Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-17
Business is reviving.
The ground hog lied.

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business is reviving.
The ground hog lied.
We predict a stormy March.
neat fence has been built around
DIR. Nickels residence.
Another week of this weather and
you can hear the grass grow.
The Foster monument fund is still
open. Let all hands chip in.
The days are rapidly lengthening out
and now you can eat supper without
lamplight.
%The fine weather of the past two
weeks has dried up the roads across
the prairie.
| The Teller is getting 10 be more and
more of ii hoodlum paper published by
hoodlums for hoodlums. 1t is always
vulgar, and frequently obscene.
The steamers are running again on
Snake river and will leave Lewiston
on Thursdays and Sundays.
There have been heavy snow storms
In the mountains and frequent rains on
the prairie since our last issue.
Ed. Ferree, of Grangeville, Il. Cooper
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have enrolled as readers of the f. p.
Mr.. Dow, a Montana horse buyer. ia
expected here shortly to purchase a
large bunch Of horses for the eastern
market.
Bert. Lanningham returned last Sat-
nrday from his sojourn in Southern
Idaho, and says times are very good in
sage brush land.
fmen trained their children as CARE
fully as they train their dogs there
would be fewer hoodlums in this free
and happy country.
Senator Dolph's bill granting per.
mission to company to build a bridge
across the Columbia river at The Dalles
has passed the Senate.
Delegate Dubois has bill in Conyress
Tor the relief of P. II. Winston. We
presume this is to tax the government
Tor his services as deputy U. S. district
attorney in the Tom Hill case.
A startling report comes nd from SAL
mon river that Larry OFT has had his
hair cut Larry was as proud of his
locks as Sampson OF old, and we hope
that the analogy ends there.
Uncle Johnny Wood has been onite
low the past week with bilious fever.
His granddaughter Annie is also down
with scarlet fever. but we are happy to
state that 1t is not malignant case. and
1t Is hoped that she will be speedily
convalescent.
Low cunning. intrigue and stratapem
are soon acquired; but manly, durable.
policy, which never sacrifices the gen.
eral interest to a partial or monetary
advantage, is not so cheaply formed in
the human understanding.
A petition praying for wav-sack to
be carried on the mail route between
Mt. idaho and Warrens was circulated
and forwarded to Washington this
week. The sack will make u weeks
difference in time in communications
between Grangeville and Warrens.
NThe Chinese hereabout celebrated
the arrival OF their new year last Sainr-
day and Sunday with the usual displav
of fireworks and feasting. The white
people who visited their quarters were
hospitality entertained, and in some i'm. |
stances given handsome presents by |
their celestial friends.
Lewiston is going to locate new cem-
etery, and we hope that the business
men down there will plant the annexa.
in it the FIRST thing-and please
plant them deep. If that is not done.
they may as wei! bury the town itself,
for those "old men of the sea" have
ahont ridden it to death.
Those who are interested in and who
wish to keep posted on railroad devel-
opments in this neighborhood should
for the FREE PRESS, which is
in direct correspondence with railroad |
headquarters, and is therefore in posi-
ton 10 get the first reliable information
railroad extensions.
We do not advise men with large fam
lilies to come to this country unless they
can bring at least $500 10 ready money
to enable them to get fair start. In.
dustrious men with that amount would
be justified in making the change, bnt
those who come with no means at all |
will have Il long and hard uphill pull |
to get themselves fairly established.
y Talk about climate! Right here on
Camas prairie, at an altitude of 5000
feet above sea level, Cyrus Overman
seeded twenty-five acres of barley on
the 4th day of February-the first grain
sowed this year-and plows have been
every day since. In the winter
of 1885, blowing was continued down to
December 81, and in 1886 winter set in
on the 23d Of December. Such are the
benefits of living in the land of the CHI
nook.