Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-05-03
OUR WEEKLY ROUND UP.
Pioneer meeting tomorrow.

- Home brewed Book beer next weei
a a Old tyre for sale at this office; bett
$ than babbit metal.
G. D. Springer has sold his ranch
Harden Chenoweth for ST 500.
Tom Clark will not go to Florence th
year owing to scarcity of water.
Dick Freeborn was over from Cottor
wood this week to see his friends.
The Shissler & Mathison mill con
menced saving lumber last Monday.
The post Office will be kept open ii
8 80 every night until further notice.
Pioneer meeting at Mt. Idaho to- nor
row Saturday afternoon at . o'clock.
The Foster monument fund is still
open, and we receive subscriptions to it
Mrs. II. Titman arrived here on Tues
days stage, on visit to her sister, Mrs
Rhett, of Freedom.
Ed. Beck received some thorobret
game fowls for breeding purposes from
Sam Holt last week.
The A No. Cutter whisky is in as
great demand as ever at the Pioneer
saloon, Cottonwood.
e. A. Dueber and family will leave
Portland next Wednesday, homeward
bound for Grangeville.
DR.. Nickel started team to Pomeroy
Monday to freight back the stock of
new drugs he is putting in.
The stages arrive here about four O.
clock in the afternoons good five
hours ahead of schedule time.
John B. Cook has purchased quarter
interest in the Silas Johns placer claim
on the south fork of Clearwater.
Prospectors are already arriving from
the west and south, and the woods will
be full of 'em before the snow flies.
A bunch of loose horses chasseing
around Main street made the town
look like active business last Saturday.
A special meeting of the Idaho county
stock association is called for to- morrow
Saturday May 4, at Mt. Idaho. p m.
Mr.. Markham had a valuable horse
break its leg recently and he was COM
PEELED to kill the poor beast to end its
'ufferings.
Grand master Fred Epstein has ap-
pointed AK. Steunenbery grand secre.
.ary of G. l.. of Idaho, l. o. OF, vice
Leon Fuld. resigned.
Bro. Leland is still confined to his
bed, but strong hopes are entertained of
his ultimate recovery, which We trust
Will be speedily realised.
The few democratic Federal Office.
holders in Idaho are expecting TO walk
'ut with their official heads under their
lrms. Swivel service reform.
Surveyor Spedden returned from
last Friday aud leaves next
week for Elk city to develop the lately
Incorporated Mammoth mine.
Messrs. Coffey and Estes were over
rom Cottonwood Saturday on land
'ffice business and report great improv-
nents going on in their neighborhood.
Ed. Beck received handsome set of
,oxing gloves and fencing foils last
week and now every night the Ex-
hange saloon is converted into an anna
eur fistic arena.
Mr.. Hexter, formerly of Warrens, is
low associated with Joe Alexander in
he general merchandise business at
)aksdale, w. T.. under the firm name
# Alexander & Co.
The Grangeville brass band are goino
0 give minstrel entertainment on the
light of July 4, which manager Beck
ays will be the boss program ever given
his side of Frisco.
Camas prairie in its spring robes ia
nore beautiful than the hanging gar
ems OF Babylon, and it presents to the
We a picture as fair to look upon as the
arden of the Lord.
From all parts of this prairie the pros-
ects for cereal crops are very bright.
nd If nothing occurs to injure the crop
etween now and harvest the Weld will
ctually give us surplus.
Frank Vansise caught his dexter hand
pulley at the Rustic mill on Mon
ay, but broke no bones. The injuries
re severe enough to make him live in
nforced idleness for awhile.
The Bowman mill south of town start.
4 up last week but the collapse of the
ume caused shutdown until repairs
ould be made, and they resumed cut
ng yesterday on $4,000 feet of logs.
VIM. Hayernick has ordered the FREE
REss sent to his father at Portland, Or.
nd Calvin Seay and II. Brady have en-.
'lled their names on the Grangeville
st OF subscribers to the county paper.
The G & B pack train is in Pierce
ty and on its return to Lewiston will
ad direct for Warrens. We assure the
oys who have written out about it that
enty of whisky shall 60 in with the
Dry first cargo.
Mrs. Belle ]. Smith and DIR. Nickel ,,
ave had their property in the north
est addition to Grangeville plowed and
It out trees around each block, which
a vast improvement to that part of our 9
owing little village. s
J. s. Hartman, the noted horse train
and breeder OF Shebang creek, was in .
wn Saturday and called on us. He is
eeding Happy Medium" stock and is
ing to Spokane Falls soon with span r
promising colts of that strain from '