Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-28

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was brough to Bellingham today
and placed in jail.
Walla Walla-Walla Walla
wants mail service on the Walla
Walla Valley Traction company's
line from this city to Milton and
Freewater. At present mail is car
ried on two trains each way daily.
but there is not enough.
Waitsburg-The demand for
fruit trees has become SO strong and
supply so short that e. w. Alcorn
of Dayton has established a nur-
sery a few miles from this place and
will endeavor to produce enough
trees to supply the rapidly growing
demand of this section Of the coun-
try for years to come.
Observation-Disclosures is to have
free delivery of mail August 1,
when two carriers will be put to
work in the city. Postmaster Allen
has received notice from Washing
ton that the delivery service will
begin at that time. The work of
the city council in numbering the
houses and naming the streets has
been accepted. Pullman has long
had receipts sufficient to secure the
free delivery but the streets were
not named and the houses not
numbered until recently.
North Yakima-The sensational
disappearance of Fred Hays a team
ster of this city, last fall, in the
Black Rock Hills, is believed to
have been cleared up by the finding
of body in the mountains day or
so ago. Jack O'Leary, a plasterer,
yesterday informed the coroner that
the body had been found.
TekoaIJack Kidd, Milwaukee
railroad laborer, aged SO years, at
tempted to commit suicide in the
Tekoa city jail by cutting his
throat with pocket knife and he
succeeded in inflicting wounds that
will undoubtedly prove fatal.
Co'fax-The Oregon Railroad &
Navigation company had force of
signal men at work for the past 10
days replacing the old block system
that has been in use in the yards
here for the past 10 years with a
new and automatic system. which
will make it almost impossible for an
accident to occur here, either in the
yards or on the hill leading west,
which is one of the most dangerous
pieces of track on the whole o. R.
& N. system. 80,
Walla Walla-The local wheat
market has been brac.ng up gradu-
ally for several days, and number
of sales have been reported at IS
cents for bluestem on the cars.
A number of sales were postponed
yesterday because 80 cents could
| not be secured.
Miles-The prevailing high wind
| in this region and in the Big Bend
| country have been unprecedented,
and have caused considerable dam
age to crops. The winds have drift
ed the soil and covered great deal
of the grain that was sowed in the
past two weeks.
| North Yakima-Judge Whitson
of the district court of the United
States has handed down his opinion
in the case of the United States
against Chris Hansen, in which
for the first time judicial decis.
ion is given respecting the right
Of the reclamation service to take
possession for reclamation purpose
of unsurveyed government lands
upon which homestead or othel
rights have been acquired under thu
law permitting bona fide settlers
to enter unsurveyed lands and hav'
preferential right to make entr!
upon them for 80 days after filinl
of the survey.
Judge Whitson upholds the view
of Attorney H. Snively. counsel 70
the defendant in the above action
and decindes against the contention
of District Attorney A. G. Avery
declaring that the government can
not take for nothing what has val
ne to the settler, and that, mas
much as the land laws permit
the settlement and Improvement
unsurveyed lands, some right mus
accrue to the settler and which can
not be confiscated without com
pensation.