Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-09-27

expert named Churchill went into
Dixie Wednesday to inspect Samp-
son Dillinger's quartz properties
for Spokane parties. Dillinger has
as good quartz as there is in Ida
ho county, and if the development
work is as represented he is to re-
ceive $4,000 cash and $1,000 in six
months. Dixie is camp of even
greater promise than Elk City, and
we should rejoice to see response
bic parties get in there and do
something to make showing.
While in Elk City we had the
pleasure of meeting Mr.. Fairchild,
one of the pioneers of that camp in
its earliest days. In company with
Franklin Shisslcr he carried the
first mail and Wells-Fargo's ex-
press between Elk City and Lew
iston. For the past few years he
has been prospecting and mining
in Colorado. and says that if such
quartz prospects were discovered
III Colorado as we have in Elk City
they would set the Centennial
state on fire with excitement.
Vansise, Campbell, Heightsman,
Noyes and Joe Parker return ed
from Relief creek last week where
they have been erecting 25-foot
water wheel and pulley and the
frame for a ten-stamp quartz mill
building. Heavy rain delayed
them several days, but they got
through two weeks ahead of CON
tract time. The mill building is
~ feet high. The boys went
through the Cleveland mine and
saw enough to convince them that
it is a bonanza.
Let us found a government
where there shall be no extremely
rich men and no abjectly poor ones.
Let us found a government upon
the intelligence of the people and
the equitable distribution of prop
erty. Let US make laws where
there shall be no government with
favored classes. Let us protect all,
IN life, liberty and prosperity, and
then say to every American citi-
zen: with the gifts that God has
given you, your brain and Drawn
and energy, work out your own
fortunes under just government
and equal jurisprudence. Thomas
Jefferson.
The high tax levy has its advan-
tages. For one thing it will set
the taxpayers watching the pro-
ceedings of the district court and
other judicial functions more close
", and woe be to the candidate at
the next election who has been
lilly d a Lying in the courts.
Judges, justices and lawyers alike
must be on their best behavior
low, and all must do their best to
secure prompt, efficient and eco
lomical administration of Justice
n all our courts. Justice is JUS
ice; but too often justice itself is
made farce by self-seeking Judges
md lawyers. Running the county
IN cash basis will stop dilatory
rials and other evils in short or
Ter.
With a state and county tax levy
If 1913 and a special school tax of |
line mills more, the citizens of |
irangeville would have had nice
burden of taxation to tote this
ear if the hot-headed incorpora-
ionists had carried their point last
pring and loaded us up with
1illage tax of one or two per cent
additional! The county commits
ioners deserve the everlasting
hanks of this bailiwick for sitting
lown on the job. We all believe
II local self-government and know
to ask for it when we want
t !; but we do not propose to have
thrust upon us Without our con-
ent to crafty the spleen of a few
dishonest men who are trying to
teal something out of it.
a telephone dispatch announces
hat Mr.. Edmond Juessen and Miss
'ennie Peabody were married III
lewiston Tuesday evening. Miss
Peabody is daughter of T. J. Pea
'ody, the popular and efficient
gent of the O. Il. & N. Co, +, and
me of Lewiston's fairest bellies.
The happy couple took their de-
'arture for Elk City on Wednes-
lay morning, and took the north
IN road into camp to avoid the
congratulations of their friends
md well wishers in Grangeville.
DR.. Juessen is superintendent of
he Idaho Mining and Develop
aent Co., who are operating
,reat hydraulic elevator plant on
american Hill, in Elk City, of
which enterprise we have some-