Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-01-18
State News


Iohn HALEY took charge of the peni-
tertiary last Friday.
The Idaho Legislators have drawn down
about $3,7oo of the States money for
mileage.
I'D. Honeyman, of Fletcher, has been
appointed notary public. He is also a
Justice of the peace.
Some of the fruit growers of the Pot
latch. who have good sized prune orch
ards, will dig them up and replace them
with apple trees.
The total assessment of Idaho county
for the last year was 81 ,o62,299. The tax
levy amounted to $4,000. OF this sum
sI4,Ioe became delinquent.
The plating of the new town near the
mouth of Big Canyon, which will retain
the name of Peck, is about finished. The
OR. & N. have taken depot and ware
house grounds and have given $4,000
bond to have their road built to that point
during the present year. They have pur-
chased the right of way to the prairie via
Little Canyon.-KendrickG Gazette.
The board of pardons has determined
that it will 60 to Albion and secure
a statement from Diamond Field Jack"
Davis, the condemned murderer having
expressed desire to make one. They
will leave tomorrow afternoon and will
return at midnight Tuesday. The COVER
nor has determined to go along as his
presence in Boise does not seem to be es-
sential at this junciure.
A petition to the state Legislature is be-
ing circulated asking that body to appro-
pirate $4,000 for a bridge over Snake
river at a point about ton miles northeast
of American Falls on the proposed Poca-
tello and Lost river road The petition
sets forth that such road will be easily
constructed, convenient and of great Den-
eft. The petition will be forwarded to
Senator Church
The Skookum, in Occur d Alene, which
is involved in litigation, was developed
by means of long tunnel at depth of
1900 feet. The largest ore chute in the
Ceur d'Alenes was opened up. 1t is $50
feet long and from six to twenty feet
thick. A stope fifty feet high has been
worked out. On basis of the returns
of the ore from this stope, the ore re-
serves overhead represent dividend pro-
ducing capacity of 100000.
The Indian will have to refrain from
killing game during the close season, in
future, just as the white man has to do,
the United States Supreme Court having
decided that the treaties with the gen
eral government were not superior but
rather subordinate, to state laws. That is,
the red man must obey the state laws
just the same as the white man. This
ends the promiscious, unchecked
slaughter of game at all seasons.-Daily
Press.
The supreme court has handed down
an opinion in the case brought i'll the
name of the state against Blaine county
to determine the validity of the law Gre
ating the county. The Judgment of the
district court is reversed. The ground of
the decision is that the state, after having
repeatedly recognized the county as
legal subdivision of the state, is estopped
after the lapse of four years from ques-
tioning the regularity of the passage of
the act.
George Cashier, freighter, had a
narrow escape from death on the Idaho
City road, about FIVE miles above the city,
Tuesday. Cashier was driving behind
the team of Ed. Hines, which stuck fast
IN an immense drift. He assisted in ex-
Treating the Hines team, aud was return
ing to his wagon when he was struck by
snowslide and buried under eight feet of
snow. Hines went to clawson's toll gate,
half mile distant, for assistance, and
after half an hours hard work Cashier
was extricated from the mass of snow in
which he had been buried about an hour
lie was uninjured, much to the JOY of the
rescurers. who looked for him be dead
before they could reach him. The horses
were also released from their snow prison
Without being hurt.--Statesman.