News of Idaho Towns (0AHO CEDAR IN DEMAND. B , E Demand for Poles for Eastern Trolley Linos. Idaho cedar poles will carry trollej f f r oni Cincinnati to Indianapolis, (- ciiaiiey. a resident of the former .jty'uho has large interests in Idaho. MviiiB received a wire this morning that hHti secured the contract for furnishing 6000 cedar poles for the new |jne This is the largest contract for Idaho ]toles that has ever been received in this section. In addition to this con act Mr Chancy has also secured on. frtn, the Rocky Mountain Roll Tele phone company, which Is about to ex tend its line front Salt Lake to make a connection Vlth the line from Rla.k foot Idaho. This contract will call for (MO poles, about 2000 of which have already been supplied. Mr Chaney is the largest dealer in , e;! in the state of Washington or Idaho. At Laclede. Idaho. Mr. Chaney has stored the largest pile of poles in the world, while at Newport he has an cthPr i„t comprising about 3700 poles. While the head offices of Mr. Chaney are in Cincinnati, he spends a great Ileal of his time in this section, and is thinking of establishing a resident manager her e in a short wh ile. TELLURIUM IN IDAHO. A**»y °f 0re Found Near Weiser Re turns $7,000 a Ton. A phenomenally rich strike is re ported in the White Rose claim. a property belonging to the Iron Springs Mining company, operating near Wei ser. While cleaning out a shaft that had caved in a vein of peculiar looking P-o uns encountered tlie bottom of the shaft. A sample was taken to the company's assayer, who pronounced it tellurium. A test was made of it and it returned the extraordinary stun of 17,000 per ton in gold. A hoist is be ing placed on the shaft and the com pany will thoroughly develop it. The property is located In Washington county. The chunks taken out were six or eight inches in width. JOINT INSTITUTE WITH LATAH Noted Educators from the East to Ad dress the Teachers. Moscow. July 19.—The Journal says;: Miss McCoy, of Lewiston, county sup erintendent of the Nez Perce county schools was in Moscow yesterday for a few hours. She was on her way to Portland for a short visit and stopped to make arrangements for the joint institute to lie held here this fall by Latah and Nez Perce counties. Arrangements are being made with several noted educators in the east and it is expected several of them will he able to come at the time of the insti tute. It is the intention to make this the best institute ever held in the northern end of the state, both as to attend ance and speakers. ♦ M I M ( ******* ******4 H+h The Horseshoe Lunch Counter For First Class Meals Open Day and Night Second and Main Street. W-B* Phone 251 1 ****** ****** * *********** ***4 •♦♦♦♦♦ M I M 1 1 You Dont Have to Worry About getting rooms at Portland, while at tending the Exposition, if you engage them in advance at The DeKont Homestead which is in charge of Lewiston people. * Newly furnished modern house. First class grill in connection—open day and night. A beautiful home-like place, surrounded by an abuhd&nce of Bowers and shade trees. From- Union Depot take car marked "M", get off at corner of 13th and Morrison streets. Remember the name The Begun Homestead ni-lM SL • • Poribad, Orofoa Story of His Visit to the Lynch Cabin! Now Denied. Says the Standard. NO TRACES OF FRANCIS STEELE Harry Markham came out from Roosevelt Saturday. He left here the 1 •"**h of April and returned the ir,th of •luly. making a trip of three months exactly. He spent the time packing in the mountains, and reports that the outlook for a big boom in the Thunder mountain mining district this fall Is exceedingly good. Mr. Markham says that the usual after-the-Fourth-of July-dull-season has not affected Roosevelt this year and that business is good and plenty. Harry says that he spent four days hunting for Francis Steele, the unfor tunate man who Is supposed to have been lost in the mountains several weeks ago. He snys they found no trace of hts hody and no marks of Steele having been in that section, save a lot of provisions near the trail. One thing that excited the suspicions of the searching party was the finding of a black silk handkerchief to which was attached a flsh hook and line, which was lying on a pile of drift wood in Rig creek. Mr. Markham says that the fish hook was fastened ns near the center of the cloth as possible and that the whole was found at a place on the creek where human beings seldom fre quent. The report to the effect that Steele had stopped at Lynch's cabin on Ramey creek and had partaken of a meal of victuals, has been denied by Mr. Markham, who reports that it has since developeh that a couple of miners, friends of Mr. Lynch, ate there instead, during the owners' absence, and .that they left the gloves there which were supposed to have been left bv Steele. \\ Griscom Will Succeed Loomis. hington. July 20—There is a r port current in Washington to the ef fect that Lloyd C. Oriscom. now min ister to Japan, will succeed Assistant Secretary of State Loomis and that Mr. Loomis is to he appointed an ambas sador. It is not known to what point Mr. Loomis will tie sent but it is not Impossible that it may lie to Japan, as it is regarded as probable that Japan will raise Minister Takahira to the dig nity of an ambassador after the com pletion of the peace negotiations and that would necessitate our sending an ambassador to Tokio. It i« known that the president is anxious to create Mr. Loomis an ambassador, and it is re garded as not unlikely that he will avail himself of this opportunity to do Troy Creamery Begins Operations. Troy. 1 daho, July IS.—The new creamery started yesterday. Every thing worked all right and despite the fact that no rqutes have yet been established there was enough cream brought in by the farmers near town ' to make 40 pounds of butter. The j number and location of the routes have| not yet been decided, hut there will | he enough to supply the demand. "ME CLARK" STORY DENIED. Special Correspondent to the Chroni nicle Pronounces it a Fake. Standpoint, Idaho. July ]9.-,Editor Chronicle: Of all the attempts that have been made to Juggle the early day history of the northwest and befoul an honored memory, none reaches the depth that does the story sent from Missoula during the past week, to the effect that an Indian woman, "Mary Clark." a direct descendant from the famous explorer, was at that place in consultation with Congressman Dixon with proofs tending to prove that she is the granddaughter of William Clark, her father being a son born to the wife of the explorer, an Indian woman, whom he married in the Loo Loo valley when the expedition was en route to the Pacific. That this woman accom panied Clark to the coast, and upon his return was left with her tribe on the Bitter Root, where the father of this "Mary Clark," Tzl Kal Tzae, was born—a story that has not a scintilla of evidence to rest upon. It is true that someone presented to the Montana Historical society a pho tograph of an Indian who was without doubt a mixed breed. That this pho tograph bore a legend to the effect that he, the Indian, claimed to he the son of Explorer Clark, and I have been in formed by those who knew him that he was in the habit of striking his breast and theatrically exclaiming, "Me Clark." Upon this photograph and legend solely rests this story, while the diaries of Clark and Gass absolutely refute the possibility of such an alliance hav ing been made. Every student of Clark's record nec essarily becomes Impressed with the truthful fidelity of the narrative in general and detail. How specifically he recorded the doings of Sacajawea even to the minute description of the Christmas gifts she gave him. the white weasel skins and other mlnutne of her daily doings, and now to sug gest that he had married a squaw on the Loo Loo. who accompanied him to the coast and back to her people, w here he left her. and that she gave birth to a son. the record of whose heirship has been preserved, not only easts a slur upon his name and memory, hut Is a big draft upon the people's bank of credulity. My recollection is that the Indian whose photograph I have mentioned was not killed in the fight with Miles, but that he died during the time the Nez Perces were on a reservation In the south. ' j | BIG CROPS IN MOSCOW COUNTRY in in an ns in to of | I I i It Not Burned.—A 40 Bushel I Average Expected. M< ow, Idaho. July 19.—The pros- j ire now excelcnt for an enor- | crop yield in all manner of | in the entire Ralouse country. poets mous grains The straw stands high and the grains | In the heads are lilting nut to a good | and heavy size. It was feared for j awhile that the excessively warm ! weather would continue, and in that ! event much of the grain would le* J burned, but little fear is now enter- j tained In that direction, and the | weather for the past week has been ; ideal for ripening grain. Having lias been In progress for ! some time and is being pushed forward , with all rapidity and preparations are being made looking towards the liar- , vest season. A few will start harvest ill gthis week, among them the Randal brothers, who live about four miles fro mthe town in a southerly direction. They have 400 acres of grain. 200 of which they state is now ready for the sickle. It is stated that wheat will give an all round average this year of 40 bushels to the acre and that grains will hold their own yield of former good do not exceed it. It is conservatively estimated that the entire surrounding country will produce a third larger crop this fall than last year, and some estimate that it will double that of the previous year. Harvest laborers ill other with the years, if they are scarce and wages are at a good scale Those who were successful enough to secure men through the haying season are now holding them so as to have them in readiness when the harvest begins. No Motor Trains for Idaho. The motor train promised for the Boise hranch of the Oregon Short Line will not be put on. says the Capital News. When the new car waa here a few weeks ago, the officials intimated that the Bolse-Meridlan road would be one of the places where experiments would be made. It was said at the time that the Short Line people were having several of the motors built, and that as soon as the exhibit at the Portland fair was concluded, the cars would be put on at various places along the line. The officials have since con cluded that the heavy traffic on the Bolse-Nampa line can he handled best iy steam power, so that it is probable that the exhibition trip of the attrac tive motor ear will be the last seen of it in Boise for some time. j I IDAHO EDITORS SEE THE SIGHTS Royally Entertained by Their Friends at the Big Portland Exposition. (Special Correspondence. ) Lewis and Clark Fairgrounds. Port land, Oregon. July 18.—Today the par ty of Idaho editors, which h"' been seeing Oregon and the fair sine* last Thursday, broke tip. the scribes going three ways—some on to California, some to the Sound cities and some hack to the "ease." Their six days In the Wehfoot state have been lively ones. The first afternoon a reception was heltl in the Idaho state building in their honor: the second, the Ameri can Typefounders Company, the r-| a ke McFall Company and the Pacific Paper Company took them on a trolley ride around the city; the third, they went over the exhibits in detail, hitting the Ttnil at night; the fourth, they re mained at the exposition or t">ok in the side trips around Portland; Mon day, they went to the Willamette val ley and were entertained by the Fnl»m Press Club and by the Commercial Club of that city, and today they said goodby until the Idaho Press Associa tion gets together again in 1903. About 46 editors and business office men came in on the editors' special, a majority accompanied by wives or rela tives, making quite n formidable parly in all. Several press associations have been here since the exposition opened, notably 300 members of the National Editorial Association and the Califor nia newspaper organization, hut none has made a better showing than the Idaho contingent. The meeting of the Idaho Press Association, convening as an official body, resulted In the unani mous passage of a resolution to ac complish all possible in the papers of the various members to promoto the fair. In an interview A. E. Gibson, of the Caldwell Gem State* Rural, said' "I believe It is a snf? statement that ns many Idahoans is Oregonians. In proportion to the population of the two states, will visit th? exposition; !n fact, about everyone in Idaho that is financially able will be here. Most of the visitors from our state will come in snyill parties, however, choooug their own time instead of taking ad vantage of the few spec'll excursions to he run. Rv the end of July they will be here in thousands." Little more can he done to improve the Idaho building for lit - reception of the throngs expected during August and September from that slate All the displays have been complete since the first week of the 'air, -xo*pr the horticultural exhibit. The appeal ivy Superintendent M. J. Wesseis to Idaho fruitgrowers has resulted in a number of fine shipments being received, and consignments of lilgh-elnsr fruit are expected until the exposition closes. The Gem State building liar made the liest social success of any of thr state buildings, except the New Vo"'c etrtie ture. where all the nffii iil functions are held, and Ihe Idaho spirit nod the Idaho hospitality are doing iviily t<- much to advertise the state a« the ex hlbits. MAKE GOOD OR GO TO THE PEN Ada County Sheriff Given that Ultima tum by the Commiesionere. p.q the Boise. Idaho. July 18. onimissioners today gavt J j | ; ! , , The comity Sheriff Hav alternative of resigning and paying over the shortage in his office or being proceeded against to oust him from office and punish him under the criminal law. The ultima) uni was delivered by Chairman Huntington of the hoard, and the sheriff was given until 2 o'clock tomorrow to act. The latter took the matter very coolly and asked on «lim ground is was proposed to prosecute him criminally. He was told that had not been decided. He employed an attorney and tin two have the matter under'considera tion. Additional charges are made that the sheriff exacted payment from deputies for their appointment. The Chief deputy is said to have paid him $300. The latter was dismissed some time ago after making a raid pn a gambling room. Will Fight the Script Filing. a Homer David returned from Coeur d'Alene city yesterday, says the Jour nal, where he had been to file on his timber claim. The filing was rejected on account of scrip filed by the North ern Pacific company. There were a large number of Moscow people whose filings were rejected on this account They will fight the filing. State of Ohio. Citr of Toledo, L- cas j j County, ss. I Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ne Is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney A- Co., doing business In the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay ths sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and -very case of Catarrh that -an not be cured by the use of Hail's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this «th d»y rf Decem ber, A. d. îwt. (Steal) a. AV. GLEASON, Notary PuMic. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Intern ally. and acts directly on the WooJ and mucous Surfaces of the system. Send for testimonial* frdei F. J. CHENEY é'Oo.. Toledo. O. Sold by all Druâgtoto, 7*c, Tatn HaB's Fng.ily Wii» for constl petfMS. 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