Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-07-18

on the reservation, is petitioning
for Incorporation as village A
telephone line now gives that Sec
ton communication with Lewiston.
/ offer "a half interest in three
promising quartz claims situated
near the Drum Lummon mine on
Crooked creek, in this county, for
a very reasonable sum. A good
chance to secure a good property
for very small Investment
A. +. Parker.
At the Presbyterian church |
Sunday evening, 7:l5, G. r. topic,
ga Strong Weak Man." 500,
evening service, "Sermon on
Despising Ones Birthright." The
choir will render AN anthem en-
titled "Rejoice ". Pure in Heart"
by Edward Whitby.
County Superintendent Elsen-
sohn has received statement
from State Superintendent Permeal
French to the effect that the state
has made the school apportion-
ment of s31 ,5SO.O4. OF this
amount 81 ,664 OF is apporti"aed
to Idaho county.
Marion Costley sold his l6O acre
ranch in Fairview precinct Mon
day to Mr.. Browning, recently
from the Indian Territory. MIR.
and Mrs. Costley will leave about
August LIST for Portland where Mr..
Costley expects to take years
course in business college.
The M. +. Ladies' Aid Society
will give lawn social Wednesday
evening, July "a, on the square in
front OF Judge Halls home. Ice
cream, cake, raspberries and lem
onade will be ssrved, and the
ladies' double quartet will render
few selections. Everyone in
vited.
More than thirty five millions of
"ffty cent" silver dollars were
coined in the U. mints in the
past twelve months. And yet the
democrats were called advocates of
dishonest money when they pro-
posed to open the minis to the
r coinage of silver equally with
: gold.
The miners inch is being abol-
ished as a legal measure for water.
Arizona, California and Montana
have each passed laws making the
9 cubic foot the standard measure.
D In Arizona 100 miners inches are
counted as an equivalent Of two
t and one-half cubic feet per
: second
The annual report of the sur.
J veyor-general Of Idaho gives the
y total area of the State as SO, 1873,
GAS acres. The largest county il
g our own Idaho county, with g.
IS $50. 432 acres, and the smallest
y is Bear Lake with 656, GAO acres
q OF the nearly seven million acres
g in Idaho county only trifle ovel
half million acres have been sur
y veyed.
u Schmidt's law for finding a veiI
10 after it has faulted or dislocateC
I, = runs as follows: If the fault is
4" struck on the hanging wall it mus
be passed through and the driving
a continued on the hanging wall side
1t of the faulted lode. If the foo
Us wall of the fault is struck it mus
3. be passed through and the driving
n continued on the foot wall of tn
faulted vein.
y John A. Pearson, of Grangevi lie
g and his partners, Jake Wright ant
i George Chapman Of Warrens, hav'
n bonded their group OF mines in thu
20 Thunder Mountain district t
Boston parties. The claims wer
l. located two years ago and hav
is cost the owners nothing except tn
r. annual assessment work. TIL
n claims were known as the Missouri
n group. We hear the price i
$4,000. The purchasers hav,
v already started force of ten mel
d at work to open up the claims, an,
e. the intention is to keep u crew al
% summer and winter.
n The promptness with whicl
Judge Betty upheld the rights o
II bona fide settlers and mineral 10
e Gators in the Bitter Root Forest re
c. serve in his late decision affectin,
I'd the rights of the Newsome & Leg
or get Creek Mining Co., to buil'
their ditch, is a fitting rebuke t.
- the officiousness which has char
- acterised the administration o
20 affairs in this particular reserva
- ton ever since the first official wa
20 appointed. The aim seems t,
80 have been to harass aud disturl
the miner at every point and tt
put him to as much expense ant
IN trouble as possible, Just as though
Mt he were criminal instead of a
: bona fide American citizen
at When officials attempt to over
lg ride the mineral laws of the Unitee
iy States which accord to all the RICH
to build highways, bitches, fume
of and other works connected will
40 public or semi-public interests, a
N has been the ease here in NOR
10 than one instance, it behooves al
is who have mineral locations within
to the limits of this reservation t,