Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-10
Winter is over.
Plows are running.
Beware of a wo-faced man.

year -FtDTuuIN 10.
\Buttercups and daisies are already
blooming in sheltered hooks.
Pull up Your stakes in the blizzard
states and come to Idaho county.
The brass band have postponed their
proposed entertainment indefinitely.
r. The Warrens mail has arrived on time
without Il break all through lhe winter.
The roads across the prairie are al
most impossible, and business is conse =
quently ut stand still.
Merchants report cash trade as in
creaslng all the time, and much better
Than it was a year igo.
MONEY TO LOAN, on real estate, at low
rates OF interest. Apply to
j. ii. FURNEY, Mt. Idaho.
Our business men had big time last
Friday answering the heavy letter nail
which came up that day.
Quite a number of taxpayers re-
deemed their property last Saturday
from the delinquent tax list.
The snowfall in Warrens last winter
was less than two feet, which means n
'lght water supply for placer mining.
When you come to town, Won who do
not subscribe for the +. Z. should do
50, and you will find it a paying invset-
ment.
N Frank McGrane fell victim to the
scarlet fever epidemic last week, but
stood the siege in good shape, and is
again on deck.
A letter to the editor from Spokane
Falls says tha; the Spokane aud Pa
lUn~e railroad will be extended to Mt.
Idaho this summer.
y Fully one thousand people lost their
lives in the great hlizz ,rd back in
Dakota. Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas.
They should come to Idaho, the home
If the chinook.
Now that it, is all oyer. We have no
hesitation in saying that the present is
one OF the best winters we ever had.
Not II single head al live stock has died
IN lhis county thus far.
Major Shearer has sold the Nj. Iltho
and Warrens mail contract to w arden
Bros, who have also leased the ferry
ana ranch on Salmon river. and the
boys are putting the mail through ON
time.
Mitchell, Kilrain and Smith are ali
ready to fehi Sullivan for the wor.d'S
championship, but somehow or other
not IA na ch can he arranged. Modern
pusIists do all their lighting with their
jaws.
The loan company whose agent We
are, have temporarily Withdrawn from
(,tlI ntAf nj
proper blanks. They will shortly be in
The field again, aud Will loan money on
real estate at ten per cent.
Qui' ksilyer froZe six feet from two
s'OveS, IN All E.k city cabin, during the
cold snap. There has only two feet of
snow fallen there ali winter, and the
miners fear that the water supply viii
be UNUSUALLY snort this season.
In Massachusetts they have intro
dpced the electric hight into the carriagec
and siclghs, for night riding. On Oe
half Of the young people we protest
against this. They mu,h prefer riuiug
in the darkness, as more eujoyaOie.
1t is reported that the scarlet lever
has been uOlng deadly work among the
Indians at ktmiah tins winter. This l.
probably The "deady Indian outbreak"
which the anneXatIomsts told cJugre- s
was going to happen on The reservation.
Next Tuesday is ST. Valentines day,
but II Will not be observed here To any
extent. The senuing of Insulting, aud
often obscene, pictures on that day Is
y custom more 10 be hrnored in The
breach than in the observance, aud can
not be too soon abolished.
The congenital idiot who writes to Il
Lewiston paper about the schools ol tins
county is sull lying. GrangcviIIe owes
more han any other district ~ hecouuty
aud its Indebtedness IL S23l .2l. The
g. i. only exaggerated 100 per cent L>-
ing is simply an eX"rcl-e in morality to
fellows of his mlsht calibre
The new code requires county officials
to he in their respective Offices from |
O'clock in the morning nntil 3 o'clock IL
he evening. NO intetni>son Is al.
lowed for lunch. dinner or anything
Else. The code also empowers the COM
missiOneis To remove county officials |
from office tor neglect of duty.
Th- Dakota hlizzird was so fearful
aud binding, travelling at the rate OF
~ix'y miles an hour, that parties hunt
IN: lost children had to connect them
elves by ropes and then not 90 beynnd
the sound of steam whistles aud bell
that Were kept blowing ana ringing for
their guidance. L was Impossible to
zee al large Object ten feet away.
A letter from Warrans informs us that
The owners of the Senator Beck" mine
N Auou d>trct have been asked IT,
houd the miue for twelve months. The
um was not stated. is also stated
that subscription has beeu started al
Weiser to build wagon road from
Wrisei ciiy 10 The head of Seccesh creek
and hat the people Of WHrrens are ex-
,,ectrd TO bulld the rest of II.
Vlctor iirxter arrived here from War
rau> un sunday last aud itft Tuesday
ar Potiand, to obtain medical treatment
Ca Il throat trouble with which he hae
been lateiy I'll ctei and which prevents
hlm from speaking above whisper. lie