Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-06-25
LOCAL POINTS.

David Davis died June 81,
Jas. c. Holt is slowly recovering.
Geo. Butts left for Colfax Yesterday.
The county Jail is being re-shingled
Quartz location notices for sale here.
The haying season will commnce
next week.
Iron-clad note books for sale at the
Press office.
Several gorgeous sunsets have occurred
during the week.
County warrants will be taken at par
on subscription to the Pass.
Pony Smead arrived from Warrens
Sunday and left for Lewiston Monday.
New potatoes from the Clearwater
are retailing in town at SIX cents per
pound.
Mr.. Galbraith will probably drive 250
head of horses to Montana during the
summer.
The mining camps in the inside coun-
try are reported more quiet this year
than usual.
The straw berry crop on the prairie
this year is unexcelled fer flavor, quail
ity and quantity
Three parties of prospectors passed
through town during the week, bound
for the Bitter Root ranpp
Ed. Strenauer, well known on the
prairie, is running restaurant at Pa
louise city and doing well.
Crooks & Reynolds will start a band
of about POO head of horses over the
mountains next month.
] udge Shumway returned from below
last week, and has been kept close at
home ever since by severe sickness.
Grangeville is an incorporated town,
but the corporation part of it seems to
have gone on long prospecting trip.
Ezra Baird is in Washington and we
look for his return soon with the y. s.
Marshal's commission in his pocket,
There is no surer way to advertise
the prairie than for all bands to send
the Press to their friends in the states.
A new Indian agent for the Nez
Perce reservation was appointed in
April, but he has failed to show up thus
far.
The band entertainment at Grange
hall on July 3. will be the most atlrac-
tive exhibition ever given on Cam s
prairie.
Over one thousand head of horses
will be shipped from Camas prairie
this summer to the Montana and other
eastern markets.
Teams loaded with lumber from
shisser's mill pass through town daily.
bound for the settlements on the east
end of the prairie.
II. c. Brown is putting a lot of valu-
able Improvements, consisting of new
barn and fencing, on his stock ranch
adjoining the reservation.
Abundant rain has fallen this month
to ensure prodigious crops of all kinds
on Camas prairie. The hay crop, in
particular, will be immense,
Divine services at Fairview school
house, by rev. w. A. Hall, on Sunday
morning, June 27, at IL o'clock, and in
the evening at the Grange hall at eight
Henry Wax is receiving heavy
invoices of new furniture for his Grange
vile residence, but he will not go to
housekeeping for three or four months
yet.
Two Long Tom" fne-gold saving
machines are in successful operation at
Johnson's Bar on Snake river in this
county, twelve miles above Pittsbulg
Landing.
Surridge Bros, full blooded Clyde
horse Master Mason" was brought up
from the Clearwater last week. He Is
conceded to be the best blooded stud on
the prairie.
j. G. Rowton was the first man to or
der the PRESS sent to the states for
year. There are three hundred more
men on this prairie who ought to come
and do likewise.
A band of $500 sheep, the property of
l.. 7. Brown, passed through town last
Monday bound or the summer range on
Craig's mountain. The flock was
sheared and dipped at Mt. Idaho.
L. j. Davis had big job shoeing
a batch Of wild horses for Josh Fockler
this week. but he was more than
match for the untamed bronchos and
the work was completed without
accident.
We return thanks to A. Leland & Son,
of the TawistOn Teller for fayofs rem.