Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-02

Mr.. Frew writes from Colfax that the
FREE PRESS is being closely watched by
parties there for advertisements of con.
tracts on the Salmon river wagon road.
We hope they will shortly be gratified,
as well as other would-be contractors In
Walla Walla and elsewhere.
Company C received it's handsome
new flag last week, a splendid specimen
OF the stars and stripes. 6x64 feet in di-
ameter, and surmounted by q bronze
eagle, of which the boys feel very proud
and under which we hope they will al
ways march to victory. The flag was
purchased partly by subscription and by
the company funds.
Editor Frazier, of the Mullan Tribune,
has promised to visit the Cpur d'Alene
boys in Elk City this summer to write
up the camp and country. We beg to
extend the hospitaities of the F. P. es-
tablishment to our visiting brother, and
will gladly cooperate to make his mis-
sion successful. The Clearwater basin
needs printers ink at this stage of its
growth as much as anything.
The Walla Walla Statesman will soon
be domicied in its own 75-foot-front-
two story brick building which our big
brother Frank Is erecting. Frank has
had some hard knocks from old dame
Fortune in his experience Of the wild
and woody west, and his old cronies in
these parts will feel to rejoice that he is
out OF the woods and pasturing on tall
grass now-a-days. May it ever be 80.
Robt. Shearer is having lumber hauled
for the erection of two story building
on the south side of Main street opposite
his present quarters adjoining the F. r.
office. The new building will be
occupied jointly as Shearer's shoe shop
and residence. and by +. w. Bells fur
meat market aud this new building
going up,it would seem that the business
of the town was slowly growing west.
ward, as is almost invariably the case.
Sixty needle guns Of so caliber and
model of 1866, with belts, bayonets and
knapsacks together with 500 cartridges
of .45 caliber arrived here lest week for
Company G, Idaho Guards. The cart
ridges are of course useless for the guns.
Capt. Beck drilled the company Tuesday
night for the FIRST time in the school Of
the soldier and put the boys through the
manual Of carry order and present
arms, till their arms ached with the
weight of the unaccustomed weapon,
and parade rest seemed as great lux.
ury as leaning on hoe.
The Warden $4,000 suit against Witt,
Cleary andJones.ex county commission
ers. for damages alleged to have been
caused by plaintiff falling through the
new Secesh creek bridge in 1888. and
which has been hanging fire before the
court ever since, is again postponed -
this tip1a 90 oh nf a.
I.atah county, where it will be tried this
fall, and where the dispositions of witt
nesses can be produced AZ evidence with.
out their personal presence being re-
quired. The judge offered to try the
case in Lewiston. but both plaintiff anil
defendants by their attorneys objected
and so it was transferred TO the Moscow
docket. The principal reason for the
change was the difficulty in getting the
witnesses from Warrens, where they
mostly reside.
Cards are out announcing the marriage
of Mr.. Martin Wagner and Miss Carrie
NJ pape,at the FirstPresbyterian Church,
East Portland, on Monday next, May 5.
Mr.. Wagner is we'll known and univer-
sally liked on Camas Prairie. and is
gentleman who has the happy faculty Of
making stanch friends wherever he
pitches his tent. The happy couple will
on the same evening Of the ceremony
take the steamer for bridal trip to San
Francisco, and will be "at home" on
Wednesdays after May 20. at Wala
Walla, where the groom is book. keeper
for and a stakeholder In the Rosenfelk
Smith tobacco establishment, and will
no doubt be supremely happy and sue
cessfu now that he has been vouchsafed
one of Gods best gifts to man. The
FREE PRESS wishes them a long life Of
happiness, health and prosperity.