Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-09-11

Go to Bells for furniture.
Cooler weather since the rain.
We take hams on subscription.
Go to the Bakery for Medical Lake
Sals.
Harry Faulkner and wife have re-
turned from Elk City.
Aram & Sons sell the celebrated Dick
ey Farm Fan for S35.
Do yon want homestead? Read the
offer, No. II, on our real estate list.
Judge Piper is at Medical Lake un-
dergoing treatment for rheumatism
j. II. Robinson will sell fruit for
cash or wheat cheaper than ever. All
ripe next week.
The u & Is train camped here Sunday
en- route TO Warrens with 10 900 pounds
of winter supplies.
A fire at The Dalles last week DESTROY
ed sixteen blocks of buildings and inn
mense amount of property.
DR.. e. A. Lock hart is prepared to do
all kinds of crown and bridge work this
trip. Call early and see samples.
The assessed valuation of property in
the state of Idaho this year will reach
S35,O00,000 an increase of $4,000 600
over last year.
The Northern Pacific is already haul.
ing considerable ore over the Cnur d.
Aene cut off. Part of it goes to the
Great Falls smelter
Harry Gone has returned from WAL
lace, and will soon leave for Alton dist.
rict to represent some quartz claims for
j. N. Gillis, of Burke.
]. c. Litchfield arrived out from Elk
Tuesday and left for Portland the next
day, where he will work at his trade as
machnist for awhile.
Subscribers owing us for the FREE
PRESS can pay up all or part of their in
debtedness in hams. We can use half
a dozen right away quick.
Are you thinking of fencing? IF sore
member that G. G. Bunnell furnishes
the famous Glidden Barb wire. There
ls none better. none cheaper.
The agents of the Union Pacific Sys-
tenn are provided with railroad and
steamship tickets to all points east, as
well as to and from foreign ports.
BoRN.-Near Grangeville, Idaho. on
Monday. September Z, 1891. TO the wife
OF John Coram, daughter. Friend
Coram has now four girls, and no boys.
The board of county commissioners
will hold special meeting on Monday
next, September A. to open bids for the
erection of a building on the county
poor farm, as advertised in the +. p.
Mr.. Miller will be at the Mt. Idaho
mills some time during the this week
and will soon be prepared to receive
wheat from parties who want -four.
L. P. Brown.
The Weiser Leader and Signal have
been consolidated into one paper under
the management of r. T. Lockwood
Weiser is the best newspaper field in
the state, and Lock wood has the oppor-
tnnlty OF life time to make a winning.
Senator and Mrs. Weller left on IT, q
stage yesterday for points below. The
senator makes brief business trip TO
Portland and will return in few daye.
while Mrs Weller will proceed to Pny-
allup on an extended visit to her mother
Cue owen, native of Camas Prairie.
and we'll known to all old residents
here, is up from Lewiston visiting his
friends for few days. He declared his
intention to become a citizen in Novem-
Der, 80. and has Been happy ever since
The fields of grain which were taken
by the crickets last spring are said to
have made the heaviest yield and the
hnest kernels of any on The prairie.
These fields matured better because the
stand was thinner than those fields
which the crickets did not touch.
Gov. Wiley and |. F. Smith, state
wagon road commissioners, opened the
bids for the construction of two sections
of the road between Payette Lake and
Horseshoe Bend, last week. There was
only one bid, and as the commissioners
considered 1t was too high, il was re-
Jected, and so they will not make any
contracts at present.
Mr. K. c. Thomas, one of the propri-
etors of the Cleveland group of quartz
mines on Relief creek, Elk City dist
rict, is expected to arrive from Butte
Montana, on to-morrow's stage, and will
accompany Mr.. Smith when he returns
to the camp. Mr.. Thomas spent the
summer of 1886 in Elk and is going to
become permanent resident of Idaho
county henceforward.