Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-04-27
Pie plant is in the market.

Y There are sixty teams on the roa,
with freight from Lewiston for thi
: prairie.
Paddy White and Geo. w. Hashagei
sold fifty head of horses recently to
buyer from Montana.
The rivers have been quite low al
the spring, but the recent rains have
t raised them considerably.
Horace Brown is gathering up his
horses and will ship 100 head to Mon
tana in couple of weeks.
THE flour mill is turning out fifteen
barrels of -four day, and has enough
wheat on hand to make $500 barrels
led during the week and left the scads
for the f. j, to be sent to ID. A. Thomas,
Emporia, Kansas.
1t is said that J. P. Nollmer has pur.
chased the Waha lake property and
will convert it into a summer residence
for himself and family.
A southern girl wanted husband so
bad that she paid $l50,000 for one, ant
picked out an editor. We come high,
but they must have us.
Judge Logan, associate justice of the
supreme court of Idaho, and Judge of
the First judicial district, is holding the
current term of court in Lewiston.
The Lewiston strawberry and fruit
| crop is a total failure this year, while
here on Camas prairie the vines and
trees are promising an abundant yield.
The fruit tree peddlers and agricul-
tural machine agents have MIXED the
farming community hereabouts pretty
dry, and small change is scarce in con-
sequence.
On Tuesday next the stages to and
from Mt. Idaho and Lewiston resume
the summer schedule and will make the
through trip each way every day until
November l.
Engineers are boring for the bridge
across Snake river at Riparia which the |
y. IL 4 n. company intend to build for |
the use of the railroad to Lew iston and |
Camas prairie.
The fine beer at the Grangeville
brewery is made from Camas prairie |
barley, which the editor of the brewery
says is exceptionally good and makes
the finest kind of malt.
The U. S. grand jurymen from this
county left during the week to attend |
the term of court which convened in
Lewiston yesterday. The trial jurymeu
are subpnnead to appear next Tuesday.
Mr.. Wax informs us that there is q,
great demand all through the lower
country for hogs of all kinds, and that in
all probability the supply on Camas
prairie will be drawn on to keep the
markets going down there.
Weller & Wax aud Alexander &
Freidenrich are both talking to you
in new advertisements in to- days FREE
PRESS. Both firms have eclipsed them
selves i'll the amount and variety off
new spring and summer goods which
they are now exhibiting.
The atmosphere hereabouts is fragrant
with the odors of fruit blossoms and
growing foliage, the skies are as light
and blue as those of sunny Italy, and
the growth of grass and wild flowers
was never more lpxuriant. Verify,
Camas prairie is the garden of the gods.
DIR. w. A. Wade. formerly of Grange.
vile, Idaho county, arrived here the
other day, and went over to Placerville.
He thinks of locating there. That place
has been without an M. d. since DR..
Rothwell took his departure. DR.. Wade
made a sociable call on the Uiorld.--
Idaho City World.
Report comes from the Little Salmon
that the Union Pacific has donated lib
orally towards the proposed wagon road
from the Weiser country to Warrens
and that contracts are already let to
Calvin White and George Riebold for
the completion of the road this season.
During his eight years as judge of this
judicial district, Judge Buck has been
often assailed for his pronounced politi-
cal activity, which he has been at no
pains to conceal, but in his judicial
capacity even his political foes find no
fault and he retires to private life with
the good wishes of all.
Last Monday old Jupiter Pluyius hap
pened this way and treated us to Fl ne
rain which was worth 100000 to the
growing crops. BY morning the ground
was good and wet and the creeks were
all running, and then he plugged up his
pot, and after pIomising to
,all again soon, took his departure.
W. Fl. Oglesby is out from the Bullion
nine where he has been working all
winter, and reports the shaft down on
he ledge distance of 10 feet, and
sixty feet of tunnelng along the line of
he ledge from the lowest part of the
workings. Both the shaft and the tun-
lels are through two foot ledge of rich
-ock, and there are now l25 tons of ore
on the dump. Mr.. Ogesby is one OF
he proprietors of the Senator Beck
nine in Alton district, and he starts for t
hat camp next week to resume devel- t
opment work on that great property. I
Roscoe Conkling died at New York
early Wednesday morning. He was
BORN at Albany, New York, October 80, /.
1929, and was the son of Alfred Conk-
ing, distinguished judge. Roscoe ,
was not college graduate, but
received high school education. He !
served eight years as representative in
congress and fourteen years in the u. s.