Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-05-12


way, having completed the survey
Of Red Rock canyon. They should
reach Grangeville in few day now.
Col. Bracket starts out five men
tomorrow into the Clearwater
country, on a prospecting trip.
They will work up to the head
waters into the Bitter Root region.
The colonel himself starts for the
east Thursday.
There are parties coming Il,
Grangeville en- route to White Bird
and the Salmon river for the pur-
pose Of negotiating copper proper
ties either on the Salmon river or
the new strike near Newsome
creek.
VIM. Loudermilk, Of SangamOn
county, Illinois, is u visitor here
and expresses himself as highly
pleased with this country and may
locate permanently. He is a cousin
Of A. w. Talkington, and they had
not met for 80 years.
The state supreme court has
handed down its decision in the
appeal Of Louis Miller vs.. William
Hunt and Martha Hunt. The
Judgment of the district court is
reversed and the case remanded for
further proceedings.
The purse strings Of the East
were never 80 loose since the panic,
for investment in mining enter
prises, and especially is this true
Of gold and copper properties.
Even London seems to be waking
up and getting ready to take part
in an old-time mining boom.
Yesterday was q sure enough
lovely May day, with blue skies
and bright sunshine from early
morn till dewey eve. The streets
were thronged with people out in
force to see the horse races at the
track and to listen to the strains If
the brass band as they played from
the school house grounds.
The vett ran prospector, JOHN
Wells, reports the discovery aud
location Of a group of fine quartz
claims in the foothills south OF
Grangeville and about two miles
above the AL. Nurss ranch. The
value of the ore runs from IS to
so cents in gold, and the lodges are
16 feet wide. We may yet live to
hear quartz mills pounding away
on ore within hearing distance Of
growing Grangeville.
There was q lively scrap in a
saloon ON the north side of Main
street yesterday. A fiddler, az
usual, WAS in it, up to his neck.
According to the patrons Of the
place, the musician had been yearn~
ing for trouble for some time past i,
and finally hit upon a Dutch shoe
maker to supply the ncedful.
There's nothing like leather, and
the man OF lasts licked the wad-
ding out of the violinist.
The attention now attracted to
the great discoveries in the Buffalo
Hump country cannot but have a
great bearing upon the future Of
this section. The Buffalo Hump
country has been lying dormant Tor
years although well known to he a
greal mineral bearing country, and
it is beyond question that with the
great number Of prospectors from
Other parts who are now there and
are constantly going in, there will
be immense developments this year
that will place Idaho county in the
foremost ranks Of the mineral pro-
ducing countries.
From Fridays daily.
H. w. Tefft, of Keuterville, ID
in town.
Mrs. A. N. Ingram and child
are in town on q few weeks visit.
Mrs. Addie Lister has been ap.
pointed post mistress at Clear
water.
Late Yates leaves town for stay
with relatives in the country this
morning.
The arraignmrnt Of j. NJ. VOL.
bert on a charge of criminal 1ihpl