Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-09-16
Northwestern News Notes.

| ,.r at Seattle fur Alaska. He goes
,Li,ber on account of his being chair
m.n ot the Committee on Territories
md II il his desire to look into needed
logIslation that is necessary for the
governing of the Territory.
R,bnenberger, the soldier who killed
bartender Mcbride in dance hall at
Wallace last month, has been acquitted
byajury.
The fall fishing season for salmon
has opened in Oregon. The first catch
in the Columbia river in the vicinity
Of Astoria Is reported light.
The 0. r. & N. are spending $780,
0Djn improving their rcadbed between
pendleton aud North Powder.
Hop picking is in full blast in the
PayalIup valley, Wash. Over a thou
sand Indians and several hundred
whites are en- gagged in picking.
Surveyor General McMicken of
Washington died at Olympia Wednes-
day. He was pioneer, and served
two terms as Surveyor General under
President Grant and was reappointed
under The present administration.
Prof Henry Gannett of the U. s.
Geological Survey estimates the guam
tits of standing timber in the western
division of the State of Washington at
lO3,624,376 feet, of which in round
numbers 5000 900 is fir, 10000 600
cedar, 1900, 600 hemlock and 5000, 900
spruce.
Three hundred and twenty buildings
will shortly be moved on seows across
Lynn canal from the town of Dyea to
Ssagway. The company who will un-
dertake the project will employ several
hundred men to do the work.
], F. Wardner, pioneer mining
man of the Ceur d'Alenes, arrived in
SEATTLE the other day from the wilds of
Alaska and exhibited many large gold
nuggets, one of which weighed over
800 in value.
Seventeen smallpox patients. includ-
lug the suspects confined IN the isola-
ton hospital at Walla Walla, recently
made a $500 expense bill to the tax
payers, OF which the county pays one-
bali and the city the other.
The September session of the United
States Court of Appeals is now i'm ses-
Sion at Seattle. Judges Gilbert, Ross
ana Morrow occupy the bench, and
mere are sixteen cases on the docket.
The Columbia Southern Railroad
Which runs through the wheat belt OF
SHERMAN county, Oregon, will be ex.
'snaed this winter from its present ter
minus at Moro, 4S miles distant into
wheeler, Crook aud Grant counties.
-FOUR hundred recruits at Vancouver
nirrscks, who enlisted in the 35th reg.
ia'eht, U. ). ", are very much dissat-
S''eu' Tor the reason that they have
~e'' transferred To the 39th regiment
aua VIII be sent TO Fort Crook, Neb
:" NC organized into a battalion. This
a'''s'er was necessitated by the 35th
having reached its maximum number,
A'u rumor has gained credence that
% Tue enlistment papers show they
were recruited for this special regiment
'ue war Department has not the right
assign them to any other regiment,
'"efe are hundred trotting horses
- 'aiem, Ore, who will race for the
p''*S huhg during the State Fair.
'ne oregonian reports the arrival in
rO''land of several hundred laborine
-, ''' S'"ce the suspension of construc
,a a." WORK on the Riparia- LIE vision ex,
'i OF the Q. r, 4 n. A large
p''''oh OF the men are ENJOYING q
. ne !" the North End of the city
as they had worked hard m the
MY u ana sun ali SUMMER and were
''V Going in for IA good time.
D.s u'0r shoup telegraphs the war de
r...'' sn. that the Thirty fifth regiment
n.h IN Oregon, Washington and
So, . one OF the finest he has evel
c.,,. a'a predicts it will show an ex
record in the Philippines.
NJ" pain ooulsen, of the revenue cutter
;, a''och, writes Collector of Customs
h. o'' Townsend that the McCullocl
hort hlished cruise to differen
So: VI Alaska with Alaska officials con
INA ns Of Governsr John G. Brady
M Iuaries J. Johnson, United State
I've, onoup and Collector of Customs
h., n' At the places visited court wa.
were disposed of.
llsb.a postal route has been estab
Sush.,V n St Michael. by Bethel, t.
Owe, so Alaska, 72s miles, and return
each .n there will be two round trip
- winter until 1902.
The p,, hundred men are employed oil
tie ~ cutoff being constructed b,
m northern Trn Pacific.
'0fest Grove Oregon Hatchet say