Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-03-29
OUR WEEKLY UND- UP.

Grangeyille prospers.
: Mt. Idaho fourishes.
Camas prairie grows apace.
Land buyers are flocking in.
Railroad prospects are brighter.
A big mining boom is expected.
And that is how the spring of 1SS
opens up on Camas prairie.
The stage line is doing good passen
ger business already this year.
Mr.. Larimer is teaching school in tn,
No. 10 district. near the Rookie place.
Hon. Cassius NJ. and Mrs. Lon Day
are expected back to-day from Kansas
The horse roundup keeps all hands
on the range, and the town is very
quiet In consequence.
The Exchange saloon has been refur-
nlshed from basement to attic and is
more attractive resort than ever.
Mrs. Binnard, of Lewiston. arrived up
Saturday on q visit to her daughter
Mrs. Wax, who IS in failing health.
Green Dallas is on the streets again,
and looks pretty well patch ed up, con-
slcering how recently lie was injured.
Postmaster Beck had an attack of
heart disease which keeled him over
for short time last Thursday, but he
was on deck again next day.
Several hundred prospectors from the
different camps in Cnur d'Alene will
be sWarmiDg into the Bitter Root noun
tains hunting quartz this summer.
Gam Dillinger started for his ELK city
and Dixie diggings last week, and lett
the ducats for the Sunday school organ
to fetch him the news from the prairie
The steamer is running regularly on
Snake river and arrives at ewiston on
Thursdays and Sundays, ard returns
the following day, making close con-
nectlon with the cars at Rparia.
Billy Randall is back from Montana
after four years absence, and swears
there is no place like Camas prairie.
After securing a house he will go for
MS wife and boy and return Ito stay
Bert King, of the Mayhower mine,
left Weiser for Warrens, March 90 and
will put in a good summers work on
the claim. Luther Johnson spent the
winter in Kansas city and will return
next month.
There will be bills and statements Of
account aggregating several hundred |
dollars sent out from this office next
week, and parties who receive theirs |
written out in red ink will understand |
that we must have money or blood.
Ero,,Iz
is disgracing his family by his thieving
propensities in the Wallowa country
and ii the vigilantes catch up with him |
he will have the honor of being the
chief guest at an impromptu necktie |
party. He is bad egg.
Mr.. Sampson, of Genesee, is here with |
two magnificent stations, one being a |
full-blooded Clydesdae, and the other
a half Percheron and half Black SAT- n.
Bros. haye bought the latter
and are highly pleased with him. He is
a four-year-old. and weighs 600.
Ch. Christie came up from Freedom
Sunday to celebrate Harrison's inaugu-
ration, whom he backed heavily to win |
in the fateful ides of November last and |
made scoop all along the line. He is
a Mexican war veteran, republican
from way back, and a good man too,
and don't care who knows it.
A wagon passed up Salmon river last
week, on wheels-sometimes on only
two, 1t Is true-but it was real wagon,
with real wheels, nevertheless, and the
residents along the river are indebte to
the enterprise of Nike Deasy, OF John
Day creek, for the unaccustomed sight.
The wheels in some places were at right
angles to the bank, but they got ber
through for "a that.
NoTICE.-Whereas there are unjust
and ill-founded rumors in circulation to
the effect that Miss Mamie Brockman
is incompetent as teacher, we wish to
state that she has taught school in our
No. l3. and gave good satisfac-
tion, and we hereby recommend her as
capable and we'll qualified to any other
district desiring teacher. J. G. Eccles,
w. ii. Zumwalt, VIM. Hill. Board Of
directors district No. 13.
A whisper reaches us from Omaha
that the Charles Francis Adams man
agement of the Union Pacific system
will be overthrown at the next meeting
Of the board of directors. 1t is also af.
"a tbdo iHC " ldAi " anu
Oregon Short Line railways are to be
under one management.
which will be beneficial to the Union
Pacific and its tributary country. The
Union Pacific people have also bought
out the Pacific hotel company, which
means the placing of dining cars on all
their passenger trains, thus making a
vast improvement over the present stop
over system.
The supreme court last week sustaine ed
he judgment of the district court in the
" oolley mandamus case, thereby reaf-
irming the validity of the Idaho test
path. This was the case decided Just
before the late election by Judge Berry,
)f the third judicial district, and who
also decided that the registration agent
vas authorised to refuse to register
Known or admitted member of the Nor
non church, though having but one
wife. But thousand decisions will
lot alter the one glaring fact that the
est oath law was conceived and enacted
n partisan malice, and with the avowed
lesipn of disfran nchisinu Q00 dapoo