Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-07-23
LOCAL POINTS.

July ol.
Green corn from the Clearwater is
the market.
See "ad" of school election in Grang,
vile district.
Old papers, just the thing to put unde
carpets, for sale here.
The new hacks for the stage line vii
probably arrive to-day.
VIM. Hawley lefs for Lewiston on
brief business trip Tuesday.
The balance of commissioners pro
ceedings will appear next week.
County warrants taken at par OF
subscription to the FREE Press.
All hands are to busy stacking hay t,
come to town, hence these dull times.
Fairview is now a voting precinct
See boundaries in commissioners pro-
ceedings.
| Voters will find out what precinct they
belong to by reading the commissioners
proceedings.
An invoice of elegant drawing-papel
in three sizes for sale in quantities to
suit at the PRESS office.
Mis-. Walsh lett for John Day creek
on Monday, and will reopen the dis
trct school in October.
Aram's new stable looms up grandlv
and greatly improves the business
appearance of the town.
w. Il. Brown of Eastman's mill has
the thanks of the Press gang for do
nation of huckleberries.
Forest fires are raging in the noun
tQlnG tho h ri and thn .t,
phere is thick with smoke.
The Benson pack.train arrived out
from Warrens last Friday and went to
Lewiston for more freight.
The yard in the Jail through which
the horse-thieves escaped has been
rooted with an iron grating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Morrison, of Lew
lston, are visiting friends on the prairie
ana Will return home Tomorrow.
Mr.. Galbraith started over the Nsz
Perce trail last Saturday with ll2 horses,
destined for the Montana markers.
The man Jones, accused of killing his
wife by breaking her neck, has been
sentenced to fifteen years Imprisonment
The Crooks and Reynolds band of 200
horses are en- route for Montana. having
started last Thursday by the Elk city
trail.
DIR Bbby will have his band of horses
now running in the Potlatch country
brought to the Camas prairie ranges
during the summer.
A refreshing shower fell last Monday
night which relieved the at mospbere Of
much of its snltriness and did great
good to the growing crops.
The commissioners organized a new
school district in Cottonwood precinct
the boundaries of which will be found
IN the report of their proceedings.
Now is the time to hunt quartz. 1t is
much better than to wait until snow
covers the ground and then prosp+ ct all
these hills with your feet on the stove.
The Bear Track" has $4,000 worth
of ore in sight, every pound of which
is high grade. The boys have soft
thing and they are pressing it for all
there is in it.
lueber & Co. haye material on the
ground for an enlargement of their store.
An addition will be built in the rear for
the tinshop and office and The store itself
will be extended back fifteen feet.
The editor will start in to canvas
Florence, Warrens, the South fork and
Salmon river next week. All hands are
cordially invited to throw in and hell,
fill the sack.
The G and B train came in from
Pierce city uia the Clearwater terry and
Lawyers canyon last Monday and
loaded 20 00O pounds of Grangevile
flour and started for Warrens yesterday.
The board of county commissioners
will meet IN special session August 10th,
to receive bids for the repair OF the
Jackson bridge and for the construction
of the new bridge across Secesh creek
See ADS.
II. J. Greenburg and family came in
from their summer camp on the noun
tain Wednesday and shook hands with
their old friends. Mr.. G says Grangevile
has grown almost beyond recognition
since he left the prairie in 1882.
Messrs. Cook and Schubert left for
Lewiston this morning to open a wagon
making and blacksmith business at the
old Johnson stand On Fifth street
Tney are fine mechanics and will un
doubtedly succeed.
Geo. Smith went through the Red
river meadows last week with one hun
dred head Of horses, part of the band
which Mr.. Brown will drive east this
year. Another two hundred head are
being gathered and when the herd il
complete the drive will be made.
Owing to failure to realise on
we have pos poned the cree
tion of our contemplated two story
uild,ng, but we have contracted with
Pearson and Noyes Tor the erection OF
printing office building on lot one of
the block west of the Grange hall.
There was good show last week that
much of the grain crop on the prairie
aould fail to fill on account of the burn
ing weather, but since the showers of
Monday night We have enjoyed a
cooler atmOsph, re and the cereals are
immensely benefited in consequence.
some of the newspapers are attacking
iase ball as "our great national game"
but We Of Camas prairie think that for
n cool, nice. shady game-the more
shady" the better-stud-poker 10 away