Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-04-14

Messrs. Douglass 4 Kronnick, is
on exhibition at the real estate Of
fee of Clark 4 Shannon.
DIEp.-At the residence of Ii.
F. Church Grangeville, Idaho,
April 5, 1899, Il. c. Pyle, of dropsy
aged 70 years. The funeral took
place at 4 p. M, this evening.
Harley Stephens, of Butte vicin-
ity, was in town today with vege-
tables, which he disposed of very
rapidly. He left us an item which
will be found under the head of
births.
John Proctor, owner of the
townsites at Mt. Idaho and Cot
tonwoOd, came over on the stage
from Cottonwood this morning on
his way to the county seat on rail-
road business.
Lincoln L. Phillips has purchas-
ed from his father the residence
property on Hall street at present
occupied by County Attorney
Scales, and will at an early date
put up, another building thereon
for business purposes.
Charley Vinegar started this
morning for the Salmon river with
a pack train and prospecting out
fit. He and his companions will
work along the river as far as the
Mallick mines, from which point
they will make their way to the
Buffalo Hump.
George Van Yarf, a late arrival
from Portland, will tomorrow OPP
en- boot and shoe shop in the
front Of Francis second hand
store on Hall street. Mr.. Van
Yarf comes with good recommen-
dations as thorough workman at
his trade and an otherwise good cit
izen.
This mornings stage brought in
seven passengers. Three more
stopped over at Cottonwood and
will come on as soon as they get
some sleep. While the road between
Cottonwood and Grangeville is
drying nicely, that lying between
Slavin's, Westlake and Cotton
wood is breast high with mud now
that the snow has gone.
Silas Whitman and David Nc
Farland, two Of the brightest young
Nez Perez Indians, left this morn.
ing for Washington city to look
out for the Indians rights, more
especially to protest against the
new ferry that the commissioners
allowed some white men to estab
fish near the Indian ferry.
Our weekly edition of the FREE
Press issued today numbers 1886
copies. 1t contains six pages, al
} full of live local news and articles
descriptive of Camas Prairie
together with all mining deals
transacted from day to day. 1t il
Just the paper 20 send to you
. friends on the ohtside. Price fv,
ssn g.! y sseppsd ready foI
Tn ms isSSsaaiak i loeai ii I uss J,
days DAILY Press implied tina
the Wiltse House was cheapl,
) constructed affair, and we hastel
t to correct it lest it be construed a
f a slur, when no such intention
was in the mind of we writer. TIL,
) Wiltse House is built as substan
: TALLY as any other building il
, town. Its proprietors, Messrs
Wiltse & Coulter, are up-to-date il
> business and report an exceedingl,
t good run of custom since the,
/. started up month ago.
Con Dineen, the proprietor o
, the cigar store at Spaulding, wa
4 sandbagged and robbed o
3 $165 last night, says tn
! Tribune. He had just locke,
up his store and started to hi
s room, a short distance. away, whel
8 he was attacked by two men. Al
q ter being knocked down he at
9 tempted to rise when one of tn
i men held him down while the 9th
er searched his pockets. He los
g $40 of his own money and $95 be
q longing to other parties.
q Mr.. Kepler states that the shir
: polisher he brought with him frol
. Spokane was taken very sic
yesterday morning, and today j
. hardly expected to recover. TIL
proprietor of the steam laundry ha
telegraphed to Spokane for anothe
polisher who should be here Satul
q day or Sunday. Meanwhile ever
endeavor will be made to satisf
patrons until this help arrive.
Mr.. Kepler contemplates the eret
ton of a larger building as soon a
: the requisite lumber can be oil
;. tanned.
L Rem. Rice, the wide awake r,
preventative of the wide-awak
q Spokesman Review has arrived
. town to reside permantly. The s..
of late has given considerable spat
n to Buffalo Hump and other mil