Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-12-11

Dr. Lockhart hes cancelled his en-
gagements below and will remain here
permanently hereafter. His Offices arc
ct the hotel parors
MIS-. w. r. Schmadeka has been so
seriously sick that her life was freouent-
ly dispaired of during the past week.
AT present, however, she is much inn
proved.
Inc ladies' are canvassing to sell tick
cts for for the Sheet and Pillow-Case
oai' tp he given next Friday. December
is pr the benefit of the Episcopal
church building fund. Encourage them
by bnyng ticket.
A Pyrrhic Victory.-A couple of
Wash hingtonians from opposite sections
were recently discussing the compara-
| i've merits of the armies in the Civil
| war well, We licked you Rebs. anv-
now said the Northerner Yes" re-
piled the Southerner blandly, "you did ;
but from the number of applicants for
pensions, 1 should judge we crippled ev-
cry blamed one of you"
The mail for this side of the prairie
and all the Salmon river and Warrens
settlements is held at Cottonwood from
Satu rdav afternoon until Monday morn
ing, which is a great inconvenience, but
is nevertheless. according to contract
Ell 'rts will be made to have the depart
meht at Washington order mail service
on Sunday instead of Monday. The re-
suit VIII be the same to the contractor.
prospector named Chamberlain has
struck four foot vein of ore, about 600
var ds on the other side of the Jackson
bridge crossing of the south fork of
Clear water, which is reported to carry
eighty per cent. copper and 500 in gold,
according to ASSAYS made by B. B. Stu
art, of Elk City. If the ore holds out
TN rich all through the ledge, the
stri Ike is the most important ever made
in this county
MARRIED. AT the residence of Frank
Shissler, Grangeyille, Idaho, on Sunday,
December 6. 1891 by Rev. w. A. Hall,
henry +. Shissier and Frances |. Bene-
"iY', ooth vi tI1S county.
This is, we believe, the first marriage
on record of two young people both of
whom were born in old Idaho county.
and the news that the ceremony had
been performed was an unexpected sur
prise to their friends. They embark
ou their matrimonial career with sincere
shes for their happiness and prosper
lty on the part of their friends.
A gentleman named Parker, we are
informed, has leased ten-acre tract Of
land for ten years from Morris b. How
ard on Johns creek, and on it he in.
tends erecting double circular sawmill.
with planer, shingle saw, and sash and
door factory, and proposes to have il in
operation by July l, 1892. This enter
prise has been a necessity for a long
time past, and will do much to promote
he growth of Grangeville, as well as to
add to the comfort of all the people of
Vamas Prairie by increasing the availa-
ble supply of lumber for building pur.
poses. Success to the enterprise.
Three new expeditions are to start for
The North Pole within a year and a
haii' i'-Nansen by boat, Perry on skees,
ana Enroll by dog-sledge. And people
who extol Cortes and Pzarro as heroes
for seeking to conquer and plunder bar
paric empires for gross aggrandisement
sneer at these heroic and unsel6sb
knights of science, who at best can only |
win the pure joy of wringing Nature Sc
crefs from her reluctant hand, and are |
quite as likely to meet lonely deaths |
from cold and hunger on the arctic |
wastes. We honor their daring and |
their work, as we do that of eyery man |
who thinks of life as something to spend
and not as something to hoard. Ifthey
die for truth. it matters not whether il |
is truth about this world or the next.
and the martyrs crown is as fitting at
the ice foe as the stake.