Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-03-27
OUR WEEKLY ROUND UP.

Buttercups are ripe.
Iron clad note books sold here.
Estray notices published for 81.
Now listen and hear the grass grow.
To day is Good Friday and Sunday is
Easter day.
All kinds of good work horses for
sale by Geo Schmakeks. A
Eggs and butter taken on subscription
to the +. T. If delivered quickly.
l have about sixty head of cattle am
willing to trade for ranch on Camas
Prairie. A. F. PARKER, GraDgeville.
The Rhode Island prohibitionists de-
clare in their platform that the present
tariff Is improperly styled Protection 10
American labor.
All parties who have received sample
copies of the Spokane Weekly Chroni-
Gle, and wish to subscribe can leave or
ders with W. N. KNOX, JR., Agt.
Mt. Idaho.
Are you thinking of fencing? If fso,re-
membe that &. G. Bunnell furnishes
the famous Glidden Barb wire. There
Is none better, none cheaper.
Charles Gelbach has returned from
his winters trip to Wisconsin. He re
ports much enquirng about Idaho.
which is regarded rs the Promised Land
in the eastern states
Allan Baggs took his departure for
Puyallup, on Puget Sound. on TUESDAYS
stage, on visit of six months duration
to his mother who resides there. and
for whom he renewed years subscrip.
tion to the F. P. prior to his departure.
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 a carefully distributed heat.
FRUIT TREEs.-Aram q Sons have a
large assortment of fruit trees and
shrubbery, from the the well known
Geneva nurseries, which will be sold
cheap. ARAM & SoNs.
ID. c. Kerlee left Tuesday for the
kootenai country where he has bought
a ranch. He will devote the summer to
his mining interests in various parts of
the state and will return here in the
fall,
Mark Jarret informs us that the crick-
cts are very thick and promise to be
quite destructive in his neighborhood.
The frosis have so far failed to kill them
of,and the ranchers will turn their hogs
loose on them.
The beautiful weather of the past few
days makes life worth the living. We
believe our spring has arrived in earnest
and though the past winter has been a
mild one, it is pleasure to our ranchers
to commence spring work.
Mr.. M. L. Butler, of Stock creek was
In town last week with oome of the fine
Early Ohio potatoes which are getting
to be the popular variety on Camas
Prairie. He subscribed for the f. p.
before his departure for home.
Speaker Fem has been appointed
State land agent by the board of land
com mmissioners, consisting of the gov
ernor secretary of State, attorney gem
eral and superintendent of public in.
struction. Mr.. Fenn's first duty will be
the location of the State university
lands.
EsTRAY NOTICE, Game to my place
on Long Hollow creek about the first of
December a red yearling steer with
square crop and two splits in the right
ear. Brand can not be distinguished.
Owner is requested to prove property,
pay charges and take the animal.
GEO. SCHMADEKA Jr.
Several OF the young men around
town are wrestling with the measles
and are having more or less serious
time with the malady. Grant Benedict.
John Roberts and will Rothwell are
among the more elderly sufferers. and
they have our sympathy.
Rich gold diggings have been found
at Cottonwood near the old barn. The
boys run the dirt taken up from the
floor of the old hotel cabin through a
sluice box and made handsome clean.
up. Thousands and thousands of ounces
of gold dust were weighed there in early
days, as it and the old Harry Mason
station on the mountain were all the
stopping places on the road to Lewiston,
and Cottonwood was a regular all-night
house.
Senator and Mrs. Weller arrived here
on Mondays stage, having left Lewis
ton Saturday and spent the Sabbath at
Cottonwood They will reside in the
=. J. Davis dwelling hereafter. Mrs.
Weller hau e>ry indifferent health dur
ing the winter and was in no. condition
to appreciate the festivities and gaieties
of the Capitol city, but she has recover
ed and is now in excellent health. The
senator himself also looks well and is
chock full of interesting "reminiscences
of the first session of the Idaho State
legislature.
The Governor will not appoint COM
missioners to survey the State wagon
road until next fall, as the appropriation
comes out of the tax for 1892, and they
will he ohliupd IN rom plata THAR rapOrf