Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-23
Judging by the Kentucky election the
democrats are not all dead yet.

Allen d. Greene has gone TO Tacoma
to put his boy Eddy 10 school.
One of the few things that this great
country needs is soaking rain.
"Wait till the smoke rolls by, Jenny.
then we'll gee the sun. it don't rain.
Geo. Schmadeka left the printers
some excellent buttermillx this week.
Live with a live lookout for fires
these days, and let not the flames get a
start on you.
Like as the waves make toward the
pebbled shore, SO do our minutes hasten
to their end.
The last few nights have been com .
paiitively cool-an indication that tie
dog days are about oyer,
Secretary Noble succeees to the va.
cancy in the U. S. supreme court caused
by the death of Stanley Matthews.
The bull thistle and the COW thistle
are now letting 20 their winged seeds
that should never have been allowed to
mature in town.
The forest fires on Craig's mountain
are still raging, and there is danger that
the winter range along the breaks of the
Salmon will be burned out.
The impression is gaining ground that
the cemetery is too near town. The
quicker II new site is secured the better
it will be for every ybody.
Parties who have engaged plums, and
others wanting choice plums, please call
soon aud get them. Prices low.
II j. ii. ROBINSON.
The deadly water melon getteth in its
fine work these days, and cholera NOR
bus stalketh abroad in ye land like u
roaring lion, seeking whom it may de-
your. Jamaica ginger knocks 'em out.
The injuries received by Mrs. ]. c..
CARRIER, which at first were feared to be
fatal, are not nearly so serious as were
at first apprehended, and the lady is
rapidly recovering from the shock TO
the nervous system.
The summer days are swiftly passing,
and even August will soon be but a
memory of the dead and shadowy past;
wherefore it is a good time to load up
your wood sheds for the coming winter.
and load 'em to the eaves.
John N. Rice has discovered fine
spring on his ranch since the dry spell,
which flows stream as big MS u mans
arm, and he is already talking of mov-
ing the town there. This is little
premature, however, as the FREE PRESS
well hasn't gone dry yet.
Owing to the low water in Snake river
and the withdrawal of the steamboat,
all freight for Lewiston and Camas prai-
rie points is shipped by rail to Union
town. from whence it is freighted to it's
destination. Verify, our shipping IA
cilties are worse now than they were
fifteen years ago.
Vanness and Chase are boring a well
with their drilling apparatus on George
Schmadeka's place below town. They
struck fine flow of water at depth of
forty-eight feet on Chase's ranch, near
Willow creek, on Craigs mountai n 4.
Havernick is negotiating for having a
well drilled on his twenty acres.
Frank Vansise has contracted to build
Immediately residence for Mrs. East.
man on the lot south of Homer Matte
sons place. Nick Ingram and A. F.
Parker will also build in the same moi.
borhood this fall, all of which speaks
volumes for our growing little town in
the midst of these hard times.
c. 4. Holt and the Rhoads boys have
purchased a tanning mill to clean the
mustard out of their imported seed
wheat. They say the prairte shall nev-
er be over-run with the wild mustard
pest for want of little care on their
part, and their example ought to be
universally followed. Dirty seed max es
dirty fields.
Oh. Christie has bought six lots, three
on either side of Hall street in Schmad-
eka's addition, and contemplates build
ing residence for himself on one tract,
and a dwelling house to rent on the
other. That end of town is building ur
very rapidly, and you should purchase
your lots Immediately if you contem.
plate residing in this growing town.
David S. Terry. the slayer of Broder.
lex in the early days of California, was
shot and killed by deputy marshal ia
southern California last week. Terry
had slapped the face of chief Justice
Field while the latter was eating at the
railroad restaurant, and was instantly
shot by the marshal, who had been de,
tailed TO protect the chief justice from
the threatened assault.
We evidently were wrong last weel
in saying that the drunken Indian who
was on our streets Wednesday evenin,
had got his whisky at the White Bird
store. Mr.. Christie tells US that he wa,
at the store when the Indian was anC
came to the prairie together, and the
Indian was perfectly sober up to tn,
hour OF his arrival in Grangeville. He
was probably supplied with whisky BY
some Chinaman in this town.