Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-09-28


than it has been for 10 years.
lr +. w. Bell has removed his furniture
,r store to Grangeville and invites public
inspection of his new imported stock
4 which is now on exhibition in the Will.
= son building, west of the FREE PRESS Of
nee. 1918
Messrs. Sudwicls and Mason, who
:, bonded the Patehem mine in Warreps.
. left yesterday for that camp to get
things in shape Cor nm all winters work
a on the property. We hope they will
: strike big thing.
A letter from onr grand representa-
tive, Hon. j. II. Forney informs us that
the sovereign grand lodge l. o. o. F.,
which recently met at Los Angeles, has
decreed the next annual meeting shall
take place at Columbus, Ohio.
Work was commenced Monday on
Homer Mathison's new dwelling house.
whith will be 16x28 feet in dimensions
and one and half stories high. Homer
says he is going to "bsching," but you
need not necessarily believe him.
There will be meeting of the Idaho
County Pioneer Association at Mt. Ida.
ho, on Saturday, October 13, at o'clock
tice some music for the occasion.
Is l.. p. Brown, President.
Back in Indiana the democratic and
republican campaign committees have
over 5000 speakers stumping the state,
and the chances are that many of them
will wear their mouths out in their
earnest efforts to talk the hoosiers to
death.
There are forest fires raging IN. tho
foothills south Of town which promise
to do great damage to the timber before
long. The scenery of Camas prairie villa
be shorn of half its grandeur when the
evergreens on the mountain slopes are
destroyed.
Martin Wagneris at Genesee super.
vising the establishment of a store at
that point for j. II. Vollmer &c Go. He,
still has a warm corner in his heart for
Camas prairie and has orderedth the u. p.
sent him to get tie news and. 6oings Of
his old frienG5 EereabSuts.
1t tried HARD to rain last Friday and
very nearly succeeded. The rivers
everywhere throughout the western
slope are dyer than ever was known
and the country is suffering for rain, bat
still we have harvested an average Of 25
The Norshern Pacific railroad have
surveyed from Branham Station (on the
Spokane and Palouse], through Moscow
and on eastWard' towards Camas prairie.
and we feel that it is only a matter of a.
short time of the location of the road on
the new survey.-Ofegoaidn, Sept. IT,.
There is general complaint that dry
lumber suitable for building purposes
cannot be obtained, as the mills ara.
crowded with orders There are now
four saw mills supplying Carnas prairie.
and 1t would seem that their capacity is.
not large enough to supply the growing,
necessities of this young and growing
country.
Some more cattle buyers arrived here.
Monday and are on the prairie buying
all they can get. We stated last June
that our surplus stock would be all sold
before November l, and the prediction
is proving true. Large numbers are al.
ready bought and being gathered up for
delivery, and the stock shipments from
this county will make q good showing
when the totals are footed up.
Our new press is here, and as we have
the best job -ofics in Idaho territory, we
are prepared to do all kinds of printing
in neat and tasty manner from a 200
page book to calling card. All those
in need of letter heads, bill heads, busi-
ness cards, posters,. ball programs, we'd
ding cards, funeral notices, ETC., will do
well TO give us call before sending
elsewhere. Legal blanks a specially.
Sheriff Heydorn, of Missoula county.
Montana, was here last week hunting
for two of our Neg Perce Indians who
are alleged to have murdered French.
man over on Dillard creek, in his baili-
Wick, and to have got away with his
pack. They are known to have come
over this side by the Lolo trail, and fail
ing to find them at kamiah the sheriff
left for Lapwai on Monday and will hunt
for them in the Indian settlements Dor.
derlng on the agency.
The delinquent tax list of Comanche
county, Kas., published in the Coldwater
Reute,o, shows that all the land in that
county, except 100 acres and two town
lots owned by people living in Missouri,
is advertised for sale for non payment
of taxes. Our Kansas exchanges are
mighty interesting reading now, being
filed with either delinquent tax list or
sheriff's sales of real estate. In fact. one
Of the Wichita papers has to issue big
supplement to make room for the many
sheriff's sales. There will be an Inn.
mense exodus from Kansas to the north
west this fall and next year.
We understand that the contract for
clearing out the Warrens trail from
Meadows to the summit of Secesh noun
tain has been let. We were always in
favor of the wagon road, but go in on
the principle that ifa whole loaf can't
be got, take half of one. If this trail is
kept open it will insure greater portion
of the Warrens business coming this
way. Mr.. N. Il. Robertson has the con-
tract for opening the trail, and expects
to have it ready for travelling in about
ten days or two weeks at the longest,
This will be in time for some of the
Warrens people to come to Weiser for
supplies yet this fall, if our merchants
will hold out proper inducements in