Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-10-27

properties ourselves and have let a
contract to the Warner Bros. to
sink q vertical shaft on the San
francisco, to depth of so feet
ana drift for 30 feet. We will
likewise cross-cut for 80 feet.
These people also have a contract
to do the assessment work on the
Monte Carlo and Baby Louise"
From Thursdays Daily.
K. l.. Phillips is in the CITY from
Republic.
Attorney Fogg is back from an
extended trip outside.
Attorney Frank Allen of Buffalo
Hump is in the city, enroute to
Buffalo.
Chas. Rice arrived from Spo-
kane where he has been for about
two weeks.
Latest novelties in cloths for
tailor-made suits at Alexander 4
Freidenrich's. X
Mrs. Walter Bunnell, who has
been visiting the Fruit Fair in
Spokane, has returned home.
Fred Hallett has moved his saw
mill from where it has been located
in the Hump to the Concord town.
site.
BcRN.-In Elk City, Idaho, Oc-
toDer Ia, 1899, to Mr.. and Mrs. H.
ID. Poyneer, a son, weighing ten
pounds.
Fred. Hallett has moved his
sawmill from where it has been
located in the Hump to the Con-
cord townsite.
Rufus Hawley is in Grangeville
having returned from trip to Sal
mon river, where he has been Wis
iting his parents.
Nick Ingram has sold George
Reed of the Jersey an undivided
one-tenth interest in a property
at Marshal basin for a most salts
factory price.
n. Ingram, the mining man, en-
tertained few friends at a dinner
given in honor of the arrival Of
Mrs. Shissler, his mother-in-law.
from NeWsome creek.
Miss Ora Randolph of Moscow
arrived in Grangeville last night,
and will open dressmaking parlors
at the residence of j. II. Randolph
on east Main street.
p. w. Campbell, manager Of the
Gold Crown Mining company, of
Newsome creek, left this morning
for that thriving camp to direct
the further proceedings of his COM
pany.
Harry Dowd, of this city, sold
Saturday to Carston Bros. of Seattle
800 head of beef cattle at 3 cents
per pound. The cattle will be de-
livered November 1st.-Lewiston
Tribune.
Harry Winters, the popular SEN
ior member of the firm of II. Win
ters & Co. of this city, arrived last
night from Buffalo, where he has
been in the interest of his business.
He reports everything lively in the
camp.
Mrs. Gamble and Miss Hills,
who have until recently operated a
restaurant in Buffalo are in the
city, having sold out at good
figure and will return to the east.
They may come out again next
summer and open a hotel in the
Hump.
There has just been erected in
Buffalo Hump telephone line,
which extends from Frank Browns
store to the Fortune property. 1t
is purely and entirely private in
vestment of Norman & Cameron,
and constructed for their own con-
venience.
A gentleman who has just ar
rived from the Hump says that
prior to his departure there was a
report current that Jim Connors,
the man who was recently shot by
P. w. Murphy, was in a most pre-
carious position and that his death
was expected.
James Eldridge of the Boston
Buffalo-Idaho Co., who has been
operating between Adams camp
and Buffalo Hump in an endeavor
to hasten the pack trains which
are transporting goods from
Grangeville to Buffalo Hump, ar
rived in the city today.
J. II. Rowles, of Tahoe, was in
town today and sold some beef cat
tie to Robert Jones. Mr.. Jones
by the way is buying a good many
cattle nowadays, not only for use
in his own market but for his con-
tracts with the railroad people down
ON the Clearwater and also for ship
ment to outside markets.
George Hinckley, manager OF the
Oxford group of mines in Buffalo
Hump, arrived in the city last
night from the Hump. He pro-
nounces himselfmore than satisfied
18th tho condition of affairs at that