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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16
NEW QUARTZ MILLS.
a TWenfy- Stamp Mil Plant
For the Ciereidnd Mine
In 1ttOH District.
And A Five Stamp Mill For the Mayfiower
Mine in Warrens Will Be Taken
In This Summer.

Robt. Grostein has received
the shipping receipts for forty
thousand pounds of mining
machinery for the Cleveland
mine, in Alton district, and
has contracted to pack it in
this season. 1t is a twenty
stamp mill, and it will be erect
ed at the NINE.
Mr.. Benson has also engaged
to pack a five stamp mill into
Warrens this spring for the
Mayhower mining Co.
Keep your eye on Idaho
County. She is climbing tothe
front with both feet.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16
Letter From Mrs. c. M. Kirkwood.
Amity, O'gn.. Nav z. lRQ


EDITOR FREE PREss:-I wish through
your columns to assure the friends Of
Mrs. Bunker and myself, who 80 kindly
entrusted to our care the Pictures OF
their Loved and Lost" that their treas.
ures haye not fallen into carelesshands.
but have been kept as a sacred trust Of
friendship.
l have guarded them night and day
when travelling and now have them in
the hands of the Artist to COPY. When
finished, will send the originals by
express to the care Of Hon. L. p. Brown,
OF Mt. Idaho. within the next sixty days.
am sorry that could not get the
pictures OF Mrs. Elfers and family, and
also Mrs. Walsh. l have written them
repeatedly, without result.
The, Slate Creek people too have
turned deaf ear to my appeal. hoped
to have been able to hand their names
down through the annals of history.
With regards and thanks to my friends
on Camas Prairie and the River, 1 am
Yours truly,
MRs. C. NJ. KIRRwooD.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16

The co-partnership heretofore exist
ing under the firm name of Cook &
Davis. doing business at Grangeville.
Idaho, is this day dissolved by mutual
consent, d. B. Gardner having pur.
debts due the old firm of Cook & Davis
must be paid to T. j. Davis, who will
also pay all liabilities of the said firm Of
Cook q Davis. j. b. Cook,
I. ]. DAVIS.
Grangeville, Idaho. May IL. 1890.
NoTIcE-All persons knowing them
selves indebted to the late firm of Cook
Davis are requested to call and settle
at once as the books of said firm must
be closed without delay. 7. ]. DAVIS.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16
Idaho and Wyoming Must Wait.

spoksn Falls Review.l
WASHINGTON. d. c.. May 7.-Senatorial
courtesy received shock to-day when
an effort was made to postpone the con.
s.lderation of the silver bill and give
Idaho and Wyoming the right of way.
IL had been agreed by the republican
caucus committee that the silver bill
should be postponed. Senator Beck's
death lost two days which were to have
been devoted to Idaho and Wyoming
and 1t was proposed to work the
courtesy claim, and give silver the 20
by, but Senator Vest objected, saying
that the only object for admitting these
states was to make room for two sen.
ators from Idaho and two from Wyoming.
AS the silver bill had been made the
special order the Missouri senator was
able to cause its consideration, and the
two new would-be states will wait for a
few weeks before being admitted.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16
The Pioneer Hardware Store.

The Pioneer hardware store of G. C.
Bunnell, at Lewiston. has the agency
for the sale of Glidden barbed wire.
1t is truthfully claimed that this is the
best wire in the world, and also the
cheapest, quality considered. Mr.. Bum
nell carries full stock at all times, and
will always be glad to see all his old
friends, and as many new ones as are
pleased to call. The Pioneer hardware
store is the oldest, largest and most
complete establishment of its kind in
the whole of Idaho, and beats thsae ali
on prices and quality of goods.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16

A meeting of the Pioneer Association
of Idaho County will be held at the
Court House at Mt. Idaho on Saturday
afternoon, May IL, 1890. at O'Clock.
A full attendance of members is re-
quested. to make arrangements for the
annual Reunion on June Is.
is. WELLER, l.. P. BROWN.
Sec. President
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16
Game Chickens Pure Derbys

am now prepared to furnish settings
of eggs from the purest and best bred
strains of birds on the coast. For Game
fighters, good layers the Derbys have NO
successful rivals. Eggs, single settings,
of thirteen eggs, So. Address:
5-2. SAN Hour. Lewiston, Idaho.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16
School District No. 6.

There will be meeting of the voters
Of School District No. 6. on Saturday
May II, 1890, at 10 O'Clock In. for the
purpose OF appointing committee to
build the new school house. A full at
tendance is ddsired.
w. W. Stillwell,
]. B. Cook,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16
CHURCH APPOINTMENTS.

n. E. Church. Of Grangeville Circuit. Colum-
bia River Conference.
Services at Grangeville on LIST, 2nd and 3rd
Sabbath. Z 90 p. NJ. on 2nd and 4th Sabbath, II
A. NJ. Prayer meeting every Thursday, z p. NJ.
Sabbath-school every Sabbath, 10 A. NJ.
At Lake school house, every 1st Sabbath, II
A. NJ.
Atkinson school house. LIST Sabbath, p. NJ.
Larimer school house, 2nu Sabbath. IL A. NJ.
Fairview scnool house, 3rd Sabbath, IL A. N.
Mt Idaho, 4th Sabbath, 7P. NJ.
A. MAxEY Pastor
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-16
HEADQUARTERS COMPANY c.,
IDAHO GUARDS.
iRANGRvILLE, /. T., May IA, 1890,

COMPANY ORDER NO. o.
All members of Co. G, Idaho Guards.
are requested TO report to their Armory
sYery SUNDAY evening al p. M, Tor
dress parade, until further orders.
BY order of CAPT. f. BECK,
Comd'g Go. and Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

old and needed sympathy, as his wife and
child were in the far east. She filled him
with bright hopes of fortune and restored
health on the Pacific coast, and he was fas-
cinated by the picture.
The next scene shows Or" Inman
running an "electro-therapeutic vapor
bath" establishment at S67 Mission street.
San Francisco and Idr Benjamin as her
resident patient. She told two or three of
her intimate friends that she intended to
"cure him up and marry him as soon as
he got divorce from his present wife z"
But discovery was made-two discoveries,
in fact. He discovered that the vapor
baths were fast destroying what little
strength he had left, and she that he was
not so rich as she had supposed. She
drove him from the house, and he went to
see lawyer.
To him Mr. Benjamin made the humili-
ating confession that he had given Dr.
Maude every dollar of his cash, and decided
to her his real estate, the scheme being
that the two were to establish health
home and invalids' retreat on her estate
near San Rafael" The lawyer set the de-
tectives to work, and not an hour too soon,
| for Or" Inman and her accomplice, Viola
Belts, were arrested just as they were
making ready to leave the city. Part OF
the money had gone to furnish lodging
house managed by the woman, part they
| had squandered and remnant was recov-
cred.
| The net result of the trial is that poor
old Benjamin RECEIVERS the title to his rea
! estate and a few, very few, dollars il
money, the women go into retirement for &
while as guests of the state, and the public
has another satirical laugh at the ways O.
an old man in the wilcs of woman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

associated tract between them and the lin
quail centers had. For time his mind
evidently ran on the last thing he remem
bered prior to the quarrel, and he kept de-
manding lone glass more" Then his in
tellect seemed to, clear, and an attempt was
made to ascertain his name. Apparently
he was a Swede, and on this basis ne was
addressed as Ole.and Hans. He evidently
dissented to these appellations by shakes
of the head, but when one of the attendants
called him Alfred he nodded emphatically,
and gave delighted assent to the further
title of Swanson, so that it is now supposed
that his full name is Alfred Swanson. A
recent visitor to his bedside says:
Except when he is delirious he is most
exemplary patient. as he lies in his bed,
smiling and talking away in his unintel-
igible manner When asked question
he seems to think, and then his eyes
brighten, and he tries his hardest to an
swer, evidently knowing what he wants to
say, but utterly unable to express himself
He submits to the dressing of his wound
with the utmost complacency, and never
moves muscle while the siphon is being
placed in the cavity. When asked if it
hurts he says No. sir and is as gentle as
a child He obeys everything said to him,
and lifts or lowers his head just as he is
told. The only way that it can be told
that he is feeling anything is in the altera-
ton of his respiration and the Quickening
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

adding to the accumulation of strange and
startling events which thrill, shock, excite
or disgust the average citizen. Some dis
play vulgar brutality only, but Others
command attention because of puzzling
and apparently unsolvable surroundings.
Chief among these latter prominence must
be given to what is known as the Edgar
CASE
So far as known the details of this as
tonishing affair are as follows: One day,
not long ago, a well dressed, fine looking
man of middle age appeared at the coun-
ter of the Getty house, hotel in Yonkers,
just north of New York city, and regis
tered as George Smith. He carried with
him valise of costly make and paid for
two days lodging in advance, explaining
that he would not take his meals in the
hotel because his business engagements
pecessitated irregular hours. Save for an
occasional glimpse as he passed through
the corridors this was the last seen alive of
the self styled George Smith.
On the afternoon of the second day OF
his soiourn at the Getty house chamber
maid found him lying dead on the lounge
in his apartment. A medical man who was
called in declared that the guest had COM
mitted suicide by taking morphine, and
this opinion received support from note
discovered on the table in which the sup
posed Mr.. Smith apologized for the trouble
to be caused by his demise
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29
A CREDULOUS OLD MAN.

He Allows an Adventures to Fool Him
Out of His Property.
Mrs. Maude Inman, sometimes called
"Doctor," has beat the record in making
complete clean up of her victim. Mr.. D.
R. Benjamin, of Denver, was stranger.
and she took him in-took him in for 81 1895
cash and all the real estate he owned, about
$1,000 worth; but after all she was not
smart enough to get away with the
"swag" She made the mistake women of
that sort so often make-she stayed
around too long, trusting that the shame
and timidity of her victim would restrain
him from applying to the law, and so the
"coppers" laid hands on her just as she
was leaving San Francisco.
The trial developed curious history.
Five years ago she appeared in California
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

Apparently it was a clear case of self
slaughter, which demanded only the for
mality of a coroner's inquest and the in
terment of the corpse in pauper's grave,
for the mans valise was missing, and he
had left no money or personal effects to
defray the expenses of any other sort of
funeral. However, just as the authorities
were closing up the record of the case,
satisfied that Smith was only another of
the many wrecks of humanity who had
found life not worth living, there appeared
on the scene a certain Mr.. Perrin III. Sum-
ner, who identified the body as that of a
rich client named James H. Edgar. He
stated that the dead man, in company with
two nephews, George Edgar and Robert
Rowe, had had large business transactions
with him, and that only the week before
he had paid to the supposed suicide s., coo
in cash, for which sum he held a receipt
He expressed the opinion that the fare
well note found on the table was written
by some other person, and that his former
client had been fouliy dealt with. This
declaration and Mr.. Summers supplement-
airy statements regarding the wealth and
standing of Mr.. Edgar and his nephews in
England reused the police of Yonkers and
New York city to extraordinary activity.
No local trace could be found of George
Edgar or of Robert Rowe, but cable in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

has mysteriously disappeared, was resi-
dent of Mitchell, Ind, where he had fine
reputation as musician, and enjoyed the
confidence and respect of his neighbors.
He left his house for his Office one morning
not long ago, and since then his family
have heard nothing of him, despite the
most diligent inquiry. In his case, as well
as that of Droxler, the usual theories of
women, debt and drink have been adj
vanced, but no proofs are at hand to estab-
lish any of these scandalous suggestions,
and both of the Sisappearances must be
added to the list q - nsolved and mysteri-
GUS affairs WHICH go to prove the truth of
the old saying that ''Fact is stranger than
fiction" FRED G. DAYTON.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

ner, apparently aSSalied Dy douU0s, securel
the disinterment of the corpse and had it
subjected to tests which in themselves
seem horrible and unnecessary. The mani
mate reilc of humanity was attired in
suit of clothes and seated on a chair. Still
claiming to be in doubt Mr.. Sumner
caused the gravediggers TO straighten the
decaying limbs and display the body in
standing posture. He placed himself be-
side it, saw sha1 the corpse was less in
height than himself, and finally asserted
that he had been mistaken in his original
statement, and that the body was that of a
stranger.
It was reinterred, and Mr. Sumner re-
turned to New York city, where he has
since been busted in making explanations
regarding events in his own career, the
newspapers having devoted considerable
space to his record since he assumed prom
inence in connection with the strange and
still unexplained death at the Yonker.
hotel. However, SO many queer things
have been brought out during the investi-
cation of the tragedy that the police are
still continuing an active and exhaustive
inquiry, and one of these days it may be-
come known who George Smith really
was, why Mr.. Sumner declared that he
was James Fl. Edgar, and what the object
was to be served by afterward reversing
that decision. At present, though, the
whole matter has prominent place among
criminal puzzles yet to be solved.
While the Edgar case must take rank as
the most remarkable in modern mysteries
of death, it has companion piece in a
mystery of life equally remarkable and al
most as sensational.
Early one morning recently awell dressed
man. while under the influence of liquor,
got into an alteration with Chicago
street car driver The quarrel eliminated
in blows, and the passenger wa. hit on the
head with a coupling pin. An intelligent
policeman took him to station house.
charged him with intoXication and locked
him in one of the cells. Three hours later
physician discovered a wound the size of
half dollar behind the prisoners left ear
! in the shape of a cavity full of blood clots
and crushed brain matter. A large guam
! tity of the latter had oozed out, and the
doctors at the hospital to which the man
was removed declared the case hopeless
/ one. However, they dressed the wound
and were rewarded by a surprise. After
lowering for days between life and death
/ the man regained large share of his phys
ical strength. He could speak, but not
intelligibly.
1t was found that while the speech cen
ters themselves had not been destroyed the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29
THEY TRAVELLED AS BROTHERS.

a aIan and Wife Who Worked Their
Way, Both in Male Attire.
Ben and "Arthie' Claire, of Wolf City,
Tex, found it very inconvenient to work
their way across the continent as man and
wife, so they concluded to travel as broth
ers. She dressed accordingly, and took the
name of Arthur. They worked at odd
jobs and got along splendidly till they
reached Kansas City, where they were ar
rested, stranger claiming that he recog-
nized the woman and so notifying the po-
lice.
Such is their story. But the matron at
the police station called attention to the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

UIIat BIG was tHe
daughter of well-to-do farmer who had
ran off with the hired man. As the police
declined to hold the couple. and as they
left town in proper attire, no one knows
the resl facts.
An odd feature of the case was that when
the girl was reclothed in the habiliments
of her sex she looked much younger
apparently not over 16, while her male
companion was at least 35-and she was
much better looking, too, as girl than as
a boy, both facts contrary to the usua,
rule in such cases. She said they had
worked their way very pleasantly from
Texas and were going to locate on farm
"away out west" and in that direction
they departed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

of the action of the heart and pulse.
Though the man will get well, he will
never have the entire use of his faculties.
His speech will probably always be more
or less affected, and his memory on certain
subjects uncertain and defective"
Equally strange, but entirely different
In the surrounding circumstances, are the
cases of Stephen Droxler and Professor j..
w. Stortts. Droxler is resident of Michi-
gan, and recently visited New York city in
company with his wife. He went out for
stroll along the streets of Gotham, and
nothing has been seen or heard of him
since. He had but little money with him
at the time, and Mrs. Droxler and the
police as well are at loss to know what
has become of him.
Professor Stortts. the other man who
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

race that the girls
h Il d s were too
s m all and too
white for her to
have done as hard
work as she claim
ed, and to the fact
t ha t the general
style and get up of
the lass was not
that of a working
woman. The mat
ron's guess was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

and soon married
Fred Inman, WHO
got a divorce from
her within a year.
She next eloped
with q hotel clerk
W h o abandoned
her. In Denver
she met d. r. Ben
jamin, a contrac-
tor and builder in
a small way, who
had become par
TALLY paralyzed.
Ito WING Sl 1yaorc
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

The great appetizer, tonic and liver regu-
lator. Positive specific for liver complaint.
Bad taste in the mouth on arising in the
morning, dull pains in the head and back Of
the eyes, tired feeling, dizziness-symp-
toms of liver complaint. Remedy DIR.
Henley's English Dandelion Tonic. Get
the genuine from your druggist for 81, and
take according to directions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29
STRANGE CASES.
All More Wonderful Than Any
in Fiction.
P. Il. SUMMERS QUEER CONDUCT.
He Identifies Suicide as an Old Friend
and Then Retracts His
Statement.

II life itself is a mystery, what name is
there left to apply to the various remark
able circumstances cropping out from day
to day in connection with human exist
ences
No twenty-four hours of mingled light
and darkness slip into the past without
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29
Sob mer Pianos.
THE SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL.

Expense of tuition greatly reduced by
joining the graded piano classes now form
ing. For particulars address Mr.. T. X.
Morris, Calder's music store. Private les
sons on moderate terms, Refers by per-
mission to Prof. II. S. Krouse
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

guiries sent to the alleged home of the
iamily in England brought replies that
while Rowe was well known, no persons
answering the descriptions of the Edgars
had ever resided in the locality.
Meanwhile the man who had died at the
setty house had been buried. Mr.. Sum-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29

Spectacular musical extravaganza, Mon
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29
TaKE 1T BEFORE RREAKr,S7

Houten's Cocoa-Largest sale in the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-29
LOTHING DEPARTMENT.

This Department is supplied from the Leading
Manufacturers, and consists of Mems, Youths and
Chdrens Overcoats and Suits Chinch Tor Barkeepers
and Walters Goods.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-25
STEAMERS.

CKAGIT RIVER ROUTE
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-25
THE LAND OFFICE BUSINESS.
Receiver G. l.. Ogden Makes Some
Interesting Comparisons.

Mr.. G. L.. Ogden the receiver of the land
Office, said last evening: "We have done
much more business than we had expected
after part of our territory was embraced in
that of Olympia office. and Seattle is still
doing the largest land Office business in
the United States.
I'VE had estimated that one-tifth of the
business would go down to Olympia, but
that estimate was incorrect, for we have
not fallen off one-fifth since the division of
the district. The Olympia district now in
cludes Chehalis and Thurston counties,
most of Pierce and half of Mason. An estl-
mate has been made that there are sixteen
unsurveyed townships in it. But a good
deal of this unsurveyed land is in the east
ern part of the district among the Cas-
cades, and even running to their SUBMITS.
Such land will never be taken except for
mineral claims. One reason that so much
of the district is surveyed is that Thurston
is one of the oldest settled counties of the
state. The Olympia office will have a good
deal of contest business, for many of the
claims in that region are contested.
''0ur own business has picked up a good
deal in the past two weeks The receipts
week before last were $6000. Last week
they were Si1. 700-nearly double This
week, | suppose, they will be about -, 900.
The reason for the increase is that good
many who have been out on their claims
all summer have come in to prove up, and
q good many are filing preparatory to
going out next summer.
1.-The new appropriation for surveys will
throw open seven new townships, which
will, of course. keep us pretty busy.
THE Waterville Office will do large
business before long, for it has charge of
the Okanogan and Conconnully mining