Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-03-21
OUR WEEKLY ROUND UP.

iioh-'iau Hote oooRS tor sale mere.
No complaints about drouth thi
spring.
W. c. Bates left on Tuesday for Butte
Montana
We are ready TO receive wood OF
subscription.
QIartz and placer location blanks fol
sale at this Office.
Tom Pearson spent last week at hi.
White Bird ranch.
The mud is deeper on the prairie than
for several years past.
Alexander & Freidenrich pay the
highest price for county warrants.
Th. Wall remembered the FREE Press
this week in a substantial manner.
s. w. Reynolds came up from the
river last Friday, returning Monday.
No preaching services in Grangeville
Sunday on account of the wet weather.
Pell Sherwin went to Salmon river
Monday to look after his stock interests.
B. Chamberlain came up from his
Salmon river ranch the first of the
week.
Read the article descriptive of the
Clearwater country which we publish
this week.
The meat market of G. w. Hashagen
is enclosed and will soon be ready for
occupancy.
Call on r. F. Fulton at the FREE
PRESS Office when you want any notari-
al work done.
The largest mail ever received at the
GrangeviIle post office in one day came
in Wednesday.
Now is the time to invest in Camas
prairie real estate. Values will sharply
advance shortly.
The colors of old Ireland were not
very nume.ously displayed on The
streets s.. Patrick's day.
Carloads Of stoves of all the latest de-
signs and improvements at the Pioneer
hardware store. Lewiston.
The gronnd squirrels are out and cur
lews have made their appearance. This
is said to be q sure sign of spring.
A communication from independence
Flat was received too late for this issue
of the paper. 1t will appear next week.
G. II. Brock man has one hundred acres
of fall sown grain. every bit of which
he pronounces to be in first-class condi-
tion.
w +. Schmadeka has been improving
the winter months putting up harness,
and now has supply ready made for
the spring trade.
c. III. Brockman and Henry Rowe ar.
rived from Lewiston Wednesday. Mr..
Brockman brought up set OF fiAe par
lor furniture for the editor.
Too much bad whiskey had the effect
of rousing the fgfA1hg procivities of
few of our citizens Wednesday. No
serious consequences resulted.
Messrs. Gardner, Cook and Schultz
returned the first of the week from the
Middle fork of Clearwater. They report
plenty of snow and ice there yet.
Farming and mining implements,
hardware, tinware, and a thousand and
one other things too numerous to mem
tion. at c. c. Bunnell's. Lewiston.
There is a hitch in the statehood
boom in Washington and it begins to
look as though we will have to be
content with an enabling act this ses-
sion.
After the Grange had concluded it's
session last Saturday night a social
dance was held at which the best of
feeling prevailed and a pleasant time
enjoyed.
j. c. Litchfield sends us word from
Elk that he cannot do without the good
news contained in each issue of the
FREE PRESS and directs that it be sent
The famous rush of year ago into
Oklahoma was equaled if not surpassed
on the 14th of this month, when 20 900
settlers crossed the Kansas boundary
line and settled upon the Cherokee
strip.
The time Of the Senate the past two
weeks has been occupied by debating
the Blair Educational bill, which
appropriates $4,000. 900 among the states
for educational purposes in proportion
to illiteracy.
Green Dallas arrived up from Lewis
ton last Saturday with load of freight
for Weller & Wax. He reports the
roads in the vicinity of Lewiston and
up Tammany good. Near Lake Waha
they are the worst on the line.
The United States Senate has seated
the 1.-TWO republican claimants from
Montana. This makes solid republican
congressional delegation from the north.
west. After the next election there will
he some changes in this respect.
Daniel Frew and family leave Mt.
Idaho next Monday for Walla Walls.
where they will reside in the future.
We are always sorry to see such citizens
as Mr.. Frew leave, but wish him the
utmost success in his new home.