About 80. when they came
near Shenaffelt culvert. the three rob-
bers could be seen, and almost in the
center of the trestle was a high pile
OF ties thrown across the track. The
wreckers were gathered on the side of
an embankment. Barnes and his posse
got within 80 yards of the wreckers be-
fore they were discovered. The wreck
ers ran down the embankment The
express train was due in 20 minutes,
and sending back two men to flag the
train, the sheriff and two others went
after the fugitives.
Halt" called out Barnes, and Schu-
macher surrendered. The others con-
tinued to run and the sheriff fired The
man who fell proved to be Tweed, the
other man escaping.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
CALIFORNIA IS SHAKEN
PARTICULARS IN THE VICINITY
OF THE GOLDEN GATE.
BoildinRs Oscillnted, walls Cracked
aad Fell. and Houses We're
DAMAGED 1T HOllister.

San Francisco, June 2l.-Two sharp
and severe shocks Of earthquake were felt
here Sunday, the official time Of the
first, as taken by the United States
weather bureau being l2:l4:0. 1t was
followed almost Immediately by second
shock.
The vibrations were from the west to
the east. Clocks were stopped, suspended
lamps and decorations We're broken in
some places, but no real damage has been
reported. The shocks were the most Sc
we're felt here for many years. An earth
quake was general throughout the state.
Great Damage at HOLSTER.
HOLSTER, Cal, June 2l.-Shortly after
noon Sunday the most severe earthkuakc
shock since 1868 did many thousand of
dollars worth of damage to buildings
and their contents. No casualties oc-
Cured, though several narrow escapes are
recorded.
The only brick building in town has
suffered and the courthouse walls and
ceilings have lost most OF their plastering.
Immediately after the earthquake the fire
wall Of the MsNiahon house fell upon the
adjoining building. Hundreds of win
dow panes were cracked or broken and
in some instances the entire window sash.
es We're thrown into the street from the
second story Of the building.
Heavy shock at GilrOy.
| Gilroy, Cal, June 2l-The heaviest
earthquake ever felt here lasted only a
few seconds but did much damage. M.
merous chimneys were toppled over, the
house walls cracked, heavy plate glass
store windows shattered and general
wreckage of bottles and shelf ware in The
houses and stores. People rushed out OF
their homes thinking the last trumpet
had sounded in earnest. In some house.
the blinds were wrenched from their hang
ings and an unusual scene of petty de
struction is presented in nearly every
house and store in town.
Cyclone at Newport News.
Newport News, Va, June 2l.--A cy
clone wrecked several business houses ant
did much damage to the growing crop.
considerable damage was also done to tn,
small craft lying at anchor in James riv
cr.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
VICTIMS OF A GREAT EARTHQUAKE
Terrible Ravages by Seismic Dis.
turbances In Assam,

turbances In Assam,
calcutta, June 17.--Terrible reports
OF recent earthquake are coming in
from Assam. At Shilong everything
has been leveled to the ground. An
inspector OF prisons has been killed,
ana there have been many other deaths.
AT CoaIpara the wave DESTROYED the
bazar and all other buildings, and the
neighboring country Is filled with fis-
sures. which are squirting mud and
sand. There Is heavy loss OF life at
coaipara. Several Of the shaken dis
tricts have not been heard from. but
isolated roads have been broken up by
assures. bridges have been destroyed.
anu telegraph lines have been broken
throughout Assam
Whole Villages sabsidea.
Simla. June l6.--Reports that all of
the buildings at Shillong have been
destroyed by the recent earthquake are
confirmed. Mr.. McCabe, the British
resident deputy commissioner. was
Killed by falling house, and the En-
intensely from exposure. The towns
or sylhel and Cherrapunji were leveled
sided.
The losses are so great that It is fear
ca severe scarcity Is inevitable In
several districts.
EARTHQUAKES I'm Mexico.
ASo lily June lo.-betWeen 10
ana IL o'clock last night earthquake
shocks were felt in this city and all
southern Mexico. from Acapulco to
vera Cruz. They were especially yio-
lent In the town OF San Marcos, state
or Pueblo. where the shocks were both
vertical and horizontal, and were ac-
companied by subterranean rumblings.
me movement was IS seconds in dura-
tion, followed later by another shock.
!astihg ~ seconds. Curiously enough
the movement was experienced across
the whole country at the same time,
The town of Fechimlic, near the city
or Oaxaca. was inundated suddenly.
and several drowned
Rains are heavy In that region.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Chicago Grain and Live stock and
the Prices mt Spokane.
The latest market quotations are as


The latest market quotations are as
follows:
Portland Wheat.
Portland. Or. June 2l.-Wheat-Walla
Walla, '0M71c; Valley. 72c.
San FranciscO Grain.
San Francisco June -Wheat-Ship.
ping, N.2AM1: 22A: milling, $1.27i3@l.35.
121Rc: do new, 67l2@70c; brewing S54 9Oc
for old. and S5MS71ac for new.
Oats-Common white. 95cn$lO7is: good
to choice. $1.104120; fancy feed. 81. 250ll 80.
Metal Quotations.
New York. June 2l.-Bar silver. 6Olsc.
Pig iron--Dull.
cb C1 opp ,,sH., brokers. s12h; ex-
Lead-aFirm; exchange. 50. 4OM3.45; brok-
erS, 1920.
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicago, June 2l.--Cattle-Sales were on
basis of $370di5.25 for cows and extra
native beef steers. with the bulk Of trans
actions at A.65dp4S5; stockers and feed
ers showed more strength today and so
did good butchers stun, but grassy lots
continued to sell at very low prices.
Hogs-The bulk of sales occurred ut
2211aM3.32R sales being at an extreme
range of $3100i337l2 for poorest to best
while pigs brought 1896.
In sheep there was "A fair demand, and
sheep were saleable at s.. 25aI4 for inferior
to choice; yearlings, $3.25M475. and spring
lambs. x5UM5.5O
Receipts Cattle 1900. hogs 46, 600, sheep
10000.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
SENSATIONAL BANK LITIGATION,
Nearly 100 MOneyed Men Of IllinOi,
Figure In II.

st. Louis, June 2l.-A special to the
Republic from Lincoln. Neb., says:
Nearly 100 moneyed men Of Illinois,
scattered over the state from Chicago to
East st. Louis, many of whom reside at
Peoria and Galesburg, have been made
defendants in what is likely to prove the
most sensational bank litigation ever IN
stituted in the west; the next chapter in
the famous case in which Charles Mosher.
president of the defunct Capital national
bank OF this city, figured to the extent Of
stealing something over a million dollars.
''his bank closed in 1891. Ten years
prior to that time the Capital national
had been paying immense dividends,
amounting in the aggregate to $5OO.M0.
The stockholders were mostly Illinois
people. Receiver Hayden Of the Moshcr
bank has brought suit against these
stockholders to force them to return div
idends on the grounds that they were
paid out of the money of the depositors.
He says that the books show that the
bank never made a dollar. A similar
suit has just been decided here against u
New York stakeholder, who must 20
turn $27 600 paid to him in dividends by
Mosher.
Receiver Hayden, J. DcWccsc, Chas.
Magoon, j. II. Amcs and H. NJ. Lanlbcr,
son have just returned from Chicago
where they took Mosher's testimony in
the case. Mosller declares that the di,i-
dends were earned, and that if the books
do not show it, they have been mutilat-
ed since he left the bank. The law is clear
that if the dividends were uncarned they
must be returned to reimburse the de-
positors. Mosher is now living in Chi.
cayo. il is said, in regal STYLE"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
St. Louis Pool Rooms to Close.

st. Louis. june 2I.-The st. LOUIS pool
rooms. which for the last six months have
enjoyed entire immunity from police in
reference, will, it is expected. be closed
by operation of the Missouri breeders
law. which goes into effect at sunrise As
there appears to be some doubt concern
ing the constitutionality Of the law, Col
onel Ullman will keep his book open in
the expectation of being raided and make
a test case All the other poolrooms will
close.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
uoteI Fire i'm New Orleans.

New Orleans. June 2l.-At 2 o'clock
Sunday morning the Pickwick hotel cafe
and annex at 1919 Carondelet street, and
the building adjoining. occupied by w.
H. Moore, fishing tackle. guns. etc, were
Quilted by fire. as were also the two upper
stories of the Pickwick hotel. There were
but few guests in the hotel and all es-
capped without injury. The hotel loss by
fire is estimated at 100000; fully in.
sured.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
PORTLAND PosToFFIce WRECKED
Terrific Explosion Of IIlumtnatinw
ss0s In the baae n,snt,


Portland, Or, June 22.-An explosion
OF Illuminating gas occurred in the base
ment OF the postoflice building shortly
before p. m. yesterday. For some time
the gas meter has been out of order,
which allowed the gas to escape. A large
amount of gas which filed the basement
lgnited by one of the employees lighting
Jet The report was heard for half
mile around the building. Every window
IN the basement was broken and the stair
way in the hallway was blown down.
Several partitions on the first floor were
shattered and the entrance to the build
ing has the appearance OF having been
struck by a cyclone.
Pat Maloney, the janitor, was badly
burned about the hands and head Tle
total loss will probably reach $500.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
Blackberry Pickers.

Liberty, Mo-, June 2l.-Fully ten
thousand blackberry pickers have al
ready arrived here for the season, which
opens today. The crop is estimated at
10000 crates, the largest ever known
Never has there been such crush of hu.
manity here. Gambling devices of all dc,
scriptions are running without interrupt
ton.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
prestdentinI Nominations,

Washington. June 2l.-The president
has sent the following nominations to the
senate: Charles l.. Cole of Pennsylvania.
to be consul general at Dresden, Saxony
George r. Lincoln of Connecticut, to be
consul at Antwerp; Hector Decaitro of
New York, to be consul general at Rome :;
Philip Gallinger of Washington, to be
commissioner in and for the district OF
Alaska.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
BURNED TO DEATH BY LIVE WIRE.
Portland Bricklayer Who Met a Ter
rible Fate.

Portland, Or. June 16.-John Poth, a
bricklayer, working on a building on
Fourth and Alder. was literally burn
ed to death in midair yesterday. While
climbing from a lower to higher scat
fold he stepped on an iron truss and
grasped overhead with his right hand
a live electric wire. Instantly a cur
rent Of 5000 volts was short circuited
through his body. His fellow work.
men on the scaffold above were too
paralyzed to render him assistance. An
employe of the electric company tried
to get them to release the burning man.
but before anything was done the flesh
and tendons Of the mans hand were
burned through to the bone and he fell
to the sidewalk, 40 feet below. His
skull was fractured by the fall.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
ROyaJ Wedding Cakes.

ROYAL wedding cakes are never sent out
until they have matured at least six
months. The actual baking process lasts
from five to seven hours. So great is the
demand for cake on the occasion of a roy
al wedding that the makers have always
stock of more than 200o pounds in the
seasoning room.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
Cancelled the Permit.

Austin. Texas, June 1.-THE jury in
the case of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com
pany, charged with violation of the
antitrust law. brought in a verdict
for the state. thus cancelling the COM
pany's permit to do business in Texas.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
PARTY WAS STRUCK BY A TRAIN
Tatal Accident mt an Indiana Rail
road Crossing.

Transport, Ind, June 16.-A car
..aee containing four women was
nLuck by train near here today. The
.enlcle was dragged 200 feet with the
~ "o,nen inside. Miss Daisy Raymond
OF Valparaiso was instantly killed, and
Hlss Lillian Moore OF Lafayette. Miss
FERN Lambert and Miss Stella Foster
vi .hls city were fatally injured. The
parry mad been to a picnic and attempt
, tu 10 cross the track in front Of the