Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1900-01-12

soua and Butte.
William Giles is spending few
days in Lewiston.
Prof. j. NJ. Crunk has returned
from his seasons work with N. p.
surveyors.
Old papers for sale at the FREE
PRESS office very cheap while we
have them.
Mrs. ID. Greenwalt arrived from
a visit to friends in Lewiston and
Spokane last Friday.
G. A. De5aussure has removed
his real estate Office to the Hunt
building on east Main street.
Horace V. Brown was over from
his Clearwater stock ranch on the
Clearwater side last Saturday.
Micheal Behean Of Grangeville,
has been granted an increase of
pension from So to $12 per month.
A petition is being circulated
asking the village trustees to ap-
point Harry Markham to the vii
lage police force.
BY special arrangement the FREE
Press and the Twice-a week St.
Louis Republic will be sent to any
address for $3.50 per year.
The front of the Bank of Camas
Prairie building is being decorated
with an iron front which vastly
improves the appearance Of the
building.
w. M. Clark was a visitor from
Harpster Saturday and reports the
Clearwater country as remarkably
free from the small pox epidemic.
Business in his section he reports
as uncommonly good.
In response to a telegram Mrs.
j. G. Gelbach left for Wisconsin
last Saturday. Mr.. Gelbach's
mother is very low and the call for
her children to be present was ur-
gent. Louis Gelbach will reside
at Stuart until the return of his
parents.
Articles of Incorporation of the
Buffalo Townsite and Mining COM
pany We're filed at Spokane and
Boise recently. The capital stock
is $4,000 and the incorporators
are w. S. Norman, j. +. Cameron,
IL. M. Glidden, f. S. Loertsche err
and Dan Greenwalt.
James Reardon left for Montana
last Friday to spend the winter
developing his gold quartz property
on Quartz creek in Ravalli county
Mr.. Reardon thinks he has as good
a proposition as the old Drum Lum-
mon, and is exploiting it as fast as
he can.
Mark w. Musgrove arrived from
Spokane on last Fridays stage and
will go into the Hump in a few
days to investigate the character
of the work now going on upon the
Gold Standard tunnel, on which a
force of men have been engaged for
some time in driving,
John Nevin is up from Freedom
and will remain the week, incident
ally combining business with pleas
are. He reports the Salmon
river settlements as prospecting
and looking forward with much
eagerness to the completion of the
PA l. N. railroad down the river
to Camas Prairie.
Our congressman Edgar Wilson
has introduced proposed amend
ment to the constitution of the
I. s., providing for uniform mar
riage and divorce laws in all the
states. This is good proposition
and the morals of the country will
be vastly benefited if the states
will delegate their rights in this
matter to the Federal congress.
Superintendent Gil lbert, of the
Northern Pacific, inspected the
| Clearwater branch last week and
tells the Lewiston Tribune that
the road is completed to Weippe,
43 miles from Lewiston, and has
yet 81 miles to build before reach
ing Stuart, including the building
of bridge across the river that
will take about six weeks. Some
of the bridge timbers have already
been shipped, but there remains so
much work to be done that Mr..
Gilbert says it will be full summer
before the service can be changed
to run from Lewiston to Stuart.
Ii. l.. Mcintyre arrived from
| Spokane, Sunday and is now in
the Hump whittier ne is gone to
make number of mineral SURVEYS
OF claims in which Spokane people
are interested. Upon his COM
pletion of that work he will 60 to
Aewsome creek to straighten out
some boundary disputes in that
camp. He informs the FREE Press
that his map of the Buffalo Hump
which he prepared last spring is
selling largely in the northern
country, showing the interest
which is still manifested in Idaho
county's big camp.