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

Buffalo Hump is in Grangeville on
business.
George Alkire is up from Sal
mon river and confirms the sale of
the Mckinley.
=. NJ. Leach Of Thunder mount
ain fame is one of the guests at the
Wiltse house
+. G. Webster, q prominent
mining man Of Spokane is a guest
of the Jersey House
Mrs. G. M. Day has returned
from Spokane and Lewiston where
she has been visiting for two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. JOS. Pelican are
registered at the Jersey House.
Mr.. Pelican is the able manager of
the Grangeville Brewing Co.
The force at the Bargain store
has been increased by the addition
of Miss Ethel Hunt and Mr.. T. M.
Atwood behind the counters.
Mrs. Virginia Hadorn is in
town today settling up the bust
ness of the estate Of the late John
Hadorn who died last spring.
Ashley Cooper, formerly Of
Whitebird but now of Buffalo
Hump, is in town for few days
and stopping at the Wiltse house.
Every hotel keeper in town re-
ports Il good business these days,
with the travel coming out from
the mountains enroute to the low
er country.
Mrs. Isabelle Robbie is up on q
visit from her ranch ON Salmon
river to visit her daughter Mrs.
w. G. Brown. She proposes to
remain week.
G. w. Smith, brother of Mana
ger Smith, Of the Newsome creek
placers arrived in the city last
night from Newsome creek, where
he has been employed through the
summer.
j. w. Skies, a man whose name
is known from the Atlantic to the
Pacific as a travelling man of the
old school, is in the city in the in
terest of his house, A. Baur &. Co.
of Chicago.
w. A. Newman is in town from
his ranch on the Salmon. Mr..
Newman has some splendid mining
prospects which the Press man in
spected last summer showing big
copper lodges.
There was break in the tele-
phone line between here and Lew
iston, caused by the storm yester-
day and talking is temporarily in.
terrupted. The repairs will prob
ably be completed today.
There will be services at
the Baptist church as follows:
Sunday, Oct. %, Sunday School at
1Oa. M; usual morning service at
IL a. m; usual evening service at
1870 p. m. Cordial invitation to
all. Strangers particularly invit-
ed.-W. N. KNOX, Pastor.
DIR. Poyneer and Miss Poyneer,
father and sister to Harry Poyneel
the progressive merchant Of Eth
City, passed through the city yes,
terday on their return home tt
Pomeroy, Wash. They have been
visiting Mr.. Poyneer for some
time.
E. s. Sweet is in town from the
range where he has been gather
ing up $50 head of cattle which he
sold to Carsteen Bros, for ship
ment to Seattle. He reports the
grass on the range as never in bet
ter condition at this season and
cattle will enter the winter in fine
shape.
Messrs. Richardson and Ringer,
Of the Bargain Store, went out
hunting yesterday, and returned
with a load(?) OF birds which con-
sisted of duck and some queer,
weird, strange animal, not here
tofore known to science, which
was a cross between a fool-hen and
a mud-hen. After cooking it
could be plainly discerned with q
magnifying glass.
j. G. Rowton Is up from his
ranch, which is located about seven
miles northeast of Grangeville.
He says that the Northern Pacific
has surveyed a switchback from
Three-mile creek to Butcher creek.
and the northeast corner of X. w.
Whites ranch, which gives them
a natural shoot into Grangeville.
The survey was completed on
Tuesday Of this week.
j. w. Higgins, mining man of
note, who is general manager of
the West Fork Gold and Copper
Mining Co., of Rapid river, in the
Seven Devils country is in the city.
1t was Mr.. Higgins intention to
go to Buffalo Hump, but on his
arrival here found important in
formation from his own properties;
SO changed his plans and started
for Rapid river this morning.
Larry Wills, who has for wears
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