Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-16

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Dakotas, Montana and Washington &C,
ing in.
E. j. Bonhore, the photographer, will
remain In Grangevile but three day.
longer. Parties wishing photos will
please bear this in mind aud call on him
at once.
A light thunder storm passed around
us last Saturday evening. Ed. Beck
AYERS that he counted forty drops oi
rain on the sidewalk in front of the
postollice.
Walla Walla fruit growers have or
ganized themselves into an association
and now have their agents in all the
principal towns of Eastern Washington
to dispose of their fruit.
George Anderson, who used to drive
on the Lewiston and Mt. Idaho stage
route, has returned from the states to
reside permanently. He says he can't
stand the eastern style of living
The drouth in the Big Bend region
Will depopuldte that country. Many
settlers have already left and more will
follow. They have to haul water twen-
iy-live miles for domestic purposes.
1t is reported that the Indians start
ed fire on the reservation Monday and
that the range is being destroyed clear
to Stock creek. The malicious devils
did it on purpose to embarrass our cat
tie men.
The Shisser & Ingram saw-mll at
Rustic are hauling logs and will start
cutting again soon. They will also
make another run on finishing lumber
in few days, as their stock has about
run out.
f. j. Boston, dentist, Of Lewiston
will be in Grangeville and Mt. Idaho
The coming week prepared TO do all
kinds of dental work. Those wishing
work done will please call early. He is
now at Mt. Idaho.
Upon the question of the election of
state officers at the time of voting upon
the adoption of the constitution, the
vote stood 21 TO 49, 1t was the last fight
of the session and the oifice-seekers
were knocked cold.
The town is wonderfully quiet, seem
inaly everyone whose business did not
compel them to stay in town having
either gone TO the mountains or on Sal
mon river putting up fruit and eating
watermeons and such like.
Texier, the Lewiston fruit man, has
donated us box of The finest peaches
ever raised in Lewiston, and advise ey-
erybody who wants fruit of any kind to
have him fill their orders, as he controls
the product of the best and finest Or
chards in the Clearw ater valley.
The young men OF Grangeville should
form militia company. There are
two suits of clothes and exemption
from road tax attached to it, besides the
distribution of arms and ammunition.
Living as we do on the edge of the req
ervation home guard should be organ
lied at once.
The General Land Office has dropped
the clause in the notice of intention TO
make final proof which invited any.
body and every body to protest the
proof and make the claimant trouble.
There never was particle of use or
sense in the paragraph and the depart
ment has done well to drop it.
F. II. Grierson, clerk of the district
court for this district, passed through
last Friday on his way back to Lewis.
ton from trip in the mountains. He
reports having travelled about five hun.
dred miles over the toughest country
imaginable, going to the headwaters Of
the south fork of Salmon river.
Phil Cleary came up from the river
Monday. He reports that the settlers
on John Day have had to fight fire al
most constantly for the past week in
order to save the saw-mill and other
property from being destroyed. No
damage was done by the fire except the
burning over of some range and the de.
struction of timber.
The same drunken Indian who has
been soaring the settlers on Salmon riv-
er put in an appearance on the streets
Wednesday night and made himself a
spectacle. He claims to have got his
whiskey at the White Bird store and If
this is fact the parties who sold it TO
him should be arrested and punished to
the extent of the law.
Henry Earl is back into business
again-heavy trucking, auction and
commissioner his old home in Water
town, N. Y, and writes us that his
prospects of success are quite flourish
ing. He says the town is improving
with private residences going up, and
two large manufacturing concerns, a
steam engine factory and marble
dressing yard, and the promise of a
street railroad this fall. The farmers
throughout the state complain of too
much rain.
From all over the northwest extern
sive forest fires are reported. In Mon
tana the smoke has been 80 dense in
certain sections that lamps have been