Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-07-20
NO.. 6.

A large invoice of type and stationary
for the FREE PRESS Job printing depart. .
ment was received during the week.
and more on the way.
Delegate Dubois made a strong pro.
lection speech in congress the other day
during the debate on the lead clause Of
the Mills tariff bill and was warmly con-
graduated at its close. Our Fred is no
slouch if he is dude.
We learn from good authority that
the Northern Pacific is determined to
extend the Spokane & Palouse into
Camas prairie. The most favorable
route talked of now is by way of Juli-
eta Untont0aon Journal
VIM. Morgan took an overdose of
laudanum at John Day creek last Satur.
day night and for a time his life WAS dc.
SPARED of, but DR.. Bibby was sent for
| and speedily recovered him from tho
clutch of the grim monster.
The berry crop is very abundant this
year on Camas prairie, and it is said that
the yield Of straw berries, raspberres and
currants was never more abundant,
The huckleberries too are very plentiful
and much larger than usual.
Next week we will publish the ad.
dress delivered at the Pioneer reunion
on June 13 by Hon. L. P. Brown, and
as subscribers and others may want to
send some away we will print extra
copies at the rate Of three for quarter.
mailed to any address.
AS many of our patrons are in arrears
on subscription and advertising account
for the two years during which the
paper has existed, we must now insist
upon settlement. We desire to i'm.
prove the paper, and in order to do so
those who owe us must settle.
The postofIice department has rejected
the application of residents of Cotton.
wood butte for new postofiice and
mail route on the ground that the namc
of the proposed Office, st. Peter, is u
double name while the department fa.
yors short names for new offices.
Frank Turner was up n few days
since from the White Bird bridge to
survey roads before the board Of com.
missioners met, and called in to tell us
that he will have the bridge completed
next week. He also remembered the
F. P. to the tune of five dollars.
The bridges between Grangeville and
Mt. Idaho are in desperately un.
healthy condition and there will be an
accident on the road il they are not
promptly repaired. Mt. Idaho is the
wealthiest road district in the county.
but its roads are invariably the worst.
Thanks to our good friend Chas. G.
Kress, the popular Lewiston postmaster,
for red bandana, which he sends us In
nf hn NJ
red bandana is the campaign flag Of the
democracy and has already become fa-
miiar as household words throughout
the United States.
B. Magill, of Dayton, w. T., who has
been in our vicinity the last 10 days pur-
chasing cattle for the Portland and
Sound markets, will leave here Sunday
next with about 200 head of three-year-
olds, the price paid for them ranging
from $25 to $50. He reports stock Oh
Cam as prairie to be in excellent condi.
ton.
l.. c. Bates, a young man from South
ern Kansas, arrived here last Friday OH
visit to his friend g. d. Pugh. Those
two gentleman have purchased of J. 7.
Bradley % head of horses, all of his
crops and rented his ranch until March
1890; consideration 81 900. 1t is to be
hoped that Mr.. Bates will remain with
us permanently as he is live and ener-
getic citizen.
The German settlement on Cotton
wood butte is developing more rapidly
than any other part of the prairie. Judge
Forney and the editor were over there
last Sabbath, and found that vast i'm.
provements had been instituted on
nearly every ranch owned by Germans
in that neighborhood. In year or two
more that will be the most prosperous
and productive part of the prairie.
The sugar trust has put up the price
of the lowest grades of sugar to eight
cents per pound in Frisco, and the mar
ket still has an upward tendency. Thus
do we see the farmers of this free, hap
py and glorious country more and more
tightly boxed up each year under the
benificent influences of the protective
tariff, for as wheat goes down in price.
the prices of the necessaries Of life are
enhanced.
, A China pack train loading at Mt.
Idaho for Elk city was robbed of 5000
worth of opium last Sunday morning.
The cargo was stored in the barn over
night and the watchman visited it ut 2.
A. NJ, when it was all right, but on his
next round it was gone and Chinatown.
was speedily in an uproar The celesti-
ais made vigorous search for several
days but the case is still missing. It was,
of course, Chinese theft.
Silas Johns paid us a call last Mon..
day. He reports that the wingdam
which he and Will McCready have
erected across Clearwater this season Il
com pleted and the pump is in ruHning or
der and the claim is paying handsomely
From one little cleanup after q fou
days run the claim yielded at the rate q
$l2.20 per day to the hand. Every
thing looks favorable for prolopges
seasons run, and we hope the boys viii
come out in the fall with bigger boodl
than mule can pack.
| Indian Graduates, K