Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-01
LOCAL POINTS.
Pay your taxes.
Hog killing time.

Republican county convention to
morrow.
L. p. Brown is building new sheep
sheds at Cottonwood.
There are 800 head of hogs fatteninl
at the flour mill.
TIL surest way to avoid being dunnet
is to pay as you 60.
Don't forget in the fall rush to sub
scribe for the Press.
w. +. Schmadeka has opened meat
market in Mt. Idaho.
If local news don't happen we CAM
give it, so quit kicking.
Mr.. Wilmot is still very low and is
not expected to recover.
TlIe boys on Salmon river are nearly
all out on the roundup.
Young man, keep busy. Idleness is
the source of all bad habits.
County warrants received at full face
value on subscription to the PRESS.
1t costs $25 per head to carry cattle
from Canada to the English markets.
Magills cattle will be delivered at the
Big corral either Tomorrow or Sunday.
Frank Wyatt returned from Colorado
Saturday and will now remain with us.
A. Benson arrived up from Lewiston
Sunday and started into Warrens next
day.
II. c. Brown, of Mt. Idaho, will go
below on business trip early next
week.
The stage makes good time these
days, arriving about three o'clock each
afternoon.
The new Jersey house we'll on Main
street Is twelve feet deep and has six
Ieet of water.
John Phillips has removed his boot
and shoe shop and established himself
at the county seat.
Josh Fockler is at Era, Alturas county,
Idaho, and will probably remain there
awhile with his horses.
Several refreshing showers fell last
Saturday aud since then the nights have
had tendency to frost.
Letters received from Lewiston last
eve say that Maj Binnard is in a bad
way and his recovery is doubtful.
Robt. Larimer and Evan Evans are
'iC hClCSdttO lIOD1 NltH 10 lDe
convention Tomorrow.
The Statesman says it is now certain
that within twelve months Oregon short
line trains will be running through
Walla Walla.
VIM. Hawley returned from Moscow
last Saturday and told us that the Lew
lston crowd got badly "tbrowed down"
IN the Steamboat Weasel race.
The Chicago Drorer's Journal is doing
good work Tor the live stock interests OF
the U. S., in fighting the high freight
charges of the railroad companies.
"My appointment would go far
assuring the success of the
Democratic party at The next election
IN this territory."-SmiM TO HALEY,
June Is, 1885.
Some of the mission Indians at Lap
wal stampeded a span of Elmer Kings
horses on his last up trip from Lewis
ton. but he succeeded in regaining pos
session of them after much palaver and
the expen diture of few dollars.
Matt Truscott assumes charge of the
Mt. Idaho post-oflice to-day. The
ultice will be kept in an addition built
on to the hotel for that purpose, and
the situation will in all respects be more
central and comfortable than the old
quarters.
John Mathison was in from the saw
mill last Sunday and left the dust for
the PRESS to be sent TO Plattsvile, Onta-
rio. DIR. Bibby also subscribed for his
brother in Pottersville n. Y, and DR..
Nickel also sends one to Laurenceburg,
Missouri.
Ed. Berk's youngest daughter has
been at deaths door this week with lung
inflamation, but she is now recovering.
and Mr.. Beck speaks interms of grateful
acknowl edgment of Drs. Bibby and
Nickel for the unceaslng care and atten-
ton they bestowed upon the little
Jerry Dorman of Mt. Idaho and E. G..
Spofford of Cottonwood took one of
their quiet bunting trips Saturday after
noon and succeeded i'll shooting forty
ght chickens besides bringing down
about half AS many more with broken
wing. 1t was hard day for shooting,
the wind blowing nearly gale.
The PRESS once again rises to return
thanks to the two or three
hundred heads of families who take SO
kind an interest in the success of this pa
per as to borrow their neighbours
copy every week. Such generous pa
tronage will soon enable us to enlarge
the paper, reduce its price and land us
in the insane asylum.
A party of Kamiah Indians raided
j. G. Parker's trapping camp up on the
Red river meadows two weeks ago,
and stole pistol, provisions. and other
truck, amounting to one hundred dol
lars worth. Some of thes untutored
children of the forest will be furnished
With a free pass to the happy hunting
grounds on short notice if they don't
mend their ways.
The pioneer hardware store of G. c.
Bunnell is an institution of which Lew
iston may we'll he proud He has an
enormous stock of everything in the
hardware line, cannot nor will not be
un 1ersold and is doing an immense