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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-26

the country districts will be admit
ted u hi. depart ment, as the limit
OF the seating capacity is reached.
Mintzer, formerly OF the Pull
man Agricultural College, has en-.
tered the senior class.
Fred Mckinney Of the class of
1901, is attending the Pullman Ag-
ricultural college.
School was closed Thursday D.
N. on account of the memorial ex-
ercises.
Misses Fray, Wagner, Ray and
Maxey, teachers in the primary de-
partments, have been granted pri-
mary certificates by the State Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction.
There will be an examination in
the general history class on Thurs
day.
The receiving class which was
organized at the beginning of the
yer in the First primary depart
ment was open only two weeks.
Pupils not capable of doing work
in the first grade will not be allowed
to enter until the first of January,
when another receiving class will
be formed.
Section 13 of the "Rules and reg
ulationso adopted by the Board of
Education, reads as follows: "Any
pupil who shall have been absent
or iardy fer four half days in one
month without satisfactory ex-
cuse, shall forfeit his seat in
the school. Pupils thus su--
pended shall not be re-admitted
until the principal shall be salts
fed that such pupils will be punct-
ual in the future and the consent
of the board has been obtained.
Sickness Of the pupil or in his fam
lily or some urgent necessity of
which the teacher shall he the lie
judge, shall be regarded as the only
legitimate excuse for hardness or
absence.
This rule will be rigidly enforced
this year-parents should see that
their children are punctual and
regular in attendance.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-26

Names No. No. Amt.
CRIT Shrs $50.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-26
Hotel Arrivals.
Wu.TSE HoIrSE

Tuesday Sept. PA. w. Talk
ington, J. P. Harrimen, Mt. Idaho;
w. Erwin, Garfield, Wash Oscar
BARTLETT, Trail, B. c.; Miss Kate
Coake, Miss Alice Coake, Golf;
E. Bartlett, Murray; H. Hurry
and wife, Pittsburg Landing; j. b.
Crooks, L. Williams Salmon River;
II. s. McGaffey, Freedom; Vim.
Hardness, City; S. II. Brown,
Sites; James Thompson, A. j.
Jackson, j. w. Evans, White
Bird; Jonas Fuller, Thunder
Mountain; Nelson Clausen, City;
Frank Gray, Dixey, Herbet Gar
rell, Geo. w. Holloway, CITY.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-26

STATE OF IDAHO. IDAHO COUNTY
son, Deceased oI isaac WI lam.
estate should not be r 49, 'tuei u sale OF feisi
Of Isaac WIfI ia,s inc administrator of the estate
hereIn ,,miv var n having filed his petition
s'le ~ r u fled, praying for an order Of
in certain NJ. real estate consisting OF interests
IN sat ~ ming claims. for the purposes fh ert
Of ssd Soa1 I tb + therefor ordered judge
pra Of said deceased, appear before the said
h'.- oa Ne Court on Monday the 18th day Of oco
said isoi at ten o'clock in The forenoon Of
a saa az; at the Court room Of said Probate
WIZ, =. =. heant Idaho, Idaho. To show cause
Az an oruer should not be granted to the said
araa to sell said real estate OF the said
aeeeased ut private sale rs shall be necessary
i ,,ia thata cory of this order be published ut
9 .ass .nree successive weeks In the IDAHo
an piSlf FREE Press newspaper. printed and
p p,,, in said County and State at Orange
dated September 18th, 1901.
II. TAYLOR, e
ehnnEEl Probate Judge
Attys. for Petitioner 1910
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-26
NOTICE.


No.lce of Letting OF Contract for Construction
OF Bridge across South Fork OF the Clear.
water river at Harpster, Bridgeport Idaho
fe, ldahD.
NOTICE is hereby given, that In accordance
with an order of the Honorable Board 81
County Commissioners OF Idaho comfy, Idaho;
made and entered Sept %, 1901, Bids for the
construction of bridge across the South Fork
of the Clearwater river. at Harpster or Bridge.
port, Idaho county, Idaho, according 10 the
Plans md Specifications now on file In the office
of the Clerk OF said Board, at Mt. Idaho. Idah o
county, Idaho, will be received until Tuesday.
Oct 10 1901 at O'Clock p. m, of said day: said
bids to be sealed and accompanied by certified
check or IA good ana sufficient bond, in an
AMOUNT equal 10 20 per cent. more than the re-
spective bids, submitted: at which time said
bids vii. be opened and the contract let for the
construction Of said bridge
The Board reserves the right to reject any aud
all bids submitted. Done by order of the Board
OF County Commissioners of Idaho county,
Idaho, sept. %, 1901.
JOHN HIPkE, Road Overseer,
District No. 20, OF Idaho county, Idaho.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-26

Aud IN accordance with law. and an order
from the Board OF Directors made on the 18th
day of August, 1901, 30 many shares of each par
Gel oil suchstock as may be necessary will be sold
at public auction at the office Of the company
san Francisco, California, on Monday the nth
day o. october, 1901. at g hour OF 1 O'clock
?. m. 81 saii day, 70 pay said delinquent assess
meiit thercn9,, together with costs 81 adyertis.
Ing ana expenses If sale
+. AtRoWSMITH Secretary.
once A,ion ~ Nevada Roek. 800 Montgomery
street, san Francisco, California.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-26

Aiamance Mining Company. Location Of prin.
eipal place Of business, San Francisco Cal
1lornia. i.oratfln OF works, Elk district,
ldano Co. Idaho.
NQIICE,- There are delinquent upon the fol-
iowlug described stock OH account OF Assess
ment No. l,ievied on the l6th day II August,
iol, the several amounts set opposite the nsnles
OF the respective shareholders, Is follows:
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-26
Order
PROBATE couHr or iDAno COUNTY


IN THE PROBATE eouhr OF IDAHO COUNTY
IDAHO.
In the matter OF the estate of Ed Otto deceased
1t appearing to this Court, by the petition
this day presented and filed by William stein.
heiser. the administrator OF the estate OF Ed OF
to, decehsed, that il is necessary aud for tn Q
best interests Of said estate that all the mining
Interests of said decedent be sold or disposed 81
Tot the reasons stated in said petiton.-
II Is therefore ordered by this Gonrt that MI
persons Interested in the estate Of said deceased
appear before the said Probate Court On the l1th
day Of Oct 1901, at the hour af 10 O'Clock A M
of said day, at the court room OF the said e9uft
at the court house in Mt. Idaho. County Of ida.
no. State Of Idaho, to show calIse why IN order
should not be granted To So d adninistfstor 10
sell, contract, bond, convey or dispose III said
mining claims and mining property as tn heet
Interests OF said estate MAY require aud tint n
copy OF this order be pnhiishea three Sneeessiye
weeks III the IDAHO County FREE ppFss n
weekly newspaper printed and published III
said county
Dated this lsth dag o. sept 1901
II. TAYLOR
F0GG & NuGENT
Attorneys for Administrator. 1919
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-26

High School Notes.
len new pupils this week.
The enrolment in the High
School is 81. No more pupils from
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04
SUIT AGAINST THE B., & o.
Court Asked to Prevent Payment of
Dividend ON Common stock.

BALTIMORE, JAM 3.-Henry p Scott
of Wilmington, Del. instituted proceedings
il the Circuit Court to-day against the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company to
enjoin the company from paying to the
holders of the common stock of the cor
poration dividend of per cent. due on
March 1, 1901, until a dividend shall be de-
clared in favor Of him and the other hold
ers of preferred stock. His claim is for 2
proportion of all net earnings of the COM
pany during the year ending June 80, 1900.
appropriated to dividends in excess of 4
per cent on the preferred stock. The bill
OF complaint also asks that the company
be enjoined from hereafter declaring any
dividends on the common stock out of
future net earnings until a dividend OF
4 per cent. upon the preferred stock, out OF
the net earnings for each year, shall have
been declared; also, until a further dividend
or the preferred shares in excess of the 4
per cent. dividend shall have been declared
pro rata with that declared upon the COM
mon stock.
II is claimed that the board of directors
had appropriated money with which to
pay the March dividend on the common
stock but failed TO provide funds for the
dividend the preferred stock. due at
the same time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04
MISTAKEN FOR GROVE
STORY TOLD By SCIENTIST WHO
WAS PURSUED By DETECTIVES.
Latter Thought He Was the Ubiquit-
Gus pat and Ran Him Down
ON Pine Ridge Reservation.

CHADRON, Neb, Jan. 3.-R. G. Dennis.
a scientist, of Boston, told the story Of
his fight from detectives who pursued
him in the belief that he was Pat Grove,
wanted In Omaha in the Cudahy kidnap-
ing case. Mr.. Dennis said:
Il had been collecting specimens i'm the
Bad Lands for some time. and, feeling that
L might expect opposition from the Indians
within the Sioux reservation, was usual
ly on the lookout. On. the day OF my
fright / had noticed two men watching me
and acting as If they did not wish 10 Re
seen. / had wandered further from head
quarters than usual and was driving most
of the time westward. After noticing that
l was being followed / gave up all search
for that day and concluded TO make
straight for the ranch near Oelrichs, ;.
D.. at which place / was stopping
my pursuers. supposing that had been
detected and that L was trying to escape.
came holly on my trail. which again made
me quicken my pace. Now II had become a
ride for life. On faster and faster they
came and / was urging the poor mare on
TO her utmost effort. Roads are thing not
to be found in this country and IL was tax
ing my wits to the utmost to keep out OF
canyons. When / could see but one man
behind me my fright became intense, for
we'll knew that one had left his companion
with the intention of intercepting me be-
You'd the divide, which proved only too
true / was finally overtaken and stopped
at the muzzle of guns, which appeared the
size of cannon l was soon Informed what
was wanted of me, and when i was as
sured that / was not TO be scalped or
burned at the stake, for i had been too
frightened up to this time to notice whether
my captors were white men or Indians, the
situation became amusing. There was lit
tie trouble in establishing my identity. As
soon as can collect my belongings will
depart for Boston, feeling that l have
burned my courage at the stake for the
sake OF science"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04
FIGHT WITH BURGLARS.
Citizens of Gazette Exchange Shots
with q Desperate Gang.

LIMA, O.. Jan. 3.--The village of Gazette,
six miles north of Van Vert. on the Gin
cinnati Northern Railroad, was thrown into
a Juror Of excitement by the sudden APP
pearance of a gang of eight or ten robbers
there, who aroused the town by promiscu-
Gus shooting and by blowing open the
safe of William Hoaglands general store
They secured about $500 in cash, besides
valuable papers. In the neighborhood of
100 shots were exchanged between the rob-
bers and citizens. Mr.. Hoagland. Who
lives next door TO the store building, Was
aroused and fired at the robbers He Of
fered 70 open the safe. to prevent its de-
structon. His offer was declined. The
citizens had by this time become generally
aroused and armed themselves to give
battle. They were met with volleys from
revolvers and Winchesters. the thieves re-
treating with their booty to the outskirts
of the town. where they had several bug
gies in readiness, having stolen them from
farmers near the village. The fight was
continued until the gang drove hurriedly
away They were followed several mites
in the direction of this city. Meme of the
citizens was hurt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04
GINSENG ROOT Is PRECIOUS.
Chinese Demand Is Supplied from the
Catskill Mountains.
Brooklyn Eagle.


AT this season of the year." said a deal
er in roots and herbs. Hundreds of men
and boys who live up i'm the Catskill Noun
tains in Ulster, Greene and Sullivan conn
ties are putting in almost their entire time
searching for ginseng root.
Ginseng root Is greatly valued hv tho
Chinese by reason OF its supposed medici
nal qualities. Scarcely a Chinaman but ba :
some of the root always i'm his possessior
Much ginseng is sold In the Chinese 1I,ar.
hunt for the root throughout the NOM
tains sometimes walk from fifteen IN twen-
ty miles a day In their rambles about the
mountains.
They earn anywhere from 81 TO 81 a day.
A fair days find will generally give them
some two pounds of the green root and TO
make one pound OF marketable root fully
dried requires about three pounds OF green
product. Ginseng root brings in the omen
market about 81 a pound. The highest nrice
Is s4.55-
.sThe root is growing scarcer every year
and Is always hard 10 find. A piece of the
root If left In the ground will grow. and
Iarent earth the seeds, which are inc!oSea
In pale red pod. IL Is OF very SLOW,
growth. for it takes two years to form n
leaf and from eight 10 zen years before the
root is OF much value.
There is an infallible way by which one
can tell the age OF the plant. Each wear
OF It's life adds a little notch or ring 10 the
root. Occasionally pant Is found which
has beer growing undisturbed for FIVE 10
thirty years. but such finds are Of late very
rare.
''The ginseng root diggers make but little
money In season 20 pay them for their
hard work and the many miles which thev
tramp In search OF the commodity The
the work Is regarded as extremely fortu-
nate"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04

Detroit Free Press.
1.-The oldest experience ever had" said
a gray-haired Ohio man, reached its cli-
max last night Twenty years ago I lived
I'm the little town of Batavia, O., and ono
Gay as l was hurrying along the street 10
escape coming storm gold ring dropped
with a sharp thud in little mud puddle
by the sidewalk and stopped TO pick IL up.
/ thought some children playing at a win
dow of house built out to the street might
have thrown 1t down. but after the storm
had blown over 1 went there only to find
that nobody knew anything about It.
Neither did anybody else In that neighbour
hood. nor was the ring known 10 any one,
as it was likely TO have been I'm a small
town, for IL was nice one. II fitted my
finger and slipped IL on, and there IL staid
until last night. OF course. the story of IL
has been one OF my mysteries all these
years, and always before finishing IL L
would ask the crowd of listeners IL any Of
them had lost such ring and coIld tell me
the name inside Of IL would be glad 10 re-
store it,
well. last night, sitting over there I'm the
lobby of the hotel with three or tour people
listening. 1 told my ring story. and when
asked the usual question man about my
own age came forward and said the name
In the ring was Charles Drown with the
date 1872 OF course. / was surprised. and
was about TO hand il over TO him when IL
struck me that perhaps he had heard the
story before and was trying 10 use his
knowledge to get my ring. But ne went on
to tell me that on the day in question he
had gone up in a balloon from Cincinnati.
about thirty miles away, with a circus
aeronaut who was friend of his. and as
they passed over Batavia in the storm he
was reaching outside of the balloon to
fasten a flying rope when the ring caught
I'm some way and was pulled off his finger.
He had been injured when the balloon de-
scended and was laid up for several weeks.
and then he thought IL was too late TO adj
vertise for 1t, so let IL go.
You see" concluded the gentleman. hold
ing out his hand, "he nos trying TO
beat me, for here is much finer ring that
he gave me for the other one, and the name
I'm it is my own-'From Charles Drown.
IsS0-I9O0'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04
WERE WE EVER THUSl
Startling Description OF the Americas
Audiences Which Greeted Rachel.

Paris Letter. London Telegraph.
The departure OF Sarah Bernhard, the
most famous actress OF her time. for still
one more grand tour in the new world mas
taken place almost exactly on the forty
fifth anniversary OF the date on which for
the first time a French tragedienne left
France TO act in the United States In Oc-
tober, 1855. the great Rachel ia spite OF
all that her friends could say TO discourage
her in an enterprise which to them savored
OF sheer madness, went OF 10 America ION
tour. She took her own company. with
her; she and her brother. Raphael Felix.
We're their own impressariOs and advertis-
ing agents. and In the discharge OF the lat
ter duties she showed signal incapacity.
Trusting, with magnificent self-conndence.
in the magic power OF the name OF Rachel,
which was one TO work wonders with all
over Europe, she practically let the adver-
Using branch of the business take care OF
itself, and calmly arrived in the States be-
fore any save a small set of cultured and
cosmopolitan playgoers knew that she was
coming. The result was that she played
to half-empty houses.
The descriptions given i'm the letters OF
one of the actors in her company of the
appearances and behavior OF her audiences
are extraordinary reading According to
these, Rachels houses We're certainly bril-
liant in respect to attire. The ladies
blazed with diamonds, strewn over dresses
In all the loudest colors OF the rainbow.
The latter were described as wearing long
hair and immense goatees beneath shaver
upper lips. Still more curious was the way
in which the spectators behaved. Loud
conversations from box 10 box and from
the boxes TO the stalls were carried on
during the play, only ceasing when RAJ
chel appeared. and being resumed at the
exact moment of her leaving the stage,
when the men Immediately turned their
backs on the footlights or stretched out
their legs over the backs of unoccupied
stalls. The tour, which came to a prema-
ture end, not only brought Rachei no prof
its. but failed even TO pay expenses. The
disappointed actress. who had told all her
friends on leaving that she would come
back with fortune. returned heart broken
and ailing, after absence of Httle over
three months. She never recovered from =
chill which she had caught duriag per-
Torrance at Philadelphia. Consumption
set in soon after her return TO France. A
winter spent in Egypt failed To restore her
to health. and two years and three months
after her departure for the expected tri-
umphal progress across America. which
had ended in so melancholy home-com-
ing, Rachel died near Cannes. I'm January.
| 1883 at the age Of thirty-seven.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04
MUSEMENTS.
The scribEr show at the Park
Theater.

Patrons OF the Park are finding the
Scribner Shoy which opened a three days
engagement that house yesterday, a
trifie the bes speciality organization they
have seen ina long time. The people in
the company are not heralded as stars of
different natinalities, yet there is scarcely
an act on th programme that is not of
stellar merit Grant and Grant, pair
of colored sigers and dancers. introduce
the entertainment with a clever and enjoy
able sketch. Joseph Adelman gives an
exhibition OF skill as a xylopone player
that is one the hits OF the performance.
Fred Hahenand Molly Fuller are expoit-
ing a brandnew sketch entitled "a Des-
perate Pair, that is brimful OF bright
lines and funny situations and totally lack
ing In dullnss. The smooth work of the
man that pays the butler adds greatly
TO the appreciation of the finished comedy
acting OF IT. Hallen and Miss Fuller
Then comes the great team of Celtic
Comedians. Usher and Carroll. Carroll has
e makeup aat is simply irresistible i'm its
comicality, lille his mimiery of a sorrow
fus canine firly causes a panic of merri-
ment each me he gets IL off. The aero
battle turn Caron and Herbert has been
seen here bfore. but is so different from
the usual Tn of such sketches as to be
thoroughly enjoyable. The performance
would not sffer greatly. however. If these
men We're reduce their act TO a time
limit OF twenty minutes by eliminating
much Unnecessary business. The lie
Page sister are a pair Of dainty little
lightning cange artists, nimble OF foot
and possessing melodous voices They
change costumes three times sing four
songs and do as many different dances.
tncluding picturesque highland fling in
the brief pace OF fifteen minutes Next
To the las on the bill Is Ezra Kendall.
the peerless monologuist. whose running
fire Of QUEER sayings and clever jokes is
always freh and up 10 date. Ii Is what
the galley gods" call "a clever spiel -
The fine performance closes with one Of the
best acts N the bill. the really wonderful
Juggling and playing OF guitar and man
dolin simultaneously by the wartenbere
brothers. While the men are I'm a re-
cunben, posture they play musical instru-
ments AM manipulate large globes with
their feet. after which they toss about and
catch -four globes, keeping them in con-
slant motion from each others hands and
feet I'm circular orbit.
The SGibner Show Will give two per-
formances to-day and close it's engage
ment whh two final exhibitions to-nor-
row.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-04
CITY NEWS NOTES.

Pupils of the Manual Training High
School take great interest I'm the numerous
prizes offered for designs and suggestions
along the lines of their work and many of
them enter such contests Recently Mark
Dennis won the prize offered by the Ameri-
can Farmer Company, of this city, for
Emerich divided the prize offered for a
heading for the poem on 1.-THE New Cen
tury.'' written by Scion L. Goode.
The New Castle Bridge Company, which
was established four years ago, is prepar-
ing to move its plant TO this city and also
for the issuance of bonds in the sum of
$4,000 in order to increase its capital stock
to 100000. The company now employs 4
force of about seventy-five men and if the
plans now made are carried out the work
ing force will be greately increased. Nego-
tiations are being made for the purchase of
the Levi Person property at Shelby street
and the Belt Railroad, where a building
60x300 feet will be erected.
Percilla Thompson, colored woman.
who said she lived at Sic Blake street. fell
under the coaches of train yesterday
morning at the Union Station and was
pulled from danger by one of the ar
tendants. She was then sent to police head
quarters and slated as insane. She claimed
on Christmas to have raised a window
when her soul talked with the soul of the
Lord, and she was commanded to go out
and reform the world. She had purcha sed
ticket and was on her way to perform
her mission" when she fell under the
train.
Wednesday night when W. r. Small. of
GOA North New Jersey street and his wife
returned to their home a note I'm which a
thief expressed to them his thankfulness
for their absence. enabling him to search
the house and take a few things, was
found stuck in the front door. nvestiga-
ton showed that nothing had been taken
but a dress suit and watch fob, the lat
ter highly priced by Mr.. Small. The plumber
was taken from the attic, to reach which
IL was necessary to pass through the din
ing room, where the silverware was kept.
yet none or IL was disturbed. The writer of
the note also stated that Mrs Smalrs
mother and the baby were in the parlor
while he had conducted his operations