Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-02-28

Editor Parker and S. w. Smith
are expected back from Spokane o
Saturday.

The freshest, coolest and incest
beer in the country, 25 cents per
quart, at Exchange Saloon.
The revival meetings that have
been in progress at the NJ. n.
church closed Sunday night.
G. F. Brown, of the Cottonwood
side, and proprietor of the Cotton
wood hotel was in town Friday.
WANTED.-Idaho county war
rants. BANK OF CAMAs PRAIRIE,
Grangeville, Idaho.
About 800 filings have been
entered for record at the u. ).
land Office at Lewiston in the past
80 days.
County Auditor and G. D. Smith
made business trip to the Cot
tonwood side Monday, returning
Tuesday.
The wind and warm weather the
first of the week dried the mud up
rapidly and the roads are in good
condition.
B. G. Looney has started feed
store in the building formerly oc-
cupied by Bentz & Evans on east
main street.
The farmers are all busy plOw-
ing, consequently it is rather dull
on our streets and with our
| husinasS mon
Information concerning Hally
Wiles will be gladly received be
his mother, Rebecca Wiles, of
Mariaetta Ohio.
Owners of gold properties can
procure a stamp mill by giving an
interest. Address, Chas. p. Oudin,
Spokane, Wash. AZ.
Petitions are being circulated
asking for a semi-weekly mail ser
vice between Grangeville and Stu
art, via Columbus.
H. Hanger left Tuesday for
Florence with stock of groceri es,
miners supplies, etc, and will
again reopen his saloon.
VIM. Steinheiser leaves Monday
on a combined business and pleas
ure trip to Portland. He will be
absent about two weeks.
Barney Stubbers, of the firm OF
Nuxoll Il Stubbers of Cottonwood
was in town Wednesday, in &C M
pany with Henry Schmidt.
The Denver Planning mill will
furnish doors, windows, holdings,
and all kinds of mill work as cheap
as they can be bought in SpOkan e.
Call on w. F. Schmadeka for the
choicest garden seeds. He rep re-
sents the well-known and reliable
seed house of Geo. Starrett o.
Walla Walla.
H. L. Hughes the pOpulist repre-
sentative from ShOshOne county in
the last legislature is now stump
ing the state and will shortly visit
Idaho county.
F. E. Fogg is plotting an addi
ton north of town and expects tt
place it on the market next week
One-half of the lots are to be sold a
public auction to the highest
bidder.
There are miners and miner il
; this good world of ours. One kint
mines values out of the earth, ant
, the other from the pockets of tn,
public. One makes his home OF
the mountain sides, under TIL,
!, shadow of snowy peaks, or on tn,
,, weary, dusty, desert, where gold il
found; the other makes his hom,
j among the business houses of men
One is governed by the spirit whicl
:. directs that which man obtains h,
!, should give in exchange some val
E liable return; the other by the com
mercial spirit of the age, whicl
. says "get money honestly if yo,
: can; but get money" The la tie
: are the chaps who come west ant
get a thousand dollar prosp pect
, stock it for a million and then socl
: it to gullible public with tn
stock. They belong with the high
:. :. toned thieves of Wall Street, OIL
: whose actions the public sets tn
, seal of commendation. To then
:, the law is made to be evaded o
J violated; if they find violation
y necessary to the success of thei
bunco games. Penitentiaries an,
jails have no terrors for them
> These unpleasant institutions ar
: for those only who do not kn nov
: : how to steal or get something 9 70
nothing. The little thief is dc
graded and imprisoned. The bi
thief, who steals through stoc
e swindles, gets a respectable plac
1t in society. Men don't go to jai
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