Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-06-22

snow that the city mas Deen In the
custom of receiving Sc month
fine, understood to cover 80 days.
His honor, the Judge, the city at
torney and the city police know
these are facts. Nothing has been
done to close up the house owned
by ]. T. Carol and nothing will be,
because Mayor H. v. Scallon and
Mr.. Carol are bosom friends and
because Carol is a client Of the
city attorney"
Walla Walla, Wash.-While not
one large business building is being
erected in Walla Walla this spring.
building operations are active and
at least 200 residences are being
built or have been finished since last
fall. Several of the homes have
been Of the pretentious order. but
the average cost is from $500 to
$4,000. The tendency has been to
get out some distance, In anticipa-
ton Of the construction of new
street railway lines. A new loop is
being constructed by the traction
company, and It will furnish trans
portation for a number of outlying
additions which have not been able
to build up because walking was inn
possible.
Cottonwood, Ida.-John Haney,
formerly a sawmill operator, has
secured a contract for 100000 feet
OF lumber which will be used in the
construction of grain warehouses.
Kerr, Clifford & Co. have completed
arrangements to build warehouse
and have plans ready for the work,
which will begin early next month.
The house will be 60 feet by 800
feet. The Vollmer Clearwater COM
pany expects to build at once, as
does the Interior Warehouse com.
pany. Other applications for ware
house sites are before the Northern
Pacific officials, and It is probable
that they will be built this summer.
Wallace, Ida.-Run out of ono
town after another and five times
sentenced to short terms in differ
emit city jails for petty offenses and
vagrancies, is, so far as known. the
record of Charles Lister. whose
father, Herman Lister OF Milwau-
kee. Wis, has arrived in the city
searching for the prodigal. Ac-
ccrding to the story told to Probate
Judge l.. E. Worstell and Judge
Jasper II. Boomer of the police
court, it appears that the young
man left home after a quarrel with
his parents with the avowed and
laudable intention of earning his
cwn living. This took place about
three months ago, and up to the
present time the only returns from
the sons labor have been applied
wholly toward the payment Of fines
IN the cities OF Spokane, Portland
Ta coma and Seattle.
Walla Walla.-With the harvest
scarcely a month in the future, the
formers are scanning their fields
closely for indications Of the posi-
BILE yield. Physicians and imple-
ment dealers who drive over tha
country much of the time, report
that farmers are becoming discour :
aged in the light land sections, lest
the crop prove about half what 1t
was last year. In the vicinity OF
Lowden and Touchet the rains have
not fallen for two weeks. and as a
consequence the crop Is sure to be
light. Spring grain in some places
IA not over six inches high, and the
growth is slow. Fall grain Is head
ing out at the height of about a
foot. and the heads are short and
poorly filed. In the heads but two
grains are found to a mesh. while
ordinarily there should be three or
four grains.
Baker City, Ore.-That a good
sized fund Is being developed In
Grant county over the recent elec-
ton is shown by statements OF peo-
pie who visit the county from here
In Canyon City precinct that went
dry because the whole county was
voting on prohibition, the saloon
men and their friends are organizing
a boycott on the merchants who
took an active part In the temper
ance movement.
Cottonwood, Ida.-Not less than
20 carloads OF hogs will be shipped
from Camas prairie this week
Rhoades & McCarty will make
shipment of eight carloads within
the next two or three days, while
Moberg Bros, George Stuber ana
Bales & Jones are shipping not less
than four cars each. The farmers
ar. receiving from to 6h cents