Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-30

wards Craig's mountain, and they will
be kept in the field as long as the oper
weather continues. In that event they
may be expected to reach the prairie in
about three weeks.
1t is possible that in IL months we
may be able to take the cars from
Grangeville to Lewiston. and then the
Clearwater basin will take that boom
which We have been expecting for so
many years. Other regions have had
booms with less to start and maintain
them than We have. The Clearwater
basin has inexhaustible resources of all
kinds. The best of farming lands where
on can be raised wheat, oats, barley. flax.
timothy bay and natural grasses of the
finest quality and in unheard of Quanti-
| ties to the acre. The whole western
slope of the Bitter Root mountains, with
its valleys, forests and mineral wealth,
and all the great region drained by Sal
mon river and its countless tributaries
will he opened to settlement. occupation
and productiveness by advent of a rail-
road to Camas prairie, and the stimula-
tion of every industry will be made
manifest in the increased product of raw
material which Idaho county will ex-
port.
1t seems to me that the long night is
past, and that the orihammes of the |
morning are lighting up the horizon of
Camas prairie with the golden CLEANS of
dawning prosperity.
Court is sitting in the Grostein and
Binnard hall. Judge Logan presiding
and dispatching business in his usual
prompt manner.
The timber cases instituted by the
government land agents against sawnill
men, railroad contractors and others for
tresspass and cutting timber on public
land have been all dismissed on motion
of the U. S. attorney for lack ofevidence
to justify prosecution.
The suit of the L. s. against the
bondsmen of I. N. Hibbs is decided in
favor of the U. S., and the defendants
will have to punge to the extent of
$4,000.
In the case of the people vs. Dodge, i
convicted of assault with deadly weap- :
IN, the Judge imposed $500 fine, or 800
lays in the county Jail. c
U. S. Marshal Ezra Baird and y. s. t
Attorney James II. Hawley, are both t
here on official business, and have both
promised to come up and assist us to ~
ratify the advent of the railroad when r
ears begin to run. Hawley takes his t
recent defeat very philosophically, much il
more so in fact than some of his friends t
lere do, who feel quite sore over it. Il
The republican politicians here are al
'eady laying pipes and pnlling wires for {
he Federal Offices when Harrison takes
lis seat. &. p. Cohurn or Geo Nj. Man
ling is to be the U. S. Marshal, while
he governshp is to go 10 the late Judge
Buck. Gen. Harrison, however, is too
.ood a republican to put in Office rem
'gade who bolted the head of his ticket,
md the friends of the late Judge will be
Duff. Greene went ont to the reserva-
ion last week to arrest two Indians for
he killing of two prospectors in the
Bitter Root valley this summer, and sue
,eeded in killing one who attempted to
escape. The other was captured and
ent to Sheriff Heyfron, of Mssoula.
The bankers and merchants here have
handled great quantities of Camas prai-
lie wheat this year, and they all unite "
II pronouncing 1t of very fine qualify.
The Grapgeville side, however, is said |,
o be a trifle better than that from Cot
but not enough to make any
Inference in the price. The market has T
uled as high as go cents +. o. b., and the
quotations at present are 60 cents, with
of a speedy decline. Ii
The supervisor of the Nez Perce coun-
y end of the faiys mountain road is A. Z
y. Glass, of Waha, and be deserves credit
or good work done there for the last ;,
wo years. Whites grade, which used y
o be known as bedrock terror, is in
ettter condition than ever before v
When our own supervisors do as well a
airly good road can be made out of it. n,
upervisor Rookie has put in some good "
york this fall, and promises to do even
lore next spring. A. f. =. g,