Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-07-06

A couple OF tons Of stationary
were received at the old reliable
Office this week. During the iali
an addition will be built on 10 the
printing Office and two new
job presses installed in order to
keep up with the rapidly increas-
ing business of the paper and job
printing departments.
New subscribers to the FREE
PRtss this week are:-Joe Pelikan,
Grangeviile; o. C. Lapp. Harpster;
J. F. Pomeroy, Kamiah; Milt
Written, Hump; Jim Wang,
Hump; r. Williams, Gregg; Mrs.
t. r. Dickey. Cleimont, Iowa;
Burr Mcdonald, Davenport, Iowa;
w. Bray. Lakeview, Montana;
James Honan, st. Joseph, Mo.
The following increases are
announced for Idaho postmasters:
Blackfoot, $1,000 to $500; Cald-
well. sl40O to $500; Grangeville,
$1,000 to $500; Idaho Falls, $1,000
10 sl70c; Lewiston $500 TO s21On;
Montpelier, $1,000 to s14Oo:
Mouniainhome, $1,000 to s110O;
Paye:te, sllOO to $1,000; Wallace,
s1700 to $500; Wardner, s14OO
to $500; Weiser, s14OO to $500.
A. J. Turner is moving the old
Crooks home in the east end OF
town, raising it three feet and
building an addition thereto for
the owner, Evan Evans. Although
this house was built more than 30
years ago, the underpinning was
found to be as sound as the day it
was first laid, a good testimony to
the durability OF the tamarack
timber Of this county.
J. W. Long, who was so severely
injured last winter by a falling
tree, and for whom an invalid
chair was recently purchased by
our people, is now an inmate Of the
Good Samaritan hospital at Port
land, where he will receive the
best of treatment and where it is
hoped he will be restored to his
old time good health.
A lady from Challis, Custer
county, has been engaged to keep
house at Burgdorf's Hot Springs,
near Warren. This popular re.
sort has always been kept up to
the very highest standard by Mr..
Bnrgdorf, under his personal
attention, and it is noted far and
near as being place where visitors
always get the worth of their
money.
The opening of poi ton of the
Fort Hall reservation is already
bearing fruit at Pocatello. and a
young boom is sprouting. Many
people have supposed that the
whole of the Fort Hall reservation
would be thrown open for settle
ment but this is not so. Only five
miles north and west, OF one cor
ner will be open when the presi-
dent issues the proclamation.
| J. 0. Levander was np from
Golf last Saturday and reports til 1t
the wagon road up tie >alnot.
river is now completed, and that
he came over it with a four horse
team loaded with $500 pounds OF
freight. He will shortly publish
in the FREE PRESS a statement oil
the receipts and expenditures in
CURED on account of the construct
ion of this road, for the informa-
ton OF the subscribers.
j Pack trains are arriving and
departing daily to and from the
Hump, and the sight recalls to the
memory of us old timers the days
of auld lang syne before there were
any roads beyond Mt. Idaho, and
Grangeville was the jumping of
place for all the interior country.
The times may have changed, and
people and conditions and people
with them, but growing Grange
vile is still doing bigger business
than ever at the old stand.
The X. of P. lodge have added
many new members to their lodge
during the past 60 days under a
special dispensation of initiatory
dues and it will take the bows
several weeks to complete their
degree work for the pending
candidates. Seven were given
the degrees of the first two ranks
on Wednesday last. The member
ship of Buffalo Hump ledge now
umbers nearly 100 and is still
growing.
j. F. Pomeroy, who has for the
past two years had charge of
+. S. Sweets lumber yard here,
took his departure on Saturday
last fer Kamiah, where he will in
the future reside and be associated
with his father in the conduct of
the hotel and livery stable business
at that place. Mr.. Pomeroy's
many friends hereabouts wish him
success, as he has always been
found an agreeable associate and
upright business man.
j. q. Hood, Justice the Peace.
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