Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-06-07


bridge on the Meadow creek trail,
and has IL magnificent limestone
ledge right in the center of it. He
has burned a lot of first-class lime
and is now building a wagon road
to the kiln to get it out.
The people of Northern and Cen
tral Idaho are doing considerable
road building this spring but could
do a great deal more with profit.
Idaho has plenty of resources her
two great needs are population and
capital. Nothing else will be of so
much service in obtaining both of
these as new roads.-Spokane
Chronicle.
The FREE PRESS adds quite an
addition each week TO the revenue |
of every postmaster in Idaho coun-
ty, as fully 90 per cent. of our large |
local circulation are mailed by sub
scribers to friends in the east.
There is probably not another pa
per in the state which has so many
actual readers as the old reliable
IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS.
The gold bugs say that the free
coinage men ask the government
to make u dollar out of so cents.
This is absolutely correct. But
what of it? Is it so very mon-
strous a thing that the government
should be asked to restore the debt
paying power of the silver dollar
to what it was before silver was
demonitized The government
made the silver dollar worth 80
cents, now let it make the SO cents
worth dollar. That is the exact
proposition and there is no repudi-
alton or initiation about it.
On the 23rd inst. Sunday there
will be held in Denver Children's
Day services. This will be an all
day meeting-basket dinner on the
ground. In the morning at 10
o clock there will be sermon for
the young children by Rev. Per-
kins; following this will be songs
and recitations. At II O'Clock
dinner will be spread. In the af-
ternoon an exercise entitled 1.-THE
Cross, the Flag, the Child,n will be
presented. All are invited to at
tend. A collection will be taken
to aid in Sunday-school work
There are many "sooners'in this
and adjoining counties who are
waiting for the reservation to be
opened in the expectation of OBJ
tanning homes therein. To all
such we would say that there is
just as good land lying outside OF
the reservation open for settlement
as there is within the sacred pre-
cincts of the reserve itself. II
seems to be law of human nature
that the unattainable is always
the most desirable, and that be-
cause you cannot get quarter-sec-
ton OF land on the reservation you
will take no other. Take our ad-
wise and get what is in sight. &c
over to the Kooskia or Clear creek
regions and get 160 acres of the
best land in the world, with wood
horse feed and water on it, and nc
Indian neighbors to bother you.
Mr. Knox writes us from Mt
Idaho that the skeleton found on
White Bird creek and supposed to
be that of Mrs. Manuel, is a suppo-
sition only. Mr.. Knox says: my
wife has told me that Mr.. Manuel
Geo. Popham Cher grandfather
and herself and sister have always
thought that after her resistance
made to ward Off the attacks oi
the savagcs, in which she lost hel
life, and after which her corpse
was seen 10y Geo. Popham-I hav,
understood, in the house-Mrs
Manuel's body was burned in the
house; and as human bones were
afterwards found in the ashes O
the house, and one of the earrings
that she had worn in life was alst
found among same, their theory o
their wife, daughter and mother,
fate would certainly need more
than 'supposition' to remove it.
The General Land Office ha.
withdrawn 81 townships of unsur
veyed government lands in thi
state from public entry. The ac
of congress admitting Idaho int,
the union granted certain publ
lands to the state for the mainte
nance of our public institution.
Under the provisions of an act al
proved August s, 1894, the govern
or of ldahv is authorized to selec
} these public lands and to orde
them surveyed. When such land
are surveyed the state has sixt
, days in which to make selection
before such lands become subjec
) to entry. Out of the 81 township
chosen, eight Of them are in th
!, Lewiston district. as follows: TI
: 40 n, +. l T.; tip. 40 H., r. 2 f.; II
: 40 n, +. 3 T.; tip. Al H., r. 2 f.; II
( Al n, +. 3 T.; tip. ~ n, r. 4 T.; II
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