The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-12-31

A lodge of the B. P. o. E has been or
ganized in Lewiston with a charter mem
bership of 81 Of the prominent business
men of the community.
Judge Theodore Brsntly will take the
office of chief justice of Montana without
a contest Chief Justice Pemberton has
sent Judge Brantly his congratulations
over his election and acknowledges his
own defeat
Joe Kroelick, of Livingston, 9 Bohe-
milan, who has been employed with the
construction forces on the Northern Pa
cifie for several years, was assaulted and
robbed of Sl025 the other morning while
going from a beer hall 10 the depot to
take the eastbound train for st. Paul.
The report of f. d. Cooper, sheep COM
missioner for Cascade county, gives the
following data; Sheep in the county
March /, 1ls,6I5; lambs dOcked since,
1906; sheep slaughtered or shipped out
of the state since March !, 81 ySs4; pounds
of wool sheared, e23.s24; highest price per
pound, is cents, which was the highest
price paid in the state; lowest price, IA
cents; average. l6 lilo cents.
Captain George p. Ahern, late of the
Twenty fifth, and long stationed in Mon
tana, is in Washington, nursing a severe
ly injured leg which he acquired while
campaigning with Gomez in Cuba. He
has lately been promoted to be captain Of
the Ninth infantry, and as soon as he re-
covers he will join his new command at
Madison Barracks. New York
Commissioner Suterlin reports the sale
of the Montana building at the Omaha
exposition for $50. 1t cost 5000. Mr..
Sutherlin expected to obtain q better
price for the structure, but after seeing
what some Of the other states received for
their buildings he thinks he did quite
well. Iowa, which paid 5000 for its
building, could get no more than $500,
while Minnesota got only 500 for a
structure that cost a great deal more than
was paid out by this state.
1t requires 200 pounds of -four per
week and $50 pounds of potatoes per day
to help make up the daily food of all the
inmates of St Joseph's Orphans Home.
During the past year 100 tons of coal were
consumed. 1t is said that 90 pairs of
shoes are needed at once. There are lao
children at the home.
The state board OF equalization has
filed a sensational report in which it Sc
verely criticizes the state supreme court
for following the Colorado decision limit
ing the board to merely changing the as
sessments Of the several counties without
affecting the assessed valuation Of the
state as a whole. The board claims that
its function as an equalixing board has
been annulled by the decision. 1t says
that unless the power it formerly had is
restored to it some other system OF taxa
ton must be resorted to, as the revenues
under the present conditions can not pos
sibly equal the necessary expense of gov
eminent
Helena and Spokane will talk together
over the telephone some day next week,
according to David S Murray Of Salt
Lake, general manager of the Rock Noun.
tain He'll Telephone Company, who is in
the city arranging the details of the pro.
posed connection with the coast lines and
proposed change of the rate scheme soon
to go into effect, which will provide for q
committed rate for conversations less than
five minutes in length.