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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-08-12
Elected BY all the People.

The voting for commissioners all over
the county, as some have spoken OF, will
be done the coming election. 1t will
not change their election from the three
districts. but will change their election
by the district alone in which they hold.
The following from the attorney general
is self-explanatory
Section of the general election law
page SO lst Sess. Laws) provides that
there shal be three county commission.
ers elected in every county of the state
at the general election, A. d. 1892.
Will section I8l repeals "all acts and
parts of acts enacted by any territorial
legislature relating to elections," it does
not repeal section 1746, Rev. Statutes,
which provides that leach member of
board of commissioners must be an
electpr of the district he represents"
The election is general throughout the
county. That is, every elector in the
county may vote for each of the three
mem bers of the board, although each
commissioner must be an elector of the
district he represents.
GEO. III. ROBERTS.
Attorney General.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-08-12
Notice to Bridge Builders.

Notice is hereby given that the board
of county commissioners of Idaho coun-
ty will receive bids on or before August
%, 1892, for the construction of
bridge across White Bird creek in said
county. The said bridge will be about
l40 feet long. There are two bents now
standing which need to be cut down
four feet, making the bridge four feet
lower than the former one. Two more
bents are required to be put in to cor
respond with the ones now standing af-
ter they have been cut down four feet
as above specified. 1t will take 20
stringers, SO feet long and l0x12 inches
square, four stringers, 10 or l2 feet long
and IL inches square, to reach from the
south bent to the south bank of the
creek. The two extra bents to be in
same style and manner that the exist
ing ones are with mudsills put on solid
foundation. Railing to put on bridge
post feet high from top of bridge
railing either sawed lumber 2x6 inches,
or round peeled poles not less than 4
inches diameter. The bridge to be l.
feet wide, except the approach on the
south end to first bent, 10 or IL feet
which shall be 16 feet wide. Contractors
shall grade road l6 feet wide feet from
south end of bridge.
On north end bridge the stringers
shall be laid on timbers one foot square
and road graded up to make good en-
try on the bridge. Contractors to fur
nish all material to build said bridge
except such timbers as may be found il
good condition belonging to forme
bridge. All timbers used for stringer
shall be either red fir or tamarack
sound and in good order. All work u
be done in good workmanlike manne
and the bridge to be finished byJanuar,
l. 1898. For further information, al
dres: JOHN DouMRcQ,
White Bird, Supervisor Dist. No {
Aug. 8. 1892.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-08-12
d emocrasic Central Committee Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that there will
be a meeting Of the Democratic Central
Committe of Idaho County, Idaho, at
Grange Hall. Grangeville. at o'clock p.
M. On Saturday. August 20, 1892, for the
purpose of arranging the representation
of the several precincts in the county
cow vention, the date of primary elections
and the date for holding the Coun-
ty convention. las we'll as for the transac.
tion of such other business as may be
brought before the committee. A full
attendance of all members is earnestly
requested. G. w. CASE,
u. w. HAsHAGEN, Sec. Chairman.
Grangeville, August 8, 1892.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-08-12
c. r. c. Academy Notes.

School will open Sept. 8.
New desks have been ordered and
will probably arrive before school opens.
New window blinds will be procured
and other inside improvements made.
The sidewalk will be completed in .
short time.
New catalogues will be ont next week
containing full particulars, copies Of
which will be mailed to any address ON
application to the principal.
REDUCTION IN TUITION.
The lst and End Reader grades have
been reduced to So per term and the 4th
Reader grade to IS per term.
Butter, eggs, vegetables. wood, lumber,
etc. will be engaged on tuition.
Tuition must be settled in advances.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-08-12
Official Notice,

Notice is hereby given that the board
of county commissioners will meet in
special session at Mt. Idaho on Tuesday,
August 90, 1899, for the purpose of re-
ceiving bids for the construction of a
bridge across White Bird creek. At the
same meeting the board will receive re.
ports of damage to county roads. By
order of the board. T. J. RHoADs,
Mt. Idaho, Aug. s, 1892. Clerk.
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until all arrearages are paid up
nR.Legal advertisements, per square. or frac-
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subsequent insertion, sl50 per square.
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THE FREE PRESS.

PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY
A.F.PARKER. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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For SALE.-On south side Of Salmon
river. so head three and four year old
grass fed steers. Also dry cows, grass
fed, in proportion. Buyer come and sec
stock. JOHN HADORN.
White Bird. Idaho. ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-16
DOUBLE FETTERS.

An incident which may serve as an illus
tration of the gospel message, is related by
DR.. Cullis, In his Times of Refreshing. He
says that in the great struggle in India, be.
tween the British and Tippoo Sahih, several
English officers were taken prisoners among
them was one named Baird. One day, a
native efficer brought in fetters to put upon
each of the prisoners, the wounded not eX.
cepted. Baird bad been severely wounded
and was suffering from pain and weakness.
A gray-hared officer said to the native Off
cial: "You do not think Of putting chains
upon that wounded msn?' There are just
as MANY pairs of fetters as there are cap
tIyes,n was the answer, sand every pair
must be worn." Then" said the noble
officer, "put two pairs on me; will wear
bis as we'll as my own This was done.
Strange to say, Baird lived to regain his
freedom-lived to take that city; hut the
noble friend who bad been fettered for hIm
died In prison. Up to his death he wore
two pairs Of letters! But what if he had
worn the fetters of all in the prison? What
if, instead of being captive himself he had
quilted glorious palace to live in their
loathsome dungeon, to wear their chains, to
bear their stripes. to suffer and die for them,
that they might 80 fred, and free forever?
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Thirty-eight mayors Of British municipali-
ties in 1892 are total abstainers.
English Methodism has 4U0, 1877 juvenile
abstainers in its Bands OF Hopa
A boy fourteen years Old has bean ar
rested in Portland, Me-. for selling liquor.
The number of lunatics iu Great Britain,
which was $500 in 1858, has increased to
90, 700 in 1892.
In London 1878 women wers taken into
custody, during 1891, upon the charge OF be-
ing drunk and disorderiy."
The Catholic Review places ths member
ship list Of the Citholic Iotil Abstinence
Society OF America at $4,000.
The Internal Revenue Commissioner at
Washington has decided that "hop-tea"
comes under the head OF beer.
Of30,OO0 criminals in German prisons, IA
600 were arrested for crimes committed un.
der the influence Of intoxic tting drinks
The consumption Of spirituous liquors in
1910 was ALI gallons per capita; lS9o che
consumption was Is. 40 gallons oer capits;a an
increase Of 37l DER cent. Thus stands the
record for the United States; and all tnts
enormous growth has occurred under the
sway Of the old parties.
In accordance with the rssol utiou Of the
Brussels Conference Of July, $780, the
Egyptian Government nave published oe-
cree prohibiting the importation or manu-
facture Of distilled spirits in the pro ylnces
and in the territory dependent upoa Egypt
south Of the twentieth degree OF latitude.
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LATER NEWS.

Pennsylvania farmers are ssid to have
paid as high as 81 barrel for water within
the last few days only twenty miles from
Wilkesbarre.
FOREST fires in Maryland. north OF Seven
River, have consumed about 1000 acres Of
timber land.
THE President gave out to the press
card of thauks in acknowledgment of the
many expressions Of sympathy hs has re-
csivsd
Mr. E. o. LEEcH, Director of the Mint,
has submitted to the Secretary Of tho Treas
ury report Of the operations Of the mints
and assay offices of the United States for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1892. The
value Of the gold deposited at the mints and
assay Offices during theyear was s8S. AZ. .975
OF which s8l, 121, ,460 were original deposits.
and IS, s45, Sic were redeposits.
IT was officially declared that Hamburg,
Germany. was free from cholera; in Buda-
Pesth, Hungary, there were twenty-one
new cases and nine deaths.
THE British Government decided to ig-
more the request of the United States Gov
erument for the release Of DR.. Gallagher,
the dynnmiter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-16
FREDERICK SCHWATKA.
The Famous Explorer Dies From an
Overdose of Laudanum.

The Famous Explorer Dies From an
Overdose of Laudanum.
Lieutenant Frederick g. Schwatka, who
made his name famous the world over by
commanding the expedition to tho Arctic
regions in search Of the records of the lost
Sir John Franklin party is dead. The
Lieutenant was found in Portland, Oregon,
it o'clock in the morning lying on First
street by an officer. By his side was a half
empty bottle OF laudanum. He was in q
comatoSe condition and was Immediately
removed to st. Charles Hotel, where he
died.
Frederick Schwatka was born at Galena,
Ill.,, September 90. 1s4y. He graduated at
West Point in 1871, was appointed Second
Lieutenant in the Third Cavalry and served
on garrison and frontier duty until 1877. He
also studied law and medicine, being ad-
mitted to the bar in Nebraska in 1875 and
receiving medical degree from Bellevue
Medical College in this city in 1875.
On June 19, 1878, he sailed for King Will.
Jams Land, returning on September 90,
1880. He discovered and buried many Of
the skeletons of Sir John Franklin's party
and removed much Of the mystery of its
fate He commanded an Alaskan exploring
party in 1854 and another in 1885,
In August, 1884, he reaigned his COM
mission OF First Lieutenant OF the Third
Cavalry, to which ne had been appointed IN
March, 1879. He was the author Of mum,
ber of works relating to his explorations
and discoveries, and had received many
medals from scientific societies, Of several
OF which ho was an honorary member.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-16

In the little city Of Ottawa, capi.
tai of the Dominion of Canada, elec-
tricity has probably been more fully
developed than in any other city In
the world. Power for the generation
of electricity is obtained from the
Chaudiere Falls. The streets and
houses are thoroughly lighted, and
In the city Of from 1000 to 5000
population there are in use 700, 900
lamps of various kinds, with power
for a million more. The cost OF light
Ing is hardly more than nominal.
Electricity is to be extensively used
for heating and cooking purposes
Already one hotel, the Windsor, uses
it exclusively for cooking. 1t Is to
be used the coming winter for heat
ing the electric street cars, and it is
said an even temperature Of 70 de-
grees can be obtained with the weather
at DO degrees below zero. Heating
and cooking facilities are obtained by
q device patented by two young
Canadians. Tailors use the fluid for
heating their flat-irons, which are
simply connected with the current
By a small wire, with thumb screws,
and the irons can be, under full force,
made 30 hot as to set fire to paper or
cloth. Great are the uses Of elec-
trlcity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-16
"PAY JOHN WILLIAMS"

At prayer-meeting "down East" man
noted for bis failures to meet business obli.
cations, arose to speak. The subject was
HWhst shall I do to be saved" He com
menced slowly to quote the words: "What
shall do to be savedP BE paused, looked
around and said again: What shall do to
be savedF' Again with more solemn tone
be repeated the question of questions, when
a voice from the assembly, in clear and dis.
tinct tones replied: .'Go and pay John Will
liams for that yoke Of oxen"
The incident stirs up solemn thought. A
great many people before they can be saved,
or guide others to the Saviour, will have To
ego and Day John Williams" the money they
honestly owe him. Shrewd tricksters in the
marts of the world are not sbrewd enough
to be dishonest at heart and retain the favor
Of God who gloves purity in the inward
parts" Neither can hope Of the world to
come be like sheet anchor In the soul OF
any one who robs God by being dishonest
to bis fellow.man.
Thousands read no other Bible than the
lives of those who profess to be following Its
precepts in their daily lives. The greatest
need Of the church Is true, pure, upright
Ilving--"liviug epistles, known and read OF
all men," The square man 10 the best
shape. The tree is known by its fruit. go
and pay John Williams hiid-Continent.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-16
DRUNKENNESS AND cRINE.

Justice Denman, one Of the wisest and
most experienced judges Of the English
bench, recently said:
At the first assizes over which presided
at Durham, twenty years ago, there were
nine cases OF murder, every one Of which
. was directly attributable to drink. On the
last occasion upon which it was my painful
duty to inHict the penalty Of death 1t was
uron man who had murdered his mother
while under the influence Of drink. It wes
drink that was at the bottom of almost all
the offences Of violence that had been tried
before me. At Liverpool Asdzss recently,
out OF sixty.three persons for trial, thirty
six were for offences directly attributable
to excessive drinking. Within the Last two
months had before me one hundred and
eleven prisoners for trial. 1t might not be
generally known that the judges were sup
piled with q record Of the antecedents OF
each prisoner. For my own part I never
referred to this until after the conviction.
During my visit to Cromsr had examined
this List, and, among the one hundred aud
eleven prisoners, found there had been
recorded one hundred and thirty-eight pre-
vious convictions for drunkenness, thus
proving that drink had exercised . baueful
influence In their degradation. Burglary.
poachtng, house-brea king, and similar
crimes were almost invariably plotted by
confederates In public-houses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-16
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.


The Police Board of New York City, on
Recommendation Of Superintendent Byrnes.
resolved to abolish the long police club,
adopt very short one in its place and use
whistles for sig nails.
ARCHIE Dill, William Temple and John
Barclay were killed by runaway car which
dashed into crowd of passengers at the
railway station, Huntington, Penn.
TWENTY-FIVE stores and houses in the
heart OF Gallery Junction, PENN. were
burned. The loss was estimated at $50, COO.
with little insurance. About one hundred
people were left homeless.
The bank at Phoenix. N. Y, was entered
by thieves and $1,000 was taken from the
safe.
JOSEPH LEIMER, we'll known halter, died
of heart disease in Danbury, Conn.,, few
evenings ago At the same hour his brother
Charles, also a halter. dropped dead in
caused by heart disease.
CONSUL GENERAL DOMINGO L. RUIZ. Of
Ecuador, has been discharged from arrest
in New York City on the charge Of forgery.
Mrs. Bertha Laws accused Of the same
crime, has been held for trial.
The people Of Rhode Island held series
Of daily prayer meetings for rain.
THREE men, the cook Of the tug Colonel
3. D. Grubb. lying in the Erie basin,
Brooklyn, N. Y, and two guests who were
passing the night on board, were parboiled
by an explosion of the tugs boiler and they
died soon afterward.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-16
'WaShin0ton.

The new postal card with paid reply has
been placed on sale by the Postofice Depart
ment at all first class postofices throughout
the country.
&c. O'BRIEN, Commissioner Of Naviga-
tion, has just submitted advance copies OF
his annual report to the Secretary OF the
Treasury.
THE steam chimney Of the Wakefield, q
river steamboat, blew of fifty miles south
of Washington. Two men were killed out
right; one was blown overheard and
drowned, one was missing and three were
injured.
THE President and the members Of his
private and official family who accompanied
him to his wife's funeral at indianapolis re-
turned to the National capital at 8 o'clock
next afternoon. They proceeded direct to the
White House.
THE President resumed his official duties
at the White House and devoted most Of the
time to the consideration and dispatch Of
routine matters requiring his action, great
deal Of which had accumulated.
PRESIDENT HARRISON issued proclama.
Copyright law to Italy.
THE Hon. John D. Washburn Envoy E1-
traerdinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of the United States to Switzerland, has
sent in his resignation to the President.
The cause Is business engagements.
GEORGE 8. BATcRELLER called at the De.
partment Of State and rendered to Secre
tary Foster his resignation Of the Office Of
United States Minister to Portugal, which
was accepted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-16
ALLSTON'S PRAYER.

Washington Allston, the celebrated artist
and poet, tells how he was led from jesting
on sacred subjects to an abiding reverence
for them, and to a religious life Having
married sister of the eminent DR.. Charming,
he made his second visit to Europe, and
settled in London as IN artist. He met with
little success, and for time was at loss Tor
. the means of procuring the necessaries Of
liie. Rejecting one day with feeling al
most Of desperation upon bis condition, he
found himself all at once filled with the hope
that God would help him If he only asked
His help. So he locked bis door, withdrew
to corner of his room, and, falling on his
knees, prayed earnestly for help from on
high
While thus kneeling in supplication he
was aroused by some one knocking at the
door. He opened 1t to a stranger, who an
nounced himself as the Marquis of Stafford,
who inquired If his painting of the angel
Unel was sold. Receiving negative reply,
the nobleman paid him four hundred
pounds for the beautiful produc-
ton, and was so pleased that he introduced
the poor artist to the leading nobility and
gentry, and thus to both fame and fortune,
and to all the success he desired. Allston
never looked upon this As a mere happy
coincidence, but the feeling that led him to
prayer, and the immediate relief which fol-
lowed. he always regarded as the direct in
terposition of God In bis behalf in the hour
of his need. As the result he was led to the
Christian life, and fixed devotional habits
became predominant traits In his character
to the end of his life. Others, like Allston,
have found in their own joyous experience
the truth of the promise: ''Call upon Me In
the day of trouble and will deliver thee.
and thou shalt glorify Me-" TO every one
that trusts in him, God has declared: He
shall call upon Me, and will answer him
will be with him in trouble. and will de.
liver him and honor hir.; with long life will
Isatisfy him and show him My salyation.-
New York Observer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-16
ARE YOU WILLING TO BE GUIDED.

Ifmen desire to be guided by the Lord
they must be willing to accept the direction
which He bestows, and have no plans In op-
position to His will II they are sent down
the desert road to GAIA they must so. II
the Spirit bids them 20 near and join them
selves to passing chariot they must run
thitber, assured that He who sends them
will prepare they way. Ifthey are forbid:
den Of the Holy Ghost to preach the Word
in Asia they must reskect the prohibition,
and II they assay to 60 to BithYnia, and the
Spirit suffers them not, they must wait till
they hear the voice of the man In Macedonia
saying, "Come over into Macedonia and
help u.s." And when they are thus called
to preach the Gospel, they will find all things
working for their good and 80, no longer
baffied by storms and contrary winds, they
will sail "with q straight course to
Samotbracia,' and find their work
made ready to their hands. (Acts XVII
And il men will do the work their hand
findeth to do, and walk patiently and
humblS with God, following tbe,directions OF
in darkness as to the path of duty, tFor the
meek shall He teach His way" And II
they look constantly to the Lord tor dlrec-
ton, they vii often find themselves
guided by wisdom higher than their own,
and led in ways they knew not of.
But il we accept divine guidance we must
be free from human restraint and direction.
If we desire to please the Lord we cannot be
servants of men, but must be ready to 90
where God would have us 60. do what He
would have us do, and be what He would
have US be-. If we will do this, and will
put ourselves In readiness and in fitness for
His service, knowing no will but the will OF
God, and yielding ourselves in loving sue; usS
Jection to Him, we shall find that the LORD
will guide US continually, and that having
guided us by His counsel. He will afterwards
receive us to g!ory.-[Boston Christian.
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The abominable smell often no
ticed about very cheaply bound books
is caused by the carbolic acid which
is put in the paste to preserve 1t and
keep it free from cockroaches, which
will scent pure paste block away
and come to it in shoals. Under Or
binary circumstances cloves will do
as we'll as carbolic acid, but in book
binderies, where there is always a
good supply OF paste and where the
other attractions for cOckroaches are
numerous, carbolic acid is really the
only effectual preventive. In the
case Of better bound books very little
paste is used, and the leather has
generally sufficient perfume about 1t
to counteract a little unpleasantness.