Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-01-22
WyN AND COUNTR Y NEW
Masquerade ball February %.

Masquerade ball February %.
Betting and lace leather at Bunnell's
G. H. Brock man is back from his trit
to old Missouri.
Lent comes later this year than last
1t begins March 5.
Remember Aram & Sons have the
Oscilating Bob Sleighs for sale.
B. F. Morris has money to loan on
real estate at the lowest rate of inter-
est. 76
Eddie Greene cut his left hand and
wrist quite severely last Friday with a
cross cut saw,
w. M. Clark left Wednesday for q
grand tour of the coast regions of Ore.
gon and Washington.
In the Palouse country contractors are
already Offering 60 cents per bushel for
the next crop Of wheat.
Prizes will be offered at the masouer-
ade ball, full particulars of which will
be published next week.
We take county warrants in payment
for subscription and advertising ac-
counts, at their full face value.
The estray law of this state is very
long and no good 1t ought to be thor
oughiy overhauled at the next session.
The FREE PRESS is always in favor of
an income tax "for revenue only" A
man with good income can afford to
pay tax on it.
Jas. Reardon. of the Delaware mine.
is out from Warrens for few days. He
reports all quiet there, with everything
bright for prosperous season.
The floor of the county Jail was taken
up during the week in order to renew
the foundations, which had settled to
such an extent that the sheriff's office
was threatening to fall to pieces. Rock
supports were put in and all is we'll
again.
]. N. Rice has added the name of his
sister, Mrs. A. M. Harness, Oakland
Oregon, to our subscription list. ia.
Foster, of Grangeville, is also a new
name on the local list. We also add ].
H. Mccoy. of Buckley, Pierce county,
Wash, and Jas. E. Babb, Chicago, Hi.
nois, this week.
During the week we received a neat
little souvenir from our friend Martin
Wagner, formerly of these parts, but
now residing in Portland, Oregon, an
nouncing the arrival at his house of
"Dorothea Pape Wagner" The little
lady arrived on the morning of Sunday,
January 3, 1892, and will no doubt be a
JOY and blessing to her parents.
On Sunday we took advantage of the
sleighing and drove down as far as John
Coram's ranch. Found every body feed
ing cattle, with unlimited quantities of
feed on the place, the smoke house
stacked half way to the rafters with
hams, shoulders and bacon, a $50 foot
barn filled with fodder. and everything
showing an air of prosperity and com.
fort. The new school house in that
neighborhood is the best in the county.
was built entirely by voluntary sub
scriptions and is a credit to them.
Johnny Cox, through his attorney.
James w Reid, sued out a writ of ha-
beas corpus from the state supreme
court, OH the ground that being indici-
ed for assault with intent to kill" and
being found guilty of only assault with
a deadly weapon likely to produce great
bodily damage" the judgment sentenc
ing him to FIVE instead of two years, we
void. The writ was made returnable
before Judge Nugent. who held that the
judgment was erroneous and not void,
and that two years of the judgment was
good. An appeal will be taken to the
supreme court. Anyway. Cox's lawyer
gets of three years for bim.-Lewiston
Teller.