Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-12-20

A. J. Payne Of Kendrick is in the city
Miss Ella Wyatt arrived on the boat
yesterday.
d. w Eaves has gone to California to
spend the winter.
K. K Steen returned yesterday from
visit to Spokane and Wallace.
{. c. Fuller of Orofno came in on
yesterdays train from kendriCk.
Miss Lola Timberlake who is a student
of ST. Helens Hall Portland returned
for the holiday vacation Monday.
John d. O'Neill who has been prospect
ing all summer on the upper Snake river
arrived in the city this afternoon. He
made some good locations,
Miss Pearle Wickersham, now teacher
i'll the Boise public schools is the leading
lady in the Boise contest for the most
popular teacher in Ada county.
Captain T.. O. Martinson returned
from Spokane today where he went to
visit Guy Simpson, the young soldier
boy who died there last Sunday Of con-
sumption.
Two inches of snow in this valley has
aroused the bovish instinct to go rabbit
hunting. The festive jack rabbit has
been required to move ON and leave his
favorite lair very often durining the past
three days.
/ The wrecked train and its cargo of
steel still lies in the ditch above Ken
'drick. Even after almost week the
/ body of the unfortunate brakeman, who
was buried under She" wreck, has not
been recovered.
Some prospectors from the Sheep
Creek district on Salmon river have re-
turned to the city with reports of good
quartz strike. They claim to have found a
rich ledge 100 feet wide. The values re-
ported are very high.
Street Commissioner Mccullough swore
out 100 warrants against as mary John
Does in this city who have not cleaned
the snow off their sidewalks. The war
rants will be served as fast as the Marshal
can perform the duty in compliance with
orders of the Street Commissioner.
/ +. +. Johnesse and Austin Gregory ar
rived by boat this afternoon from Imnaha
They report very encouraging develop
ments within the last week in that camp
Black Oxide was encountered in the
Snake River Chief. There is full face
of ore i'll the drift. The ledge is eigh
feet wide and there is no longer any
doubt of values.
Sam Slovenian the manager of the S.
Patrick mine on the Clearwater was ii
the city last night. He said his bonan
"a was still improving with development
1t is the intention to prosecute the worl
Of development all winter when it is ex
pected this will he one the great mines o
the Lewiston district. The ore body i
large and the values are not excelled il
any minein any district i'll the North
west
The Diamoud6eld Jack case is still be
fore the courts of the state. 1t is no,
claimed by counsel for Jack that there
f no law under which he can be hanged
, He was sentenced under the old law t
, be hanged at Albion. The new Law pre-
f vides that all executions shall occur a
/ the penitcntiary. Jack was not sentence
| to be hung there. The law does TIC
, authorize the Sheriff of Cassia county t
hang him, so it appears Diamondhel
Jack has no lawful executioner.
c The great Peacock mine in the SIEVE
| Devils was bonded for the second tim
E last week to c. w. Wnitcomb of Boston
t who represents a strong syndicate, til
o American Mining company, for the SUI
n OF 81 900, COG, the payments TO be made i
+ monthly installnents 10 amount 10 Z
S per cent of the value of the ore shipped
: not less than $1,000 monthly, till the pu
chase price is paid; the ore III the biz
and on the dump to become the properl
Of the American Mining company.