Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-03-21
= Lewiston, Idaho

A. b. Anderson has been nominated for
mayor on the Progressive Citizens
Ticket" at Weiser.
Gen. Chas. King will deliver an ad-
dress to the students of the state uniyer-
sity at Moscow on June IL.
A Business Mems Commercial Club has
been organized in Orofno, with {. $.
Downing as president and +. II. Fuller
as secretary.
A republican club has been organized
III Moscow with large membership.
G. G. Pickett was chosen president and
John Moore secretary.
Prospects for an excellent fruit crop in
the Potlatch are exceedingly hattering;
and, too, prospects for good wheat crop
Ill that section are splendid, and as a re-
suit the farmers are jubilant.
The citizens of Moscow are agitating
the pavement question also. petition
is now being circulated asking the enact
ment of an ordinance by the council of
that city directing it to be done.
ii. A. Hodges, an -saloonkeeper at
Kellogg, started a row in Wardner sa-
loon the other day and gashed four men
with knife. He was arrested and now
languishes i'll jail, having failed to give a
$1,000 bond.
hnfSn hat,
! Council and the Meadows in Washington
county, was carried down the Weiser
river recently while attempting to ford
it. The mail was lost and the driver
narrowly escaped being drowned
Operations on the Iron Crown mine in
the Newsome district will be resumed
April I. This is one of the best proper.
ties i'll this district, and it is said il will
pay monthly dividend of $40, 900 from
and after date of the resumption of oper
atoms.
A new town on the south fork of the
Clearwater river at the mouth of Cotton.
wood creek is being surveyed. Its pro
pretors are J. G.. Rowton and n. b. Pet
tibone, prominent men of Idaho county
1t will be the terminus of the Clearwa
ter Short Line for some time.
The landslides along the line of TIL,
Northern Pacific between Juliaetta anC
Vollmer, and which have been such
source of annoyance and expense 10 TIL
railroad company, will soon be thing o
past history. The company are sluicinl
out the banks in this particular section
Professor French of the State Univer
sity sold the steers he had been feeding
on the experiment station farm. Tn
price realized was five cents a pound
Their increase in value during the feed
ing season was nearly 100 per cent
Prof. French thinks the experiment
shows profit of S24 per head.
One hundred and thirteen distinct va
rietes of potatoes have been shippe
from the University of Idaho experiment
station farm to K. c. Judson, industris
agent of the O. K. & N. Co. at Wall
Walla They will be used 10 make test
regarding yield and quality on the raj
l road company's experiment farm.
The Dewey mine, located on the Sout
Fork of the Clearwater river, has bee
sold to Seattle parties. The particular
of the deal are not obtainable at this tin
\ other than that new machinery will
put into the mine as soon as the railroa
( reaches Stuart. Development work wi
be prosecuted vigorously in the meal
time.
Sam Silverman and Mat Jacobs of Ke
drick, J, J. Marraseck of Spaulding al
o Al Kinkaid of the Dewey Co. have bee
in town this week holding busine
4 meeting of that company's, at which Il
: difficulty between Mr. Marraseck and t
company was settled, and the injuncti