The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1905-02-10

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A rural free delivery route is to be
established by the postoffice depart
ment at Idaho Falls.
Fifty business men at Waterbury,
Connecticut, have formed an "Oathless
club to conduct a crusade against
swearing.
A decision in the Smoot case is ex-
pected in the senate committee and the
forecast is that the Utah senator will
win and retain his seat in the United
States senate.
Poultney Bigelow, the famous corre-
spondent just returned from the Philip
pines says the Filipinos are a thou
sand years behind the times and it is a
mistake to treat them like white men.
The interior department has with
ever six townships embracing 13S,24O
acres of public lands in the Glenwood
Springs Col, land district, on account
of irrigation projects.
When the river and harbor bill
| reaches the senate Senator Fulton of
Oregon will seek to have the 100000
vyb ioI, he hi OF <oC c1,o1 f<or
appropriated for the mouth of the Co
lumbia be made Immediately available.
The Imprisonment at St. Petersburg
Of Maxim Gorky as a result of the part
he took in the reform movement in
Russia has created a profound sensa-
ton in the other countries of Europe
| for his release.
The canal zone is healthy despite Of
reports to the contrary. Governor
Davis report Secretary Taft says
there is no plague. no typhoid fever,
very little dysentery. and that of 1000
canal employees, only three per cent are
in the hospital.
! There will be a warm time for Johan
Hoch when he reaches Chicago. 1t is
said that Superintendent Of Detectives
Shippy will have fourteen women at
the depot at Chicago when Hoch ar
rives there who will attempt to identify
the man as their husband.
At the indoor track meeting at
Bloomington Indiana. last Saturday
between the University of Indiana and
Wabash college Sans of Indiana
cleared the pole at II feet 5A inches,
breakoing the worlds record by Az
inches
The Chinese game of ean-tan has be-
come a fad and a craze among. the So
ciety women of Butte. Officers acting
on the advice of the ministerial asso-
citation recently raided the dens of the
Chinese gamblers planning to catch
, half dozen well-known society wom-
: en-, who, the constables aver, frequently
patronize the dens playing their money
r on the game.
The Union county Wooden Mills al
Union Oregon has purchased the entire
wool clip of Charles Cunningham OF
the Umatilla wool king, amounting tc
100000 pounds. This is considered the
finest wool clip in the state and wi1r>be
used in the finest grade of white blank
cts. The price paid for this wool was
: II cents per pound.
The committees on irrigation in tn,
2 senate and the house will make a triI
through the various arid land states
of the west during the coming summe
; to familiarize themselves with the ac
tual conditions and to see what tn
3 government is doing in the differen
projects. The expenses of the trip vii
: be bourne by the members of the com
mittee.
F.. Augustus Heinze the Butter cop
per king suffered the worst defeat i
his memorable fight with the Amalag
Z mated Cooper company when las
= Saturday an adverse decision fror
, Judge Bourquin is equivalent to de
= fault Judgment against him for $3.50
T 900 for the value Of ore alleged to hav
9 been looted from the mines of the Bos
4 ton & Montana company while work
> ing the Minnie Healy claim.
Chief Engineer Wallace. after clos
? inspection of the route Of the propose
u Panama canal showing the actual cor
+ struction accomplished since July
3 last says in his report to the state de
= partment: If the next six months sho
n nropreSs corresponding to that of tt