Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-07-11

cash.
Z. III. Neusus, proprietor of tho
Croy gulch shearing plant near Hal.
ley' has just finished shearing 100000
mead of sheep there.
The Boise city council has dec,dad
10 add four miles or about AZ blocks
OF paved streets to the city. 20 cost
over s25O,O0a.
Inc state land board and the Fire
Protective association in the northern
part of the state are going to mite
IN their efforts to save the timber fro,n
forest fires.
Where sugar beets are grown tho
crop is nearly two weeks later than II
was year ago. The beets are inst
beginning to come up so they may be
cultivated.
BOISE is now experiencing a pro-
nounced coal shortage. There is not
enough being received for domestic
purposes, and many are obliged to use
wood and gas.
Appiication has recently been made
Tor free postal delivery in Caldwell.
Inc percentage of increase in the
postoff1ce receipts has been greater in
taioWeH than In any other Idaho
town.
Word has been received from Cald-
well to the effect that work on the San
francisco, Idaho and Montana rail-
road to be constructed from that place
to Winnemucca, will commence july I.
Forest Supervisor ]. 3. Lafferty of
the Weiser national forest reports
that he has issued permits to the
owners of about $4,000 sheep. who
win Craze them on the ranges there
this season.
Clarence Walker, a negro, has been
sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary for horse stealing. Walker stole
two horses in Boise and took them to
Payette, where he sold one before be-
ing captured.
Three summer normals will be held
In Idaho this summer, one at Boise.
one at Pocatello and one at Occur
d'Alene. They win open July Is, with
a very strong corps of instructors in
charge of each school.
Jap CIR fifth escaped from the weiser
Jail last week and has not been recap
tured. 1t is understood the officials
are not anxious to recapture Grifflth,
preferring that he never comes back
to the city.
Bob Medium, the detective from
Colorado who is employed in Boise
by the prosecution In the Haywood
case. and who was arrested for strik-
ing Thomas Fry, witness for the
state. was fined 500 and costs.
George Glover, who conducted an
undertaking business in Boise for sew
erai years, suddenly disappeared, and
friends in that city are at a loss to
!. know what has become of him, fearing
he has been murdered. ~
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Charles Wing, an important witness
for the defense in the trial of w. d
Haywood at Boise, died from neural
gia of the heart at Canon City, Colo.
last week, about an hour before the
arrival of telegram summoning him
to Boise.
DR.. Mcpherson of St. Anthony i
dead, presumably by his own hand
His death was caused by bullet from
a target rifle. and rifle was foun,
in his buggy, the jury deciding tina
he had fired the shot with suicidal in
tent.
1t is reported that Andrew Gilbert
who escaped from the penitentiar,
recently, and for whom penitentiar
guards have since been securing tn
country, is in hiding in the vicinit
of Grangeville, the place from whic
he was sent to prison.
About $4,000 acres of land in til
Occur d'Alene land district now with
drawn for forestry purposes. will be
come subject to settlement on Sep
80. and entry on Oct. 80, 1907. TIL
land is in Shoshone county, near tn
towns of Clarkia and Wallace.
Thomas c. Webster, aged 60 year
of Horseshoe Bend, Ida. who began
sleep on a train between Kansas Cit
and Denver on April 1, and who d.
not open his eyes thereafter for
DAYS, died at the general hospital