Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-30
LOCAL POINTS.


day last.
Mr. Browns horses will leave fo
Miles city early next week.
rhe crop in the lower Clearwate
valley is reported mighty slim.
Maxwell, the St. Louis murderer ha
been sentenced 70 hang.
County warrants taken at par oI
snb-crirtion TO the FREE PRESS.
The ". J. Rainey place will be sole
at sher Il S ssle next Friday.
Corse,s are dissipaled things. They
are always tight when on bust
report is circulating that Mr.. Fenr
has struck 1t rich in the Bullion mine.
1t may seem hard to some. and vel
it's 'n-ezy thing 10 have the hay fever
There il u zig lire in the timber up on
the south fork about twenty miles from
town.
There are forty or fifty people from
Lewiston rusticaiing on Craigs noun
tain.
The duke of Argyle will he The head
of the next British antihome rule
cabinet.
Wallace Scott and c. A. Dueber
returned from u trip to Elk city last
Sunday.
The price of live stock Of all descrip-
tions is declining in the eastern
markets.
Joe Baker was out from American
creek last Sunday shaking hands with
the boys.
Matt Trescott is an applicant for the
postmastershlp al Mt. Idaho vacated by
Fred Cook.
There was a baptism at the mill-pond
last Sunday which attracted a large con-
course of visitors.
Merchants on the prairie report a
gradual and steady increase in their
business every year.
Andy Mcguire has furnished us with
a fine pair of elk horns for the decora-
ton of the new PRESS office.
Mr.. Parker is now sole editor and
of the FREE Press, having
purchased his late partners interest.
DIR. Kirkwood bagged forty.two
prairie chickens in u forenoon hunt last
Sunday and donated a brace to the
editor.
Another butcher shop will be started
on the premises now occupied by the
PRESS. just ~ quick as we move into our
new building.
Ben. Wing has put in a wing dam
just above the Jackson bridge and is
reported TO be making good thing out
Of the enterprise.
The Benson train arrived up from
Lew iston Tuesday loaded with ~ WiU
pounds of -four and left over the moup-
tain trail for Warrens Wednesday.
The safe for the county treasurer
arrived last Friday. 1t is Ii fine piece
pf furniture made of chilled steel weighs
3 300 and is fire and burglar proof
The Chinese in this county are club
4 reward for the arrest Of Wiley
tor The killing OF All Fat.
Amos Carver brought up fine To-; of
fruit from the river on his last trip, and
presented us with some magni6 6cent
plums for the use of "cur family"
Grangeville now sports night
/" "atchman, a public subscription having
been raised for the purpose and II. +.
Church being appointed to the posi- ion.
1.-THE friends of Wiley Knighten know
pf his whereabouts they should induce
him to return and stand his trial. H-
i'as everything to gain by adopting this
course.
The editor Of the FREE Press, will
tart into the mountains this week on Il
business "trip. The boys in there must
look out for him, and have plenty of
gold dust on hand.
The G and B pack train was detained
OH the mountain for several days
cutting out the down timber on the
trail between the head of White Bird
and slate creek.
Small crop, low prices and high
Ireights have put the farmers of the
lower country IN poor shape. Here on
camas prairie bunch grass is king and
all hands have little money.
The conference Of the M. E. church
'losed Monday night at lewiston. Rev.
y. q. Strong is P. Z. of the Lewiston
new district and president of the Lewis
Collegiate Institute.
A series of heavy storms in the noun
aims have occurred in quick succession
on the Meinor trail in the last two weeks
and supervisor Kelly has been kept busy
seeping the trail wide open.
The fourteen months drought in
" estern Texas remains unbroken, and
,attle are starving. Settlers are selling
heir farms for mere .trifies and leaving
for the north and west in dire poverty
The Warrens mail was delayed day
On the return trip last week by the
swamping OF the ferry boat at Shearer's.
The carrier was also taken sick, and the
mail did not arrive at Mt. Idaho until
Sunday night.
The Walla Walla Statesman is going
for the Voorhees, clique with stick as
sharp as the business end Of a thorough.
bred wasp. Go for them, Frank. The
American people want no hereditary
I,Glitirs in theirs.
Wheat hauled from the prairie to
Lewiston last fall Is now being hauled
back in the shape of -four for the mining
r.amns IL OccuFs tn ia that sOmabpdv