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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20
District Court Calendar.

In and for the Second Judicial District of
Idaho in and for Idaho County, october term,
A. ID. 1893. c. W. Case, clerk. W. @. Piper Judge.
No s. J. P: vollmer and W. Scott VS.. z. o.
Shugart and F. A. Davis; J. F. Aishie, for pltff.
Foreclosure
No. l6. Charles Chase VS.. w. R. Hagood, Frost
& Lees for plt'f.; J. +. Ailshie for defd't Suit
for damages.
Ne 20, s. W. Smith VS.. Chow Quee & Co.;
Forney & Tillinghast for plt'G. Continued from
No. Il. Sarah E. Brown VS.. George Brown: J.
f. Ailshie for pit II. Continued from last term.
No. %. f. NJ. Hughes VS.. I. ]. Davis; Rand
& Howe for plt'f, J. Fl. Forney for defd't. Con-
tinued from last term.
No. q. F. j. Maly VS.. l.. D. strahl and P. N.
Powell; Ailshie & Forney for plt'ffs. II. L. Frost
for defdts. Continued from last term.
No. 2s. Kelly Brown VS.. n. B. Wiley and
S, A. Wiley; W. IL. Hall, for plt'h. N b. Wiley
for deft's. Money due on account.
No. %. Ore E. Brown VS.. Horace V. Brown:
Jas. Reid for plt'f, McDevitt & Musgrove for
No. 30. Carrie NJ. Tefft VS.. Albert P. Tefft; Jas.
W. Reid for plt'f, Fl. +. Samuels for defdt d.
vorce and alimony.
No. 81. NJ. L. Osborne VS.. A. p. Teff; Jas W.
Suit on promissory note.
No 80. Andrew J. vanness VS.. Sarah Z. Van
ness; Taylor and Hall for pltf. Divorce.
No 49, Mary Joyce vs. James Joyce; Samuels
and McDevitt for plt'ff. Divorce.
No "a. Squire Hendren VS.. William Crandall; /;
Frost & Lees for plt'ff Samuels and McDevitt for
deid ARpssea 5em faa
+. Samuels for plt'f Divorce.
No. So Mary A. Corliss VS.. J. W. Henderson:
A. J. Green for pltf Action on promissory note
No 81. Alexander & Freidenrich vs.. Isabella
Pearson adm. est. of VIM. G. Pearson, dec, ct Al.
James Il. Babb, for plt'f, Foreclosure OF mtg
Lewiston National Bank VS.. Albert T. Tetft, ct
al: James e Babb for pltff. Foreclosure OF mtg.
J. II. Forney and S. J. Richardson Tor piaintin.
Ejectment.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20
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There has been on exhibition in
the FREE PRESS Office for the past
week display of the vegetable and
fruit products of Camas Prairie,
which would have made a sensa-
ton and spread the fame of Camas
Prairie around the world if they
could only be transferred to Chica-
go and displayed amid the other
attractions at the Worlds Fair.
Notice was made at the time of
the various sheafs of wheat, barley,
oats, timothy and rye brought in
during their respective season as
grand specimens of the fertility
and suitability of our soil for the
cereals and grasses. We have now
to speak of the product of garden
and orchard. Mammoth potatos
have been contributed by George
Behean, Serg't. Lamb, E.W Oliver,
Tx. Holmes and CIV Stewart. Mr..
Beheans were contributed two
weeks ago, before they had got
their full growth. Mr.. Lambs
sack were also pulled before they
were thoroughly ripe, but were
widely approved for their uniformly
large size, shape and quality. All
were over two pounds in weight.
Mr.. Oliver had a variety with q
very thin skin, grown from seed
obtained in the Palouse country.
They favor the White Elephant
variety. They were grown on Mr..
divers residence property in the
highest and dryest part of town,
without irrigation. All exceeded
two pounds, several weighed three
pounds each, and the largest weigh
ed four pounds and six ounces, and
was not a whole potato, as part of
it grew outside his line, and he
dared not dig the fruits of his
neighbours soil. This is no exagger-
alton, but frozen fact. But the
boss spud of all was the solitary
Early Rose tubcr contributed by
Tom Holmes and raised on the
County Poor Farm. 1t weighed an
even Alb Sozs. Mr.. Stewart did not
pretend to exhibit his as mammoth
productions, but simply to serve
notice that when it came to keep
ing up high standard on the gen.
eral average, Lake district didn't
take back seat for anybody. His
Is Early Rose tubers, pulled pro
miscuously, hill by hill, without
selection, weighed 32 pounds. Mr.
Ernest Smith displayed sugar
beet which weighed nine pounds
and a four pound Winter turnip.
OF the fruits above the earth Mr.
Smith also contributed spray &c
inches long cut from an apple tree
said spray having on it II large
ripe red apples, four others having
been blown off. Weight of the |
apples, BIB Soz. A mammoth Fla
Dutch cabbage weighing 90 pounds
and a SNOWFALL caulihower weigh
ing 16 pounds were sent in by Mr.
N. Markham and nearly filled tn,
office with their gigantic bulk.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20

Dr. Bibby was called to Slate creek Tuesday
tn see Mrs. Josie Cess
Brant geese and swans are flying south in
uncommonly large fiocks
The Demorest contest has been postponed
from October 21 till November "a, 1898.
Jas. MeCafferty returned from his trip to the
Worlds Fair Wednesday of this week.
Prof. swidenski goes to Lewiston tomorrow
TO see his family and the new baby boy who
Prof. swidenski and Messrs Norwood and
Wagner are endeavoring to organise a Choral
Society. and already have 32 names enrolled.
Mrs. E. c. spedden opened the primary de-
partment of our pu bile schools Monday There
are now SO pupils in each department. total, 76.
Under instructions from Moscow all work on
the Grangeville Experiment station has been
totally suspended Mr.. Norwood has been for
hidden to have the grain threshed, the barn
completed, or even to finish the fall plowing
and seeding which was begun in preparation
for next years crop experiments. A good stout
healthy, active and vigorous fool killer, armed
with scatter.gun. will find plenty OF work In
Moscow, and 1t would be a splendid idea for
| in the long list of University Professors. Our
local regent, Mr.. Ailshie. is boiling with indig-
@ nation at such ,. scabby treatment and win pro-
| badly do little cunning on his own account
| at the next session of the Board Of Regents.
Our neighbor at Cottonwood has made the
| discovery that the Commissioners allowed
| sheriff Gregory a bill of sl,44S.59 for fees at
| their last July session. and that the same was
not published in the official report OF the Com
missioner's proceedings in the official county
| paper. Our neighbor Is right How the omis-
| sion occurred we cannot say. but the response
biity lies either in the printing office or In the
| Clerks office. Our contract with the county
| requires the Clerk to furnish copy" and as
| we invariably read all proofs containing figures
by copy the oversight probably was made in
the Clerks office while copying them from the
| records for publication. Our neighbor hints
| that there is rascalty in il somewhere, but this
isnot at all probable under the circumstances.
| The bill was clearly a legal one, because the
official records show that the Commissioners
| approved and allowed the bin. Careless copy
| Ing or proof reading is the worst that can be
| charged but in any event a public service has
been done in calling attention TO the matter.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20
Our Lire Stock Interests.

Our old friend B. F. Davis,
writes us from Morton, Ray Co.,
Missouri, as follows: Good blocky
smooth western or 4-year-old
steers that are in good flesh are in
demand at Kansas City at from 3
to 81 gross; rough, long-legged
wild cattle are dull and not want
ed, at present; good cattle are in
demand for feeding purposes, and
the demand for good native feeders
is greater than the supply. Some
of our feeders are buying western
cattle to feed. Your good cattle
would sell well in Kansas City if
you can get them here in good
flesh; but the rough cattle will not
pay for shipping.
There never has been a time it
did not pay to improve stock of all
kinds; look at our market to-day.
Cattle are worth from one to six
cents per pound gross. A farmer
will make money raising cattle
from 81 to 6 cents, and die paup-
er raising cattle at from l to 3
cents. All stockmen know that it
is the rough, unimproved stock
that is drug in the market and
sell for almost nothing. The hog
market has been short for twelve
months, and are selling from 6 to
600. Sheep are dull and on the
decline. The United States are
overstocked with horses and no
demand.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20
RECORD OF THE WEEK.

District Court meets Monday.
For fine cigar go to Pearson &
BOnebrake's drug store.
Old newspapers for sale at the
F. P. Office, 20 cents for5O
Won Berge has some frst-class
brick which he will sell for cash.
Magee has in stock the new
Readers at the same price the State
secures them.
have 20, 900 brick which I will
trade for grain or hogs.
JOHN B. BoRGER, Grangeville.
WANTED To exchange Fall
and Winter apples for potatoes
and wheat. G. S. MCCREADY.
%. Mt. Idaho.
The Ellwood Glidden Barbed
wire, Diamond E" trade mark, il
the cheapest and best. For sale BY
c. G. Bunnell, Lewiston.
The steamer Almota will run on
the following schedule until further
notice: Leave Lewiston Sundays
and Thursday at l p. M; leave
Riparia Tuesday and Fridays al
l p. m
Saving money is better thar
making tive have a large stock O
hand made harness, California
saddles, horse furnishings etc
Times are hard and we need mon
ey. We will guarantee to sell thes,
goods cheaper than any house il
the Northwest. Remember wha
we tell you. LEWISTON HARNESS
SADDLE Co., Lewiston, Idaho.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20

Seth Jones, sold at Uniontown
200 head of the train load of cattle
which our people were shipping
east in care of Jas. Surridge, and
this, of course, broke up the trip.
Mr.. Jones sold to King & Bender,
of Spokane and Seattle, and aver
aged $23 per head. Mr.. Surridge
has rented large pastures near
Uniontown and will ship all his
cattle and feed them there this
winter. In doing so he has a two
fold object in view: first, to be on
the railroad ready to ship
east at the tap of the wire if prices
advance, and second, to avail him
self of the cheap feed and damaged
wheat in the Palouse country.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20

Mrs. b. +. Morris was in town from Denver
Saturday. The family have abandoned their
Dayt on trip and will winter in Denver where
Ben will pasture and train some of his colts
VIM Wilson had J. f. Crabb arrested last
week charging him with assault The case was
set tor trial Thursday before Judge Woodward
but was postponed on account of one of deft's.
witnesses being sick until Oct. 30. The deposi.
tions of j. l.. Marison, VIM. Dietrich and T. p.
Turner were taken to be used on the trial They
all live on the middle fork OF Clearwater
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20
Salmon Ricer Road .SuryeU.

Engineer ID. w. Hannah arrived
from Little Salmon Saturday, and,
having completed the entire work
of surveying the Salmon river and
Little Salmon wagon road route,
disbanded the party and proceeded
to Moscow. Mr.. Hannah gives us
the following distances between
points:
MILES.
Doumecq's ranch to Freedom, 8
Freedom to John Day, 6
John Day to Carver's, Ct
Carver's to Little Salmon, "
Little Salmon to Pollock's, A
Pollock's to Meadows, 195
Total, 511
The main Salmon is crossed %
miles below the mouth of the Little
Salmon, and the heaviest work on
the entire road is on this 25-mile
gap. The grades are heaviest from
Freedom to John Day. Little Sal.
mon is crossed twice, and there is
heavy rock work at intervals all
along the main Salmon. Mr.. Han,
nah thinks the entire road cannot
be built for the sum appropriated
He is delighted with the easy
grades and the nature of the route
and says that when the road il
once built it will be such an cas-,
means of communication between
north and south Idaho that it will
be the most travelled thoroughfar,
in the State, and its advantage
will be so apparent that peopl
will wonder why it wasn't bull
years and years ago.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20
UNITED STATES SENATE.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 5,.93.
DEAR PARKER:-YOur letter of
September IA was received in due
time, but not until few days ago
was / able to answer it satisfactO-
rily to myself. l will now inform
you that in an interview with the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
learned that it is charged that the
signatures to the agreement of the
present treaty were fraudulently
obtained, and that a special agent
has been ordered to Fort Lapwai,
and is probably there now, for the
purpose of investigating tn IS e
charges.
l am disposed to believe from
information here that the investi-
CATION will disclose the fact
that the treaty is perfectly regular
and will receive favorable report.
Prominent citizens of Lewiston
have been wired to render such as
sistance as they may be able, to see
that the investigation is properly
conducted. When the Interior
Department becomes satisfied that
there has been no fraud, they will
recommend that Congress ratify
the treaty; but under the most IA
vorable conditions | do not see any
probability of the residue of the
reservation being opened for set
tlement before some time next
summer. However, as soon as any.
thing definite is ascertained l will
advise you.
We continue to hold our oppo.
nents at bay on the repeal of thf
purchasing clause of the Sherman
act, and are not without hope thai
a fair compromise will be reached
! am, Sincerely your friend,
GEO. l.. SHoTP.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-10-20
RESERTATION MATTERS.
Investigating Charges of Bribery
and Fraud IN Securing Sig
natures to the Treaty.
A Letter from Senator Shoup.

"A AeCCer IfOm SENATOR SnOup.
The opening of the surplus lands
on ,tiic Nez Perce Indian reserva-
ton progresses slowly. The whis-
pers of fraud and bribery which
circulated here while the commits
sioners were negotiating the treaty
last winter have, it appears, reach
ed Washington, and are being made
the subject of an investigation.
The special agent referred to
in our letter from Senator Shoup is
Col. John Lane, of Oregon, who
has been at Lapwai for the past
two weeks gathering information
for his report on the subject. A
number of the Kamiah Indians,
whose signatures to the treaty are
alleged to have been secured by
bribery, have been examined. On
November the scope of the in
vestigatiOn will be enlarged by the
testimony of the several white men
who are supposed to be cognizant
OF the facts in the alleged purchase
of Indian signatures. Ex-Indian
agent Warren ID. Robbins and sew
eral agency employees nave been
subp1ned to testify to their know
ledge of the alleged facts. Col.
Lane hopes to conclude his mission
and submit his report to the Inte-
rior Department in time to have
the matter referred to the regular
session of congress which meets in
December next. Senator Shoup's
letter on the subject will be read
with interest.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-10
EXTORTION IN RUSSIA.
Taking Advantage of the Ignorant anC
UncompIaining Peasants.

Taking Advantage of the Ignorant and
UncompIaining Peasants.
The innocence of Russian peasants;
their ignorance of law, their humble
submission to anybody claiming au-
thority with an official appearance of
possessing it, are remarkably illustrated
by Mr.. Poultney Bigelow in a recent
account of some of his experiences in
Russia. It appears that the peasants
readily imagine that anybody in the
uniform of an officer of police must
have so much authority from the car
that they dare not complain of him. A
Russian gentleman, for whose honor
Mr.. Bigelow vouches, told him this
story:
One morning sleigh bells jingled in
our village. A police captain and lieu
tenant drove in with a dead body COW
cred up on a sleigh. They called for
the village elder.
''Ivan Ivanovitch," said the captain,
eying the crowd of trembling peas
ants, ga terrible crime has been COM
mitted close to the land of your vii
lage."
I'm Gods name, what?" asked the
old man.
"See for yourself" The captain
drew off the cover and exposed the
mutilated body. your village is re-
sponsible for this murder. There must
be a commission sent here to investi-
gate the matter"
"Anything but that begged the
elder, stroking and kissing the cap
tain's coat. He knew that such a COM
mission meant ruinous fines, to say
nothing of foggings for every wit
ness.
The peasants with one voice joined
in the appeal: Anything but a jul
dicial INQUIRY
well, but the matter is serious. It
will cost me a lot of money to prevent
a commission coming said the cap
tain.
After some haggling, the wretched
peasants, suffering for want of sutfi-
cient food or good shelter, dubbed to-
gether and paid seventy-fve roubles.
The captain and lieutenant climbed
into the sleigh once more, and drove
away with the corpse to the next vii
lage. Here they repeated the same
performance, and as long as the cold
weather lasted hat corpse represented
at least fifty roubles extorted from
every village it visited.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-10
PIONEER DAYS IN TEXAS.
Some Rigorous Laws Enforced 81 tn
Brazos Twenty Years Ago.

Some Rigorous Laws Enforced CD the
Brazos Twenty Years Ago.
Alexander W. Terrell (who was re-
Gently appointed United States minis
ter to Turkey in an address at Hous-
ton a few days ago paid the following
tribute to the men who achieved Texas
independence: II speak not the Ian
guage of undeserved praise, but the
simple truth, when | say that the piO-
neer immigrants of Texas from 1921 to
1910 were as noble a race Of men as
ever established empire" To those
who have always regarded the Texas
of that time as nothing than an
asylum for outlaws these words will
have the ring Of extravagant eulogy,
but according to the New York Even
ing Post, Mr.. Terrell spoke advisedly.
More than forty years ago he settled
among the survivors of the colony of
Stephen F. Austin, who is known as
1.-The Father of Texas" and for six
years Mr.. Terrell presided as a judge
in the courts set up by these men.
Austin's advance guard reached the
Brazos river in 1921, and soon after
ward his colony was augmented by
two hundred and eighty-fve recruits,
all of whom were native Americans,
n chiefly from the southern states.
They finally settled in the region
where are now the counties of
Travis, Bastrop, Caldwell, Guada-
lupe and Hays, and drew up a
code Of criminal laws which, it is
the testimony of survivors and their
children, were rigidly enforced. In
cases of theft, murder or robbery any
person was authorized to use arms in
experimenting the guilty party and take
him or her before the alcalde. If the
guilty party tried to escape, anyone
could shoot him. When stolen proper
ty was recovered, it was returned to
the owner. Gambling was an indicta-
BILE ~offense, and the fine for gambling
or keeping a gambling house was not
less than twenty dollars or more than
two hundred dollars. All men and
ONE who attempted to live together
without being married were fined not
less than one hundred dollars or more
tina five hundred dollars and con-
demned to hard labor on the public road.
Any person buying stolen property was
condemned to pay three times it's value
to the owner and labor on the public
works. Any person guilty of assault,
of abusing, manning, or ~ill-treating
another willfully and maliciously, was
fined not exceeding one hundred dol
lars and imprisoned not exceeding
three months. Any person passing
counterfeit money knowing it to be
such was condemned to hard labor on
the public works. It was made the
duty of the justice of the peace, or the
''alcalde," to arrest all Migrants or
Ifugitives from justice and take them
before the superior court for final judg-
ment.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-10

Some of the English clergy pay so
much attention to the poor that the rich
feel that they r neglected. An Eng.
lish paper quotes a lady of wealth as
asking: Are not the clergy supposed
to minister to all classes of the com
munity? Why, then, do they neglect
the rich?" When her husband fell ii
recently and desired the ministrations
of the church she could not get any
clergyman to visit him. They said they
were so busy looking after the poor
that they had no time to visit others.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-10
COWS AS MONEY.
A Race of People Who Have no Use fol-
Treasures.

A Race of People Who Have no Use for
Treasures.
In the present publication of the I'm
perial Geographical society of Russia
is the surprising announcement that
the Chewsures-a race of seven thou
sand people-in the department of
TrOust, government of Tiflis, know
nothing of the use of money as a
medium of exchange. The unit of val
uation among the primitive people is
the COW. A horse is valued at three
COWS and a stallion at six. If a Chew
sure becomes enraged and cracks his
neighbours skull he is obliged to pay
sixteen COWS. If he breaks a bone of
his neighbours arm five cows will re-
habilitate him in the eyes of So
ciety. A wound in the forehead calls
for three calves. If one cuts another
in the part of the face usually covered
by the beard the punishment is COM
paratively severe. The doctor places
as many grains of wheat along the cut
as possible. For each grain of wheat
so used the criminal must give up a
COW. Wounds in the beardless part of
the face call for one-third as many
COWS only. The man who Injuries a
neighbours hand surrenders sixteen
cows. Thirty cows even will pay for
the loss Of aneye. The people are said
to be happy and contented. No misers
exist among them
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-10

Little Barbara had been i'll, says an
exchange, but was convalescent. Are
you my doctor?" she said, waking up
suddenly and finding a strange lady at
her bedside. NO, dear" said the
strange lady; Il am your trained
nurse" "Ah! that's better" exclaimed
the little girl; 81 shall like you very
much. Trained nurse" she continued,
pointing to a cage hanging near the
window, 'let me Introduce you to my
trained canary"
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-10

W. Nj IEAH3Y, Durham, n. g.
The sun., 1893-12-06
THE WHITE PALACES,
They VIII he sold rnd Torn Down-Ths
Ferris wheel Coming Here.

CHICAGO. Dec 6.-The fate OF the crumbling
palaces In Jackson Park was practically set
tied to-day. They will soon pass from the
hands OF the Worlds Fair Directors into
those of the South Park Commissioners. to be
torn down as fast as they can be sold. Some
details are yet to be arranged. but President
DonnersberGer OF the Park Board and Presl-
dent Hlglnbotham and Solicitor General
Walker OF the Worlds Fair have agreed upon
the terms OF transfer.
DonnersberGer was authorized to close the
negotiations for the Park Board. Hlgin-
botham and Walker said they would report the
result 10 the Exposition directors on Friday.
All agree to keep tho terms secret until that
time. Ii IL understood that the Worlds Fair
Board will pay the Park Commissioners S2OO,-
OUO. perhaps S251.OUO. and abandon Jackson
Park as 1t Is to-day. Tho Park Board will as
sumo the responsibility OF getting rid OF the
buildings and restoring the park to good con-
dition.
The management OF the Ferris Wheel de-
cided to-day to take Il to New York and main
tain II there as permanent attraction.
Negotiations are pending for a site. hut IL is
not known yet which OF the several available
locations will be chosen. The work OF taking
down the wheel. preparatory TO shipment. is
being pushed.
was to-day knocked down TO Or. &. IT, VIII
doughty for S1.blO. Dr. WiliOughby will re-
move the building to Sixty y-seventh street and
Stony lsland avenue. and preserve 1t in its
present form.