Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-04-27
THE FREE PRESS
OUR U-EEKLY BOUND UP.

quartz Location notlceS Tor sale at tn
FREE PRESS office.
J. II. Forney. Mt Idaho, has none
to loan on real estate.
Next Monday is Arbor day. Plar
your trees and pray for rain.
VIM. Havernick has sold his big tear
to c. H. Brock man, of Cottonwood.
For sale cheap, a Wheelock uprigh
grand piano, as good as new. EnQuir
of Weller and Wax.
There will be a large and vigorou
crop of candidates for the various count,
Offices along toward next fall.
The quarterly examination of candi
dates for teachers certificates takes
place at Mt. Idaho next Tuesday,
The Teachers association meets to.
morrow afternoon at J p. M, at the
Academy building. All are invited.
! y Weller & Wax shipped 500 sacks OF
flax to San Francisco during the week
the first direct shipment to the bay ever
made from Camas prairie.
The Rushford wagon, sold by Frank
Bros. Lewiston agency, is the best in
the market. Call at Fleming's and ex-
anime them when you 60 to Lewiston.
Frank Smith, supervisor of road dist
rict No. 6, starts from Mt. Idaho Mon
day to cut out the Menor trail and put
it in condition for the seasons travel.
They talk of "the rowdy West" and
yet here in Idaho county, in the very
heart of what is left of the frontier, our
county Jail has been empty since July
1856.
The opportunities of the past are gone
forever; the opportunities of the pres
ent are ever with you, and the oppor-
tunites of the future some other fellow
will get.
Down around Fairview the farmers
are busy fencing and instituting i'm
provments on larger scale than ever
before, and the value of land in that
neighborhood is steadily increasing
Several families of new corners have
arrived here this week and are trying
to purchase improved ranches. There
are indications that this prairie will
receive large immigration this year.
Mr.. Ii. F. Gould and family arrived
here last Friday from Iowa to remain
permanently. Mr.. Gould is a brother
of our friend Norman Gould, of John
Day creek, and they had not met for
thirty-five years.
y The Chinese government has made
demand upon the U. S, to indemnify it
for the loss of all the Cinnamon who
have been killed in this country by
mobs and vigilantes, and it assesses the
life of each Chinaman at s.. .250.
There were 3lS horses in the band re.
Gently sold by B. L. and j. B. Morris.
The purchaser was man from Dakota,
and he shipped the entire band on the
cars to that territory Immediately upon
reaching the railroad.
Some of our fellow citizens are al
ready speculating on holding county
office next year, and judging by their
talk they seem to expect that the Office
will come in search oftbem with four
horse coach and brass band.
James Yandell was over from Cotton
wood Monday for medical attendance,
he having had his right eye cut open
by jumping horse. Several stitches
were required to close the wound, but
it is not thought that his sight will be |
injured, although a scar will remain.
There are rumors of new quartz dis
coveries over on the middle fork of
Clearwater, which we trust will realise
all the sangnine expectations that are
looked for. The F. 2. has represent
alive in the new camp who will write
the district up in due time,
That excellent article on the live
stock trade printed in this issue was
written by w. c. b. Allen, of the Sho-
shone Journal, and also stock inspector
for the Oregon Short Line. Mr.. Allen |
is an authority on the subject and his
views are therefore entitled to consider
alton.
Hon. L. p. Brown left for Boise CITY
Wednesday morning to attend the re-
publican territorial convention which
meets on Tuesday next to select dele
gates to the national convention. Mr..
Brown, judge Buck and w. C. Heyburn.
of Murray are the candidates from the
north.
y The authorities of Wallowa county,
O'gn., have arrested three men, sup.
posed to be implicated in the wholesale
massacre of a number of Cinnamon who
were mining on the Oregon side ofSnake
river, about forty miles south of Lewis
ton year ago. The prisoners are Carl
Hughes, w. NJ. McMillen and a man
named Maynard, and they are in Jail
at Joseph.
Messrs. f. P. Russell, and E. ]. Price,
a brother-in-law, and son-in-law res
pectively of our Mr.. VIM. Hopkins,
have arrived from Colorado and are well
enough satisfied with our soil, climate
and other advantages to make their
permanent residence among US. at
which we rejoice, for they are good and
substantial citizens and an acquisition
to any community.
Agents for agricultural implements
are here as thick as leaves in Valiam-
brosa, and some of our farmers who
gave iron clad notes a year ago and
which are now matured, are eamped in
the tall timber until the collectors have
departed. But, gentlemen, let us whis.
per it into your ear in confidence, that
Day-daV always pomas and tho hast