Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-03-29
LE IDAHO CO.: IDAHO TERRITORY FRIDAY MARCH 49, 1885,
The kids are base-balling.
The ides of March are nearly over.
An open winter breeds rheumatism.
Idaho county is the land of promise.

An open winter breeds rheumatism.
Idaho county is the land of promise.
Join the procession and improve you
property right away.
And now Jim McCafferty is diligen
attendant at Sunday school!
Supervisor McGaffee is collecting las
years road poll taxes in this district.
Fred Noyes has finished fencing hi
ranch in Long Hollow, and will pasture
stock therein.
From all accounts there will be more
horses shipped out of Idaho county this
summer than ever before.
Sike Reynolds was enjoying a sun
bath Monday, after being bedfast for a
week with his old complaint.
There will be move in real estate up
here-when the road supervisors get to
work. Now is the accepted time.
If you have team of 1900 pound
draft horses for sale hunt up Mr.. Reed
here i'll town and talk trade with him.
That elegant stock OF spring millinery
goods imported by Mrs. &. l. Harris has
great attractions for the fair sex. Call
and inspect them.
The Grange hall is now illuminated
with two Rochester lamps, each of sixty
candle power, which is a marked i'm
provment over the old lights.
The snivel service reformers are get
ting it in the neck these days, and the
mugwumps are being gloriously sat on.
All of which is music to our ears.
Uncle Joe and aunt Sarah Bradley
will move up from White Bird next
week and renew their residence on the
old homestead in the Lake district.
Brocsman & Rice threshed $4,000
bushels of grain with their machine last
season. Brcckman has since bought
out his partner and will play lone
hand this summer.
Hank Earl was on the prairie Satur-
day gathering up his last bunch of cattle
to take back to the Salmon river range.
He will ship two carloads of horses to
New York state this summer.
Wallace Scott, of Mt. Idaho, returned |
home Saturday after a protracted vaca.
ton on the other slope of the conti-
mental divide. Mrs. Scott will sojourn |
with relatives in Illinois for awhile.
For SALE.-One hundred and sixty |
acres decided land; 160 acres timber cul-
ture; thirty head horses. ne-half cash.
balance on time. Enquire of Ernest
Smith, one mile down the creek from
Idaho.
The best map of Idaho is that pub
ished by the post Office department at
You can get one by send
ing dollar to delegate Dubois, as they
are only issued to congressman at the
bare cost OF publication.
Mr. Forney left for Moscow Saturday
IN legal business and will! not return
until the U. S. business before the Lew
son court is disposed of. He has been
retained by Shissler & Mathison to con-
luct their case in the event of their in.
iictment for timbe trespass.
From all reports the Butcher Boy
nine on Snake river, forty miles above
Lewiston, is a big thing. 1t is copper
,re, and yields high assays in silver.
Fhe mine is on the Oregon side of the
liver and steamboats, can run within a
Of the discovery drift.
The little town of Salubria, in Wash
ngton county, is putting on airs. She
t gives the outside world an idea of
what the people are doing. Its make up
S excellent, and the editorial depart
nent holds its head high up. The Citizen
ooks like slayer. Good luck attend it.
A little boy of Mr.. Shugart's residing
n Lake district, was missed last Friday,
md upon search being made he was
ound in a shallow well, almost drown
I'd. Prompt measures were taken to
esuscitate the child and courier des-
patched for DR.. Bibby. After several
hours hard work the child was revived
md has fully recovered.
AS the heirs of the c. NJ. Redmond
state cannot be found, no title can be
ssued to the homestead place, and so
he trade for the ranch which has been
bending between Mr.. Reed, of Marion,
ign, and the administrator is off. Mr..
Reed has since bought the old Coon
anch, in Long Hollow, and we are
.lad to extend HIM hearty welcome,
IS we need men of his stamp to prove
low productive country we have.
Our Cottonwood correspondent writes
dr. Chenoweth has sold his ranch to
Ir. Seubert for the sum of $500, and
he purchaser is gone back to Wiscon-
in after his family. Our old friend,
!. N. Osburn, the prospector, came up
rom the Salmon to-day where he has
'een working placer claim all winter;
le says the ground is paying four dol
ars day to the hand; we are glad to
zee him looking so well.... Mr.. Spofford
old his ranch and started for Chicago
asst week to work in a bank.....J. Gil
more and Vanness are on the sick list.
Sawmill men and everyone who uses,
n has used a foot of lumber, or who
Expects to be planted to await the resur-
ection morn in pitch-pine box, should
ook up the law and the rules and regu-
ations of the General land office, pub
lshed elsewhere, and see how much in
ines you owe the government, and how
many years vacation in the penitentiary
ou are entitled to for having violated
law of our beloved country. Under
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