Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-08-13
OUR COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS
They Chronicle all the Happenings
Of the Biggest and Greatest
County in the State.

Jay hHoduS Is up from GOIf.
Miss Lidia Castle has returned
from Moscow.
w. B. Patterson was in Grange
vile Saturday.
IL. kuther has received a large
cons 5nment of shoes.
j. J. Murray did business in
Grangeville Saturday.
Jno Henderson left on a bust
ness trip to Elk City Tuesday.
Mr.. Mix, the nurseryman of
Moscow, did business in Denver
Monday.
S. L. Short, the dentist, is do
ing business in Denver at Hender-
sons hotel.
Dave Yates pulled in Tuesday
with 5000 pounds of machinery
from Lewiston.
Pat Coder is preparing to go to
the klondyke country in the spring
with a band of horses.
f. X. Culbertson and Mrs.
Elmendorf of Spokane, paid us a
hurried visit last Thursday.
Our blacksmiths are jumping
sideways these days repairing ma
chinery for immediate harvesting.
The Denver Progress suspends
publication this week and Editor
Murray will soon leave for Pull
man, Wash.
The report in our local paper
last week that our planning mill
had been sold, is contradicted by
those who know.
Fred Bernthal and J. P. Code
deliverd some apples in Denver
this week that speak volumes for
our fruit industry.
Z. A. Chase will probably take
possession of our post Office on the
LIST. Albert Chase has been sworn
in as deputy.
Will Kessler returned from Mos
COW Tuesday with L. C. Smock
and family, of Nebraska, who will
locate among us.
Doctor Truitt, of Cottonwood.
was called in Tuesday to see Jas.
Upton, who has taken relapse
and is suffering with severe at
tack of pneumonia. In connection
with injuries received at Lewiston
he is a very sick man.
}. l.. Harper, editor of the Nez-
perez News, visited Denver Mon
day and is soliciting on a unique
advertising scheme to show up this
county and Nez Perez county.
His plan ought to receive gener-
GUS support as we need just such a
project i'll literature to distribute
in the east and elsewhere, as no
exagseration is necessary to DEM
onstrate our unparalleled re-
sources.
Every day recently witnesses
immense loads of machinery des-
tined for the mines passing through
here, and we predict two years
from now the Klondyke won't be
in it with US. Your correspond
ent has been up to this arctic region
and will vouchsafe that many a
ragged, tattered and forlorn speci-
men OF the human family will re-
turn next year weaker and wiser.
Idaho county is a little slow but
she will get there just the same.
The directors Of the Granite
Mountain Gold and Copper Co.
held their first meeting here last
Thursday and elected their officers:
j. j. Flynn, president; A. r.
Brewer, vice president, and j. j.
Pulse, secretary and treasurer.
l.. A. Gasaway and r. II. Brewer,
with above, were elected directors
for one year. Mr.. Gasaway left
the next day for Spokane and will
buy hoist and other machinery
to sink the present shaft 100 feet
more. Stock sufficient has been
already subscribed to push this
property to rapid development and
three shifts will be put on.
A young man by the name of
Mattox threw this community in a
Juror of excitement last week bv
reporting that while at Yellow
Bulls ranch last week, that Vel
low Bull, by whom he was en-
ployed, had discharged him and
had during a frenzy killed young
Moses, who was working for him.
Mattox also reported he saw him
with a Winchester and saw the