Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-05-20
Early vegetables are in the mar

There is an interesting letter
from Company G on our third
page.
n. B. Pettibone, Of Newsome,
has been commissioned anew as
notary public.
Died.---At Grangeville, Idaho,
Sunday, May 10, Henry Ii. Sch
madeka, aged 26 years.
j. b. West, of Moscow, assumed
his duties as register of the land
Office at Lewiston last Monday.
Walter III. Hill is engaged in re-
locating the curves of the railroad
grade in Lewiston for the Northern
Pacific.
Fred M. Manning, of Lewiston,
came up last week with $500
pounds of freight for Grangeville
merchants.
Mrs. Wax is in San Francisco
under the attendance of three
medical men, but her health shows
no Improvement.
Ezra Baird arrived from Lewis
ton Saturday and left Monday for
his copper mine on Snake river
above Pittsburg.
In another ten days the wagon
reads into Elk and Florence should
be wide open, and tons of freight
are here for both camps.
The G. +. prayer meeting Sunday
evening at Nj. e. church. Sub
ject May %, "Christ Our Model"
Leader, Miss M. e. Robinson.
The April business at the land
Office was 43 homestead entries, II
final homestead proofs, s cash en-
tries, including township filing.
Gov. Steunenberg has appointed
Jack Wood, Warnie Cook and Will
Jones, of Company G, as orderlies,
: and they are on duty at the state
, house.
, The company of volunteers from
> Albion, Cassia county, has been
: consolidated with Co. G, of Grange
vile, with J. w. Murphy as
captain.
Five teams are on the road from
Lewiston with the 5-stamp mil
l equipment for the Poorman mine
in Florence, and should be here
Sunday.
First Lieutenant Levi Castle o
Company G (Grangeville) has beer
: transferred to Company + an(
commissioned first lieutenant il
the volunteers.
B. @. Davis has closed his black
: smith shop at Clearwater to take {
position as engineer and machinis
with Gelbach & Nelson's big saw
= mill at Stuart.
Mrs. William Hill returned from
the funeral of her brother, Jane
Karney, in Lewiston, last week, t
y, find that her daughter, Mrs. Jas
ne Lytle, was at the point of death
=. Fruit trees all over the prairi
III are in full blossom, and from pres
lie. ent indications we shall not be dc
ed pendent upon outside settlement
,y 81. for anything in the way of fru
,E this year
&C. r. c. Thomas is out from El
| IN fDr IL Ia n,
- ports the Cleveland mine on r.
- lief creek, in which he is a lars
owner, as looking splendid, and
sure-enough mine.
Iis The Lewiston Daily Tribune
welcome visitor these days.
-, is a 5-column folio and as full
eds news as an egg is of good mea
Its advertising columns show tn
AZ the business men of the old tov
It appreciate the enterprise.
Dave Pugh, of Florence, has p,
M. chased the way station at Adam
he camp from d. G. Stephens, al
ed. writes us that he proposes to ma
it the best stopping place on t
,.u road. He will continue his me
yn market business in Florence.
S.
Capt. Hawley was up frt
c- White Bird last week and assul
do us that there is no truth in
for report that the fruit crop alo
Salmon river was injured by fro
and last month. He says the trees {
:. c. loaded thicker than ever before.
ore,
Remember the Maine. An a
,ris- mated and living picture exhibit
ton, will be given at Grangeville
In. TINS Odd Fellows hall, Saturday, M
%. Doors open at 1880 p.
lor- Exhibition commences at s.:
cen Reserved seats on sale at Bon 3
lies Requa & Co.
his
don c. p. Richardson was out Tu
day on hurried trip from NJ
some. He informs us that he
ow- 30-foot bank Of gravel on
.ion @ Moose creek placers which pr
Ia Ia. pect well, with five feet of pay
lie of top of the bedrock which beats
I record of even that valuable pr
( of erty.
,riee Messrs Gavin Johnston and