Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-03-14

sold and 40 per cent is still held by the
ranchers, the bulk of which is in the ele-
Vators IN Moscow, and is held by wheat
receipts. The wheat which has been
sold-about 100000 bushels-has been
shipped out, and the $50, 600 bushels now
Ill the elevators here constitute the
amount which the ranchers still hold, by
the elevator receipts. On the bulk of
these receipts money or credit has been
secured to the extent of IS cents a bushel.
M. +. Reed, 7. P. Martin and c. /
Herbert took part as representatives of
the University of Idaho in the inter.
legiate debate at Walla Walla. The con-
test was between them and H. +. Brown
R. X. Brattan and William Worthinpton,
representing Whitman college, and was
held Friday evening, The subject was
"Resolved, that England's course in the
Transvaal is justifiable." Whitman col,
lege upheld the affirmative side of the
question. The decision was in favor of
the Whitman boys. This is the second
succeeding year that the laurels have
been wrested from the University of
Idaho by the Whitman contingent.
Sunday afternoon H. A. Hodges, an
ex-saloonkeeper at Kellogg, ran amuck
with knife in his former place of bust
ness and cut four men seriously and
slashed the clothes of three more. 1t ap-
pears that Joe Charley and some others
were drinking at the bar of Grant saloon
in Kellogg, when Hodges entered alone
and accosted Charley in an uncivil man
ner. Words led to a fight. Bartender
Moss put both men outside the saloon,
where others Joined in the melee on the
sidewalk. Frank Arnold knocked Hodges
down and kicked him, when Hodges in
flcted three slashes on Arnold's legs.
Hodges rose and Dave Funreston, a by
stander, tried to persuade Hodges to de-
sist, whereupon Hodges cut Funreston
three times. The first cash extended
from Funreston's right collarbone to Il
point between the third and fourth rib,
its depth being stopped by the ribs. The
second cut was transverse one across
the abdomen just below the navel, and
had it been one-eighth of all inch deeper
the peritoneum would have been pune
tured. The third cut was on the right
side about two inches long.
About three-quarters of mile north of
the Northern Pacific railway track, half
way between the city of Wallace and
Mullan, on what is known as Reddy
gulch, John Foss and J H. Rice of Null
Ian have made remarkable find which
is likely to bring about great excite
ment in that district, says the Wallace
Tribune. From all appearances a new
belt of lead carbonate ore of tremendous
proportions has been discovered. AL
though prospectora have been running
over the ground for several years past
and the country had been well staked III
every direction, no large amount of work
has been done until the first part Of this
month, when Messrs. Foss and Rice con
cluded TO dig on their old locations
which had been left open for relocation
ever since 1892. 1t was indeed happ,
thought to return to their old abandoned
love of many years ago, for after few
! feet of digging they uncovered large
body of lead carbonates, which assay fifty
ounces of silver, 81 in gold and sixty
lseven per cent lead. They at once Sc
cured group of FIVE claims on this ledge
which crops out plainly over distance
of several miles.