Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-03-17
From Mondays Daily.
See that "Hump?"
What ahout the F1orenf


See that "HumpT'
What about the Florence cutoff
road?
Seven passengers booked down
today.
w. II. Doris is u visitor from
Florence today.
Five passengers booked for
Florence this morning.
Seven passengers went out on
the Elk City stage this morning.
Ben p. Brown, the well-known
stockman of Salmon river, is in
town today.
BoRN.-Near Grangeville, Idaho,
March II, 1899, to the wife Of =.
jacobson, son.
BoRN.-In .Grangeville, Idaho,
March -, 1899, to the wife of r.
L. higgins, SOL.
Bert Rigley, the Buffalo Hump
millionaire, has purchased a resi-
dence in Lewiston.
Frank Wyatt is up from Salmon
river to meet his daughter, who is
returning from school.
l. N. and Lew Smith have bought
the Mt. Idaho hotel and will take
charge of the house on April l..
Col. N. Whipple has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Clearwater,
vice Lemuel w. Williams, resigned.
The Murray Sun desires to ask
our attorney-general if lambs will
be permitted to gambol in the
spring.
Frank Brown is out from the
Hump and reports his store as now
open, and goods being received all
the time.
The girls are beginning to wear
shirt waists representing the flag.
There will be no delay now in
rallying round the flag.
John Wells and James Fudge
have sold third interest in the
Ethel and Bertha r. quartz claims,
near the Iron Crown mine on Now
some creek for $4,000.
The infant child Of Earl and Mrs.
Melee a. died yesterday, and
the funeral took placo toiay = :.
the Baptist church.
Mike Green came out with sew
eral others from the Hump Satur-
day, and report a regular Klondike
"trip, with storms all the way.
Nick Ingram came cut from the
Hump Saturday and reports the
Badger road completed to within
three miles of the Hump when ht
left.
| Judge Scales goes to Cottonwood
tomorrow TO prosecute the mar
Gregg, who is under arrest on thu
charge of assault with deadly
weapon.
The Northern Pacific railroad
company promises to have trains
running into Stuart by May l. A
large force of graders are now a
work just below Kamiah.
The heavy grizzly, weighing
$500 pounds, for Buffers Bros
Red River dredge enterprise is OF
the way up from Lewiston, ant
will be taken in over the snow.
Joseph Mitch, Of Salmon City
arrived here yesterday en- route t
the Hump, and leaves in the morn
ing with a 600-pound outfit t
prospect when the snow goes of
Two thousand men are workin
on the Wallula-Lewiston railroa
on Snake river. The contract froI
Riparia to Lewiston has bee
awarded to Hale & Smith,
Portland.
G. A. Devens, a rustling res
estate agent, arrived out from tn
Hump Saturday, and will open
real estate and mining broker
Office as soon as he can get a suits
BILE Office.
w. w. Gregg is under arrest {
Cottonwood on the charge of a
sault with a deadly weapon On tt
person of Chas. Wise. The tri'
, will take place before Justice Rol
: bins on March Is.
We feel like Dragging no mo-
on the far-famed climate of Cam;
n prairie, for the weather continu'
Q disgustingly disagreeable, and
r hands are longing to see the glor
o Gus sunshine once again.
Q The Coston boys have their ray
:, hide trail from Slate creek to Il
! Hump now open. The grade
said to be very good and the bo.
Y are now ready to engage in regul
d transportation of freight and pa
o sengers TO the Hump.
/, The Shadow social Saturd;
d night for the benefit of the publ
= school library drew out big crov
Il and the receipts exceeded all e
l. pectations. His honor, May
II; Nov auctioned off the shadoyx