Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-09

A lazy man makes worthless citizen
We never knew it to fail
Press dispatches report South Dakota
as already suffering from drouth.
w. N. and Mrs Knox were visitors to
Grangeville from Mt. Idaho Saturday.
Miss Eda Clark opened her school in
the district across Clearwater on Mon
day last
The newspapers in the lower country
are already complaining of drouth, and
report crops already injured.
Our good friend Mrs. NJ. V. Jarrett.
remembered the printers last week with
the first lettuce of the season.
And now comes another good man.
j. f. Mclean, aud orders the f p. sent
away to ii. c. Mclean, INLAND, Ark.
The President has nominated Willis
II. fettit for surveyor general for Idaho.
lhe dispatch did not state his residence.
For SALE -l0head cattle and ranch
three miles from NJ. Idaho. ENQUIRE
"f L. oCKNAUkR or w. N. KNOX, Jr.,
Mt. Idaho. Idaho.
Hull Rice has long suffered from
| complaint of the eyes and of late it
seems to he growing worse; he now has
the left eye in Il bandage.
We are now receiving car load of the
genuine Glidden Barb Wire, the best
and only wire house.
ALEXANDER & FREIDENRrca.
Rev. A. Maxey will hold services on
sunday next at the Chase school house
at | a m, followed by sacramental SER
vice. Evening service at Grange hall
at the usual hour.
r. c. Spedden came out from Elk City
lastFriday and left next day forPomeroy.
lie reports work az being still pushed
forward on the Idaho Consolidated
Mining Co.'S properties.
Wheat on the Cottonwood side il said
to be worth 90 cents, and OH this side
one dollar a bushel. Potatcs are also
said to be selling over there for half a
cent pound less than on this side.
Rev. Maxey preached at Lake school
house on Sunday morning last, at the
Adkison school house in the afternoon
and at Grange hall in the evening, hav-
ing large and apprecative congregations
at each place.
Buf1ham was up last week from
White Bird with the first garden truck
OF the season, and found q ready sale
for all he brought. He has tomato plants
to sell at cent each. Leave orders at
the F. Z. office.
Mizpah lodge No. IL degree of Rebek-
ah. l. o. o. f., received its regalia last
week and the members thereof wore it
at their meeting last Friday night. The
total cost was sixty five dollars and the
lodge is pleased with its Investment.
The Idaho Test Oath" is being vigor-
ously debated by the press of the coun.
try, and the FREEPREss no longer stands
alone iii denouncing it as dangerous
and lIn-American usurpaton, and a step
backward in the direction of the dark
ages.
Mr.. Hunt has hoated six million dol
lars worth of bonds IN the east at 95
cents for the construction of his railroad
to Portland, and he will return soon
win plenty of money to push the road
through ard thus give the Inland em.
pire another outlet to tide water.
Politics in both houses of congress are
red hot this session, and the rabid par
tisans of both sides, like Cannon of Hin.
ois and Allen of Mississippi, are fire..
quently rebuked by the chair for un.
parliamentary language. Those two
member are worse than rival country
editors.
Tony Hendricks was over fromK euter-
Vile last week with some splendid
potatoes which he disposal of readily at
ID cents pound. Tony and his brothers
are about the largest family of land
owners in the county, and the Reuter-
vile town-sie is on his land. He SUBJ
scribed for the FREE PRESS while here.
Commander-in-C Chief of the Idaho
Guard, George L. Shoup, has appointed
the following named staff officers TO rank
as Colnels of Cavalry. Adjutant General.
e j. Curtis; Inspector General, Nelson
f. Kimball; Quartermaster General,
Charles A. Clark; Commissary General
of Subsistence, A. S. Senter Mastering
Officer, w. T. Riley.
John Coram was in town Monday
with a wagon load of home cured hams.
bacon and other farm produce and said
he Hooded the home market and wanted
us to tell the railroad men that he has
produce of all kinds to sell if they want
them real bad. He remembered the
printing Office with a mammoth ham
and several dozen eggs.
The editor OF this paper is now agent
for the Associated Press for all this part
of Idaho and we are keeping the wires
hot sending messages for publication.
Judge Sweets mining decision, and the
operation of the horse thieves in this
county were published in all the lead
ing papers of the United States. We
filled like position in Lewiston for
several years.
Tony Gordon accidentally shot him.
self last Friday. He was running horses
when his saddle horse fell with hin, and
the shock discharged his revolver, in
fiicting slight flesh wound in the right
thigh. young man named Wilman,
working for Frank McGrane across Sal
mon river, had also close call last week
by the accidental discharge ofa revolver
which he had just cleaned, the ball
grazing bis leg.
Senators Wolcott, of Colorado, and
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, both repub-
licans, voted against the seating of
Sanders and Power, the two senators
from Montana. Senator Ingalls,, ofl
Kansas. president oftheSenate apologised
for his vote by saying that "all is fair in
love and war;" and that "the strife be-
tween the two great parties is Just as
earnest and relentless as if the contend
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