Local notes reflect busy Idaho city life and travel
A long column of brief notes records visits, moves, and plans around Lewiston and Clearwater country. Among highlighted items are Cola J. A. Waldman on a business trip, Dr. J. H. McCallie returning from Moscow, Senator Henry Heitfeld and family visiting, and J. Alexander shipping wool to Portland. Events include county affairs, public offices, mining ventures, and Idaho’s strong mineral output. The piece ends with Idaho’s 1900 gold silver lead yield of 18 million dollars and population context from the census.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Kincaid
Camas Prairie
Will Landstrum
Bert Chapman
J. H. McCallie
Moscow
Timothy Kay
Upper Clearwater
Greer
Spokane
Henry Heitfeld
Bear Uniontown
J. S. Gregory
Galveston
Tex
Oliver Pring
Victor, Coloado
Iowa
St. Louis
Robert Mobely
I. 10.C. F. Grand Lodge of
Idaho
City
Sylvester Riggs
Waha
Heitfeld
Lewiston
W. E. Anin
Northwest
Anin
Boise
Elmer E. Francis
Elmer Francis
Colorado Springs
United States Assay Office
Pocatello Tribune
Warehouse Elevator Exhibition By Brown Bros Colfax
Brown Bros of Colfax showcase a portable warehouse elevator this week. A gasoline engine powered device stacks grain sacks twenty high at ten per minute, easing piling and loading from warehouse to rail cars. The adjustable unit delivers sacks waist high, replacing ten laborers, and is selling rapidly across the Pacific coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown Bros
Colfax
Pacific Coast
Flax crop projected on reservation at forty thousand acres
It is estimated the flax crop will cover about 40,000 acres with last season yielding about 14 bushels per acre. This year’s prospects are as good, with an expected output near 400,000 bushels. Most is contracted at 90 cents per bushel with deduction for Chicago delivery. The market is strong and outlook favors over a dollar per bushel for growers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago in Three Days by O R and N Train
The O R N reduces Lewiston to Chicago trip to twenty two hours with daily 4 30 a m departures and arrival at 9 30 a m on the third morning. The Chicago Portland special is highlighted as the finest train in the west offering time advantages and comfort. Ask W Mount general agent Lewiston for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewiston
Chicago
Portland
West
The Mint Liquors and Cigars at Clark Building
A brief item notes The Mint offers choice liquors wines brandies and cigars with a room in connection located in the Clark Building on Main Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Building
Main Street
Scully Building Plans Ready for Bids This Saturday
The Scully project covers a three story brick structure with a basement designed for hotel use. It includes seventeen rooms on upper floors and a first floor office and restaurant with a basement kitchen, steam heat and electric lighting. Arch Ernest McCullough to draw plans for Aben Mounce on Main and Third, two story brick with basement and potential third story. Parker will occupy upon completion.
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Scully
Aben Mounce
Ernest McCullough
Main and
Third Streets
Parker
The Northwest's First Child Story Returning
A century ago the Northwest saw its first white birth a girl born to a regular army officer. Now living, her life spanned years among soldiers and savages. An account will appear in an upcoming Ladies' Home Journal feature outlining her early years and the region's growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
Ladies’ Home Journal
Steamboat Trip to Elbow Rapids Highlighted
In the Upper Snake region era Baird cites Colonel Wright as delivering about 60 miners and 60 tons of freight to Elbow Rapids, nine miles above Pittsburg, in 1863. Wright, previously operating Lewiston to lower Snake River routes, undertook the journey at prospectors’ demand and landed the camp gear safely at Elbow Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper Snake
Era Baird
Colonel Wright
Elbow Rapids
Pittsburghe
Lewiston
Snake River
Salmon River
Idaho Codlin Moth Probe Sends Agent Across State
Mr C B Simpson special field agent for the U S Department of Agriculture tours Idaho from Bannock to Market Lake studying the codlin moth pest. He cites a 50 percent apple crop loss last year and notes about six men in western Idaho spraying to destroy the pest. He plans an unofficial inspecton of grasshoppers and imported South African fungi for abatement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Simpson
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bannock Hotel
Mr. Simpson
Boise
Idaho
Agent Simpson
Market Lake
South Africa
Mart Patrie
Pocetello Tribune
Timber Trespass Case Seeks $8000 in Federal Suit
Deputy Marshall Joseph Pinkham this week served papers in a federal timber trespass suit against Clearwater Land, Log & Lumber Co. trustee B F Morris and several defendants. The United States alleges 30,000 ties were cut from U S timber lands during 1899 for the Clearwater Short Line project and used in its construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Joseph Pinkham
United States
Clearwater Land, Log & Lumber Co
B. F. Morris
Northern Pacific Railway Co
McLean Bros
A. H. McPhee
Duross and Kimball
Absahke
Idaho
Lectures by Rev S G Clay in Lewiston
Rev S G Clay of Boise, noted Lewiston speakers, will present three lectures at the Christian church July 1 2 and 3 The Man of Galilee The Light of the World and Ecce Homo Each evening will feature slides from his picture collection Tickets are 25 cents per lecture or 60 cents for all three Lectures promise instruction and interest in a well known lecturer
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S. G. Clay
Boise
Lewiston
Clay
Local church event to benefit from half receipts
Nominal price attendees will be well repaid as half the receipts go to the church. White Bros. sell their retail store to F. H. Gilbert and move to their warehouse to focus on fruit shipping. E. A. White resigns as Northern Pacific express agent. R. B. Hooper named in his place and sets up office in the Adams Building. Gilbert moves into the White Bros. office to run Pacific express from a combined fruit and cigars trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Bros
F. H. Gilbert
E. A. White
Northern Pacific Express
R. B. Hooper
Pacific Express
Also Mentioned on This Page
J . A. Waldman
Mes
Eben Mounce
C. T. Waller
Hotel de France
Henry Wax
Mante
Grangeville
Pinkham
U. S
Jett
Clearwater
J. B. Morris
Sound
T. 8
Billings
Orr McMinnimy
Idaho County
E. P. Smith
C. A. Horn
Dayton
Pomeroy
Ben Silverman
Adame Block
Beach Block
J.T. Orbinon
Mr. Orbison
Nezperce Prairie
J. Alexander
James Madden
Geo. D. Riggs
T B. Cooper
Ateele
Cooper Foundry
A Kaminski
Grostein’s
Kemaski
Ka White
E. 0
Strong
North Fork
Small & Kale
Post Office
Joseph Larrabee
C. G. Kress’ Jewelry Store
Supreme Court
James Glendenning
Stuart
Frank Fenn
Glendenning
Fenn
John P. Vollmer
Vollmer
W. Mount
the Mint
Morrissey & Baker, Proprietors
Eben Mosnee
Ella Wheeler Wil Cox
F. L. McLintic
Lewston
Eeewes
Waterman's Ideal
Thatcher & Kling
Meuli
Lomax
Men’s Furnishers
Lewiston Milling Co., Ltd
J. O. Vassar
F. B. Willis
Sec'y
Odd Fellows’ Building
J. H. Bethel
Lewiston, Idaho
Adrian &. Sweet
Binnard Block
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