Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-06-01

night at o'clock, and all hands
gave three cheers at the unusual
occurrence.
Sweets sawmill at Petersburg
started up Wednesday and will
cut $4,000 feet per day during
their run.
The Ellwood Glidden Barbed
wire, Diamond E" trade mark, is
the cheapest and best. For sale by
c. G. Bunnell, Lewiston.
DIR. A. G. Humelbaugh makes a
speciality of preserving the natural
teeth. Never have a tooth ex-
tracted when it can be saved.
DIR. Shaeffer's family will arrive
from Spokane next week to reside
permanently. They will occupy
the Bowman bnilding on Hall st.
J. NJ. Ross, of Lewiston, arrived
in town last Friday and left Satur-
day over the Melnor road for a
prospecting trip in the Florence
basin.
w. Ingram was over from Rus
tic Tuesday and informed us that
the saw mill is running on the fin
est lot of logs ever cut in Idaho
county.
Contractor Ingram was up from
the river Tuesday and reports good
progress on the road. The entire
contracts will be completed by the
first of July.
Spanish Louis is in town with
his pack train and load about Mon
day next with merchandise for
Warrens, taking the Melnor and
wire bridge trail.
Bro. Rob't Larimer has been
promoted to the position of Super
intendent of the Stewart Institute,
at Carson, Nevada, at a salary of
81 800 per year.
Little George Sheer is in town
with his pack train loading mer-
chandise for John Clark's store at
Florence. He left this morning
over the Melnor road.
Buckingham's Dye for the
Whiskers can be applied when at
home, and is uniformly successful
in coloring brown or black.
Hence its great popularity.
f. w. Bell is up from Lewiston
looking for a location for a furni-
ture store and cabinet shop. He
will probably buy lot and erect a
building during the summer.
Mt. Idaho lodge No. 7, I. o. O. F.,
elected new officers last Saturday
night as follows: N. g., w. A.
Hall; V. G., G. A. Bonebrake; treas,
Levi Magee; sec'y Jacob Vercler.
The Melnor road is now passable
for horses and will be in good con-
dition in another week. No horses
have gone into Warrens yet, al
though the trail is practically open
j. M. Craig, brother-in-law Of
J. F. Mclean, is in a bad way with
an abscess of the spleen, and an
operation is the only chance for his
recovery. DIR. Nickel is attending
Misses Maggie Behean, Lena
Gotzinger and Josie Gaddy arrived
from Lewiston last Friday, having
been sent home by the Sisters wht
apprehended difficulties from higl
water.
Our job press has been kept run
ming steadily every day for the las
two weeks on an unusual number
of orders for letter and bill heads
and envelopes from all over th'
county.
More rain fell Saturday and Sun
day. Crops never looked better
and if prices can only be forced VI
every mortgage on Camas Prairie
will be lifted this fall out of thi
years crop.
w. J. Kelly was out from War
rens last Friday and Saturday witt
several big buckskin sacks of gol'
dust, proceeds of the Warren
placers, which he shipped to tn
San Francisco mint.
A petition is circulating to max
Mt. Idaho a post-office on the Ell
City route, to extend the Warren
route over there, and to have tn
contractors ON the Lewiston rout
come in on schedule time.
G. B. Wood and family removes
from Cottonwood Tuesday and es
tablished their residence in tn
Ready property ON North Main 81
All hands are glad to have then
residing among us again.
The body of Charles Saunders
drowned in the south fork G
Clearwater near Jackson bridge o.
May IS, as narrated in these CO.
umns last week, was found an
buried by Indians near Kamiaf
| ON May %.
: j. P. Daugherty and wife, {
Junction City, Oregon, and rels
tiyes of our B. w. Maxey, are Wis
ting this prairie with a view t
purchase a farm if they can fin