The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-01-24
News Notes.

News Notes.
New York city owes more BY 10000.
COO than all the forty.fve states in the
union together.
In, 1890 the mineral production of the
United States amounted t, {61o, ooo, 900,
and in 1899 to $s76 100000
Health authorities estimate that 10 pei
cent Of the men who 90 to Cape Nome
meyer come back alive.
The British claim to control the gold
6sh market of the world. The 6sh are
getting scarce and the price has doubled
st. Joseph, Mo-, is to follow Boston IS
example and provide portable school
houses for the overflow from the regular
schools.
The Russian Ministry Communications
has decided to adopt petroleum for gen
emitting motive power on the locomotives
Of ill the railways.
Vernon county, Wis.,, offers . bounty
Of soc Tor every dead rattlesuake brought
to any town chairman. Frequent injury
to persons and stock induced this action.
a brisk trade in fox skins is springing
up between France and Italy. The latter
couutry last year exported 1000, mostly
from around Rome. Foxes are plentiful
in Italy.
Five thousand honey bees IS they
leave the hive weigh about one pound
but when the insects return from their
visit to the flowers, freighted with honey,
they weigh nearly twice as much.
Horseshoes weighing an ounce each and
just tribe larger than silver dollar,
were turned out in California shop re-
Gently. They were made for a Shetland
pony six months old and small for it's
age.
In the year 1900 the territory of the
United States was 8ls,244 square miles; in
1900 it is 3.76S.saI square miles. This is
an expansion Of nearly 100000 square
miles in 10 years. It 10 the most amaz-
ing record Of territorial growth ever
made BY nation.
A suit for $50 damages. which had been
in court at Portage. Wis, for more than
two years, and the costs for which had
run up into the thousands, was decided
the other day by the award Of Sac. The
participants had nearly bankrupted
themselves.
Iowa, almost from the date Of its ad-
mission, has been called the "Hawkeye
State" Hawkeye was the name of
noted Indian chief, who, in early days,
caused no little trouble along the western
border of American civilization.
An editor at Bowersville, Md, &C.
knowledges that sad mistake was made
when his paper announced under the
obituary heading that Hi Slocum had
moved to Philadelphia, bat adds that his
foreman used to live in that city, and
thinks that is sufficient excuse. Is
Cripple Creek is the greatest gold camp
in this county, and its production is
very great. The core of the gold coun-
try there is strip of country six mile.
long by three miles wide. Out of this
comparatively small area Of ground $780,
<s,o.ooo in gold win be taken this year.
II ordinary apple years the amount Of
waste Of skin and cores amounts to 500
to 600 car loads, and during years Of
abundant yield it runs - high ~ 1900
and 1890 car loads. All this waste now
goes to factories, which make cheap jel-
1ies. There are upward Of I4o Of these
factories in this country and they have an
annual capacity of some 2oo.ooo.noo
pounds.
An original device for evading the pro
hihltofy law was recently uneafthed BY
pl1nbers in house at Rutland. VT. The
liqnor stored in secret nook, was con-
veyed BY hidden pipes to radiator in
one Of the principal rooms in the house.
A small faucet attached to the radiator
NJ the means by which the liquid was
drswn of for use.
His believed by many that the dry cli-
maAe Of Southern Oklahoma and the
southern district Of Indian territory -
going TO make all that section the home
Of de finest grades Of cotton. During
Tho season it has developed that the cot
ton grown the the Choctaw nation was
Of - extra good 6bre. grading above the
aversge in the great demand for export.
The Hungarian government IL about to-