Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-04-13

Sunday school will reopen on Sunday
April Is. Let all come.
Postmaster Beck is still sick, and
Walter Scott is his deputy pro tenn.
n Tom McGrane, Gus Woodward and
George Reeves left last Friday for San
| Francisco on three months vacation.
n Frank Smith is out from Warrens and
will cut out the Melnor trail about the
first of next month when he goes inside
again.
The epring term OF school in district
No. 3, will commence on April %, with
Mr. w. A. Williams as teacher.
j. II. ADKIsoN, Clerk.
Mrs. J. II. Amesbury, of Helena,
Montana, a daughter of our Serjt. n.
Lamb, arrived up on Fridays stage to
pay summers visit to her father.
The round up in this county is pro-
crossing and all hands are out on the
range from early morn till dewey eve,
which makes the towns very quiet.
NFrank Shissler left with twenty-five
horses for Boston last Tuesday. He
will put them on a car at Pomeroy and
60 east by way of the Union Pacific.
According to the best authority the
losses of horned stock last winter will
not exceed one-half of one per cent,
and the losses in horses will not exceed
the same figures.
For SO we will sell the relinquish-
ment of quarter section ofgovernment
land, with house l6x16 feet, plenty of
water, forty acres good plow land, and
close to timber. Only FIVE miles from
Grangeville. A. F. PARKER.
Papers were filed during the week to
institute suit against +. B. King for
$4,000 damages. Orrin McCumber is
plaintiff and the case grows out of
warrant being issued for his arrest re-
Gently on q charge of stealing money
from an immigrants house.
Three hundred and twenty acres Of
the best and most productive land on
Camas prairie-in fact, two fine ranches
well watered, and with valuable improv-
ments, six miles from Grangeville, will
be sold for $3 900. For further particu-
lars of this great bargain, apply at the
FREE PRESS Office.
The county Jail has been empty since
July 1856, fact which speaks volumes
for the character of our people as an or
derly and law abiding community. We
do not believe that there is another
county in Idaho territory that can make
such showing, and we feel more than
ever proud when we think of it.
At the republican county convention
held at Mt. Idaho on Wednesday, the
11th inst, Messrs. l.. p. Brown and
gate to the territorial convention which
will be held at Chicago, June 10. Mr..
Brown will attend in person and Mr..
Robinson will be represented by proxy.
The race track association mot at Mt.
Idaho last Saturday and appointed q
committee to prepare articles of incor-
poraton with view to organize joint
stock company for the purpose of inaug-
urating an agricultural, live stock and
race track association. The committee
report at the next meeting on the first
Monday in May.
The present year of grace is a wonder
full one for twin calves in this county,
scarcely day going by without bring
ing us information of one or more COWS
that have dropped two and in some
instances, three calves. This is an
other proof of the wonderfully stimu-
lating effects of our glorious climate,
whose advantages are open to immi-
grants without price.
~ The salmon trout are running in the
rivers this year in unusually large
schools, and their flesh is said to be of
an unusually fine quality and the fish
are larger in size and weigh more
ounces to the pound than they over did
before. The twenty-seven Founders
which the Warrens boys pull out of the
south fork of Salmon river will have to
ldhS DdCh ScdI III liilS year VI iNlD
babies, heavy crops and mammoth fish
stories.
No additional facts have been devel-
oped concerning Peter Beamer's death
other than those we published last
week. His right name was William b.
Beamer, and he was born in Pittsburg,
Penn, in 1917, and came to California
in 40. In 1866 he removed to the Boise
basin, and shortly after he became a
resident of this county. He leaves a
brother and other relatives in the
states. During the Indian war of 1877
in this county he was an active charac-
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