Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-01-11
State News

berg were Married at So'eoi"oo' 1851
wednesday.
peese Hattebaugh has been appointed
oa,ta;n of the state university signal
corps at Moscow.
r,award Smith, who served under the
,.et administration as chief clerk i'll the
I'D office. has been appointed by Aud
;tor Sinclair to the chief clerkship in his
Office.
The Odd Fellows of Cottonwood con-
,a,,n,ate building of large hall next
sprine. 1t is to be two-story structure,
iii, hall on the ground floor; the second
toor will be fitted up as Office rooms.
I'd Fountain went to Lewiston Sun
aay and returned Tuesday accompanied
,v Mrs. Fountain. Mrs. ]. l.. Hornaday
alsa arrived from Lewiston few days
since. Mr.. Hornaday and Mr.. Fountain
have rented rooms i'll ]. II. Smiley's
building, and are keeping house while
,hey are engaged in securing right of
NAV for the o. R. & N. across the prairie.
Petitions are to be circulated among
the citizens Of Genesee asking the Idaho
legislature to enact law prohibiting all
kinds of gambling games within the state.
Residents ofthis place who are particular
" opposed to gambling are making an
effort TO bring the matter before the
voters in various parts of the state, ask
ing them to present petitions, as generally
signed as possible, to the Legislators.
bedbug in the Overland at Boise, meet
ing a detected looking companion, in
ouired, How is business?' Mighty
moor lust now" said the other bug;
Landlord Johnson put couple Of popu-
list politicians who had GENE in here to
organize the Legislature into my bed last
night, and the only thing could get out
or them was wind and gall. am all
bloated up and sick to my stomach;
have bitter taste i'll my mouth yet"
Nanpa Leader.
A carload of mixed fruit was shipped
from Boise on October 18th and sold on
the goth. The car contained SIS crates of
prunes and 1872 crates Of pears. The
prunes sold for $I.32 a crate of twenty
fue pounds, the Keifer pears for $3.50,
the Beaurre Anjou pears for $2.96 and
the total amount realized on the car was
SI,43I.4o. There is no other state i'll the
Union that could have shipped prunes to
Chicago SO long after they had ripened
without the entire shipment being un-
salable upon arriva1.-New Years edition
Salt Lake Herald.
Frank II. Grierson of Moscow, has
been offered and accepted the position of
deputy state auditor. Auditor Sinclair
made the appointment several days ago,
but it was some time before Mr.. Grierson
decided to accept. Mr.. Crierson has
been clerk of the district court for
the past four years, and is one of the
best clerical men i'll the state. A better
choice could not have been made for the
office to which he has been appointed.
Mr. and Mrs. Grierson will leave for
Boise in about 10 days. They have been
prominent in Moscow society circles and
will be greatly missed.
Idaho has made very many new and
important mineral discoveries during the
year. She is pretty soon to be about the
most important mining state in the
Union. Her fruits that paid her so little
i'll 81 were mint to her i'll '9S. Her
orchards are increasing, they are gaining
i'll strength every year. The harvests
from them will be more and more for two
decades to come. She still has vast areas
of the finest kind of agricultural lands
open to settlement aud cultivation. As
a fruit state, as all agricultural state, as a
mining state, as a stock state, she has
every necessary condition and is entitled
to warmer and warmer congratulations
by all her neighbors on each New Years
day.-New Years edition Salt Lake
Tribune
George Fl. Pease, who for two years
has been sheriff of Kootenai county, is
today fugitive from justice. His term
of office expired today, but he was not
present to turn the Office over to his
successor. On December 80 he left here,
ostensibly for the purpose of making q
trip to Montana for an escaped prisoner
aud has not been heard of since. The
county commissioners had the safe of the
jail opened today, and all they found wa:
postage stamp and few keys. All
his receipt books and account books arr
missing, SO it is impossible to ascertain
his exact shortage, but it is approxiniatet
at about $1,000 to 10000. County At
torney Goode has been working on til.
case all day, and tonight warrant wa
issued for Pease's arrest.
Thursday evening, December IS, 1898
George N. Newman hired horse out o
&C, Burgess livery stable to go dow
the creek tCottonwood). The next hear,
OF him was at Lewiston. 1t seems tina
lie had gone to Westlake, where h
stopped over night, and resumed hi
Journey on the stage the next morning
riding with Jack coburn and leading hi
horse To Waha x,,hara 1,a laft hin, an,