Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-04-17
Estray notices published for 81.


Wild flowers are in bloom in profu.
sion on the prairie.
The Italian war scarce has again as
sumed large proportions.
DIED In Lake district, A pril 1O,lS9l
John Gregg, aged eighteen years.
l. BoRN.-ln Grangeville. Idaho, April
IL, 1891, to the wife of VIM. Won Berge
a daughter.
For house painting and paper hang
ing call on ScorT 4 RoTHwELL, Grange
vile, Idaho. A
Moscow is to have a paper factory,
which will consume about 5000 tons of
straw yearly.
Born In Keutervile precinct, April
~. 1891, to the wife of Albert p. Tefft,
IA boy, weighing l3 pounds.
The first six teams of the season came
in last Friday and Saturday with freight
for A * f. Since then the road is full
of teams coming and going.
Mrs. Delos Carr returned fIom her
winters trip to southern California last
| Saturday. She enjoyed the trip i'm
mensely and returned in fine health.
Farmers, if you like to see good horses
come to Grangeville after A pril IS or 20,
and look at some of the finest imported
and high grade stations ever seen here,
which can be purchased or traded for
on any terms to suit. A
A shooting and cutting scrape occurred
on Craigs' mountain Tuesday between
man who has been working for w. Nj.
Rice, and a Frenchman. both parties be-
ing seriously injured. We were unable
learn the cause of thetrouble.
Jim, the crazy Chinaman, is at the
point of death, and the other Celestials
are quaking with the fear that the
devil which possesses him may enter
into and occupy them. Jim Poe and
others hastily fed to Salmon river to
escape such catastrophe.
The Holdrege Importing Co., of Hold
rege, Nebraska, will soon be in Grange
vile with several imported and high
grade stations, which can be bargained
for in most any way to suit purchasers.
So if you have any sand or trade in you
come and see them.
The grippe is true democratic dis
ease. 1t spares neither age nor sex
and high and low, rich and poor, all
alike are having a taste of it in this
community. Care should be taken to
avoid exposure during recovery, as the
complaint is then liable to develop into
galIoping pneumonia. Its victims here
abouts are too numerous to mention.
CLOSE CALL.-Last week Dave Lew.
is had a horse killed by panther on
Clearwater, and he went in quest of his
majesty, who had apparently decamped |
Dave was fixing around the carcass for
his trap when he stepped upon a large
rock, lying about two feet from the
horse, when he heard rustling in the
leaves at the other side of the rock
which on observation proved to be the
panther in the act of spripging on Dave,
who by accident or intuition, put the
muzzle of his gun in the animals mouth
and blew its upper jaw off-which did |
not Immediately kill it, but had to fire
the second charge into 1t before it sue
cumbed. Dave says it was the largest
panther he ever klled-and he has kill. |
ed a good many.
letter from C. E. Holt, former cit
izen of this county, but now of Salt Lake
Itxy hn, tl,a
ling city this week. 1t is the Confer
ence week of the Mormon church, and
our country cousins have appropriated
all vacant space; the streets are packed
SO that it is almost impossible to elbow
ones way through the crowd. The
scarcity of money has crippled all
branches of business. and speculation
has almost died out. Parties fortunate
enough to have that kind of money
have turned into investment bankers,
etc. Considerable attention is being
paid to mining, and a great number of
good properties will be developed this
year. l may visit Camas Prairie short
ly for short stay.
lLdSl NtCh ISSUE OI tne Lewiston
Teller was a splendid boom edition, and
the board of trade should keep the
presses printing duplicates thereof for
the next month to come. The general
distribution of so much information
about Lewiston and the Clearwater
country would necessarily be product
i've of much good There is good fu-
ture before the old historic town if its
advantages and surroundings are only
pushed to the front. Countless oppor-
tunities for its advancement and i'm
provement have been neglecaed in the
past, but it is not at all too late for her
business men to avail themselves of the
chances which are Offering every day in
the week to build up live progressive
business center there. Already the
lower country between Lewiston and
tide water is about filed up, and before
the close of the present season the tidal
wave of immigration will flow back to
fill up the spaces left vacant in it's rush
to the coast. The Clearwater country
is the last of these vacant spaces left for