Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-04-25
Grand jury report next week.

Mrs. w. A. Hall is teaching school /
the Telcher district.
We print stud-horse posters of an
size at reasonable prices.
Last weeks Lewiston Teller did no
arrive here until Tuesday.
Alexander & Freidenrich pay th,
highest price for county warrants.
A long string of teams filed into towr
Tuesday with freight for the stores.
Assessor Rice will commence looking
up the taxpayers next week on official
business.
Our storekeepers say that business is
better with them this spring than il
has ever been.
Levi Castle leaves to-day for the pla-
Ger claim on the south fork of Clearw at er
owned by Mark jarrett.
Carloads of stoves of all the latest de-
signs and improvements at the Pioneer
hardware store. Lewiston.
Ex.sheriG Hosler of Dayton skipped
recently to defraud his creditors but was
arrested at Ashland, O'gn.
The Union Pacific people have bought
Sll6O0O worth of real estate in Lewiston
and the people there are happy.
A letter from Lewiston received this
morning says that Mr.. Benson is much
better and out of immediate danger.
We learn that the fine fruit farm of
). N. Lindsay just east of the Lew iston
city limits has been sold for $45 700.
John Doumecq is reported as having
spring vegetables at White Bird. He
was III town yesterday and confirmed il.
j. S. McGaffee has purchased Beaver
Jacks placer claim on the middle fork
of Clearwater and will soon start out to
operate it.
Mrs. Jacob Crooks We regret to say
continues very sick, and no i'm mprovment
in her condition has been noted for
some time.
For SALE.-10 head cattle and ranch,
three miles from Mt. Idaho. Enquire
of p. BRoCKMAUEk or w. N. KNOX, Jr.,
Mt. Idaho, Idaho.
DIR J. H. McCallie will he at the Cot
tonwood house on May l, 2 and 3 and i'm
Grangeville on May 4. 5 and 6, prepar-
ed to do all kinds Of dental work.
j. d. Piggs gave us a friendly call on
Tuesday and said he had traded his
nursery business for real estate agency
and was now getting rich dealing in
Moscow dirt.
Rev. Nelson the Presbyterian mission.
ary will hereafter devote more attention
to Grangeville. He is an eloquent and
instructive preacher and always draws
good congregations.
There was not an egg to be had at any
store in town last Thursday and Friday.
The reason We have no market is be-
cause we have nothing to sell. Put that
In your pipe and smoke it.
Mr.. Fulton was attending court and
The editor was busy planting fruit trees
during the week, SO if the paper isn't
mp to its usual standard of excellence
you will understand the reason.
Our friend Jas. Welch of Cotton wood
is negotiating for the purchase Of the
McGaffee residence in the north end of
town. If the transfer is made Nc will
buy ranch and reside in the country.
Louis Bocher was up from Salmon
river last week with a load of fine fish.
Louis is the best fisherman in the state
and it was he and Jean Baptiste Payette
" no first discovered the famous reddish
N the Payette lakes.
The Weiser Leader has passed into
of Harris & King, who have
nng been amateurs in the business.
They take to the editorial harness kind
y. and with the fertile field of Wash. |
neton county to cultivate they should
hrive we'll.
The canyon of the south fork of Clear
water promises to be the best placer
amp in the county this season, and
'ome OF the boys are liable to strike il
'ich. Some day We propose TO pros-
oect up there for the old river channel
whose traces we have observed on the
trail and which has been cut
n twain by the south fork.
The county commissioners of Wash.
neton county have voted SI6 900 to
,nild new court house at Weiser. The
Did eyesore that has done duty for a
'ourt house in the past is public dis
race to growing community like |
hat of Washington county. In five
ears from now the commissioners will |
zee that they made a mistake in not |
doubling the appropriation.
Among the legal fraternity attending
,ourt were Messrs. J. NJ. Howe. ] w. |
Reid, j. w. Poe and 1. N. Maxwell. of |
lewiston; judge Piper of Moscow and |
lbert Allen of Wardner. Judge Buck
slso arrived Tuesday to assist in defend
ng Flynn, but the case had been post |
,oned. Clerk Grierson and stenografer
were also present and more |
'enial outfit never struck this camp.
The list of killed and wounded by the
'yclone which swept through Illinois.
indiana and Kentucky last week, SO far
Is completed, shows that about 100 per-
ons were killed, 10 fatally wounded and
ix crippled for life at Louisville. In
outside towns in Kentucky, I43 were
Tiled and 6lS wounded. In Illinois the
Tiled number Al and wounded l6. In
indiana six were killed and 40 wounded. |
n Tennessee Is were killed and l55 |
Wounded. The loss of property, though |
arge. is not as great as at first reported.
n nd outside OF Louisville will not exceed |
2 ,0000 900.