Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-06-20
John L. Kavanauph. of Lewiston, and
II. w. Perringo, of Portland, arrived
here on Thursdays stage.

II. w. Perringo, of Portland, arrived
here on Thursdays stage.
For SALE-Three registered Holstein
cows three years DID, two registered
Holstein bulls one and one-half years
old. Write for prices. Will trade for
good work horses or brood mares.
j. M. HOWE, Lewiston.
For the Biennial Conclave of the
knights of Pythias to he held at Mil.
waukee, Wiz, July 8 to l2, the round
trip rate from Lewiston via the Union
Pacific Il. r., will be $50 20. Date of
sale and limit will be announced later.
Sam Church was badly used up last
Saturday by being tangled in coil of
rope and dragged some distance bv a
fractions horse. Or. Nickel is attending
him, and reports that the injuries are
very severe, but not dangerous. We
wish Sam speedy recovery.
The latest novelty is the new Charter
Oak stoves at c. c. Bunnell's. They
have the celebrated GAUzE door for ovens.
Have you seen them? Call and examine.
No more burnt pie crust. No more
underdOne biscuits. Everything baked
to turn by carefully distributed heat.
Rev. ID. G. Strong. presiding elder of
the Walla Walla District, will preach
Friday June 27 at Addison school house
at p. m, at Lake school house Satur-
day, June % at p. m, at Grangevile
Sunday, June 20 at II a. m. and d. m..
and at Fairview Monday, June 80 at s
p. m.
The house committee on public lands
ordered favorable report on the bill
repeating the pre-emption law and re-
ducine the price of all agricultural public
land to $l.2 per acre. and providing for
uniform method of making selections of
school indemnity lands in public land
sales.
We have had splendid rains to give
the wheat crop boost after boost, and at
no time in the history of this Prairie
were the prospects better for large yields
than at present. Everybody is hopeful
and sanguine for the future, and every
where the crops are firmly rooted in the
ground. All we lack now is a railroad
or two.
Some of the town hoodlums raided the
lumber pile for the new school house
last week and destroyed several planks.
A weeks diet of bread and water, close
confinement in the county jail, and a
dose of strap oil three times a day, ad-
ministered by strong arm, would be
good medicine for these destructive
young devils.
Prof. F. S. Hafford's lecture at Grange
hall on last Saturday evening brought
out good audience. The Prof. has a
good delivery and is perfectly at home
before an audience. The most of the
evening was devoted to recitations
which were well received. A short talk
on educational matters closed the eve-
ning's entertainment.
Subscription papers are circulating for
the erection this fall of an Episcopal
church in Grangeville on the site pur-
chased by Bishop Talbot last summer.
The Church Extension Association do
mates $500 towards the enterprise, and
when the Bishop visits US this summer
arrangements for the immediate build.
ing of the structure will be made.
The election in Nova Scotia on We'd
nesday, May 2lst, resulted in an over
whelming majority for the party that
favor annexation to the United States.
Commercial union was the foremost is-
sue of the canvass, and was boldly advC.
Gated by the successful candidates. Ev-
erywhere the spirit of union, free trade.
peace and good will among men is gain
ing ground.
John Clark and his sister arrived here
from Florence Friday morning. having
made an all night ride over the Melnor
trail in order to he present at the funeral
of their brother, Tom Clark whose death
on the trail we announced last week.
They did not get the news of his death
until Thursday afternoon, and so were
too late to be present at the last
obseques. They returned to camp
again Saturday.
The alliances and oranges throughout
the agricultural states are discussing
economic and political problems in real
earnest and sooner or later they will ar
rive at the truth that high protective
tariff is a confidence game which has
been played upon them. As The stars
in their courses fought against Sisera, so
the civilization OF the nineteenth CEN
tury fights against the hide bound tariff
burdens which the incorporated bloats
OF the Atlantic manufacturing and mon
etary centers are seeking to impose up
on us.
A local company, backed by the UP,
has been organized at Lewiston to con-
struct railroad from that point toCamas
Prairie. This will make that rich section
boom, and A. F. Parker deserves more
credit for this movement than any other
one man.-Pomeroy Independent
The credit for organizing the incorpo-
ration belongs to Ben F. Morris, the
largest individual land owner on Camas
Prairie, but A. F. Parker, as is well
know II, has long been in close commun-
ication with the Union Pacific officials,
and his representations probably in
duced them to back the local incorpo-
ration.