Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-01-11
QUE WEEKLY ROUND UP,

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harbor bill.
Good winter apples for sale, thre
cents per pound. at Mt. Idaho hotel.
Dave Yates WAS in town Wednesda,
hauling ice for the Centerville ranch.
Mr.. Berg. of Sllmon river, il again OF
the prairie looking after his live stock.
A few fatal prize fights would put the
people of the u. S. in great good hu'
NOR.
A social dance. was hastily gotten W
last Friday night and attended by oil
the young people.
The Crsndall place. which WAS sold at
sheri1's sale last week was brought in
by Vollmer Il Scott for 1865.
| Mrs. Hall opened her private school
on Monday last with an iniatory at
tendance of twenty-eight scholars.
Take your sleiyhs up to w. G..
Browns shop on the edge of the tim
Der and have them fixed in good st, le.
William II. Williams was on the
streets during the week and exhibited
himself after long absence on sick
bed.
The presidents message to congress,
sent out With this issue, is late, but his
words are NJ true now as they were n
month ago.
DR.. Nickel sold block Of" in the
northwest addition TO Grangeyilie, west
of the academy block, to Mrs. Belle j..
Smith last week.
Henry Miller was out sleigh riding on
Monday, for the first time in a month.
| he has but jnst recovered from a severe
| spell Of rheumatism.
| Messrs. Markham, Thornton, ID. L..
Greene and Henry Miller have the
| ihanks Of the printers for substantial
reminders during The week.
Hon. f. C. SpoGord was over from
Cottonwood Tuesday last and gave us a
friendly call. One of his soma was mar
ried in Maine on DoceMber 26 last.
Editor Lamereaux, of the Cassia Coun-
ty Times, was recently attacked and
held up by foot-pads in the territorial
legislature at Boise City the other day.
Henry Miller killed an eighteen
months old hog last week which weigh
ed 470 pounds when dressed. The spare
RIBS he brought us to sample were ex-
cellent.
~ Sunday an old fashioned chinook
| wind blew the frost out Of the ground
but 1t ended in IL light snow -iail and il
is now nip and tuck between wheel,
and runners.
A telephone line has been stretched
between the drug store and DR.. Bibby'i
residence in order to facilitate commn
nIcaiion. Harry Cone was the super
vising architect Of the job.
The scarcity Of water in tho creeks OF
the prairie is making it very disagreea
Bile to cattlemen who are keeping thei
stock up, as they have to drive from five
to ten miles to water the herds.
Chas L. Holt, of Cottonwood. has i'm
ported two thorobred hogs for breedlD,
purposes, which have certified pedigree
No long as the Nez perce county delin
queut Tax list. They are real beauties.
~ The total debt of the United States OIL
January l, principal and Interest, les
cash in the treasury, was 81 l34 ,0o2, ,2oS
4 Thera was reduction OF more thai
fourteen millions Of tho debt durin
Dece IA Der.
y Dick Freeborn was over from Cotton
wood this week to see his old psrtnel
Joe Golfer, who recently broke his an
kle. He is getting along nicely All
will M doubt recover the full use of til
injured member.
Geo S. Bates, ono Of the early settler
| 4 =, Il
man too, WAS in Grangesill. last wee
) and ordered the county paper sent to
> year to his father At kiuderhOoi
Branch county, Michigan.
The second crop of grasshoppers Wi
o hatcbed out on Salmon river during tn
recent pleasant spell of weather and til
z chances are that ths late frosts hay
% killed every one of them. AZ they wei
4 too young to stand q cold snap.
The we'll east of the race track is dow
Is sixty feet and has about seven feet
good wafer in it. The hole was sun
a by Marion Williams and is nearly a
The way through the hard blue rot
:. that is occasionally met with in basalt
:" formations.
10 DR.. Nickle's team ran away Monds
% at Nit. Idaho, being frightened by l.
: dians saving wood, and succeeded
smashing the buggy before they we
/. ca aptured. He left them unhitcht
while he stepped into the court hous
and has come 10 the conclusion that 1t
}. a dangerous practice.
. 1t transpires that Mr.. Eckcrt inspec
ed 800 head of cattle which were drive
f! ont of this county last spring and n
included IN Inspector Overfnan's repoI
- A revision of the list will thereto
make our live stock shipments for Is
read as follows: Cattle, 1924 head; hors,
I. $50 head; total, 2763 head, and the Va
ue of the same WAS So, 800.
Miss Maggie McCsllie and Mr.. Wee
y sported the FREE PRESS colors at Il
recent cap social. 1t WAS the most e
ioyable entertainment of the kind giy'
here within our recollection, and Il
r, bidding on some of the caps was We
d, spirited and went up TO figures tb
i would have parslyzed a hundred NJ