Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-04-19
OUR WEEKLY ROUND UP

county scrip.
, The summer stage schedule com
e mences May l.
Quartz location notices for sale at tn
FREE PRESS office.
n Tom and Frank McGrane arrived VI
from Lewiston on Monday.
Weller & Wax will pay the highes
cash price for county warrants. tt
Horse posters of any size and on any
material printed at the f. P. office.
To-day is good Friday. and Sunday il
Easter, the church's greatest festival
Snow is still falling in the mountains
showing that summer is not yet here.
District court for this county convenes
at Mt. Idaho on Monday next, April %
Hon. Jas. H. Hawley and Ezra Baird
are in Lewiston attending to U. 5. busi-
ness.
Snow to the depth of three inche
fell on Craig's mountain during the
week.
Ladies hats, trimmed and untrimmed,
cheaper than ever, at Alexander and
Friedenrich's.
Mr.. r. Thomas, mining man from
Butte, Nj. t., passed through on his way
to Elk City Saturday.
Oh. Wilson and his train showed up
in town Monday and on Tuesday he
loaded up and returned to the river.
Pell Sherwin took some of the thor
oughbred bulls he has had here all win
ter, down TO the Salmon river ranch
Monday.
County scrip sells at ninety-fve cents
on the dollar, but we take it at 100 cents
on the dollar on subscription to the
FREE PRESS.
Johnny Crooks goes into Warrens to-
day to prospect for quartz. and we hope
that the goddess of good luck will smile
on his labors.
Vanness drove his we'll to depth of
seventy feet last fall with an old well
auger and has had forty-six feet of wa
ter ever since.
Mrs. L. Amber, the mother of our
townsman, w. A. Hall, died at Archise,
Grand Traverse county, Mich, April 2,
1889, aged 40 years.
Walter Gerbrich. formerly no. ac-
count resident of this prairie, was fa-
tally shot in a Washington county
mining camp recently.
The fruit trees on the prairie stood
the cold wet spell admirably and it is
safe to say that an abundant fruit crop
will be realized this year.
Mrs. c. Z. Holt and daughter return
ed to her home at Cottonwood on Mon
day last after protracted visit to her
sister, Mrs. Forney, at Mt. Idaho.
Andrew Jorgenson was over from the
Cottonwood side Tuesday and said his
neighbors were jubilating over the late
rains and the good crop prospects.
The Cinnamon working the old
French claim on Salmon river have
made their final cleanup for this year
and say no more dust till next spring.
Spring is stealing up apace and work.
ing all her yearly miracles by the way.
Life is we'll worth. living in such a cli-
mate and such a country as Camas prai-
rie,
The rains of the past few days have
greatly refreshed the crops, but the best
refreshment for man is the A. No. Cut
ter whiskey, at the Pioneer saloon, Cot
tonwood.
H. F. Gould, of John Day creek, has
been busy of late building house on
the ranch he purchased from Bear Pete,
and has gone up the river to bring his
family out and reside thereon.
The "New York Specially Co.." con-
sisting of man with one arm, a woman
and big dog, showed here and at Mt.
Idaho during the week, but didn't sue
ceed in making more than China wages.
The Pioneer association will meet at
Mt. Idaho on Saturday, May 4, 1889, to
elect officers for the ensuing year and
arrange program for the annual re-un.
ion. All members are requested to be
present.
The Silas Johns mining claim on the
south fork of Clearwater was sold at ad-
ministrator's sale last Saturday to w. N.
Knox, T. X. Holmes and L. H. Bick-
ford. We did not learn the purchase
price.
Judge Logan is reported to be quite a
sick man again, but if he is strong
enough to come up and open court, he
will find our climate sort of atmos-
pheric cocktail in its invigorating effects
on his constitution.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Freidenrich and son
returned on Monday from their annual
vacation to Portland, San Francisco and
Southern California, having had pleas
ant trip and pleasant weather all the
| time of their absence
The Northern Pacific steamboats, are
now running to Lewiston from Aims
worth and already we notice quite re-
duction in freight rates brought over the
o. r & N. Let the good work 60 on.
The people can stand it.
Messrs. Forney and Frew are compil-
| ing set of abstract books containing
all the real estate transactions that are
of record In Idaho county. By the
time the work is completed they will
know more about the realty in Idaho
county than br'er Leland knows of an
nexation.