Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-01-26
Masks can be obtained at Henry
Wax's store for the masquerade on
the evening of the Goth.

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the evening of the Goth.
Photographs for Chinese regis
tering certificates made on short
notice at The Elite, Grangeville,
Idaho.
John Hadorn was up from Deer
creek this week and among other
business renewed for the county
paper.
Robert Shearer returned from
Lewiston last week where he has
been for some weeks as witness in
Williams VS. Bell suit.
Mr.. Stantial informs us that pri-
vate parties intend putting a mill
on Calvin & Williams Buckeye
mine in Dixie this summer.
Contractors will please take not
ice that correction has been
made in the specifications of the
jackson bridge advertisement.
Rev. A. L. Bateman will lecture
at the NJ. E. church on Sunday
evening next, Subject: "Recollect-
ions of the first temperance crusade.
Sim Wiley has struck chimney
of rich ore in his Arlice mine at
Warrens, and crushing of four
tons in Riebold's mill netted $17OO.
The Weiser Signal says that
both sides of Snake river clear
down to the Mineral ferry are ta-
ken up for placer mining purposes.
S. w. Smith and A. f. Parker
returned from their trip to Little
Salmon Saturday. They were up
main Salmon as far as August
Berg's ranch.
Stoves! Stoves! We have large
assortment of Heating and Cook
Stoves which we offer to the trade
at lowest prices. Give us call be-
fore buying.
ALEXANDER & FREIDENRICH.
The roof of the sporting house
next to the Clark saloon building
caught fire Wednesday night and
that end of the town had narrow
escape from a big contlagration.
See Starrett's seed ad in another
column. These are the best seeds
ever imported into Camas Prairie,
and those who have used them be-
fore will not take any other. w.
F. Schmadeka, sole agent.
Jacob Anthony, of Troutville,
Penna,, writes us for information
about Idaho county, and says that
a colony of well-to-do farmers from
that neighborhood desire to settle
among us if they can buy land.
A petition was circulated across
Salmon river for the benefit of the
Thompson family, who suffered so
severely from the snow slide in
Baker gulch, and over $50 was
realized. The neighbors on this
side rebuilt the house and other
wise assisted this truly unfortun-
ate family.
In these hard times when no.
body has dollar, we are glad to
receive hams, bacon, flour, eggs,
butter, poultry of all kinds, alive
or dead, beef, mutton, pork, cord
wood, and all kinds of farm pro-
duce which we can use, on sub
scription to the FREE PRESS at
regular market prices.
Ayers Pills are constantly
advancing in the estimation of
those who use them. They i'm
prove the appetite, promote digest
ion, restore healthy action, and
regulate evey function. They are
pleasant to take, gentle in their
operation, and powerful in subdu-
ing disease.
Suits aggregating s346,0OO have
been instituted against the Union
Pacific railroad company for com
pensation to the heirs of the vict-
inns and damages to the injured in
the explosion of the Annie Faxon
last August. The bulk of the suits
are in the hands of attorneys Jas.
E.Babb and f. O'Neil, of Lewiston.
The latest novelty is the para
fine roofing that G. c. Bunnell is
introducing to the trade. 1t is a
composition of parafiine paint and
burlapping. 1t is fire and water
proof and is a perfect preservative
for all buildings exposed to the
weather. 1t is being used exten-
sively in the east and has, for ma
ny purposes superseded the use of
shingles.
The assessment ON mines in Sew
en- Devils district were ordered
eliminated by the board of county
commissioners of Washing n
county at their January session,
the board deciding that said mining
district was not in Washington
county. This was done, says the
Weiser Signal to avoid the law
suit in which the collection of said
taxes would have involved them.
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