Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-05-06
GLANCE OVER NORTHWEST
GOSSIP OF THREE STATES.
Si"rke County Fruit Growers Are
HaPpy-Sheep Shearinx in Full
Observation-Disclosures of Military
Companies-Montan VIII Send a
Squadron of Cavalry to the Front

ana most OF the other fruit.
John Y. Terry, receiver of the United
states land office at Seattle, is organizing
military company, having already OBJ
tanned the signatures of ~ young men.
Prosser reports that sheep shearing is
now in full blast. Deputy Assessor l.
ID. lApe has enrolled $4,000 sheep to
date in that district The wool warehouse
is now finished and is being filed
The gun carriages for the Notifications
On Marrowstone Point have arrived Work
on both Marrowstone and Admiralty Head
i, being pushed rapidly, and operations
will soon be begun on Point Wilson.
The steam lighthouse tenders Manzani-
ia and Columbia, which have been in the
service Of the treasury department along
the north Pacific coast, are to be trans
ferred to the navy department Both
vessels go on the dry dock here tomorrow
for overhauling and to be painted lead
color.
A sad death occurred about three miles
north of Custer the other day. The year
and half old child of Mr.. Poison was
killed by accident. Fred Knupperberg
had charge of a team when the lines
broke and the horses ran away. 1t seems
the horses got past the child when a chain
attached to the tugs swung around and
caught the little fellow. When he was
picked up life was extinct.
Pierce County Superintendent Of Schools
j. L. TAFT says that the State Teachers
Association will be held in Tacoma, begin
ming June p and ending June 80. Here
tofore it has been held in August. The
change will enable teachers to attend with
the least possible inconvenience. The
Pierce county institute has been set for
June IA to %, and the county convention
of district officers will be held June 20
Judge Carroll has decided the tax cases
of the Pacific National bank against
Pierce county, which he has had under ad-
visement for some time, holding that the
bank must pay the tax. The bank brought
suit to restrain the collection of the tax
and to establish an offset on the tax as
sessed on $4,000 of the stock which was
represented by stock mother corporations
in other counties of the state. which was
held by the bank, and which was subject
to tax in the counties where the corpora.
tions were located.
Idaho.
Wallace reports that the owners of the
Morning mine do not propose to lose any
more time than necessary on account of
the burning of their mill, having already
commenced clearing off the grounds for
rebuilding.
T. +. Nelson, who once represented Ida
no county in the territorial Legislature.
and senator from Latah at the last ses-
cion, has removed to California for per-
manent residence.
Colonel Joseph Roach of Minot, N. d.:
has purchased of Preuitt & Phelps of Hele-
ma 500 head of northern Idaho stock, two
years old, and paid $50 per head.
The report of the quarter Of the state
insane asylum shows the number of pa
tients January Is was 1856, ll9 male and
81 female. April Is the number was 1856
lis male and 20 female. Five died dur
ing the quarter, 10 were discharged and
IA received.
Judge Stewart sentenced the three men
found guilty of burglarizing Eglestons
store in aldwell to serve the following
terms in the penitentiary: James Brown.
two years and II months; Charles Ander-
son, three years; Frank Anderson, three
years and two months.
Montana.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
has sold 1920 acres of land eight miles
southeast of Augusta. Budke Bros, sheep
men, get 1000 acres; d. J. Hogan, cattle
man, 1000 acres, and w. j. Miles, a ranch
er, 800 acres. The tracts are contiguous
and are principally grazing lands.
Montana will send a squadron of caval-
ry to the front in a few days. In antici-
patton of the orders of the department
which were detailed by Senators Mantle
and Carter in a long dismt ch to the COVER
nor Thursday, Governor Smith, with the
chief officers of the Montana national
guard, came to an agreement yesterday as
to the best plan for raising the troops
which will be required by the govern
ment from this state. Lieutenant Robert
Bruce Wallace, of the second cavalry, who
has been stationed at Helena on detached
service as inspector of the state guard
several years, will command the squadron
Of four troops His promotion to the rank
of major is alike pleasing to the men in
the guard and his friends in Helena, which
has been his home for many years.
Harry f. Clarke, the associate of the
"woman highwayman" who terrorized
Helena six years ago and was sentenced
to 40 years in prison, has decided that il
he is permitted ne will enlist in the army
and make an effort to prove that he is
worthy to be restored to citizenship. In
letter to his lawyer, Samuel A. Ballet
Clarke says: "If l am released l shall
certainly enlist if allowed to as soon as
war is declared against Spain came to
this country desiring to make it my home
and though circumstance have placed me
in a position such as to exclude me from
citizenship l earnestly desire to prove by
my future actions that I am not lost be-
yond redemption" Clarke once signified
his willingness to return to his former
home in Norway if he were pardoned with
that condition and he now offers tn enlisi