Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-06-22


He will assess Grangeville next
week, and will then do up the
mountain settlements.
1t will pay you to call on j. G.
Holsclaw and get his prices before
purchasing elsewhere. Prices have
been reduced so everybody can
afford to buy meat. l
John Mathison and Peter Smith
spent last Sabbath here. They will
have their contracts on the Salmon
river wagon road entirely complet-
ed by the middle of July.
The blockades caused by wash
outs on the railroad tracks is evil
IDENTIFY broken, judging by the large
delayed mails arriving here every
evening for the past week.
New subscribers to the +. p. are:
F. E. Jerome, Grangeville, Idaho;
q. III. Farris, Clearwater, Idaho;
Geo. K. Reed, Spokane, Wash, II
r Buffum, White Bird, Idaho.
Henry johnson has made great
improvements on his acre property
south of town. He has fine
orchard and garden and will soon
build a nice residence thereon.
II. R. Buffham, pioneer resi-
dent of White Bird, is back from a
protracted sojourn in Los Angeles
and has resumed his residence on
the old place on White Bird creek.
W G Bates and Fred Hopkins
pulled out Monday for Salmon
river where they will join Tom and
Jim McGrane and proceed on to
Fremont county with their horses.
The base ball match between
Denver and Cottonwood and
Grangeville and Johns creek was
played at Denver Sunday and re-
suited in a victory for the visiting
team, score % to s.
DR.. f. H. Shaeffer has his card
as M. D., in the FREE Press. He
comes with the highest recon-
mendation from his old home in
Spokane as to his ability as a
physician and surgeon.
Milt Cambridge is suffering
severely with a bad attack of in
fiamatory rheumatism in both arms
and legs. He is under the care of
DIR. Shaeffer, who hopes to have
him around again shortly.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Camas prairie is called to meet in
Cottonwood, Saturday, June %, to
raise subscriptions and attend to
other buciness connected with the
wagon roads to Julietta and Kend-
rick.
Mr.. Kurtz, miner from Cali
fornia, was in town this week.
making enquiries about the Elk City
and Warrens quartz i'll the interest
of some Tacoma people. He will
visit Elk to inspect the McCready
boys property.
Fred Higgins returned Saturday
with Jesse Rains, Dick Higgins and
Owen Overman, from the State
University, who will spend their
three months vacation here. Miss
Wilmot is gone to Walla Walla to
teach school.
X. S. Dewett, special agent of
the department of justice, has been
sent to Idaho to investigate the
Indian depreciation claims. He
has claims amounting to 100000
in his pocket and will doubtless
visit Camas Prairie shortly.
Sike Reynolds is up from Free
dom and reports land slide a mile
long and halfa-mile wide on the
north fork has completely dried up
Slate creek. The slide is made up
of rocks and timber and is therefore
not likely to break suddenly.
H. E. Heppner was out from
Moose creek diggings Saturday.
He is now using a Little Giant and
runs more dirt through his boxes
in one day now than he used to do
in three days with the old-fashioned
pipe. He reports a splendid head
of water.
When the blood is loaded with
impurities, the whole system be-
comes disordered. This condition
of things cannot last long without
serious results. In such cases, a
powerful Alternative is needed, such
as Ayers Sarsaparilla. 1t never
fails, and has no equal.
A man working On Shissler's con-
tract on the Salmon river wagon
road was knocked on the head by
a rock from blast and rolled into
the river. The mans partner, who
was standing near, picked up a
crowbar, which happened to be the
nearest thing at hand, and flung it
into the stream and yelled to the
other fellow to hold on to it and
keep afoat.
A petition is circulating request
ing the commissioners to contract
for the repair of the county road
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