Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-06-16

rlUZ WASH III IL.
Job printing at Press Office.
Another pugilistic idol shattered.
Grangeville is full of cheap
sports.
My! my! How the suckers bit
last night!
That was a fine "JoB" race yes
terday afternoon.
Vast Quantities of freight are COM
ing to town daily.
There is horse-racing up at the
track every afternoon.
Some high railroad magnates are
expected to visit Camas prairie in
the very near future.
Captain Hartman, of our Co. G,
has our thanks for a bunch of
Manila papers which are highly i'm
teresting reading.
Will Ingram and Sam Jones,
leave for Lewiston tomorrow
to retu,, with their wives who
have spent the last two months in
southern Oregon.
Robert Jones left for Moscow
yesterday to return with his baby
and the Pollock family who will
hereafter make Grangeville their
permanent home.
j. P. Letter, just from the Hump,
reports new strikes five miles south
of the Jumbo, on Cowhead creek,
south Of the Hump. Particulars
in Mondays Press.
Albert b. knight, mining en-
gineer of Butte, Mont, is in the
city. He expects to visit most of
the mining districts of central Ida
no during this summer.
George Baker, who is interested
in the Providence, South Bend and
other claims at the Hump, starts
for the camp Monday, to be in the
mines most of the summer.
Both the Northern Pacific & o.
r. & N. railroad people are extern
sively advertising the Buffalo Hump
and Elk City sectionsiin the Puget
Sound and eastern papers.
II. Z. Lipman starts for the Sal
mon river country Monday. He
made some locations lately, both of
copper and gold, that he believes
will prove to be big things.
The dispatches indicate intense
heat in the eastern states in the
past few days. Thirty peoplewe<A.
afilictedswith sunstroke and hentt
prostration in New York City on
Wednesday.
The Northern Pacific surveyors
are four miles west of town work.
ing this way. They should be
here early next week and then we
shall know where they intend to
locate their depot grounds.
G. F. Shissler arrived in town
Saturday with samples of ore taken
from ledge he discovered 81
miles below the New some house.
He intends having an assay made.
His ledge is traceable 80 to 40 feet.
Maurice Miller, who was reported
to have had the long end Of the
bet Of $50 at 10 to in favor Of
Fitz yesterday afternoon, states
that the reverse was the case, he
having put up his money on jeff
ries, and today is ON velvet.
]. j. Hogan made trip to the
Clearwater yesterday to look at
some claims he is interested in
there. He found the walking
good, and did about six miles. The
claims are all right, and J.. j. is
enthusiastic over the outlook.
Frank Turner is up from Stuart
and says that there is one company
of men engaged in rock work and
another grading the roadbed be-
tween Kamiah and Stuart. The
arrival of another party is expected
daily to aid the grading force.
Several of the volun teer COM
panies from other states have left
Manila homeward bound for Gods
own country, but thus far nothing
has been heard definitely of the
probability of our own Idaho boys
being mustered out and sent home.
Supt. Jas. Glendenning, of the
Bitter Root forest reserve, is back
from his trip to the Priest river
reservation. The matter of the
big petition sent to tho president in
regard to cutting out the Buffalo
Hump district from the Bitter Root
reserve has been. referred to him
for his decision, and judging by his
reported utterances in the Lewiston
Tribune, he is considering the mat
ter.
A letter from Newsome states
that prospectors are going through
there all the time headed for
the Clearwater station and the
Hump. 1t seems that there is NO
end to the number of lodges in that
section, as everybody finds them
that has any get up about them.
1.-THE snow is all of here and we
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