Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-01-07
GENERAL NEWS.

/ Congressman Lewis of Washington
| has introduced bill in the house to APP
propriate 500, 900 for an assay Office at
| Seattle.
Mrs Isabel Mallon, better known by
her nom de plume of 'Bab;" or Ruth
4 Ashmore, died at her home III New
York last week.
/ II is announced that the Kynock conf
pany of Birmingham, England, has COM
nenced making 10000 600 cartridges for
4 the United States at the rate of 900 900
weekly.
/ The full text of the treaty with Spain
was presented to the senate Thursday
with short message from the president.
/ The treaty is now fairly before that body
] for ratification
Tho insurance bin passed by the Kan
sas legislature places a tax of two per
cent. OH the gross premiums on the
Kansas business of all outside insurance
| companies, whether FIRE, life or accident,
/ and four per cent. on European and
other foreign companies.
4 William T. Stead, editor of the Review
of Reviews, who recently has been agi-
tating "a great pilgrimage of peace
through all nations beginning at San
Francisco and ending at St. Petersburg
has received numerous letters from
America, all sympathizing with the cause
of peace.
The worst storm since 1892 ragged for
"a hours in Victoria last week. The
snow fall is almost unprecedented and a
strong northerly gale has blown the snow
into impossible drifts. Tram car and
railway traffic is at a standstill. Tele-
phone service is impeded. In the suburbs
householdcrs are stornbeund
/ The allowance granted to her mejesty,
4 Queen of England, by the country
amounts to $I,925,ooo year. OF this
SUN the queen is allowed for her privy
| purse S3oo,o for expenses of the house
hold 1861, 500; for salaries and retiring al
lowances, 565,3oo and for royal bounty,
aims and special service, sos 700.
The fntransigeant, edited by Henri
Eochefort, violent opponent of Dreyfus
revision, is responsible for the statement
that the court of cessation has waived its
intention to bring Dreyfus back on the
government S representations of the dan
ger Of lynching and riots and the neces-
sity for a large military force to protect
him.
When Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, convicted
of the murder of Mrs ]. p. Dunning APP
pears for sentence in Judge Cook court
Of San Francisco to-day. it is thought
her attorneys will ask for delay of a
1 week to permit them to prepare an APP
peal to the supreme court. What form
the appeal will take has not been deter
mined.
The postmaster at San Francisco has
called attention TO the large amount OF
mail accommodating there under the mis-
taken notion that domestic postage APP
plies to Hawaii. Letters for residents OF
Hawaii still require the international
postage of S cents per half ounce, though
all mail to people of the United States
| military or naval service is traHsmissible
at domestic rates.
| Oyster men claim that if the present
J siege of cold weather continues cultivat-
ed oyster beds on Puget Sound and Will
/ lapa harbor, generally valued al nearly
Fl $50, 900, will be rnined. 1t is explained
that the low tides leave the cultivated
beds out of water. The oysters are ex-
posed to the cold weather, and they are
frozen fast to the Sround, Before high
tide could save them it is feared the oys-
tiers might be killed. Oyster men fear
! the future, as extra low tides are expect
ed within few days.
The steamer Alki which arrived New
! Year day from Alaska, had number OF
I, passengers from Dawson City. Among
them was Captain f.. NJ. Strickland OF
the Canadian mounted police, who left
Dawson December sd. Considerable
open water is reported on the Yukon and