Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-03-07
OUR WEEKLY ROUND UP.


Quartz and placer location blanks fol
sale at this Office.
MIR. Garfield returned from the Ceur
dAlene country on Wednesday.
Alexander & Freidenrich pay the
highest price for county warrants.
B rka Binnard came over from Cot
tonwood and spent Sunday in the city.
II. c. Browns little boy is quite sick
with an attack of irfiammatory rheu-
matism.
Call on R. F. Fulton at the FREE
Press Office when you want any notari-
al work done.
The proudest man in town these days
is Captain Beck and the object of his
pride is Company &C"
Hon. w. J. Mcconnell has our thanks
for copy of the u. S. Supreme Court
decision on the Idaho test oath.
Miss Dora C'Cilley will teach vocal
and instrumental music, at the resi-.
dence of Mrs. Shearer. Mt. Idaho
The dance in Grange hall on last Sat
urday night was a very pleasant affair
and all present enjoyed themselves very
much.
A large portion of tile Grangeville
letter mail Wednesday was carried
through to Mt. Idaho coming back on
the stage in the afternoon.
Farming and mining implements,
hardware, tinware, and thousand and
one other things too numerous to men,
tion. at G. c. Bunnell's. Lewiston.
W. A. Hall wishes to announce that
he will condnct all the business of his
law affairs at his residence until he re-
covers SO as to be up town again. Parties
will please call at any time.
Our Cottonwood correspondent sends
us the following, showing how the mer-
curry stood at the several places on Feb.
ruary 26th: Cottonwood, 22o below zero;
Keutervle, 260 below; Shissler's mill,
$50 below; Mason. $50 below.
J. W. Cunningham, assayer in charge
of the Boise Office, returned from Lew
iston last week. lie had been on a
little inspectional and statistical tour,
and is most favorably impressed with
the portions of North Idaho visited by
him.-Idaho Democrat.
Hon. Aaron F. Parker. came into our
Office this morning and gave himsel up.
He says, he is the unfortunate man that
predicted that he back bone of winter
was broken, and demanded the $40 re-
ward. We referred him to onr county
auditor.-Jomndl and JPd,clman.
A. r. Leeper, formerly of this prair e,
and brother of J. l.. Leeper, had on
the 10th of February, at Walla Walla,
six inches of his hip bone taken out. i.
Mr.. Leeper has been troubled for a
number of years with hip disease, and
the operation became necessary to save
his life.
Miss Dora D'Cilley, who taught
school at NJ. Idaho last summer, has
returned from Oregon, where she has
been spending the winter, and is again
with her friends in Mt. Idaho. She will
for the present devote herself to teach
ing music, for which vocation she is
thoroughly qualified.
Congress has fixed upon Chicago as
the place where the Worlds Fair will be
held in 1892. While the selection of
Chicago is victory for the west, from
the very position it occupies the display
from foreign countries can not be so full
and good as it would have been were
New York the place, and the fair will be
an American Exposition instead of a
worlds.
The reqnisition of Company &c" for
arms and uniforms has been honored by
the territory to the value of over $500.
As soon as the appropriation for the
next fiscal year is made, which will be
June 30th, the company will be furnish
ed with blankets, overcoats, tents and
camp equipage, and the company will
be ready for encampments and any
thing that msy come along.
The honse committee on territories
has reported fayorably bill to provide
for an additional associate justice of the
Supreme Court of Idaho. The Court at
present consists of three judges, who in
addition to their work as court of re-
view, have all the district court work to
attend to and as a consequence the court
dockets of the several counties are
crowded with cases, with but small hope
of them being cleared until relief is had
by the appointment of an additional
justice. We trust the bill will speedily
become law.
Mr.. Parker writes from Riparia O.
date February eth that lie arrived
there on the evening of The Goth, siz
hours late and that the boat had left or
schedule time, the Captain being fearful
of being frozen up. and that Riparia wal
no place for boat in such circumstan
ces. Mr.. and Mrs. Parker returned tc
Walla Walla. TO await development.
and moderate weather. Heavy snow
fell on the 23rd and the mercury wen
down to ll0 below every night up to The
date of his writing. The severe