Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-03-11

men oil Lewiston. we VIII be compelled
TO guard every trade interest in the COM
petition or some other more enterepris-
ing people will divert our natural |
facilities in other directions.
George Viles, the crafty halfbreed who
was held in Jail for introducing whiskey |
on the reservation, escaped last We'd |
nesday night. 1t was arranged to take
Niles and three associates in the whiskey |
traffic to Moscow on Thursday morning, |
and when Deputy Marshal Foresman
called for his men he found big hole in
the wall, and George was gone. 1t seems
during the night he was to have been
locked i'll the steel cage, but he deceived
the officer who locked the door by some
ruse and he was left i'll the corider. All
he had to do then was todig through the
brick wall. Viles was waiting trial at
the May term of the federal court. and
he was to have been taken to Moscow for
safe-keeping Thursday morning.
The governor, on the Sth, vetoed bill
that had passed the legislature without
its purpose being discovered by any one
The measure provided that no right Sc
cured to a city having a special charter
should be annulled by any act that does
not specially designate the portion of
the charter that would be affected. The
purpose was to invalidate the anti
| gambling law with reference to Boise
and Lewiston, the charters of which
cities provide that they may license
gambling. The supreme court decided
however, two years ago that an act pro
hibiting gambling generally did apply to
Boise.
| The representatives of a number of
railroad contractors have been in the city
during the past two days. They are
looking over the Lewiston-Riparia route
with view of putting in bids for sec
tions of the grading work. The o. R. &
N. company is keeping the work of con-
struction well in hand this year, and only
small contracts are let. The Topographic
cal surveyors are now at work on both
ends Of this section, and the contracts
will be let as soon as the figures can be
lexemplihed in the engineers Offices
| S. G.. Isaulan is the fruit pest inspector
of this district. He is alive to the duties
of the office, and people can expect intelli-
1 %1,n N{ yto,-, t,tp
pests and preventing the spread to new
fields. He will give particular attention
to the outlying districts, and help the
fruitgrowers to detect the scale especially
before it is too late to eradicate it and
save the trees. The scale can be easily
exterminated in any orchard if it is dis
covered within two years after its intro
duction.
Senator Stacy and Representative
Stanton arrived home from Boise yester
. lday evening. They have many ex
periences to relate which are incident tc
, the earnest prosecution of their labors al
law makers. They have not lost all o
their enthusiasm yet and those who heai
them talk must be convinced of thei
devotion to their constituents. Lewiston
\ of course did not get every thing il
, sight but we have still got our railroad
and rivers and the Buffalo Hump in thu
, distance.
81 Lewiston has had its first opera. Th,
Metropolitan Opera Company presented
the comic opera La Mascot at the GrosteiI
& Binnard hall Thursday evening.
! large audience greeted the players an
; the general impression left by tn
; company is that it did not disappoin
the people. The original opera wa
very much cut out to suit the strength G
: the company and the Accommodations c
: the house, but that presented met wit
; Iespecial favor.
Il letter from Sergeant John Wiggii
} dated FIVE days before the battle, say
at"Until further orders we have to answt
: roll-call at 4 o'clock in the morning, vi
der arms and be prepared to march at
: moments notice. We carry one hun
= dred and fifty rounds of afnmunitiol
p fifty of which are smokeless cartridge
>iWe have to drill twice day in the h
:, lsun. Most of the boys are afflicted wit
prickly heat, and it is terror.
Al The first of the steel of the big bridt
was raised to-day. The boat to-ds
Z brought the pieces which have been d
= layed in shipment, SO that work can nc
~ be steadily prosecuted to the end. II
- ordinary short spans of the great str'
- sure can be put in place in about TO
fiays, the long span requiring relative
izhore. The work Of raising the structu
|N;ll be fairly inaugurated Monday, al
e :. Hi :-ill be steadily prosecuted thereaft'
e The TEILER is informed that the co
= Itraet for the printing of the house bi
- va awarded to the Capital Printing COZ
= fpanv for $I.so per page. The Stat
8 luaanss. bid was 90 cents page. The
4 iwefe IA pages. This steal amounts
S x-secretary OF State Lewis Is
s lSse hS;tl Of the Capital Printing co
{kzft II Is believed that scandal
y lns< q Ahis job.