Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-04-12
Pioneers meet tomorrow.


exander q Freidenrich.
The quartz interests of Idaho count,
will loom up this summer.
Srhere are seventeen pupils attendin.
Mrs. Halls private school.
~%No rain has fallen in the Big Benz
country for fourteen months.
Mr. Schmadeka has had his new ad.
dition to Grangeville recorded.
Weller & Wax will pay the highest
cash price for county warrants. If
Mrs. Lo is in town from Kamiah with
her ponies, purps and papooses.
The U. S. grand jurymen from this
county returned from Lewiston Sunday.
Miss Anna Faulkner, q niece of Har-
ry Faulkner, came up on las: Tuesdays
stage from California, to remain perma.
nently with her uncle.
George Alxire was up from Slate creek
Saturday and among other business or
dered the f. p. sent to his brother-in-
law at the Dalles, Ogn.
The new Northern Pacific steamboat
arrived at Lewiston on Sunday last, and
will make regular trips to Ainsworth
when the water permits.
o. c. White. of Dayton, son of our
old pioneer, Chas. White, and a brother
to Frank c., has been appointed secre-
tary of Washington territory.
Hon s. s. Fenn will start into the
Bullion mire in a few days and will
ship several car loads of ore from that
ole 81, 4 mi, .
The Sundav.school is preparing spe-
cial service for Easter Sunday, the Dist.
The exercises will consist of music and
recitations appropriate to the occasion.
An Omaha dispatch of April 1st says
that the Union Pacific is making ar
rangements for the purchase outright
of the Oregon Railway and Navigation
lines.
The mining claim on the south fork |
of Clearwater, owned by the late Slas
Johne. will be sold 10y the administrator
at Mt. Idaho tomorrow Saturday at |
one O'clock.
Capt. Hawley returned from Calfor-
MIA last week and expresses himself as
delighted with that country. He will |
go into Warrens next week to prospect |
the Patchem mine.
TIL. Sandburg. of Rocky canyon, con-
trbuted two chinook salmon to our dew
il last week and he has been keeping
lent ever since. Only eats one meal a
day, and that lasts from early morn til
dewy eve.
Five families from Mr.. Reeds neigh
borhood, in Marion county, Ogn., will |
be here soon to buy land and make per-
manent homes on Camas prairie We
extend cordial welcome to them
and will gladly help them to hunt up
the land they want.
'~gTho horses belonging to the estate of
the late w. B. Allison were sold at pub
llc sale by the administrato at the
court house last Saturday and went off
very cheap. The sixty-one head netted
only 1919, and they were purchased by
different parties from all over the prai-
rie.
Mr.. w. B. Palmer, the well-known
agricultural implement canvasser, is
now connected with George Morrison,
of the Lewiston branch of the Mitchell
Lewis company, and will pay particular
attention to the trade of Camas prairie,
and will offer special inducements to
our people to trade with them. They
are a strong team and will be found good
boys to do business with.
Henry Meyer called last week and in
formed US that fourteen prominent far
mers of his neighborhood have organi-
sed stock company to purchase and
operate well auger, and as soon as it
arrives they will sink the first well on
the Hofistetter ranch. lately purchased
by Mr.. Banthol, and will then bore
holes on the other ranches. The ex-
pertinent will be watched with great
interest. The stockholders are Henry
Meyer, NJ. l.. Butler, VIM. vonBerge,
J. II. and August Won Bargen, j. G.
Doss, w. NJ. Mclean, J. B. Crea, w.
J. w. Allen and l.. Bathol.
L any of the stockmen of Idaho
G want to increase their supply ofstock
cattle, let them take a trip to the Weis-
ar country and buy them up at SIS per
head. Small herds can be bought down
there for less than that, owing to the
range having been eaten out by sheep,
driven over from the Oregon side of
Snake river. That country as we re-
member it ten and twelve years ago, was
the best stock range in America, but the
sheep have proved more destructive
than grasshopper raid. They were al
len sheep, too, and never paid cent of
taxes, while the resident stockmen paid
lakes on every hoof they owned. The
late legislature enacted a law which
makes transient herds of sheep taxable
wherever found and it is law which
should be rigidly enforced
The school trustees OF this district
have received a proposition from the
heirs of the Cunningham estate to buv
he Academy property for the amount
Of the mortgage and interest now over
due on it, The district is bound to have {
1 public school building, and it seems I
% us that under this arrangement it
would be much cheaper to buy than to
ouild. The directors may accept the I
proposition. A small expenditure of
he district funds would then suffice to {
tx up the building and grounds in
manner that would do honor to the 1
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