Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-05-26
HERE AND EtaE WI ERk.

Salem Journal: The people OF this
city demand that either Mr.. Shaw or MIR.
Hofer 20 to the penitentiary. Ii MIR.
Shaw is guilty OF the charges made by
the Journal he should be placed in the
for not less than ten years.
II Mr.. Hofer cannot prove the charges
he has made he should be lynched for at
tempting TO blackmail Mr.. Shaw and
thus running the the name Of a young
lady. The com munity does not care to
take sides in this filthy mystery. but to
protect itself it does demand that Mr..
Shaw compel Mr.. Hofer to prove the
assertions he has made.
The Dalles Chronicle: No savage
gloating over the death agoDies of a
tortured victim is more diabolically vim
dictive than the Telegram ON receipt Of
the news that Carlyle Harris was to be
electrocuted. GOOD news for Justice
Good news for pure womanhood! Good
news for honest manhood! Carlyle
Harris will be electrocuted!" shouts the
Telegram, and personified we can see
that paper circling around the flaming
fsgots Of funeral pyre, armed with
club and hideously painted.
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st. Louis Republic: Modern times
are certainly much more convenient to
live in. The crusaders, for the lack OF
Joppa and Jerusalem Railway, which
will take US from the coast to Jerusalem
in three hours and Q quarter, suffered in
conveniences that few travellers would
think of undergoing now on any account.
From the followers Of Peter the Hermit
to those of Frederick Barbarossa, and
from Barbarossa to good King Louis,
they fortified Asia and Africa with their
bones in trying to reach the Holy Land
when If they had only waited until now
they could have gone in q Pullman and
realized more than expenses by judicious
investments during the continuance of
the town lot boom which Get up the land
on which the Union depot at Jerusalem
lie located from q dollar to over thous-
and dollars an acre.
Here 10 q good suggestion from the
Grant county Living Issue: OF course a
country with q population of 5000 and a
public debt of 500, 900 needs ''poor
farm" But would it not be more eco
nomical for the county and state to run
q wire fence around the whole county,
using one half for Eastern Oregon's
insane asylum and the other half as .
reservation for the poor of the whole
state, then employ our Hundred Thou
sand Dollar Militia to keep up the fence
and prevent US paupers and idiots from
fighting.
Farmers who have wheat stored in the
Garfield warehouse have been greatly
alarmed over the prospect Of having to
pay city taxes on it. The Enterprise
this week, however, endesvors to allay
their fears on this subject, and states
that II all other remedies fail the city
council says it will either refund the
amount paid or will not permit it to be
collected.
We understand that A. r. Lyle con-
templates going TO New Mexico to look
for new cattle range, says the Ochoco
Review. Mr.. Lyle is one of the most ex.
tensive cattle raisers in the county, and
has no fault to find with the range here,
but with the prices which Portland buy
ers offer for beef, and this is the case
with every cattle raiser in the county
The beef buyers have formed such a
strong combination among themselves
that they are able 10 control the market
and force the producers to take whatever
price they offer.
Seattle Post Intelligencer: The mood
Of Gov. Pennoyer, of Oregon, when he
telegraphed President Cleveland to mind
his own buHineso, -ooalls tho liner from
''The Young Magician"
He said to the blizzard uRooV
He said to the lightning. "Shoow
Eugene Guard In this weeks letter
to the 6. F. Examiner Bill Nye speaks Of
Eugene as the place where there ia 14O,-
900 acres Of good farming land for sale
within the city limits.
Major John w. Powell, of the United
States Geological Survey, explodes q
venerable tradition in his article on In
dams in the May Forum. The number
Of indiana originally in the United
States, he says, has been often estimated
in the millions, ''even as high as 25,.
600, 000." The bureau OF ethnology
however, has looked into the subject,
and discovers that there were really only
somewhere between 100000 and q
million, OF whom at least 250,0O still
survive. The major hints that eve have
already reached the point where we may
hope to save the remnant, to be absorbed
into modern civilization"
F. Bradford, practical placer mining
man will establish works to wash the
sands for gold on the upper Columbis
river by a process not hitherto exten.
sively experimental with in this part oil
the country. He proposes to construct q
system OF barges, to be equipped with
pumping and hosting machinery, to lii,
the gravel from the bottom of the river
thus permitting the continuance OF oper.
atoms at all stages Of water.
| Portland Dispatch: The editor of the
Dispatch was democrat in Oregon be-
fore the Office of appraiser was created in
this state, and the action OF the admins
tration will have no effect in making
him less democrat. He has submitte ed
to such treatment before and from the
same source. His loyalty to the party
however, was never shaken.
St. Louis Republic: In the question
between the extremes of eociety-be
tween those who are degraded by want
and those who are degra led by the pos
session OF more wealth than they have 9
right to-the jury must be the people
who have not yet reached either ex
treme.
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