Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-06-18

j. G. Chesebro is out from Elk
this week after supplies.
Get healthful draught of soda
at the Bon Bon. Only SC. glass.
Levi Magee has just receive a
new talking machine that talks
talk.
Jones & Son have added a new
refrigerator to their main street
market. :.
The state supreme court has de-
cided that the new anti-gambling
law applies to Boise.
A large number of emigrant
wagons have been driven through
town the past week.
Joe Cox, of Stuart, was i'm town
Monday ON his way to Lapwai,
where he will run meat wagon.
f. z. Taylor, of White Bird,
has rented the Odd Fellows hall
and will give a dance on the
Fourth.
Closing out sale. Trimmed hats
for 81 and upwards. Call at once
and you may make better selec-
tions.--M. T.. ROBINSON.
Miss NJ. f. Robinson for the next
30 days will sell ladies hats, flow
ers, trimmings, baby hats, etc.,
as cheap as the cheapest, to close
out.
Bannon & Clark, the first and
last, and the only place between
Grangeville and Elk City where
you can get your mining supplies.
You can get them cheap. Harp
ster, Idaho.
johnson, the Seyen Devils rail-
road protector, has sued the town
of Payettc for $3.50 damages, so
It's said. 1t is alleged a rope was
placed around his neck and lynch
ing threatened.
w. II. Phelps and wife arrived
from Spokane Monday evening.
Mr.. Phelps will at once proceed to
Dixie to oversee the extensive work
on the Idaho -Comstock NJ. & M.
Co. properties.
The cash of the Boise National
bank was locked up for two days
last week, owing to some disar-
rangement with the combination
lock on the vault. An EXPERT f.
nally opened it.
Messrs. Fulton and Maxey have
sold to Mrs. G. B. Wood four lots
just north of the Norwood resi-
dence in the northwest part of
town, where a dwelling will be
erected at once.
f. l.. White, proprietor of the
Moscow nurseries, was in town
the first of the week. Mr.. White
is well pleased with Grangeville
and will likely invest in real estate
in our city before many days.
Special Agent Perkins of the
geological survey left Washington,
ID. c., on June -, to begin the
work of surveying the boundary
line between Montana and Idaho.
provided for in the sundry civil
bill recently signed by the presi-
dent.
Attorney General Fitzgerald is
busily engaged in preparing to pc
tition the supreme court of Cali
fornia for q writ of mandamus to
compel the warden of San Quentin
prison to execute Theodore Dur
rant on July 8, the date set by
Governor Budd in the reprieve
granted the condemned man.
Buy your mining supplies from
OBannon * Clark, dealers in gem
eral merchandise and mining sup
plies, II miles from Grangeville on
your road to Elk City and Dixie.
You will receive fair treatment
and low prices. Harpster, Idaho
Kendrick dispatch to the Spo-
kane Review: The work of build
ing the telephone line from Ken
drick to Florence mining camp,
via Leland, Big Canyon and Nez-
perce, is under way, the poles be-
ing set up nearly to the river. A
contract has been let for the ex-
tension of the line from the Clear
water across the prairie and in
the course of a few weeks it will be
ready for operation.
The supreme court has decided
that the gambling law is valid and
must he respected. The opinion is
by Chief Justice Sullivan, Associate
Justices Huston and Quarles con-
curing. The constitutionality of
the law did not come before the
court, except indirectly. The
point was: Has an Incorporated
city the right to license gambling?
The law therefore stands as passed.
Those who play cards or billiards
for the drinks do so at their own