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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
1
Kendrick, a small town, faces trouble with the Potletch river as a franchise is granted for a new electric grit plant. The plant is to be in operation by the latter part of June.
On May 26 and 27 President McKinley will visit Spokane Washington with a northern Pacific railway sale event scheduled on those dates.
The article notes $150000 invested in new enterprises in the Gateway City as carpenters and masons celebrate a grand transformation of the old town. It highlights rapid movement in the city’s development and the promise of renewed prosperity through construction and industry growth.
Lewiston moves forward as the hill region gains homes and the base strengthens. Major new brick blocks arise on Main Street with costs ranging from 4 000 to 18 000 dollars while shacks vanish and macadam streets improve. Local figures G. Isaman Matt Scully Hank Trimble and J D Thiessen plan substantial blocks funded by investments and profits from cattle and wheat. City services upgrade with a cement walk for Lewiston National Bank and 19 000 dollars for new water mains.
The Dill brothers completed a modern slaughter facility on the Snake river with a private water system and a half mile of pipes. It features large pens scales boilers and other equipment for preparing animals for the town sales room. The project cost 2500 dollars and Joe Debuc is named chief killer acclaimed as the best in the northwest.
Contemporary report notes 60 day clock elapsed since adjournment and many measures went into force immediately. It highlights opposition to the legislative apportionment bill aimed at influencing Senate representation and lists Senate and House bills including libraries, schooling, taxation, trust regulation, and education funding. City Marshal Roos begins work as inspector amid municipal ordinance scrutiny.
President McKinley cannot complete his planned tour of the Northwest as his condition or circumstances force the cancellation. In related personal news, his wife is reported seriously ill, heightening concern over the president's schedule and public duties.
President travels will be halted and return to Washington arranged as Mrs McKinley’s illness worsens. Doctors Gibbons Hirschfelder and Rixey join from San Francisco while the Scott residence notes no immediate danger but fears of decline persist. The plan calls for a five day direct journey east likely via Union Pacific with no stops.
A prominent figure travels from Colorado Springs due to the serious illness of his daughter while his young son is severely ill in San Francisco. The family health crisis prompts absence from expected public duties and engagements. The article notes the conditions as grave but non specific.
A proposal from Mr. Rantz to appoint a sanitary policeman without pay to clean out all vaults at a rate of five cents per cubic foot is praised as timely. The memo highlights fears from river seepage overflowing vaults causing filth to reach wells and cellars, especially on east C street, where six weeks of nuisance recur annually. It argues for broader city cleansing beyond vaults, notes lack of sidewalks sewers and lights, and acknowledges potential high costs but stresses health protection as essential.
The McCormick Harvesting Machine Co began direct foreign shipments from Chicago docks. On April 22 a Northwest ern loaded with harvesting machinery for Liverpool, marking the first Chicago direct export by steamer through the Great Lakes canal system. The Northmen was slated to depart for Hamburg, also with McCormick goods, handled by Mark Means Transfer Co.
A large concourse of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs laid to rest John Addison who died Saturday night in Moscow after several months illness. Born in Maine and Indiana, he lived in Lewiston for about five years and was married to Miss Wright of Dayton, Washington, in February.
Boise hosts the Idaho Inter-Mountain Fair issuing an itemized premium list for the upcoming event on September 16. Highlights include five races with purses, a $1,000 Mountain event for two year olds, a one mile race, and a weights class for four year olds and up.
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