Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-04-22

Asotin county cattle owners are giving
more attention to improving their herds
than they have ever before.
sunnyside farmers, in Yakima county,
are all busy with their spring work, and
sujte Il number are preparing to SOW large
areas Of alfalfa.
Farming is well advanced in the Bick-
elton country and some are about done
seeding. Sheep camps report good lamb
ing this spring.
The organization of company Of vol
nnters has been completed in New
Whatcom ny the mastering of 80 mem
hers, SO of whom are sons Of veterans.
Cargo shipments of lumber from
Grays Harbor during the month of
March were: Hoquiam, IL cargoes, 4,553,-
400 feet; Aberdeen, 6 cargoes, 2,l75,OOO
ieet Cosmopolis, 6 cargoes, 2,02O,OOO
feet; total, S,748,O 900 feet.
Treasurer Huntley Of Centralia has just
issued his quarterly Eeports' The city has.
s3O,675.44 in Warrants outstanding and
$4,000 in bonds sold for the purchase of,
the electric light plant two years since.
This is the entire debt of the city,
amounting to $i3,675.44.
Six healthy, husky, energetic Salvation
Army officers will leave Spokane May 4
for the klondike. They 60 on a relief
expedition, but one not like those that
have preceded it and failed. Theirs is to
carry the gospel to the people of the Yu.
ON; their mission to relieve and lessen as
far as possible the evil influences of a
wild frontier life.
Fees were collected by Clarke county
officers during March and turned into the
treasury as follows: Auditor, $23425;
clerk, Sl3O.O5; One hundred and ten in.
struments were recorded by -she county
auditor during the month. as follows.
Deeds, patents, bonds for deeds, etc., 60;
mortgages, liens, etc, 80; mortgage salts
factions, 6; miscellaneous, IA.
There were 70 deaths in Seattle last
month, number larger than has ever
before been recorded in any one month,
except in March. 1891, when there were
50 deaths. 1t is also important to note
that IS people succumbed to pneumonia
alone. Scventy-one cases of infectious
diseases were reported, as follows: Diph-
iberia, Is; scarlet fever, IL; measles, "a
typhoid fever, 4; whooping cough, Z.
Thomas H. Cavanaugh, formerly sur
veyor general of Washington, now at De-
troit, Mich. has written a letter which
has been filed with the president tender
ing his services in the event of war with
Spain. General Cavanaugh desires an APP
pointment as captain and assistant quar-
termaster. At present the president and
the war department are giving no heed
TO the very numerous offers from all
over the country of those who desire to
he officers in the coming struggle, for
peace will be hoped for until the last
hour.
Jesse kerns, being of a mechincal turn
OF mind, has conceived plan to capture
the. willy sea otter. In the shop of N. S.
>orenson, in Hoquiam, he has built a
unluqe craft. 1t is in the form of a big
log "a feet long, with both ends tapering
down to one foot. 1t bulges out in the
middle, large enough for a man to stand
up, for the purpose of shooting the otter.
In the center is also propelling and
steering apparatus.
The lumber industry in Tacoma is
thriving. The mills are humming, filling
orders from the east and locally for car
building material, and orders from coast
wise and foreign ports for general mate
rial. The building of thousands of rail
road cars throughout the country has
created very strong demand for the fir
OF this state and the mills have in many
instances accepted contracts for heavy or
aers from various roads.
Plans have been accepted for a $4,000
'heater at Lewiston
A: telephone line from st. Anthony to
Dubois will in all probability become
materlalized fact in the near future.
The plans and specifications for the
INV Episcopal church at Boise are about
completed.
Elaborate preparations are being made
a. Albion for the organization of an ar
tlllery company under the direction of
colonel R. s. Wood and others.
, Early Friday morning fire destroyed
RACES hotel at Wardner with its con
ems A man supposed to have been John
,'aiasher lost his life in the flames. The
loss Is estimated at $35 900, insurance So
900.
Judge Stewart at Caldwell has sen
,enced Joseph Sprawl to two years in the
Sprawl was indicted sew
''a' years ago for stealing valise from
tram at Payette, but he escaped and
was not apprehended until recently.
very important developments are tax
ny place in upper Boise, where the Twin
!, Placer Company and the Upper
"o'se Hydraulic Company have been put
ing IN large plants for working the high
oars marking the old channel of the
stream.
Notwithstanding several thousand nb-
a p; We're destroyed in the vicinity of Al
.'h during the winter, the foothills
y, ,o' 'heast of town seem to have few
'"p"sind left. says the Times
VI .. d. Pickett has left Boise for
''uhhells, Iowa, where he is organizing
oioilV Tor SET lomopt an tho povafta riy-