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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

The cry has gone out from the
papers that are upholding the
present administration that the re.
publican press is making uncalled
for criticism in setting out the fact
that we are having reform admin
istration that fails to reform. This
legislature must be judged by its
record. Two-thirds of the time
allotted for the work of the session
his passed into history. 1t is
surely pertinent to ask what meas
ure or measures Of even ordinary
interest have been passed or are in
a fair way to be passed? The
main issue of the state campaign
was retrenchment, but the record
fails 10 show single measure yet
passed that will give relief along
this line 1t is further true that a
lobby ol county officers Of the same
polite belief as the state admin.
istration has been and IS working
to defeat any measure Of retrench.
ment that will be proposed this
session in the line Of cutting down
county fees. In the campaign
there was much censure directed
against corporations and corpora ate
interests. 1t is a notorious fact
corporation Hobbies have been pres.
ent and were successful in defeat
ing proposed measures. This is
the measure of the present legisla.
ture made up from its record.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Our Dairy Interest.

The dairy business has been
neglected in the Lewiston valley.
The milk service in this city has
never been ample or satisfactory
and butter has always been high
and scarce. Just in the spring and
early summer the markets have
been supplied with the homemade
products. For short season of
every year there may be surplus
Of butter in the market but this tenn.
porary supply is made up largely
of an inferior article. This winter
and in the past for many months
the bulk of the butter in the mar.
ket has been imported. The price
is high. When everybody COM
plains of hard times it is hard to
understand why a business so re-
muneratiye and at the same time
one requiring SO little capital
should be neglected.
The feed question is one of most
importance in the dairy business.
The natural food of the mich COW
is roots and hay. Both of these
are grown abmdantly on all
classes of our varied soils. They
can be grown in greater variety
here than in any of the dairy dis
tricts of the East aud at half the
cost. This climate too, is favora-
BILE for winter dairying. Science
and experience have not success
fully resisted the effect of extreme
cold weather in the dairy business
The blessing OF winter sunshine
and natural warmth are above
price. The food requirements for
winter in this climate are dimin-
ished and the cost is much less
than in any of the creamery dis
tricts of the East, and vet the
dairyproducts are shipped TO Lew
istou from Michigan.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

1t is evident from the tone Of
numerous editorials now appearing
in the fusion papers of the state
that members of both the parties
who entered into the alliance rec
ognize the fact that the combination
cannot longer be held together.
Prominent populist papers take
middle ol-,he road politics as the
basis Of re-alignment. The demo-
Gratis talk reorganization aid, if
present indications serve as a
pointer, they will! make bold
move to incorporate the silver re.
publicans in the new alliance. 1t
is vain pretense to claim that the
fusion elements look to the future
with either hope or confidence.
Party leaders may cry peace and
harmony but the rank and file
know that when the legislative
fiascO ends that the history of the
present fusion will have been
written, the books closed, and the
record ended. The mutual pledges
made as the basis of the compact
have been violated both in the
spirit and the letter Anyone at
all in touch with ,he conditions in
the legislature knows that there is
open warfare between the members
Of the union. Popuiist bills fall
by the wayside knitted by the demo-
crats, and the populist guillotine
falls on the neck of the democratic
pet measures set out by the COVER
nor. In fact the most casual ob
server of current Legislative history
can see that the dominant idea is
not how much can be done to
further reform plans but how much
can be done to thwart measures
proposed by warning factions. 1t
is in full knowledge Of these fac S
that party leaders are working
when they propose new alliances
and favor other plans for the reor-
ganization of the fusion eleme nts.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

A soured old bachelor member
of the Idaho legislature introduced
a bill to compel the women who
vote, to work the roads and pay a
poll tax The measure was voted
down presumably by the suscept-
IDLE bachelors who are no. without
hope in the world and the bene.
diets who had previously been
properly coached.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
A Golden Opportunity.

While every other branch Of
business may be suffering from
prevailing monetary conditions,
the gold mining interest has re-
ceived impetus from existing
causes. Already the influence of
increased demand for gold proper
ties is felt in this country. The
Clearwater basin has been reputed
far and wide to he rich in gold ore;
but the smelling silver and galena
deposits have invited investment
in the past, because that class Of
mining could be prosecuted with
out great outlay of capital. 1t is
the history of all great gold pro-
positions that the ores are base and
refractory. The fortunate circum-
stances surrounding the lie Roi
and one or two other mines in the
mineral district near the interna-
tional boundary north of US have
diverted interest to low grade gold
ores. A hundred lie Rois might
be located, and held today in the
Clearwater basin without a posi-
bility of their great wealth having
been revealed. That great pro-
Queer, like every other great mine,
only unlocked its treasures to a
golden key. 1t was a prospect,
not better if as good, as hundreds
that await the same energy in our
mountain mineral belt.
Evidence accumulates daily that
healthy interest in our mines is
developing. Stamp mills for treat
ing free gold ores have gone into
Pierce, Elk aud Florence within a
year. Until there were mills there
could have been no practica! tests
of the great deposits OF these
camps. The success of the mill
tests have astonished the mining
world. As consequence mining
men have turned this way. Men
who represent millions Of ready
capital are looking tor investments
in the Clearwater gold belt. They
have not come as a result of a
boom, the value of the ores are
known. The mills, small as they
are, have demonstrated that ores
from some of our lodges hold dol
lars where other camps yield only
dimes.
The oppo rtunity for the faithful
prospector, who has guarded his
prospect hole in the Clearwater
basin as the good soldier stands
by his rifle pit, is at hand. He
will be reinforced by the sinews of
war. The capitalist has imbibed
some of the faith that has abided so
long with the prospector and will
help unlock the rock-bound
treasures.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

The mine owners in the Seven
Devils district have given a bond
of one million dollars. worth its
face in gold, to furnish a thousand
tons of freight daily for FIVE years
to the railroad now being built into
that region from Weiser. The i'm
portance of what may be called one
camp of this great mineral belt
may in a measure be comprehended
from the evidence furnished by
this business transaction. The
Seven Devils district is naturally
tributary to this valley. The CEN
ter of that mining field is less than
one hundred miles from Lewiston.
The natural route for shipment will
be by rail down the Snake to the
sea.
If the mines already developed
Justify contracts OF such magnitude,
the logical conclusion would follow
that camp greater than Butte,
Montana, will be established with
in two years. A city of Importance
will demand shipping facilities
that will in time bring railroads
from every possible direction. The
Snake river route will not only
penetrate this new mining field by
easy grades, but branch up the
Salmon river will tap the Florence,
Dixie and Warrens camps. Even
the bluffs of Snake river are rich
in the various precious metals from
the head of navigation to the heart
of the Seven Devils copper fields,
as are the Salmon bluffs from it's
mouth to its source. There is not an
other rich mineral field in all the
Northwest as easily reached by
railroads as this one is, by way of
the great water courses.
A city in this mountain region
will afford good markets for the
produce of this fertile valley.
There will be practically no rivals
in the fruit and vegetable market.
If the Lewiston valley can be as.
sured of city market within easy
reach it will not have an equal as
a rich farming district. The COM
paratively small area in all the
country that is suited to the pro- /
ductioh of our special crops would
give us an effective monopoly. |
Distance is bar to competition in |
the fruit and vegetable markets. |
Our early seasons give us an ex-
elusive market in all this mountain
region. Our seasonable fruits and
are earlier than those in
any possible competing agricul-
.ural district. For our products
:arliness means profit.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

The popocrats have developed a
mania for refo, ming all existing
laws. 1t would be no surprise to
hear that the law Of gravitation
needed fixing, and to see a bill to
that effect introduced carrying an
emergency clause.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

An anti-gambling law is under
discussion in the Idaho legislature
and a dispensory bill passed the
lower house in Washington state
last week.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

There is fault in the policy of
the farmer who hauls hay to mar
ket with a poor team.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

The war cloud that lifted from
Europe has settled very ominously
over Carson, Nevada.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
DOWNING, HOPKINS e. co.
Chicago Board of Trade Brokers.

Grain Stocks and Provisions sold OficesChi
Is Portland Salem Spokane Seattle Wash
bvhe Reference
nions and nfrnation
it.
perience on change. DOWNING, HOPKINS l. CO.,
Spokane Wash
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-20
PERSONAL.

DR.. T. NJ. Todd from Auburn is at the Palace.
f. M. Miller, Fresno attorney, is at the
Lick.
G. D. Plato, merchant of Modesto, is at the
Grand.
DR.. G. L. Simmons of Sacramento is at the
Palace.
C. w. de Long, Santa Cruz lawyer, is at the
Lick House.
G. H. schiveley, merchant of oroville, is
at the Grand.
is at the Grand.
the Grand Hotel.
les, is in the city.
c. A. Cook, merchant from Watsonville Is
at the Russ House.
NJ. j. Curtin of Sonora is registered at the
Cosmopolitan Hote.
J. c. Mogh, grain-dealer from Co lusa, is
stopping at the Grand.
J. A. Northway, hotel man OF Nevada City,
is guest at the Grand.
S. W. Doane, aIbusness man of Healdsburg,
is stopping at the Russ.
D. A. Lancaster, an insurance man from
Sacramento. is in the City.
j. Frank Brown, a attorney OF Sacrame nto,
is guest at the California.
FW. Covey, the manager of the Palo Alto
stock farm, is at the Grand.
F. Copeland, mining man from Downie-
vile, is at the Lick House.
I. Copeland, mining man from Downie-
vile, is registered at the Lick.
Joseph Bryan, an extensive grain grower OF
Potter Valley, Is registered at the Russ House.
S. o. Elliott, q prominent business man of
MADEIRA, Cal, is staying at the Cosmopolitan
Hotel.
c. W. Seiverling of Akron, Ohio, an exten-
sive manufacturer of farming implements, is
at the California.
Paul Loefier from San Andreas is at the
Lick. He is on his way TO the Kiondike in the
interests OF some Eastern persons.
MSam McMurtrie, a Denver contractor, who
has been doing some extensive work in the
southern part OF the State, is registered at the
Palace.
DR.. A. L. Wilson and DR.. G. G. Shannon of
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-20
NATIONAL GUARD NOTES
Adiutant-General A. w. Barrett
Has Again Left the State
for the East.
Officers Who Have Been Placed on
the Retired List-The jerks
Court of Inquiry.

Governor J. H. Budd, Commander IN Chief
OF the National Guard, on the occasion of his
visit last Friday night to the Mechanics Pa
viion. was accompanied by the following.
named members of his staff Colonel Robert
L. Peeler, Colonel Forrest s. Chadbourne
observation-disclosures Abraham Andrews, John
s Young Jefferson E. Doolittle, William D.
sanborn, John f. Burgin, Herbert Ch oyenski.
Frank A. Vail, Philip L. Bush, Richie l..
Dunn and George II. Pippy Captain D. A..
Smith, Adiutant OF the Fifth Regiment In
tantry, also accompanied the party.
Orders have been issued for Septemb Der and
october target practice. and the orders di irect
tnat the practice shall be by regiment except
as to the Fifth Regiment of Infantry and un-
attached companies, and at such time and
place as the commanding officer shall arrange
That the practice shall be under the sinner.
vision OF the respective inspectors of rife
practice. Each man will be required to wear
uniform when shooting.
The orders are those which have bean ex.
pected Tor some time. but in this CITY tho dif-
nculties are not with the orders, but with the
iacA OF place to enforce the M The fring
regulations require that the practice shall he
at zoo, 800 and 500 yards and now that tho
regulations are out the guardsmen are con.
tronte6 with the fact that there is no ran %
In this city and county in which the regnis.
uohs can be carried out, and that there is no
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-20
The Naval Militia.

Special orders from division headquarters
direct that Lieutenant E. B. Otto shall preside
at an election to be held on the 4th of October
at Eureka, Humboldt County, for ensign of
the division located there.
Also that Lieutenant Barrere preside at an
election to be held next Tuesday for lieute
ant, junior grade of the First Division of the
naval division.
The drill for next Tuesday for the naval mi
litia at this port will include fixing bayonets
with the swinging swivel, bayonet exercise,
particularly the position of guard, loading
apd firing and drill in close order.
The naval militia Of this port was visited
last week by the paymaster of the naval mill
tia of Philadelphia, who, in conversation with
Captain Turner, comphmented him on the di-
visions here, and he also said that San Fran
cisco is far ahead of Philadelphia as to Hotch-
kiss guns. At Philadelphia the naval militia.
he said, has possession of ship that is housed
over, and that officers and men have quarters.
The militia there mas several ex-naval officers
on is roll of officers.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-20
NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES.

Whitehead tor pedoes of Mark and II in the
British navy ar to be destroyed on account of
their erratic movements after firing. There
are 300 OF those torpedoes costing $2500 each,
representing a loss OF $750,000, and their de-
struction has been ordered so as to prevent
the secret of the mechanism OF their balance
chamber force becoming known to the public.
frst-class boy on the British battle-ship
Jupiter was seourtmartialed August 80, charged
with absence without leave, and striking the
captain OF the ship in the face with such force
as to knock him to the deck. The court SEN
fenced the boy to receive two dozen cuts with
the birch, to serve eighteen months impris
onment at hard labor, and then to be DIS
missed the service.
The enormous power of the latest British
twelve-inch wire-wound gun may be realized
to some degree from the fact that the shot Of
$50 pounds fired with charge of 16S pounds
OF cordite passed through an 1S-inch compound
plate, 6 inches of wrought iron, s inches of
oak and inches of iron. The velocity of the
shot was over 2300 feet per second. The five
battle-ships built and building in England for
Japan are supplied with the above-named
gun from the Elswick firm.
The Chilean first-class torpedo-boat Injeinero
Hyatt, built by Yarrow, left Plymou th April
20 anu arrived at IalCanudHO June 20. All
well on board. She is one of six of Identical
dimensions, being 1928 feet in length, Is. 3
feet beam, 70 feet draught and 140 tons dis
plac ement. The engines are OF 2200 horse
power and the trial speed 27.5 knots, The
coal capacity is forty tons. The daily average
speed on the voyage from England to Chile
was 160 miles, and the seaworthiness of crafts
of this description is no longer matter of un-
certainty.
The Argentine training-ship Presldente Sar-
mient to, built by the Lairds, at Btrkenhead. was
Hoated August 81. She is very handsome
sailing ship, full-rigged with large spread o:
canvas and has auxiliary steam power guaran-
teeing speed under steam OF 13 knots Tho
ship Is subdivided into twenty-four water
tight compartments, the hull sheathed with
wood and coppered, and quar- ters are provided
for 400 officers and crew. She is intended for
Q training and practice ship for naval cadets
and seamen.
The recent breakdown of the French ar
mored cruiser Bruix, on her trip with President
Faure to st. Petersburg. was caused by the
breaking OF pisfon-rod, which again smashed
the cylinder head. No one was hurt and the
ship was able TO steam homeward with one
engine at the respectable speed of ten knots.
Her return was the signal for o furious public
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-20
THE RIGHTS OF THE CoAL-STRKERS.

coal strike is in process of conclusion. Its aggrava
tons have appealed to public thought and conclusion
in the nature of ending physical struggle in which
those who could afford to wait win against those who could
not is not lasting The Intervention of foreign Government
asking indemnity for the slain the bloody field of Hazeton
brings forward feature that must be considered 1t means
that the parties not citizens of the United States but
were subjects of the Austro Hungarian empire They hao
here the right of domce and asylum and subject to
laws. In the humane view which should be taken, their
due upright lesson in the high of justice held by
people and in the integrity of Government and In the
capacity of laws do justice to all from the least to the
most defensess. is not dismissal of the subject to say
that they ignoan that their standards not high Let
be remembered that such material has always been used by
the ntegenty aWeSs the OF violent revolution FOR
the overthrow of systems and institutions.
Does any man suppose that Debs and other agtators
mourned the carnage azeton From the beginning of the
strike he melted that vast of men, majority of them
Aliens subjects of European Governments to overt acts that
would precipita just such tragedy The blood shed
water his wheel. No reasonable doubts that if the
spirit of unrest continue and the ranks of the gain
sufficient accessions Mr. Debs stands ready he declares,
to touch the match to the nfammabe material of revolution
1t against him that courts conure, and with the adro
of Robespre he passes the blow to the organized
strikers, who in the beginning orderly and stood in line
for the common rights of man.
These things teach and exhort to higher humanity in
dealing with industrial problems They invoke the best thought
of Americans whose institutions stake Let there be
action that enlist unnended recruits under the red
flag of Mr. Debs Endow every aborer with the full rights of
and teach him respect those rights his eoWaboer
If need be- broaden the sentiment of justice that aboers
longer feel the necessity for banding together for other
purpose than social intercourse and mutual hepuness in
sickness and sorrow and let the United States be known
the land earth where justice respected and equality
of right entrenched that combination of the weakest is not
necessary to mans right to sell his labor for the best
wages and exchange his earnings the best advantage for
the necesSaes of life Then aliens determined
to stand out line such policy shut the gates against
hem and if Mr. Debs preach mission of revolution to dis
content and ncit violate the laws that protect person
AMI property, treat him a public enemy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-20

denunciatioD of the Government. many OF the
Paris journals calling for the resignation of
the Minister of Marine and demanding gem
eral clearing out of the navy officials directly
and indirectly responsible for the accident to
the BruiX.
collision between the Pritish cruiser Phae-
ton and torpedo-boat des troyer Trasher oc-
Cured last month near Plymouth, both ves-
sells being on their way to Esquimalt, B. c.
The night was dirty and foggy, and the cap
tain of tie Phaeton signaled TO the Trasher
to come up under the lee of the Phaeton for
protection. The result collision, in
which the port side OF the Grasher was badly
damaged and petty officer from the latter
vessel was thrown into the water and
drowned. The findings OF the subsequent
court-mar tial were negligence on the part of
both the commanding officers, and they were
let off with q caution to be more careful in
the future.
very large drydock is being completed at
Glasgow and is the third built on the land
owned by the Glasgow Dock Company. The
first was built twenty-one years ago, is 555
feet i'll length on floor and 72 feet wide
at top at entrance. The second, of later build,
is SIS feet on the floor and 81 feet
wide at top at entrance, while that now under
construction is $50 feet on the floor, SO feet
wide at top and bottom at entrance and has 20
feet inches of wafer over the sill. 1t is built
partly of brick and con crete, and is arranged
with a gate IN the middle to permit two steam
ers of 420 and AGO feet length 10 be docked
simultaneously, if occasion arises. AL these
docks have been made use of by the Govern
ment In docking such ships as the Terrible
and several of the largest battleships. and the
docks have been thoroughly tie ted. The third
dock will be opened next month.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-20
PRIZE IN EVERY PACKAGE.

She climbs upon streetcar and
She takes a smokers seat;
The men ali frown and look askance,
And likewise scrape their feet.
But quick from out her pocketbook
cigarette she snatches
And says, "P.ease, may have light?
"I-er-I can't scratch matches "
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
1--WE made the enemy run to-day" joyfully
exclaimed the Spanish officer, 'and we are to
be cons gra tulated."
"'You did nobly, gallantly. What did you
do with the enemy? Capture them, or did
you leave them al large?"
''We left him. That's the best part OF 1t.
He was al least half mile behind US when we
got back to the city.'-Truth.
Landlady ito shivering lodger)-No, sir,
don't object to your dining at restorong, nor
10 taking an 'apenny paper, but must resent
your constant 'abit of locking up your whisky
thereby himplying that me, a clergyman's s
daughter, is prone to larceny.-Punch.
Barker claim that every woman has the
right TO wear any kind of clothes that she
likes. If she wants to appear upon the streets
in bloomers or even in tights. that should be
her privilege.
Dunning-Do you mean to tell me that you
would extend this privilege to all women?
Bal ker-Well, to all except members of my
own family.-Chicago Daily News.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-20
TAKEN AT HER WORD.

She said: al read you as a book ~
Oh, happy !, if this be true;
For when a maiden starts to look
The pages of a volume through
She only hunts those chapters out
That deal with love. and hurries by
The passages that are about
The clouds that gather in the sky.
She seldom reads between the lines,
Or cares TO catch the inner thought,
But with the hero she repines
Until the heroine is caught
oh, happy /, sweet little maid,
TO have you read me as book,
Beneath brauch's grateful shade,
Beside some happy. singing brook.
s.. f.. KISER, in Cleveland Leader,