Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-04-08
NEWS OF THREE STATES
ARE PAYING OFF MORTGAGES.
Sale. Of Railroad Lands In Montana
-Eirt.-Five of the $50 Names On
the Fremont County. Idaho, jury
l;st Are Those of Women.


mess is almost failure, many fishermen
taking their nets out of the water.
The superintendent of the jetty work at
Gray's harbor entrance says that fully
1000 feet of work will be built this year.
Governor Rogers has appointed Profess
sor l.. d. Goshall of Everett member OF
the board of regents of the state univer-
sity for the term ending March. 1904.
vice B. F. Houston. of Tacoma. term eX-
pred
William Rice Dunbar. who has been ap-
pointed register of the land office at Van
couver, Wash, was born in Schuyler
county, ILL.,. April :, 1889. He crossed the
plains with his parents in 1916 to Oregon.
His father, Rice Dunbar, was one of the
first pioneers to file on II donation claim
in the Waldo hills. near Salem, Ore.
Auditor Mann of Douglas county has
figured up the amount of debt Cancelled
by paying off mortgages in Douglas coun-
ty from January |, 1897 to March 5,
1898, and finds it as follows: Real estate
mortgages, $53, Ola: chattel mortgages,
$27 1879; total, $S0.243.
During the II months ending March 81
there were 1874 deaths in Spokane and 5l3
births. While all deaths are reported and
included in this statement, a large por
ton of the births are not. On these fig
ures it will be seen that Spokane, calcu-
lating on basis of population of 10000,
has IL death rate OF S.35 and birth rate
of 1882 in 1900.
The postotiice reports for the fiscal year
ending last night show wonderful in
crease in business at Colfax, and receipts
are now large enough to advance the Of
flee from third to second class. The re-
ceipts for the year were $S025. This will
affect the change in the class and increase
the postmaster's salary from $500 to
$1,000 per year, beside increasing the al
lowance for clerk hire, rent, ETC., about
5000 per annum.
Pierce county has begun suit against
Sheriff Mills and 400 other defendants,
who occupy or claim some title or inter-
est in is acres Of land comprising part of
the Tacoma Niger tract" The county
seeks to establish its right to an undivided
one-siNth interest in such 65 acres by
operation of the law of escheat 1t al.
leges that in 1875 one George Luviney,
who owned such one-sixth interest, died
leaving no heirs; that d. b. Hannah was
appointed administrator of such estate
in 1883. and in 1885 the probate court
decreed that Luviney's interest escheated,
from which no appeal was made.
Out of a total of 1899 foreign born in
Tacoma but one first saw the light of day
in Spain.
The Vancouver saw mills have secured
contract for 100000 feet of lumber.
which will be used in the construction of
u wharf at Fishers rock quarry
Wheat receipts at Tacoma for March
have amounted to $50 cars, according to
Inspector Wright's report for the month.
Inc total receipts to date, since Septem.
Der /. amount to 96l6 cars, or 1868. 6O8
bushels. 1t is estimated that abor. 9.
Uo'o'" bushels will yet bes hipped before
the season closes.
WORD has been received at Vancouver
OF the death at Dyea of Sergeant Major
Kelly of the l4th infantry. He died on
the evening of March 10, of cerebro. spina,
meningitis. after an illness of ONLY three
days. A letter from Dyea says that he
was strong, robust and healthy up to the
hoor OF being taken with the disease.
ana his unexpected and untimelv death
mas plunged the regiment into grief and
alarm "
John p Anderson, more Familiarity
.e'e Anderson, one of the Puget sound
P,oneers. died the other day at the home
OF MS daughter, Mrs. Lee Rogers. after
lew days Of intense SUFFERING With
pneumonia. Mr.. Anderson was an old
steamboat captain on the sound, and sery.
ee term several years ago as surveyor
~. H"onomlsh county. He was one Of
.ns pathhnders Of this country, being ia.
"''l'ar with every square mile of its terri.
.oi!' and for several years has followed
..nner cruising and private survov;na
ne 'eaves quite a large family of chi.
' all grown, his wife having died
several years ago. He was about e1
ears old.
Montana,
The lists of County Assessor n.n;.,
snow that the sales of railroad land. ~
Iark County during the past wear a mount
TO nearly 1000 acres. '""'
The city council of Kalisnel, IN. -.
aueed salaries. That of the police ;udos
WAS cut form s25 to SIS, and the msr
shai from $S5 to S75.
p''ant comes from Havre that tho
'",son scattered over the prairies for the
purpose of destroying wolves is nlav;na
liasoc with the hounds used for tho :.n,e
purpose. '' 'he same
Inc longest telephone communicate,
!" the world will be established this sn,m
meI' when Livingston, on the eStrsmo
''st' and Portland, on the west will ho
by wire. VIII "e
a large force of men vii, .oo, h.
WORK on the Big Horn tunnel trom ths
ns;da ,', IA, there are number of springs
inside the tunnel which keep the ropdhsd
4 an unsafe condition, the interior for i.
'htire length of LOGS feet il % -