Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-12-16

N DOncDrake UruS STORE.
For Furniture of all descriptions
call ON f. w. Bell, Grangeville.
Say! Have you seen the grand
display of Xmas goods at A & F's.
All sizes of iron pipe at Bunnell's
Pioneer Hardware Store, Lewiston.
Don't forget to get your cranber-
ries for your Christmas dinner at
A. & F's.
December 81 is st. Johns day, a
red letter day in the calendar of
the Masonic fraternity.
Eggs and butter are not to be
had at any price, but spare ribs
and sausage are drug on the mar
ket.
The law card of II. l.. Frost, of
Denver, appears in the f. p. lie
is familiar with the procedure of
the courts of this judicial district,
having practised in Kcndrick and
Moscow before his location at Den
yer.
An attachment was gotten out
last week in Justices court at Cot
tonwood by Wax & Goldstone
against ThOs. J. Corum. The prop
erty involved is house and lot in
Browns addition to Cottonwood.
Corum is reported to have left the
country.
The Rhoadcs Bros, of Cotton
wood, have bovght Craig's livery
stable in Denver. and are now pre-
pared to furnish teams, etc, on
short notice. They are good boys
and good horsemen, and their pat
rons will find them accommodating
and up to the times in all respects.
Treasurer Bower has been the
busiest man in the county for the
past two weeks receiving taxes and
receipting therefor. Jas. Witt is
his deputy and both have hardly
had time to get their meals at reg
ular hours. owing to the influx OF
tax payers anxious to settle their
Indebtedness to the county
There are three blacksmith shops
in Grangeville and all are doing
good business. Robt. White and
Ben Harmon are always kept busy
at their respective stands, and the
new firm of Higgins & Van Winkle
keep three hands steadily employ
ed. Van Wrinkle was for many
years post blacksmith at Camp
Spokane and is a fine mechanic.
A road meeting was held at
Clearwater bridge last Saturday to
: take steps to survey and open up q
new road from Riebold's to the
: prairie. 1t is claimed that better
grades can be found over the new
g route on both sides of the river
y The meeting finally decided tt
J. make a new road district out of tn,
$ country between Riebold's and Pro
e file.
IS Bob and Eva Mckinley gave tw'
of their inimitable entertainment
at Grange hall last Friday and Sat
urday evenings to highly apprecia
tive audiences. Mckinley is a gen
ius in his profession and his facia
studies are the highest develop
ment of the art. AS musician h
is Incompatible and can do any
ID thing with violin except make
t, talk. The next time they visi
Of Camas prairie they will be bette
A; advertised and more sure of tn
ilee good houses they deserve.
IT. Tom Pollock was up from Rapi
or OF river last week. He informed I
is that all the bottom lands alon
Dt Little Salmon and Rapid rivers,
d; the foot of the mountains, ha,
ty been squatted on this fall by actu
'e- settlers. The Rapid river mine
e, too, are coming to the front, al
in when that country is plated All
ne opened up by wagon roads it wi
nr, ,o cut an important figure in Il
art state. That region is one of N
,Ia Ha ture's treasure vaults, and capt.
he and labor is the key to the CONT
ut nation required to open it.
ed ed There is no sense in inviting
lot of poor people to come to Cai
l. as prairie now ON the plea that Il
surplus lands on the Nez Perce l
dian reservation will be immediat
ly opened to settlement. 1t W
rs. probably be several months befo
final action is taken, and even tn
.as the lands may be sold at aucti
;r- to the highest bidder. Peol
without means may be cajoled he
y under the false pretense that th
- can secure a home for the takil
eh and their support will be burd
to the people of Camas prairie W
ort already have their hands full
W. supplying the wants of their o.
}. families. A few boomers may
Va temporarily benefited by boomi
air the reservation, but they are /
md serving the best interests of
country.