Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-07-19
OUR WEEKLY ROUND UT.

Sheriff White and w. n. Knox receive
ed their new road carts this week
II. II. Nuxoll Jr., of Cottonwood,
was over for load of -four last Friday.
Robt. Nugent and wife were over
from Cottonwood Monday and Tuesday.
We will publish next week the repor 3
OF the auditor and treasurer of Idaho
county.
Mr.. Binnard and family. of Lewiston.
came np Monday to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
II. Wax.
The stage from Mt. Idaho chased a
c,yote all the way to Grangeville on
Saturday.
Twenty-three numbers were sold at
the Willow creek dsnce on Tie night of
TIE Fourth.
The Grostein & Bnnard pack train
passed through town Tuesday morning,
bound for Warrens.
Mr. P. V. Coffey has built commod;-
GUS residence on his land near the stage
road on the Cottonwood side.
Our editor promises to write fnll de.
tails OF what the constitutional conven-
ton is doing, for our next issue.
All the creeks between here and Lew
iston are nearly, IL not all quite dry.
Sweetwater alone is running small
head.
Geo. Hall. former resident here and
n brother-n-law of J. Benoy, came owe r
from Cniontown, w. T., for his family
last week.
The fax planted in June on w. NJ.
Rice's ranch on Craig's mountain is
growing finely and will yield twenty
bushels to the acre from present ap-
pearances.
II. r. Buffham was arrested and tried
before Judge Case Tuesday of last week
for obstructng public highway en-
White Bird creek. The Judge found
The defendant guilty and assessed the
fine at S25 and costs.
The citizens Ct our town should take
some steps towards affordiug protection
against fire. If nothing more a large
cistern would be good thing. as there
is not well in town which will supply
more than few buckets Of water.
Pat GaffneY. of Weippe is making
!
on Musselshell creek in Shoshone coun-
ty. 1t is claimed that there is thirty
miles Of placer ground that would pav
il properly opened. The estimated co.. I
OF the enterprise is $4,000.
Mr.. Parker writes from Lewiston that
he has received private advices from
Washington that Mr.. Monteith is to be
removed and that delegate Dubois has
been telegraphed to recommend n new
man for the position, and that w. D.
Robbins, of Moscow, is the man.
Frank Grierson. district clerk, return
ed from CGur d'Alene on Wednesday
and says Judge Logan's health is much
improved and that he has gone east,
having got leave of absence. Mr.. G..
also reports seeing large number of
families at the Mission, enroute to Cam
as prairie and We may expect them here
in few days. -T.ltr.
Mr.. Lemmon. for many years division
agent on the Northwestern stage line.
is running Felix Warren's line between
Mt. Idaho and Lewiston. Felix now
owns every stage line running out OF
Lewiston except the Asotin and Pierce
City routes, and he has bought Baird
Bros. stable n additien. He is a rust.
lcr and tho: orgb stage man.
A case which is of interest to our peo.
pie generally, was tried before Justice
Sanders and a jury last Friday. In the
fall OF 1887, T. d. Swarts bought of J.
ID. Riggs bill of fruit trees amounting
to $l0l, for which he gave his note with
c. b. Wood as security. When the
note became due, Mr.. Swarts refused to
pay the same on the ground that it was
given without consideration, in that the
trees were worthless and all died. In
the trial of the case w. A. Hall APPEAR
ed for plaintiff and j. II. Forney for de-
fendant. The jury brought in verdict
In favor of the defendant.
Our editOr-in-chief took his departure
for Boise City on Saturday last to par
| ticipate in the constitutional convention
as delegate from Idaho county. He
had been fretting ever since the conven-
ton assembled because Idaho county
was the only county in the territory
which was not represented therein, and
his sense OF pnblic duty was SO strong
that all the kings horses and all the
kings men could not have kept him
long at home under such circumstances
Besides this, delegate Dubois is now in
Boise City, and he desired to have a
personal interview with that gentleman
about the wagon road bill which passed d
the legislature last winter and which
must be ratified by Congress before i,
becomes sure-enough law. We take
occasion to say in his absence, in his
own paper, that Mr.. Parker's public
spirit deserves to be appreciated by the
citizens of Idaho county to a greater ex.
tent than 1t is now, and we think few
hundred additional subscribers to the
FREE PRESS would crafty him and a.
the same time enlarge the sphere of hil
usefulness.
Grangeyille had narrow escape from
being destroyed by fire last Frida,
night. Several parties were standing il
front of Alexander & Freidenrich'
store, just afier dark. when a light wal
observed in Grange hall. No attention
was paid to this for several minutes
thinking it was some one getting a bool
which had been left there during tn,
afternoon. The light began to grow
brighter and was Pickering one, show
ing it not to he lamp. Mr.. Tom Pear
son, going to investigate the matter
found the hall door locked and lookinl
through the key hole he could see tn
fire burning on the floor. He gave tn
alarm Immediately and in a minute O
two the door was broken in and the fir
extingnished before further damage wa
done than the burning of hole abou
two feet across In the floor. Had tn
fire not been discovered when 1t was,
would have been impossible to checl
the flames, as we are wholly withou
means Of fighting fire. The fire was un