Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-09-15

Rogers, a wealthy man about nifty years
of age, who came west about o year ago.
The happiness, and possibly the lives,
of four persons depend upon the finding
of Mr.. Rogers.
There was another record broken at
Fleetwood, Monday. Pascal, black
gelding, stepped five miles IN IL minutes
and As seconds. This cuts Is seconds of
the best previous record, which was held
by Lazy Mac, whose mark was IL min
utes. gained on q track in California a.
far back as 1874.
Reports from the storm-stricken dis
tricts increase the horrors day by day.
Fully 1000 lives are lost. and the living
are begging for bread. Charleston, 8.
c., although badly damaged by the
storm, is doing everything to help the
sufferers. Contributions of money, pro-
visions and clothing are asked for.
Charles Fleak was killed by William
Fox on Skeleton creek in Alturas county,
Idaho, on Friday last. Both were sheep
men. Fleak drove his band among
Fox's, and when the latter demonstrated,
Fleak shot him and Fox thereupon
killed him. This 10 Fox's story. He
has given himself up to the sheriff at
HALEY.
| J, G. Brown, son OF Captain Jim
Brown, who was killed at the Garfield
Park racetrack last year while resisting
arrest for the murder OF two policemen,
was shot and painfully wounded Tuesday
night by two men who forced an en-
trance into his house in Chicago. The
shooting occurred on the anniversary Of
his fathers death.
While the Dutch steamer Rajah All
jeh, trading between Penang and the
east coast of Acheen, was making triE
recently, the Chinese passengers rose
and attached the crew. They killed thu
English captain and mate and twenty
two others, who were presumabl!
Asiatics. They also wounded fifteer
others of the passengers and crew.
| Near the little station of Mound Val
: lev. Kansas. at 4 O'Clock Sunday morn
ing. three men held up the st. Louis
San Francisco passenger train. Express
, Messenger Chapman WAS shot an
: killed. Failing to secure money from
a the express car, the bandits robbed tn
passengers. The estimated amount Q
. booty secured fell not far short of 5000
On last Wednesday the property Of tn
Snow Storm Mining Company, consis
y ing Of seven claims, namely, the Lii
e White, Eureka, Snow Storm, st. Albsr
d Windsor, Golden Chariot and Thornton
a together with ten-stsmp mill, all stir
@ ated in Union county, Oregon, betwee
2 Sparta and Sanger, was sold under ex'
cution to David Y. Johnson, OF Bedfort
% Indiana, and that gentleman ID now
l. possession.
3, An Indian has found the watch {
|. Young Taffe who was drowned in tn
10 Columb ia few weeks ago, on the i
10 land above Cello. No theory is satisfa
p tory as to how it came there. The islam
at the time was about eighteen inche
Is under water and when his body hoat9
n past, it might have been loosened by Il
D. friction of the sand, or 1t may have bee
q. merely the work Of chance in thus r
,e storing a token of his tragic end. II
le watch was returned to Mrs. Taffe.
a. On Tuesday fire destroyed $50,O
worth Of property at Elgin, Oregon. tt
ne burnt dietrict extends on Main sire
SO from the poetoffice to the eastern end
o. the street, and includes the Western, {
nd Charles and Arlington hotels, the recc
n. der's office, the grocery and hardwa
OF store of Starr & Brokenshaw, the mi
In inery store OF Mrs. Laughlin, and I
furniture store OF Sims, Ralson & G
'or besides numerous small establishment
1s, The total insurance amounts to abb
II. 5000.