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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31
Denver Items.

Geo. Freeborn, wife and baby,
son-in-law of w. II. Zumalt, re-
turned to the prairie last week,
from drought-stricken California,
well satisfied to remain.
Peter Meland, IA prosperous young
farmer near here, went to Lewiston
Saturday to meet his intended wife,
Miss Anna Ginderson, who comes
from Dixie, Ills. We wish them a
happy and prosperous journey
through life, hoping the other
bachelors in this neighborhood will
do likewise.
Our livery stables are tasked to
their utmost to accommodate the
travel to Elk City and the Hump.
J. Krewson has bought a hall
interest in the Exchange saloon
here. 1t will now be run by Krew
son and Davidson.
Mrs. S. X. Dunn, in IA fit O
dependency, attempted to shuttle
off this mortal coil by the morphine
route on Sunday evening. DR.
Stockton administered antidote
and she is rapidly recovering.
The N. =. surveyors are again a
work on Cottonwood creek an,
have staked up to within 3 miles O
Denver. They returned to Sever
Mile canyon Saturday and are nov
surveying up that creek.
d. Yates baby Willie has beel
very sick with lung fever.
There is gilt-edge opening il
Denver for an implement house an
gents furnishing goods store.
Mr.. Hayden and family arrive
this week from Spokane and ar
domiciled at the Idaho hotel.
VIM. Piper, D. d. S., has writ
ten from Detroit he will open II
dental parlors in Denver thi
spring. He is a graduate of tn
Toronto and Philadelphia dents
colleges.
III. Kuther is receiving large cor
signments of plows and harrows.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31
THE FREE PRESS
PUBLISHED EVERY vRIDAY By
EDITOR AND PRoPRlETok
RECORD OF THE WEEK.
PUBLISHED EVERY vRIDA

A. F. Parker. Notary Public.
A hint to the wise is sufficient.
Go to the M. & M. Cash Store.
Fresh oysters in cans and in
bulk at City Bakery.
A No. Baled Hay for sale at IS per
ton, by +. W. Oliver, 3H miles north.
east of Grangeville, and 9 miles east OF
Denver.
Baled hay for sale, at 40 cts. pc
hundred at Ernest Smiths place !
mile down the creek from Grange
vile. 4O-44.
The O. r. g. N. and Northern
Pacific are now selling through
tickets to Grangeville.
John McConville, of Montana,
formerly owner of the Eureka
Queen mine, started for the Buff
falo Hump this morning by way of
Florence.
REpHoT BARAINs EVERY DAY AT
THE 2ND HAND STORE Stoves, Furni-
ture Household Goods of all descrip-
,ions. saddles and brides, miners tools
and equipments, guns and pistols, in
fact anything and everything. Job work
in repairing furniture. e,c. Look oul
for the and Hand store sign, Grange
building, Grangeville, Idaho. Give ms
a caIl.-GEo. A. FRANCIS, Prop. IS IL
Messrs. w. C. Chapman, P. w.
Mitchell and G. w. Stein have pur
chased the Moser House and tool
possession today, preparing dinner
for the patrons at noon: Mr.
Chapman is an old resident o
Boise City, while Messrs. Mitchell
and Stein are recent arrivals from
Illinois. They are all live, wide
awake young men and promise Il
make the Moser House as good a
the best.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31
WEISER RIVER RAILROAD.
North Idaho Papers Not In
formed as to Its Significance.

formed as to Its Significance.
Weiser Signal.
Looking into the North Idaho
papers, especially those Of Nez
Perce and Idaho counties, it is APP
parent that they have not yet re-
allied the significance to them, as
well as Washington county, and in
fact the whole state, of the railroad
about to start from Weiser and up
the Weiser river. The Pacific &
Idaho Northern is Incorporated for
| $S,O0O,OOO to build from Weiser
north, to Lewiston. The line runs
up the Weiser and up the Little
Salmon. AS soon as spring opens
a force of engineers will be put at
work on the survey in Idaho coun-
ty. The contract let is for the road
to be completed into Seven Devils
by the 1st of January. In "a
months full connection is to be
made with a northern road. 1t
means that Weiser man can in
six hours ride into Grangeville and
on to Lewiston. We will be
brought together as near as neigh
bors. The whole state will be
brought together. The great tim
ber lands will be humming with
buzz saws. The great mineral
empire of the state will be pierced.
Warren, Florence, Buffalo Hump,
Mallick, will be brought within 40
or fifty miles of a railway at once.
Thousands Of discoveries now un-
known will be brought to light by
a hundred thousand miners and
prospectors and Idaho will stand
first in the land in the production
of precious metals.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31

From Tuesdays daily.
Four passengers left for Florence
this morning.
Grangeville board Of trade meets
next Monday evening.
Thirteen passengers arrived from
Lewiston yesterday, while four
went down.
J. A. Randolph has given up all
idea of locating in the mountains
and has leased Dal Wilson's Pioneer
blacksmith shop on east Main
street aud takes possession on Mon
day next. He wishes us to inform
the public that he will give close
attention to business and trusts
that his past work here is of a
character to insure satisfaction as
first class workman at his trade.
K. G. Huston, of the Montana
Mining Co.. operating placer mines
on Newsome, is back from Spokane
and will 60 into the property in a
few days to commence the season s
work. These claims were formerly
owned by Chas. Gelbach and were
sold to Butte people in '96. The
ground pays well so far as opened
and with the plentiful supply OF
water promised for this season the
company should realize handsomely
from this summers operations.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31
A Market for Rye.

Mr.. Reynolds, of the Grangeville
distillery, informs us that in the
prosecution OF his distillery bust
ness he finds that there is not an
acre of rye grown in this great
county, and that unless the farmers
Of the prairie and river settlements
raise some he will he compelled to
import the rye needed in his busi-
ness from Spokane. He has
bought up all that he could get
here, paying one dollar per bushel
for il but has not enough to last
any lcleth Of time. He suggests
that some of our farmers should
obtain seed and plant it right
away so as to get a crop this sum-
mer and take advantage Of the
ruling high prices which Mr. Rey-
nolds will be obligated to pay.
There is no question about the
crop of rye being very successful
one, for what few patches are rails
ed hereabouts proves that our soil
and climate are pre-eminently
adopted to its cultivation, even
more so than timothy. j. L. Eek
ert, of Cottonwood. experimental
with rye some years ago and pre-
fers it to timothy as feed for stock,
it being more nutritious and q
heavier and altogether more profit.
able yield.
Here is an opening for oul
farming population to raise q
product which will bring them 4
higher cash price than anything
| else they can raise
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31
THREE MEN DROWNED.
Salmon River Claims Three More
Victims,

Salmon river, to a greater extent
than any other stream in the
mountains, has the reputation
among men familiar with the
country of being wicked and
dangerous stream, even in its most
peaceful stage. At this time when
the melting snow adds to it's great
volume Of water it is treacherous
throughout it's entire course.
Word reached here this morning
Of another fatality which adds three
more to the long list of victims
of the flood. From brief informa-
ton obtainable it appears that five
men, Jas. McCafferty, Mike O'Bri-
en-, Jack Capron, w. II. Shorthill,
and another man, all miners from
Florence, were coming down the
river in a boat, on Saturday,
March 25, and at a point
about five miles above the mouth
of John Day creek, the boat
capsized in one of the numerous
eddies which throng that stream,
and all were thrown into the
water. Mike O'Brien, Jack Ca
prom and Shorthill were drowned,
and McCatferty and the other man,
whose name we cannot learn, sue
ceeded in swimming to the shore
after severe struggle and escaped
with their lives.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31

Camas Prairie soil will produce
more high-priced crops than any
other garden spot ON earth, and we
don't have to irrigate, either.
Wanted to buy +, sidencc lot
near Main street on G. on street or
College Street. Must bc cheap.
Call at the Golden Rule Store.
WANTEp.-Competent girl or
woman to do general housework.
Enquire of DR.. E. II. Sheaffer, at
City Drug Store, Grangeville,
Idaho. 6Stf
J. E. Rudersdorf, of the Grange
vile Brewing & Mailing Co., is in
town from Spokane arranging for
an early start on his new brewery
now in course of erection south of
town. -s--.''-'
The man who gets in this year
and raises a good crop, or who
takes hold at days labor, will not
only make friends but will do
much to carve out a home for him
self. No room in Idaho for grumb-
lers.
Fred Cope of Havcrnick IS stable,
arrived yesterday evening with a
portion of the stock and ri-s for
the Boss barn. Mr.. Cope takes
possession of the barn April lit.
Meanwhile the stock are pasturing
at Havernick's ranch north of
town.
The travelling agent of the Rock y
Mountain Bell telephone Co. in
forms the Weiscr Signal that work
on the telephone line from Weisel
to Buffalo Hump is to commence
in three weeks and material for it,
construction is now being delivered
at Weiser.
For SALE. butcher shop and
slaughter house in Elk City, Idaho
for sale on easy terms; also posses
sorry claim on the Red Rive
Meadows, in Elk City district
For particulars address,
Mrs. MARY MOONEY,
AZ Elk City, Idaho.
The residence of Amos Carver
on Salmon river, was totally de
stroyed by fire last Saturday AM
everything in it consumed excep
his bed. The loss is n severe on
on friend Amos, owing TO the dis
tance from the nearest saw mil
The lumber in the house just dc
stroycd was brought up stream b
boat from John Day.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31

$ me benefit from your expendi-
tllre.
The price o! tho weekly is 50
per year. in advance. Single cop
les five cents, wrapped ready for
mailing.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31

II. II. Schwartz, Of Ashland,
Wis, special timber agent, arrived
from the Hump yesterday, where
he had been to report upon the
conditions for the general land
office.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-31
THE PLACE,


All who trade at the M. &
M. acknowledge that they get
the best value for their money.
Their Goods are warranted
to be as represented or your
money refunded. They sell
for Cash and have no bad ac-
counts to lose and consequent
ly their Prices are the Lowest.
They are prepared to out
fit Miners and Prospectors
with everything they need.
They carry full line of
evaporated Potatoes and Vege-
tables. They handle Farmers
Produce, such as Butter, Eggs,
Meat, etc. Call on the
N. \ N. CASH STORE
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09
The Common Sense Plan.

Although there will, during the sum-
mer, be numerous conferences of
prominent Republican leaders in the
next congress on the subject of cur
rency reform the prevalent eXpecta-
ton in administration circles is that
congress next winter will not be likely
to go further than to enact into law
the recommendation OF the president
on this subject.
1t will be recalled that he proposed
that when United States notes are re-
deemed in gold they be held and only
paid out again in exchange for gold.
He also recommended that national
banks be allowed to issue notes to the
face value of the bonds which they
have deposited for circulation and that
the tax on circulating notes secured
by deposits of such bonds be reduced
to one half of per cent. per annum.
He also proposed that authority be
given for the establishment of banks
with a minimum capital of $25, 900, so
as to enable national banks to be es-
tablished in villages. He recommended
that the issue of national bank notes
be restricted to the denomination of $40
and upward, and that national banks
be required to redeem their notes in
gold.
This is a programme which is easily
understood; which attempts no radical
experiments; which removes the green
backs as a factor of danger and does
away for all time with the endless
chain" which very properly puts up
on the banks the burden of maintain
ing the credit Of their note issues, and
which by reduction of the circulation
tax and of the minimum capital limit,
and by increase of the circulation limit
tends to encourage legitimate banking
operations and to perfect the country s
mechanism for speedy exchanges. 1t
is pre-eminently q common sense plan
of Curreny reform which avoids at
tempting the impracticable and con-
tents itself with insuring the largest
available share Of tangible benefits.
Congress will study a long time be-
fore it can improve upon the presidents
suggestions.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09
Meat Inspection.

Now that SO much is heard about
meat inspection in army supplies, it is
interesting to note that a prominent
authority on the subject declares al
most all the cities of the United States
to be without proper meat inspection
and that consequently all the people
are exposed to the Eravest dangers.
Americans are the greatest of all meat
eaters and in Philadelphia alone 1885,
100000 pounds are consumed annually.
His arguments are all in favor of
municipal slaughter houses, because of
the unsanitary methods in vogue where
cattle are killed at present. There are
persons who go about the country buy
ing up old and diseased animals which
are called "bolognas," as they are used
in this species Of food, thus being a
far greater menace than are the ma
terials generally assigned to this use
in the time-worn jokes. Since the es-
tablishment of public abattoirs in Ger
many and in other European countries,
it is stated that tubercular diseases
have greatly decreased, despite the
continental custom of consuming much
meat while it is in a practically un-
cooked state.
Meat inspection that does not inspect
is the order of things in this country
Two meat inspectors for the million
and a quarter OF inhabitants If Phila-
delphia are a sample of thescare be-
slowed on the conditions Of this great
food department. The average con-
sumer goes on the same principle when
eating meat that he does while eating
cherries; what he doesn't see doesn't
hurt him. If careful food inspection
caused any Inconvenience i'm securing
the desired cut of tenderloin or made
an advance in price, the average citi-
zen would say, ooh, don't know. |
guess a 'tubercle' more or less won't
hurt me. l wish folks wouldn't agitate
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09
The United States and China.

The official announcement Of the in
tention Of the United States to take no
part in the dismemberment of China
hut to safeguard her treaty rights and
commercial opportunities in that great
empire which is evidently soon to be
reconstructed along modern lines has
elected two significant comments. The
Chinese minister at Washington, WI
Ting Fang, says: 81 am sure the
Chinese government and people will not
fail to observe this strong evidence of
good will 1t is not only another bond
between the two countries, but it has
a special significance just now. While
the Old World powers seem moved by
a spirit of rapacity, the United States
takes that lofty position of equity, JUS
tice and humanity which has charac-
terized her dealings with other inter-
national questions of late, and instead
of joining in encroachments on China
assumes an attitude of strict neutral
ity,"
The ambassador of Russia at Wash
ington, Count Cassini, in "a statement
communicated through the Philadelphia
Press, says: There are so many ways
OF viewing the open door proposal and
so many interpretations to be placed
upon it., that it is delicate subject ia
discuss. | took issue with Lord Bcres-
ford, and l think 1 made my position
quite plain. Now a new aspect is pre-
sented in Italy's action. Russla's atti-
tude is not changed by this action, We
have never opposed the open door. and
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09
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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

A half-starved negro who stole few
coins from a museum 10 get something
to eat was sentenced to two years at
hard labor by Philadelphia judge the
other day. 1t is unfortunate that mag
istrates who believe in administering
justice in large doses are generally iden-
titled with cases of this kind while the
thugs, highwaymen and wifebeaters
are looked after by the courts who
believe that Justice should be tempered
with mercy
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

Scarcely a day passes that the Pitts
burg papers do not have from one to
a dozen reports of increased business
done by old established industries in
that city or of new industrial enter
prises about to be formed Pittsburg
is the busiest city Of its size in the
United States today; perhaps in the
world. All kinds of business in Pitts
burg are steadily booming, and the
reason is that Pittsburg enterprise has
diversified Pittsburg's industries until
dull times are no longer possible. The
example of Pittsburg should not be lost
upon Scranton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse beat
the Tuesday blizzard by arriving that
morning after voyage made in 5
days, Il hours and minutes from the
Cherbourg breakwater; an average
speed of 2293 knots an hour. This
lowers her record l 1-5 hours from
Cherbourg and is a remarkable trip
for winter weather. Modern sea voy-
ages, like almost everything else mod
ern, are doing away with all the rom
ance which formerly clung to them.
Novelists can scarcely weave a plot
which will cause the central figures to
make an unalterable impression upon
each others hearts in the space of
five days and tWenty-one hours, allow
ing for the probable sea sickness. The
only alternative will be to have an
accident happen to uelay the vessel
and that sort of story has served a
long and hard-worked apprenticeship
a trip to Europe is now less interest
ing, as sea voyages go, than an ocean
journey to Cuba.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

An effort has been made by some
honest legislator of New Jersey to
give helping hand to his friends, the
newspaper men. He has endeavored
to introduce a bill to limit the hours
of labor which newspaper and maga-
zinc writer's are required to put in,"
but sadly enough for the intended BEN
eficiaries, the bill was amended to n
grotesque degree, for when it came up
for consideration it contained the
astonishing provisions that newspaper
men should not be required to work
more than eight hours a day. Com
pensation was fixed at eight dollars an
hour, with another provision that they
should be allowed eight hours for lun-
cheon on week days, and ten hours
on Sunday. The bill passed the house
by a unanimous vote. but New Jer-
sey senators have ideas of their own
as to humor and consequently the
newspaper men of New Jersey are like
ly to continue their grind for fifteen
or twenty hours out of the twenty-four
just as they do in Pennsylvania, with
the matter of compensation held in
allegiance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

this matter" A state of apathy and
carelessness exists in this country over
these subjects, and. until more public
sentiment is aroused in behalf Of the
cleanliness and healthy condition Of
food supplies, legislation affecting
these will be slow and enforcement of
it ineffective.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09
In Justice to the Mayor-elect.

The decision of the estimates COM
mittee on motion of Councilman Oliver
to recommend the Jumping Of the ward
appropriations and to vest their ex-
penditure in the street commissioner is
in line with business prudence and
common sense. 1t is the only way that
an economical and efficient care Of the
streets can be secured, assuming, Of
course, that the street commissioner
knows his business.
The adoption of this provision by
councils would be an act of fairness to
the incoming city administration, as
well as an act of Justice to the taNpay-
ers. The new mayor should have fuli
scope and free rein to carry into effect
his ideas Of city government and those
who shall seek to abridge his powers or
hamper his official activities will Of
fend the uubliC's keen sense of fair
play. While Captain Moir is organic
ing his administration he should have
the cordial and earnest support or
councils. This is his due, since the peo-
pie look 10 him to produce improved
results and will hold him responsible it
they do not appear; and no better ad-
vance testimonial of fair intent can be
given by the municipal legislature than
to make it possible for Mors depart
mental chiefs to control effectively
from the beginning the administrative
work in their respective spheres of
labor.
Scranton has had too much peanut
politics i'm these matters in the past
aud it is high time to turn over new
leaf Differ as we may at the primaries
or at the polls. it Is time to realize that
the induction of ii fellow-ctzen into
the oFicc Of mavor makes him the ex-
ecutiNc of the whole city, clothes him
with a mantle Of responsibility greater
than any other in the community and
entities him during merit 20 the best
support Of the people irrespective of
party. The welfare Of the city, as we'll
as fairness to himself, makes this de-
mand Imperative ana local recognition
of it is essential to the realization OF
Scrauton's largest possibilities.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

An electric lineman in New York
survived the shock OF 1000 volts the
other day. Science offers no explana-
tion except that he may have been
brought to that state of endurance by
reading war headlines in the Gotham
daily papers.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

Timid people need have no fears OF
"bob veal" this season, According TO
accounts it is now used exclusively as
canned chicken.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

1t is fortunate for this country that
eight battleships We're contracted for
before the senate decided TO purchase
bargain counter armor plate only.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-09

To the Wanamakorites the expected
continues to fail to happen.