Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-04
NORTHWEST NEWS AND NOTES.
Items Of Interest FROM Idaho. Mon.
tana and WashinGtOA.

Items Of Interest From Idaho. Mon.
tana and WashingtOa.
Over 1000 bicycle licenses have teen Is
sued at Tacoma
Washington state university at Seattle
has graduated class Of is members.
A shipment of 200 head OF cattle has
just been made from Montesano to Butte,
Mont.
OF the ~ applicants for teachers certif
icates in Pierce county, % succs ssfully
passed the examination.
The doctors have discovered that bad
water in the cistern from which the
school is supplied has been the cause of
a large amount OF sickness among the pu-
pills at Port Townsend
(ioldendaie reports that one band OF
it0O sheep. just sheared at Indian Springs.
averaged u pounds of good marketable
wool.
Governor Rogers appointed ex-Mayor
Belt of Spokane. Paul DHeirry OF Seattle
and Colonel c. p Ferry of Tacoma rs
members of commission to represent
this state at the Paris international expo
sition of 1900.
! Norman Il. Colt. one of the earliest and
oldest Of the city's real estate brokers.
I is one of two claimants for 81 ,000O 600 OF
( the estate of the late Samuel Colt. fire.
arms manufacturer of Hartford. Conn.
/ The other claimant Is James Il. Colt OF
! Washington City. a brother of Norman
b. Colt. The two are nephews OF the dead
millionaire and were by a codocil omitted
/ from the will of the deceased arms manu-
| facturer, through, as they claim. undue
influence of the wife, now widow, of their
uncle.
Idaho.
The total assessment of Alturas county
amounts to $641, I'll.
The supreme court of the state has de-
! c.ded that a board of county commits
soners cannot employ counsel to assist
the district attorney in criminal cases.
The Metzel herd of cattle numbering
between 300 and 5000 head. are about to
be driven from the winter range In the
upper Ruby to the summer range in the
Centennial valley.
John Long has been convicted at Silver
City of murder in the second degree for
killing Thomas Fennel near Oreana April
1e, 1885, Two previous trials resulted in
hung jures.
A party of tourists in special car ar
rived in Boise the other day. The people
composing the party are from Genoa and
Fullerton, Neb. There are six families,
20 people in ALL They left Genoa last
Saturday and made their first stop at
Mountain Home. They are west with the
intention Of locating and when they find
a place that suits them they will be the
means of bringing out about 20 families
, more.
The five counterfeters convicted al
Moscow have been sentenced as follows
James Eddy, Is years at hard labor In the
, house of correction at Detroit, Mich. and
a fine of $500; John Eddy, 16 years at hard
labor in the Detroit house OF correction
and $500 fine; Emmett Taylor. 16 years al
hard labor in the Detroit house of correc
tion and 500 fine: /. w. Splaugh. eigh
years at hard labor in the Detroit hous'
of correction and 500 fine; Frank Ere
. leigh, six years at hard labor In the De
. troit house Of correction and 500 fine
2pl w without hard la
!. Dor in the Detroit house of correction ant
= $1,000 fine; Newton Eddy. 20 months with
0 out hard labor at the Detroit house o
correction and $1,000 fine.
o Mon tana.
d About $50 horses are already on the Ana
t conda race track.
n The creamery at Burton Is running full
a blast and ordinary milch cows are report
n ed to bring in to the farmers IS montl
e per head.
Rapid progress is reported on the re
n pairs on the West Gallatin Irrigation
y Company's canal and that IS miles ar
e finished, with water in ready for irrfga
e ton.
g Two bands Of Teton county sheep re
n Gently passed through Fort Benton 0
: the way to a point farther east for shear
J. ing and shipment. One band numbere
v Il, 900 head. and the other 5000 head.
r The county attorney Of Cascade count
holds that a police magistrate Is entttle
to no compensation in cases tired pelof
Is him when trial Is violation or tn
e state law.
4 The county attorneys Office at Butt
: has recently received a communicate
j. from the attorney general calling after
y ton. at the request of the governor,
the Inheritance tax law. and arguing II
necessity of seeing that its provisions al
:. observed in the administration Of estate
in Silver Bow county.
n The president of the West Gallatin L
rigation Company has been visiting MOI
III tana with a view to establishing be-
y sugar refinery: provided he could obta
n the necessary capital. The estimate
j. cost of the machinery and buildings W
~ be about $30O, 900, the whole Of which ca
~ readily be secured in the east. but II
c. thought best to have as much OF Il
lie stock as possible owned by Montana pc
he pie and 1t was with this end in vie
IN that he came to this state.