Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-10-31

! Tickets are only two dollars, and may
be had of Capt. Beck or Sergeant Stein
heiser. Read the advertisement for the
supper arrangements.
The lumber for the Presbyterian cha.
pei at Mt Idaho is being sawed at Mr..
Browns mill. and the building will be
erected shortly. The Presbyterian
board of missions have promised to
donate $500 towards it.
Amos Carver has raised this season
ten thousand pounds of what he says
are the flmst winter apples in America.
His pack train will be up with load of
them next week, and if you want any.
leave orders with A 4 f.
The grass is growing finely all over
the range, and with the prospect of
more good weather and lots of feed on
hand, our cattlemen are in better shape
than they ever were to carry their herds
Trough hard winter without anxiety.
Grant Benedict was up from the river
this week and brought us two mammoth
apples which were grown on his moth
er's ranch at Horseshoe Bend. They
were of colossal size and exquisite fla
vor. and deserved to be exhibited at the
Spokane Exposition.
We were up to see Jesse Smith Sun
day and found him much improved. He
can now rest his paralysed foot upon
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their fiexibility, and he can nearly ar
ticulate again. His physical health is
also very much improved.
DIR. Nickel is having we'll dug on his
block of sixteen lots which adjo,ns the
Academy block on the northwest. In
the event that he finds water in easy
depth, he will build himself fine house
and make 1t the finest residence pro-
perty in Grangeville.
w. L. Costley left us Saturday two
pigs feet that show quite freak of ma
ture. There were two distinct feet on
one fore leg, while tho other had FIVE
complete and well-formed toes. We are
also obliged to him for the first mess OF
spare ribs of the season.
The recent rains have put the soil in
splendid shape for blowing, and great
quantities of winter wheat are being
sown. This is a step forward in the
right direction, and the resulting sur
plus next year will do more to bring us
railroad than all the subsidy we could
raise for the same purpose.
We have had some of the loyeliest
and most delightful weather that the
mind of man can conceive or desire for
the past few days. 1t is the last effort
of the departing summer against the ad-
vancing hosts of grim old winter. The
final conflict will soon come off, and the
stormy season may be here any day.
Here is nut for some of our Camas
Prairie people to chew on. The people
on the Weiser side are selling butter at
retail in Warrens for thirty cents per
pound, and good bacon at bit pound.
Why this is thus passes our comprehen-
sion, for those articles are higher here
than they are in Warrens. 1t ought
not to be SO, but so it is.
John Sherman said once that the
average American citizen dearly loved
to be taxed. Well, the Mckinley tariff
bill makes them pay from 60 per cent
to 400 per cent, more than things are
worth. They must indeed dearly love te
be taxed to keep on voting to perpetu-
ate the power of the party that imposes
such enormous tariff taxes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Keys are recen
arrivals from Ray county, Missouri
They are brother-in-law and sister o
John P. Hartman, whose guests the,
will be this winter. We extend them
hearty welcome, and hope they will b,
so well pleased with Camas Prairie peo
pie and country they will decide to 10
cate among us permanently.
Tuesday night was beauty. with
great big moon shining clear and col,
in the cloudless sky, and Company
were put through their customary drill
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Governor Wiley was spectator, and a
the close of the drill congratulated tn
Company on their fine military appear
ance, and the proficiency they have al
tanned in the manouvres.
The Overland Monthly is splendid pe
riodical, devoted to Pacific coast liters
ture. Its table of contents is feast
reason every month, and its circulatio
should be general on this side of th
continental divide. The number for til
current month contains chapters on tn
"CGur d'Alene Boom" "The Najay
Indians" and long list of equal
characteristic and instructive articles.
The man who likes his toddy seen
destined to have hard time of it in tn
wicked world, If the signs of the tim,
are worth anything. In old Missouri
he must stand up to drink, while
| Massachusetts, he must sit down.
, Kansas he must swear he is affiict,
with glanders or pinkeye, and in Ioy
s he must commit perjury and endang
his soul, while in Nebraska it is a per
tentiary offense to treat ones neighbo
: A note from James McDermott, date
# st. Mary's Hospital, Walla Walla, o,
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