Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-03-29
Gov. George L. Shoup, of Idaho.

saSn ana uOOr factory Is needed Ol
this prairie, and needed badly.
Weller & Wax will pay the highes
cash price for county warrants. If
Horse posters of any size and on an,
material printed at the F. P. office.
The five U. S. grand jurymen from
this county will leave for Lewiston TO.
morrow on official duty.
There are good many Republican.
for revenue only nowadays, and their
ranks seem to be growing.
Stockmen will find us prepared to
print cards, posters and circulars in the
best style and at the lowest rates.
Henry Pearson is temporarily on the
shelf at his ranch out on the Point, with
cold on the lungs. Mr.. Hall and family
paid him visit last Saturday.
Tacoma is booming and real estate
agents are doing Il land Office business.
There are 325, ,000 town lots plated, with
several additions to hear from.
G. A. Alexander was over from Cot
tonwood Monday, settling accounts a.
galnst the estate of the late J. Ii. Tho
mas, of which he is administrator.
The question is often asked where a
good drink can be had, and it is answer
ed lat the Pioneer saloon, Cottonwood,
where the A No. Cutter whisky is sold.
Mr. f. w. Bell is daily receiving new
invoices of furniture of all kinds. and
can supply you with sets from $32 to
SO. His show rooms are worth in
specting
Somebody ought to burn a kiln of
brick here this season. They will be
needed for flues and underpinning when
the building season opens at Grange
vile and Mt. Idsho.
A thirty-eight caliber Colts revolver
with cartridge belt, holster and ammu-
milton, was raffled off in the Exchange |
saloon Sunday night, and was won by |
the editor hereof. who will now 60.
cunning for delinquent subscribers.
A tasteful tombstone has been erected
in the Grangeville cemetery to the
memory of Alice and Ralph Wood by
their loving parents. The last resting
place o. Mr.. and Mrs. Il. D. Shcare.'s
infant is also commemorated by neat
white tablet.
1t is noticeable that everybody. who
comes to Camas prairie are well content
to stay. AS Sheba's queen told the
Master of the Level and the Square,
the half hath not been told" of the
wonderful fertility and beauty of this
garden OF the Gods.
Denham brought up load of freight
asst Friday, which included an invoice
IF liquors for Wood q McGrane. There
are some firm believers in "the gospel
IF the grape" in this burg, among whom
he mere thought of scarcity of liquor
s contingency too horrifying to con-
emplate with calmness.
Ike Orcutt is out from Warrens on a
title vacation with his many friends.
like all the rest of US he is growing old,
)ut is as tough, hearty and genial as of
'ore, and can clear more ground in q
lay than many men only half his age.
lie reports everything quiet inside, and
'nly six inches ofsnow on the meadows.
The Salmon river stockmen say thew
,ould have saved pots of money by
leeping their cattle on the river range,
instead of wintering them on the prai-
lie. Had it been hard winter they
would sing a different tune, for it takes
his prairie with its abundant and. ac-
;essibe feed to pull live stock through
| severe season.
AT the last meeting of Mt. Idaho lodge
No. 7, l. o. o. F., Messrs. Forney, Hall,
Parker, Wax and Sanders were named
Is committee to arrange program of
exercises for the appropriate celebra-
ion of the anniversary of the order on
april 20. 1t Is not yet known whether
he affair will be public or confined to
he triple link fraternity.
Mr.. VonBerge is adding Improvements
o the Eagle brewery all the time, the
atest being horsepower for grinding
malt and hosting water, and the pur-
,hase of fine air pump to draw beer |
iirectly from the cellar. Henry Schulz,
who has charge of the establishment,
promises the public to have his first
brewing of Book beer ready by May l..
Johnny Wilson and Harry Cone came
Up from Salmon river last Friday with
he sixty-one head of horses belonging
% the Allison estate. Several parties
.long the Weiser river are watching the.
FREE PRESS for the advertisement of
he sale of this stock, and the chances
ire that they will sell for all they are
worth. There are twenty or more studs
|
n the band.
The prospects are very bright for i'm
'ortant mining developments in Elk
'ity and the western slope of the Bitter
Root divide this summer That country
s veritable paradise for prospectors,
With wood, water. horse feed. fish and
,ame of all kinds everywhere, and a
'ast stretch of virgin country extending
rom Cour d'Alene on the north to the
purs of the Sawtooth range on the
outh, which has never been scratched
)y a prospector's pick. /
A petition to the board of commission
RS is circulating asking for change in
he county road between Grangeville
nd Mt. Idaho. The proposed road will
un east and west to f. B. Kings ranch,
md then takes a jog southerly to the {
ourt house. The land owners are said
o al! favor the change and to be willing
o deed the right of way to the county
rats. The proposed route is said to be
vast improvement over the present