Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-02-07


trio light company refused to make a
contract for less than two years at that
rate. The terms were accepted after a
tie vote Of the council by the vote of the
mayor.
Senator Shoup has recomm nded the
appointment of Thomas +. Berreman as
postmaster at Cavendish, vice Grace l..
Croskett, resigned, and Mrs. Fada A.
Murphy as postmaster at Clearwater, vice
Addie Lister, resigned.
U. S. Marshal Ramsey has arrested
three men in Boise for passing counterfeit
fve dollar gold pieces. II is believed
the men arrested are only the agents for
the real manufacturers Of the spurious
coins. The coins are made Of lead and
coated with gold. At least 100 OF these
coins had been placed in Boise.
G. w. I.amoreanx. who has been in Jail
in Boise for week or two awaiting trial
for enibezzling county funds while he was
auditor of Ada county, was arraigned last
week on another charge of appropriating
5000 to his own use, which sum had been
put in his hands as cash bond by man
charged with a crime He was held on
this charge and again remanded to Jail.
The old Minnie Moore mine In the
Wood river district has been purchased
by an English syndicate. II will now be
reopened at great depth and thoroughly
developed The Minnie Moore was a
great silver-lead producer in the early
Sos. 1t has always been the opinion Of
mining men that only exploration was
required to again make this mine great
producer.
At the opening of court ia Boise Satur-
day Judge Stewart passed sentence on
three prisoners. Each pleaded in exten-
uation Of his crime that he was drunk
when he committed the deed, Thomas
Burke and Charles Taylor, who pleaded
guilty to burglary in the second degree,
were given year each in the peniten-
tiary. Joseph o'Donnell, the forger
was sentenced to five wears imprison
ment
The mining suit brought against the
| Tiger Poorman company has been settled
by the purchase OF the holdings OF ths
contesting stockholders by the newly or
ganized company. The protesting stock
holders set up the claim that the majorit,
stockholders sold the mine 10 new com
pany which was new company only il
name. The sale was made at about a.
cents share. The compromise pric'
paid to the protesting stockholders is a
cents a share.
i John Jenkins, a miner aged AZ yea,s,
. native OF Missouri, lost his life at Silvr
City by suffocation. He and Sam Tallo'
took a room together at the Idaho hotel
/ Both were somewhat under the inflnenc
. Of liquor. Deceased was in the habit {
/ smoking cigarette the last thing befor
: going to sleep. On this occasion h
| lighted one, but fell of to sleep aud til
E cigarette set fire to the bed. When IN
: fire was discovered Jenkins was dead an
e Talon unconscious.
The case of Mrs. Nelson Of Boise is
, very sad one. On the 2d of last mont
- her husband died after suffering Ion
time with consumption. The wife ha
: been untiring in her care Of him. Ill
+" devotion was unselfish, and while da
after day shefminstercd to his wants Il
g germs of the disease were transplants
y into her system and shortly the infaliib
signs of consumption were manifesto
. Before her husband died the wife hi
!" failed noticeably. A little over thr
weeks after his demise she followed hi
y into the Great Beyond, a victim OF disea
70 contracted while she was nursing him.
= A very sad accident occurred at
Belle, about II miles south Of Rexbur
- on Monday at about p. ni., at I
residence of &. T.. Chase. when lit
Nile Chase shot his sister Julia, a VI
.s his junior, in the breast II seems
:. children were playing together in
:, room, and were alone at the time, a
!, were ransacking trunk in which
revolver was confined. The little fell
:, got hold OF il and commenced to ham
the same and raising il pointed ii at
little sister saying, am going to sh
you" pulling the trigger and dischar,
it, hitting his sister, who was stand
~ about FIVE feet from him, in the bre'
The bullet entered just above the het
{ glanced downward through the stonI
~ and lodging, it is supposed, near the