Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-08-10

i There is shortage of l3. 200 900 bush.
, els in the growing wheat crop of the U.
, y, and also a shortage in all other conn
tries, which creates n hope that the
market will advance in the fall 10 55 or
60 cents /. o. b. in Lewiston. In that
event there will be vast volume
shipped from this prairie, sure as Won
are born.
George Riebold has 5000 pounds of
machinery in Lewiston which will yo
IN by the next train to Warrens. 1t isa
roasting apparatus to be added to the
Little Giant quartz mill, and with the
mill and concentrators which he has
now, he will have a mill plant that will
enable him to work ore to closer per
centage than ever before.
We want few specimens of wheat
oats, barley. timothy and other grasses
10 send back to an agricultural fair in
New York state to show the people
mere what we can raise here, and to
disabnSe their minds of the impression
that Idaho is glacier country. Farm
ers bringing in specimens to this Office
will be duly credited with the same.
Several citizens of Mt. Idaho made
very liberal subscriptions towards paw
ing OIL the &. Il. c. a. debt at this place.
which shows liberal disposition and a
friendly feeling on the part of our neigh
nors which we hope to reciprocate on
me nrst onportunlty. Messrs. George
Smith, A. w. Talkington and ]. ii. For
ney subscribed twenty Eve dollars each.
There is daylight ahead. The O. r..
" n. have corps of surveyors locating
"a line mp the Clearwater, and the North
met "A
force on Potlatch creek The o. II. tG
n. are evidently determined to prevent
the N. p. from getting to Clearwater
and probably the Potlatch canyon will
soon be the scene of another Burnt river
pass imbroglio.
A company of 0. r. & n surveyors
are expected to arrive ut Cottonwood
every day to inaugural a survey for
road TOR that corporation. AS the COM
oany now have full right of wav for two
years across the reservation it is possible
hat they intend to bnild at once. This
$ not our choice of companies, but all
ire welcome and the 0. II. q N. is bet
er than none.
Notwithstanding the late and pro-
onged rainy season in June, the creeks
ma wells here are very low, and it is
that wells in some places
will give ont altogether. which will be a
'reat misfortune to those who are sitn-
ted far from water during the harvest
eason, as it will entail great additional
Expense in having to haul the LIQUID
lfe-sustaning element. Those who are
BILE should sink deeper at once while
hey have the chance.
From reports in western Oregon pa
'ers we judge that there is trouble in
he family OF an old friend and neigh
or, Hiram Titman, formerly of this
lace. A recent report was published
hat he objected to the attentions which
'ere paid to his wife by near neigbor
nd was violently assaulted By the ac-
used party. And now the papers state
hat Mrs. Titman is under arrest on
harge of attempting 10 poison her hus-
aud.
The Bullion" mining company, of
ortland, filed articles of incorporation
nth the secretary of state at Salem,
Ign, last week. The incorporators are
}. r. Thompson, j. J.. Atkinson. Frank
). Vaughn, ID. G. Mckercher and Van
). DeLashmutt. The capital stock is
xed at 81 100000. This is the company
'hich organized to buy the "Bullion''
>. Fem and Weller 4 Wax, and the
'le will no doubt be speedily made.
Every eastern democratic paper that
omes to hand contains long lists of
republicans that have left
leir own party and come out strongly
'r Cleveland. This would be inspiring
noueh were it not for the fact that tn Q
publican papers contain equally large
SITS OF democrats who have turned re-
ublican. If this turning business keeps
n there Will not be prominent man
1T on either side by the time election
ay comes on. Don't take full stock in
lese reported exchange of places.
Mr.. Ryan, gentleman from Montana.
as in Mt. Idaho Sunday, having
fought III thirty head of cattle from the
liter Root valley. He is looking for !.
cation, and If he cannot be suited here,
Ill establish himself on the upper Red
yer meadows and engage in stock rais-
lg. lie reports that the Bitter Root
alley railroad is in operation as far as
kalkaho, and that survey has been
ade for its extension to Mineral, new
inlng camp on the summit of the Bit
n Root range on the Montana side.
Mr.. S. w. Smith was out from Elk
lty last week and reports his new mill
I'D machinery working smoothly and
re rock that has been already crushed
respects so well that he is greatly en-
and predicts bright and pros
erous future for the Elk City basin.
he Terwiliger ledge from all accounts
'omlses to be bonanza as it is $50
ct wide and assays $50 to the ton.
ood placer prospects are got in the sur
ce dirt and on the bedrock, and also
ON the decomposed matrix of the
dge, and when more fully developed
will no doubt prove highly valuable
'operty.
Stewards annexation. admission bill
IL has been called up in the senate
yeral times since the recent debate on
lnexation, but Stewart prefers to have
remain on the calendar as unfinished
isiness, where it can be called up and !.
ted on at any time. The weight of