Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-18

North Every election
held over the coutry creates an new
| dry district and sticks another
knife in the hop business" said c.
G.. Mitchell of this city. Last week
there were 1900 saloons wiped out
in Illinois. There are great dry
patches all over the south, and the
hop prospects are not improving"
AT no place in the state have the
election results been followed with
greater interest than in the the
Yakima valley.
Steptoe. two cars
loaded out Friday 1900 sacks of oats
have been shipped from the Step
toe warehouse during the last week
by E. J. Doneen, of Oaksdale, who
is shipping the grain to Seattle.
There are several thousand sacks
of wheat and oats stored here.
Wenatchee-At the council meet
ing Friday night the ordinance pro-
viding for special election to vote
on the proposed issue of $4,000
water bonds was passed unanimous
ly. The bonds will be of 500 each
at 6 percent to run twenty years
from July l. 1t is proposed to con-
struct plant to pump water from
the Columbia river and a pipe line
from the plant to the. new reser-
voir, and to install small triplex
pump now used by the city, to
pump to the high pressure reservoir.
Another triplex pump will be in
|stalled with a capacity of 1,00O,-
900 gallons in "a hours, and will
be driven by electric motor.
| North Yakima-Many men are
being sent to the Tieton canal by
the reclamation service and there
are now 200 laborers engaged there.
It is probabl that this summer the
number will reach 400. The en-
gineers are sending in more men
gradually. There are so men at
Camp and an equal number at
Camp 9, where the concrete shapes
cast last summer are being put in
to position. Camp l has more men
than any other. Here the crew is
getting the yards in shape for cast
ing the concrete shapes. The mix
4 ers and molds are on the ground
d and material is being accumulated
Whitefish.-A report is current
here that government agents have
seized 5000 railroad ties gotten out
by the settlers of the western part
of the county. The ties were cut
from land along the line Of the
Great Northern, between Jennings
and Rexford, and 1t is claimed have
been taken from homestead land
before final proof has been made.
Occur d'Alene.-Major L. A.
Smith, a government land expert,
employed by the county assessor to
examine the entries in the govern
ment land office, has completed his
two days work and left for the east
Mr.. Smith reported discovering 166
quarter sections of land in Shoshone
county, aggregating 26,560 acres,
for which government patents had
been issued but which were not
included in the tax lists.
Grangeville.- Grangeville will
soon have a - o'clock closing law
for saloons and pool rooms, such an
ordinance being before the council
The ordinance provides closing from
midnight till a. M. except on
SUNDAYS. when they remain closed
80 hours.
Troy.-The county commission
ers have refused to renew the licen'
Sc of the Club saloon, owned by'J
p Shalin and others, on the grouno
that Shalin was running dlsor
derlv house, is not a fit man to rur
saloon and has violated the Ia"
in regard to selling liquor to minors
Pendleton electric line from
Pendleton to Irrigon touching a
Echo, Fosters, Hermiston and Una
tilla and tapping all that vast sec
ton of country now being reclaim
ed by the government and othel
private irrigation concerns, Is ont
of the plans of DR.. H. w. Coe 0
Portland, who is promoting land
under the Furnish project. A pre-
liminary survey has already peer
made. The proposed road will be
little more than SO miles long AM
will soon tap what is destined u
! he one of the most densely popuht
ed sections of Umatila county.
will also eventually be connecte'
with the Milton-Walla Walla cleo
trio line.
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