Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-12-29

| zee, has eecCfed q flne STOCK i4in
near Denver knd will embark in
the stock railiDg business.
i al new III Of ladies visiting
cards have teen received at the
/ PREss Office. Please call and ex-
anime and ft us print you some.
Stock ON he range never looked
better at thu time Of the year,
and the feed promises to be extra
good for lhg time to come with
the mild Weather we ale having.
A pension Of IS per month has
been granted to james H. Mcneil
81 Grangetille. Nicholas Lamb,
tOf Mt. Idaho, has also had his PEN
sion increased to e12 per month.
The battIeship Texas has return-
ed from Havana with the remains
| Of the victims Of the Maine disaster.
| There are 166 caskets and relatives
4 are assured that where the remains
| can be identified they can be Sc
cured for private burial. The un-
identified will be buried in the
national cemetary at Arlington
Heights, near Washington
The Edward p. Allis Co., Of
Milwaukee, the largest mining
machinery house in the world,
have located q branch at Spokane,
and placed It il charge Of Of Frank
d. Howe and Edmund Juessen.
The latter gentleman is we'll known
in Idaho county. where he was for
several years manager OF the
American Hill placers in Elk City.
Edson Briggs, the civil engineer
executed i commission for the
Northern Pacific railroad this
week. He was sent to Craig
mountain to tie the line from Gull
: d'Sac to the prairie to the govern
ment public land surveys. He did
| this work in snow knee deep indi-
eating haste and Importance. -
Teller.
1t never dissapoints. This is
one Of the peculiari,ies of Hood
Sarsaparilla. II cures scrofula,
salt rhenm, humors, stomach and
kidney troubles, nervousness.
Hoods pills cure ali liver ills.
Easy to take, easy to operate; re.
liable, sure. Csc.
WANTED Every sufferer Of
: piles to send his address, get book
let and medical advice free, regard.
ing Crusade, the only internal pile
! cure known. In tablet form. Cure
guaranteed or money refunded
For sale by DIR. Il. Ii. Schcaffer
druggist DR.. DONALD WALLACE
Co., 30S-3O9 Benvist Bldg, St.
Louis, Mo.
The medical journals are giving
much space nowadays to y discuss
ion Of the epidemic of small pc,
which prevails In nearly oil the
states. One Philadelphia doctor
has had 5, 800 cases OF it under his
care and reports only 10 deaths.
Suclsa mild form of the disease il
heretofore unknown to the medica
fraternity. but they all agree tina
it Is suro-enough small pox.
The Northern Pacific surveyors
areazshll g6uning lines between
Three mile and Butcher creeks
trying - And better grades thar
they have heretofore found ii
their climb to the prairie. 1t i,
expected that they will reach
GraIgeyille in few days and thai
they will come into town neal
Schwalbach's mill.
The annual meeting Of thu
stockholders Of Crooks Cora
mines, limited, was held here las,
J week, and the old board OF direct.
ors reelected. Nearly S75, OOO
shares were represented ut the
meeting. The company hopes to
} commence work on the property
when the water begins to run nexl
, spring, as the ditch ssytem is now
, all rompls ted and plenty Of water
for by draulic purposes will here
after be available.
j. Congressman Edgar Wilson has
introduced bills into the house oil
representatives to amend the act
granting pensions to the survivors
OF the Indian war veterans; to ex-
teEd relief'to Indian citizens and
enable their real estate to be taxed
for state and county purposes as
other lands are taxed; and to pre-
vent the unlawful killing Of game
by Indians.
Theodore Cook has returned
from trip to Spokane where he
! went to interest parties in the de.
vulopment Of the slate quarries
near Golf, on Salmon river, which
he located last spring, and we are
informed that he was qnite success
: full in bis mission. As we publish
ed some weeks ago, samples from
this quarry took the medal at the
j late Spokane Industrial exposition
!, and is Of a quality that will be
extensively used for roofing pur-
], poses when the P. & !, N. railroad
is completed down Salmon.
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