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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1902
Page
7
A garbled collage relays snippets about politicians, explorers, and society. It mentions Dewey defending blunt truth amid court and political pressures, notes about British diplomats and Spain, and scattered remarks on storms, jobs, and progress alongside odd, misjoined phrases from various topics.
The piece argues against luck and for effort, retelling the Norwegian immigrant Oscar Olson's ascent from farm hand to captain of the John Smeaton in the Steel Trust. It praises perseverance, education, and determination, contrasting with views on privilege and dissipation.
Remarkable kettle bridges are built by Cossack soldiers using lances and cooking kettles. Rafts formed from seven or eight lances tied under kettle handles bear half a ton each. A sufficent number of rafts linked together create a bridge in about an hour, enabling an army to cross safely.
Crane praises Tinter as exceptionally diligent in his profession noting three large watercolors completed for an upcoming exhibit. The critic agrees yet muses that Tinter's art may have grounds for divorce, implying a tension between devotion to craft and other concerns.
A weekly survey of events across eastern Washington and neighboring areas notes the opening of The Ridgeway opera house in Palouse by Miss Katharine Ridgeway and Kate Hogan of Colfax. It records deaths, accidents, fairs, wheat prospects, railway incidents, and local legal notices across Spokane, Great Falls, Wallula, Lewiston, and Havre with multiple named places and figures.
Fire destroys the O R N pattern shop in lower Albina and Kaufman’s Patterson Eppinger storage warehouse in Baker City. A Portweek lodging house murder occurs as George Smith shoots his white wife. Pendleton reports a 300 foot Kerr Gif ford warehouse fire at Oregon Railroad and Navigation yards with heavy losses.
Montana items report convict Thomas O'Brien, a trusted inmate, escaped last week on a warden's saddle horse. A posse with bloodhounds pursues him. O'Brien was sentenced for robbery. Also noted is a Bore man wheat sale at 49% cents per bushel free on board Bozeman, destined for Duluth this month. Nagivanpe, a full blooded Sioux Indian from Fort Shaw, chosen leader of Carlisle municipal band, first red man to lead a musical group.
Idaho Gleanings notes a heavy hailstorm at Nez Perce with four inches on the ground. Reports on roads, mining, building in Mace, a new temple plan at Payette Masons, drop in prune yields, a hay stack fire near Weiser, and a burned car with cattle and horses on the Oregon Short Line near Pocatello. Recent cold slows cantaloupe supply. Parma rain and hail. a young man injured near Weiser. hospital plans at Weiser. theft at Centerville. heavy apple crop and worm issues. harvests and haying underway. Republican ticket announced. Lewiston fair outreach. and a pointed old line about father and child.
William Curtiss reports in Athens on the ornate cross between dancer and Highland chief in Greek attire. He notes fading use, aristocratic livery, and a shift away from traditional dress as urban workers fear mistaken status, while recalling Civil War scenes with Gen Slaughter, Brown, and Col. Barnet and the last fatal shot of the conflict.
The account centers on Captain Barton of Del Rio Texas claiming the last shot of the long conflict. He fired after a Confederate line retreated from Brazos Santiago in Texas on May 18 1865, after the war was declared over. Gen Egbert Brown of the Federal troops in southern Texas is noted as well informed.
In Washington the Chinese Legation at Q and 18th streets is regarded as among the finest. The white Indiana stone building features an oak hallway leading to an onyx reception room, a Chinese apartment, and a grand ballroom with carved stone decor and a musicians balcony, where tea is served in the Chinese room.
Professor W J McGee of the bureau of ethnology has coined Amerind for the American Indian and the term has been officially adopted by the bureau. The text includes garbled lines about gambling and establishment fees.
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