Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-06-23
Mount Idaho.

ouSo thiiih vi ~ MI. CulUOT,
three (3) sermons in Mt. Idaho,
one each from as many different
ministers within a period of less
than "a hours, beginning Saturday
evening"! And one of them about
Hell-that awful place, but of
which we had heard so little of
late that we had almost forgotten
its existence ! Didn't that prince
of pulpit orators, Henry Ward
Beecher knock the bottom out of
hell some years before his death,
and has anybody been foolish
enough to repair the breach? But
the question is, what is the expla-
nation of our receiving such feast
of religion all in II lump? We of
Mt. Idaho are SO eminently mo raj
and so awfully quiet, that it SEQ ms
a great waste of breath to talk to
us so much at one time abont our
sins. All but l have just re-
ceived a hint that possibly solves
the riddle. A gentleman suggests
that providentially or otherwise,
these reverend gentlemen are sent
here to counterfeit any evil that
may result from so much litigation
as is now going on, and on account
of the presence of so many lawyers,
witty and brilliant as they all are
1t is but too true, (and the fact is
to be deploredD lawyers as a cl ass,
are not nearly so pious as, well say
the Puritans were 200 years a go !!
Being such masters of logic, and as
a consequence, ready to prove at
any time that black is white or
vice versa, lawyers are somewhat
inclined to depend rather more on
their ability to argue the point
with st. Peter when they desire to
pass through his gate than they do
upon their piety. More's the pity!
The fact that the crime of muir
der charged in each of the sew eral
eases before this court is said to
have been committed at a point
outside of, and more or less rem tote
from any town, is full of gnif-
cameo. Does it not tend to show
that the influence of the town as
sOciations operates to check the
commission of the grosser Grim
And if so, is not the surest rem edy
or preventative as clearly indicat ed
viz: Bring everybody into town
or make towns more numero JUS ?
The remark is occasionally heard
that Camas prairie cannot support
five towns. The writer is clearly
of the opinion that the time is not
distant when towns will be so mum.
erous that no one in the basin need
live at greater distance than five
miles from some one of them
Many small towns rightly distrib.
uted will serve the interests of the
people better than few large
cities.
While calling at the hospitable
mansion of Mr.. King just north Of
town, the writer's attention was
directed to an ancient building that
deserves more than a passing no
tice. Although now used as q
granary or hay barn, it was the
first school house built on Camas
prairie. 1t was erected in 1867 be-
ing constructed of hewn logs. In
size, it is 1Sx24 with high cell.
ing, probably - feet. Two win.
dows on each of two sides afforded
light and there is a doorway al
each end. The logs, mostly white
fir arc perfectly sound, and with. a
little care the building could be
preserved until the year 1862, OF
the first anniversary of the first
settlement of the prairie. Would
it not be good plan to ask the
school children of the county to do
nate sum sufficient for its pur.
chase, with such an object in view:
That date being only 80 years
hence many of the younger chill
dren may live to participate in the
celebration which 1862 will de-
mand. TEACHER.