Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-08-12
The days are growing shorter.


J. A. Kincaid of I.apwai is in the city.
ID. Il. Kelly, the Snake river fruit
grower, is in the city.
T.. A Johnson, stock raiser of Ha nil.
ton Mont, is i'll the city.
ID. w. Hannah and wife Of Moscow are
paying the city brief visit.
VIM. II. Chambers, a mining man from
Buffalo Hump is in the city,
T. A. Storey, a lumbcrman of Tacoma,
arrived III the city yesterday.
County Auditor Waldrip of Asotin was
doing business III the city to-day.
Ira l.. and Alma Smith of Pine City,
Wash, are in the city on brief business
trip.
Editor Kay l.. Thompson of the Asotin
Sentinel was in the city for few hours
to-day.
Ed Bloom hailing from Merrill, Wis,
is in the city and is quartered at the
Raymond
ID. 5. McGraw wife and two daughters
OF Kendrick, registered at the Raymond
yesterday.
Fred IIallett, the hotel landlord at
Buffalo Hump, arrived down yesterday
on business.
Mayor Weisgerber is in Spokane on
business trip, having left for that place
by Thursdays train
Add Larner Of Townsend, Montana,
passed through the city yesterday en-
route to Grangeville.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Grostein suffered
the loss Of their baby girl, aged four
months, Thursday morning
Major X. ID. Walsh of the 3s,h Infantry
| L 5. ", who has been here attending to
some matters at the recruiting station,
left for Garfield Thursday morning,
| +. w. Hiestand of Hiestaud, Warner
< Co, of San Francisco, one of the
largest dealers and exporters of grain on
the Pacific coast, is in the city on bust
ness.
Commencing Aug II, 1899, the ., K.
& N Go. steamers will leave Lewiston
for Riparia at 10 O'Clock a. IN. daily, con
Meeting at Riparia with trains going both
east aud west,
DIR. J. A. Metzger, Ist Lieutenant and
assistant surgeon of the 3sth Infantr Y
U. ). V. arrived in the city yesterday
and is busy examining applicants for
enlistment at the recruiting station here
Horece Swift aud Gus Chapman, two
employees of the Lewiston Mercantile
Co S establishment. have been laid on
temporarily, owing TO the decrease OF
business, The boys are both on the look
ont for other positions.
c. T.. Arney. chief clerk To the state
land board, left yesterday morning for
Moscow. After a short delay he will
proceed to Kootenai county to attend to
a large timber suit that is now in pro
gress
| One of the stransest characters of
nature the newspaper man meets almost
daily in his travels, is the man who
thinks that newspaper should pitch
into somebody all the time. lie would
make the newspapers sort Of smut mill
for somebody to dump his suspicious, i'll
feelings and slanderous gossip into. In
nine cases out Of ten these fellows are
cowardly, and would no, make their
complaints to any man face to face, bu,
they would rejoice to see the newspaper
man peddle ont the miserable yarus to
people.
Frank MathewSou was arrested by the
Deputy L 5. Marshal yesterday for the
charge of introducing liquor on the
reservation. He was arraigncd before
( l. 5 Commissioner f. o'Neill this
morning at 10 a. IN. and his trial set for
Monday afternoon. This is the man
who was wanted several weeks ago. He
had been engaged in wholesaling alcohol,
sending II via Juliaetta to himself at
Spaldiug and distributing it to peddlers.
The marshal on July 18th captured two
cases OF alcohol, which he confiscated.
Mathewson is well known in the Palouse
country, where several years ago he
was wealthy and influential farmer
Indian Agent c. 7. S,ranahan made the
complaint and the L. 5 Attorney will be
ON hand to help in the prosecution. The
case is considered very important, as ii
strikes at the big dealers in the alcohol
traffic on the reservation.