Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-04-12
QUE WEEKLY ROUND UP.

e Pay off that mortgage this year.
> Band practice Thursday evenings.
= ~The Mt. Idaho sawmill is running.
Mr.. Brockman has moved his famil
to the ranch.
Quartz location notices for sale at tn
. FREE PRESS office.
30 Pay your debts when you have tn
, money in your pocket.
- The road between here and Lewiston
is lined with freight teams.
John Long and wife left for Warren
on Monday via the river trail.
Frank Vansise will put in the sum
mer over at the Shissler sawmill.
Horse posters of any size and on am
material printed at the f. p. office.
Don't plant potatoes in the light o
the moon. Plant 'em in the ground.
Mr.. Schmadeka has sold a span O
heavy work horses for $500 to Mr.. Reed
Hats of the latest designs, trimmed
and untrimmed, at Alexander & Fred-
enrich's.
We take county scrip at face value,
dollar for dollar, on subscription to the
FREE PRESS.
One of Elmer Remington's fine span
of leaders broke q leg last week and
spoiled his team.
Will Nickson. residing out on the
point, had leg badly hurt during the
week through horse stepping on it.
Mr.. Forney returned from bis Mos
cow trip last Monday and reports that
country as alive with railroad surveyors.
Will Bowman YVES in town Saturday
and said his sawmill south of town
would start up next week on $4,000 feet
of logs.
The iron bridge across the Snake riv-
er at Riparia is nearly completed. and
the first iron horse will roll across it in
week or SO.
The o. r. & N. steamboats, arrive at
Lewiston at l O'Clock on Sunday and
Thursday mornings and leave the same
afternoon at o'clock.
There are seventy prisoners in the
territorial pententiary at Boise City,
and ten of those are Mormons convict
ed of unlawful cohabitation.
Mr.. Sherwood has made one ship
ment Of ore already this spring from
the Arizona mine in Elk City and is ex-
pecting the returns back every day now.
]. M. Dorman is pruning the orchard
on the Fairfield ranch and instituting
other Improvements aud will make that
the finest place on the prairie in a few
more years.
Mr.. Edwards has had a drain race
built and walled in front oe the Jersey
house property, which is a great i'm
proyement, as that side of Main street
will be always dry.
Ex-sheriff Talkington returned from
the states last Friday looking hale and
hearty as ever, but the Companion"
with the feathers in her bonnet didn't
materialize, SO he still trots in single
harness.
Herman Won Bargen has been sick all
winter with pneumonia at his old home
in Bavaria, which has greatly interfered
with the pleasure of his trip. He is
homeward bound now and may be ex-
pected here early next month.
VIM. Fletcher, ten years resident
of Camas prairie, sold his ranch recent
ly and pulled cut with his family Mon
day for California to hunt a new loca-
ton. He has promised to write up that
country as he sees it. May good luck
60 with him.
Freighters complain that parties on
the prairie and also on the mountain
are fencing in the public highways
without authority, thus making them
break new road on almost every trip.
This thing is getting too monotonous
and ought to be stopped Immediately.
Mrs. Mclean has contributed won
derful egg to our chamber of horrors in
the shape of a double egg hitched to-
gether like the Siamese twins. The
yolk is in one sac and the white in the
other, and is quite freak of nature. 1t
will be preserved in alcohol and added
to our rapidly growing cabinet of curio,-
tiles.
The U. s. grand jury at Lewiston
failed to find an indictment against
Sbissler q Mathison for timber trespass,
and so they were discharged. Another
jury was impanneled on an open venire,
and the case will be examined again.
Ine special land agent who Is conduct
ing the prosecution is said to be run
ming things on star chamber methods, |
and will only permit his own witnesses
to be examined.
Mr.. Cleary was up from John bay
creek during the week and reports his
new ferry across the river as being in
good running order and capable of
crossing thirty head of horses or cattle
at load. He is about to build tele- |
phone from the boat to the house, so |
that passengers desiring to cross will not
be kept waiting. Mr.. Cleary is vaua-
BILE man for the Salmon river country,
and is making improvements all the
time.
Col. Shoup, Idaho's new governor, is |
an Indian fighter from away back. He |
was in command of the Colorado Third, |
''The Bloody Third" at Sand creek |
when Chivington and his Lambs attack
ed the Indians, under Black Kettle, on |
Dec. 10, 1864. and killed about twenty
five cords of them. The proprietor of |
ha ,Sf0fes,n1a wac in th ar Spht also an5 |