Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-12-24
State News


G. w. Toner, a farmer living near
Moscow, reports having seven head OF
fine cattle stolen from his pasture last
Wednesday evening Mr.. Toner was
doing duty on the jury in the district
court at the time. The cattle were
valued at $3.50. Mr.. Toner offers re-
ward of. $40 for the return of the cattle
or information leading to their recovery.
A rich strike was made at the Golden
Gate mine, about nine miles from Moscow
last week. Work was renewed on the
mine last Tuesday and few days later
four-foot ledge was struck which produced
free milling gold that the men who work
the mine claim will pan S2oo to tina ton.
The new ledge was found within few
inches of where the mine was worked
last year.
E. S. Sheldon took the train for Spo-
ZANE one day last week. The people did
not think anything of that. But day
@or two later when the Review brought the
news that marriage license had been is
Sued to +. S. Sheldon, of Genesee, and
Mrs. Hattie Baker of Spokane, it nearly
took their breath away as they had not
suspected anything of the kind.-News.
Pete Thompson, the Potlatch wheat
king, was stopped By highwaymen OH his
way home Monday night from Kendrick.
As luck would have it his horse
turned around and made ruin for the
town. He had just returned from Spo-
kane where he had been to settle fire
.5urance adjustment and thu robbers
ought he had large amount of money
OH his person.
Saturday afternoon Mr., and Mrs. w.
I, II. Gage, living four miles south Of
/ Gcnesee, came to town, leaving their q
{ year-old son Ralph at home with hired
man. At an an unguarded moment the
child found and drank the contents of a
bottle of carbolic acid. Word was i'm
mediately dispatched to the parents, who,
summoning medical aid, FASTENED home.
Nothing could be bone to save the boys
life. The funeral was held from the Con-
gregational church.
A gentleman who last summer visited
/ Henry's lake made some interesting
statements to reporter yesterday con-
corning the open violation of the fish
and game law in that locality, attention
to which was recently called by this pa
per. He said while he was there in the
neighborhood of 40, 900 pounds of moun-
tain trout, caught by means of the seine,
was shipped out. This fragrant infraction
of the law was not followed by prose
cution of the guilty parties, who are we'll
known, and who go about their work
without any effort to conceal their move
ments,-Statesman.
Hon. James Pierce says a great many
cattle men in Cassia county have sold
their stock and bought sheep, which
they find more profitable. His firm went
from the cattle to the sheep business on
account of the close picking on the range.
The grass was too short for cattle, but
sheep thrived OH it. On account of the
general desire to change from cattle to
sheep an unusually large number of the
former have been sold this year.
And they brought good prices. Calves
brought $13 to SIS and 4-year.old steers
an average of $50 head. All those who
have sheep have prospered this year
there as elsewhere,
The Idaho Manila Christmas boxes are
lying at San Francisco unless they have
been shipped in the last week or ten days.
They arrived too late to be placed on the
Santa Claus ship that steamed out of the
Golden Gate for Uncle Sans far away
possessions. They were shipped by
freight and were IS days on the road to
Frisco, and when they were turned over
to the auartermaster there, the st. Paul
with its load of precious gifts, was we'll
out on the ocean. So the Idaho boys
will be disappointed, and the disappoint.
ment will be all the keener because OIL
the fact that two or three Idaho boxes
sent to San Francisco by express afte,
the freight had started, reached there in
time to catch the St. Paul, and will ar.
rive in Manila ON time. There wa:
something like 400 boxes that it was in
tended the Idaho boys should have on
Christmas day.
Frnk Eberle. the Juliaetta vineyard
man was in Kendrick today delivering
some of his wine. Mr.. Eberle has five
acres of vineyard, the vines ranging from
three to five years of age, and from thi
years crop he made 2sooogallons of wine
for which he finds ready sale at a pric,
that will average him 81 per gallon net
This pays him about $500 per acre, a
his expenses for picking his crop o
grapes were only $37. Mr., Eberle wa
in the same business in California bcfor,
locating in the Potlatch, and feels tina
with his five acres Of grapes he make
more money with far less trouble ant
expense than the biggest wheat grove
in the country. Next year he expects u
have a much larger crop with additions
bearing vines, and will continue adding
to the wine-making capacity. He ship