Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-02-10
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"Wes'-.esi or Shop Seeds-which
TIE Chinese new year begins Satur-
| lay.
TN" scarlet fever is giving way to the
spring fever"
Dig your holes and get ready to set
ut hose fruit trees.
This is election year, and slate max
! ny time will soon be here.
rhe smallpox is reported to exist in
| Frisco, Portl nj and Butte.
John II. Purkering left last week on a
REF visit to San Francisco.
Plows are running, and others are
"lill IN the shops awaiting repairs.
| Miss Matte Jarrett has been quite i'll
FIR the past week with rheumatism.
Mrs. C.. s. Gregory WAS attacked with
scarlet fever last week, but IL recover
ing.
Jesse Farmer, the standby of Miller's
camp, is in town for the rest of the win
ter.
Mrs. Rhett has been very sick for sew
eral days, at her residence on Salmon
river.
Wallace and Mrs. Scott are expected
10 return from Paso Robles during the
month.
1t is unlawful to kill prairie chickens,
gtouse, pheasanis and sage hens from
Feb. unit July 10.
Back at last No more running
around. but will contine myself exclu-
SlN In llit..A n,.lI "a hnr / I..
found every day from 8 A. NJ. to 6 p. NJ.
j. III. MCCALLIE.
The stage TO and from Cottonwood
has been dragged by four horses through
The mud fur the last week.
Quite q number of people are talking
"i making improvements on their
Grangevilie property this season.
&. A. Dueber aud family left Wednes-
day for The pleasure of II two months
vacation ia the web-foot metropolis.
Delegate Dubois has several bills
pending in the lnwer house of congress,
one uI them being for the relief OF VIM.
II. Rnett,
a Washington dispatch of January
3Uth states that the move to annex
nurtlletn Idaho 10 Washington territory
has been aUaudoned.
Mlows were running at III fTernt points
heIeabouis on the last day of January,
and every day since. Settlers coming
vest should make a note of this,
The chinook has held the fort ever
since the cold snap, and the snow is all
gone, the frost Is AN ont of the ground
ma moist warm weather prevails.
PrOspectors who want likely coun-
try to prusI .ect In will find just what
they want in Idaho county, where there
's ANY quantity of nnexplored regions.
The "Home Mutual" through Wm.
Steinheisrr. its local agent. has paid
Chris. Schmadeka the sum of 5000, the
same beng the amount Of insurance on
the residence recently destroyed by fire.
Idaho county, and in fact all of cen-
irai liaho has ii bright future before il,
an Will rival Colorado as a gold and
-llver producer. Idaho county will con-
tribute the largest share of our terrific
rial output IN the near future. Mark
ihe prediction.
1t is always the professional hummer,
advenlurer and non tax payer, who is
here to day aud gone tomorrow, who is
dlssets fled with the management of
county and school district affairs. l
this cap fits any one in Grangeville he
has our full permission to put 1T ON and
wear il.
The Oregonian of January 81 had
good letter "rilten from Grangeville on
the evils of borrowing money on real
estate mortgage security. The letter
states that The mortgages will be fore.
closed on maturity, and that the county
will be occupied by vast estates and
small population, and that the borrow.
ers and their descendants will be the |
laborers and serfs of the landed pro-
prletors. The picture is overdrawn.
hut 1t contains much food for thought.
Don't go III debt if you can help it.