Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-06-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| N ~ "oAi ouPPiy w., OI IltteUurg,
Penn, has gone into the hands of q
receiver.
The Eston, Cole 4 Durham Co.,
manufacturers of brass goods of New
York have assigned.
Washington cannerymen are discour-
aged. 1t is predicted that the season =
pack will be $4,000 cases short.
1t is reported here that Marie Vain
wright, the actress, will be married soon
to Paul Schultze, Of Tacoma, Washing
ton.
Mrs. Catherine Ickes, of Portland. has
been adjudged insane; also Mrs. Mary
Carr, OF Portland. Both are aged 81
years.
| Agents of the Northern Pacific have
received instructions to meet all cuts
made by the Great Northern in passsn-
ger rates.
| Millions OF crickets are on the noun
tains north of Harvey valley and some in
Silvas valley, travelling north with hop,
skip and jump.
On Saturday, June 10. VIM. II. Perry
was killed by being thrown from wagon
load Of lumber and run over, near Ridge
way, Wasco county.
John H. Craft is under arrest ct Ia
coma on charge Of smuggling. When
arrested there were found in his trunk
thirty-nine cans Of opium.
statement which shows that the total
sugar bounty for the fiscal year ending
June 80 will be Is, 4O3, $3.50.
President Cleveland has consented to
serve as an arbitrator between Brazil
and Argentine Republic over the pos
session of the state of Panama.
Governor Pennoyer has been invited
by the New York Tammany society to
deliver an address at the 4th Of July
celebration. He will not accept.
There is young man in San Fran
cisco, William Curly, who can jump back
ward over horse fifteen hands high. He
does the feat with both ease and grace.
Receiver Augustine, of the defunct
Washington savings bank, of Spokane.
reports that the bank will he able to pay
every dollar owed, and have money to
spare.
1t is authoritatively stated that ex-
Governor Knott will decline the Ha-
waiian mission. His extensive law
practice, it is said, makes his acceptance
impracticable.
Jesse Goodman. aged ten years, was
thrown from wagon and run over, last
Saturday, while driving a team near
Burns, Harvey county, from the effects
of which he died soon afterwards.
The body of Lewis Halem, laborer,
has been found in the Willamette river,
near Portland On the 9TH inst. he left
home saying he was going to drown him
SELL, but nothing was thought of it at the
time. r.....
The assets of Hamilton, Job & Co. q
bank, at Corvallis, are stated to be
1925 900 in money and notes, county &C.
curities and real estate. The liabilities
are $205, 900, of which $17l 900 is de-
posits.
Frank Shepherd is under arrest at
Baker City charged with intimacy with
the daughter of l.. s. Deal, a child of
fourteen years. Shepherd denies the
charge and says he can prove he is in
nocent.
p. A. Surface is under arrest at Port
land charged with robbing j M. and Fl.
D.. Thompson of $50 each, under the
promise of locating them on lands in
Klickitat county, Wash, which he could
not perform.
| Frank Aldrich, in the quartermaster
generals office, district national guard,
and until recently sealer of weights and
measures for the district of Columbia,
has gone from Washington leaving debts
amounting to nearly $4,000.
| A mass meeting under the the aus
pices of the law and order league is to
be held in Portland this week Thursday
evening, to take action in using every
lawful endeavor to secure the enforce
ment of the Geary Chinese exclusion
law.
The people of Palouse are rejoicing,
having struck artesian water. The we'll
which Frank Egan has been boring for
the city is overlooking at the rate of 300
gallons per minute. Although this is
sufficient for present wants, the city has
decided to bore another well.
1t is stated that the board of engineers
will report in favor OF portage railroad
at the upper Cascades, and that a ship
railroad is impcacticable and canal ex-
pensive. Should this plan be too
adopted by the next congress, the Co.
lumbia river could be opened to move
the crops of 1894.
Acting Secretary Of the Navy McAdoo,
upon the application OF the chamber of
commerce and the citizens Of Portland,
Oregon, has ordered the coast defense
ship Monterey to proceed to San Fran
cisco and then to Portland to take part
in the celebration, July 4th, of the open
ing of the Great Northern railroad.
Governor Pennoyer, having investi-
gated the affairs Of Hamilton, J OBJ & Co. g
suspended bank, at Corvallis, says !:
1.-The general impression was they would
pay rs cents on the dollar, but in my
judgment they will do well II they pay so
cents on the dollar" The state Of Ore
gon has $40, 900 tied up in the bank.
The preliminary examination of Dan
Tartar for the murder OF his brother Rob-
ert in Eagle Valley occurred at New
Bridge, Union county, Thursday. The
court at the conclusion OF the evidence
held the prisoner on charge of man.
slaughter, fixing his bonds in the sum of
81, 800 which were READILY furnished.
Judge Fullerton, OF Corvallis, made an
order further postponing the sale of the
Oregon Pacific railroad from June %, to
October %. This postponement was
granted at the request Of the holders of a
large amount OF certificates issued by the
former receiver, who are organizing to
protect their holdings and will do so by
bidding on the property.
Dug WATSON stabbed l. L. White Sum-
day 10 miles east OF Harrisburg. After
cutting him in the left shoulder he split
his right arm from elbow down and cut
across his left am. He then ran in the
house, got Winchester, and shot at
| Whifa fonr timea neither ahot akipg a.