Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-12-26
Denver Items.

Our merchants report a fin
Christmas trade.
Jimmy Lyle is now drilling a
well for +. f. Risley.
Sam Jones and family of South
wick, brother Of Seth Jones, Sr.,
is domiciied in the Wasem resi-
6ence.
Mrs. Susie Grail is back from
Blackfoot and stopping wiph the
family Of +. Nuthall.
Miss Winifred Clayto is spend
ing the holidays at Charleston and
with Prof. Nixon at Moscow.
Mrs. G. w. Tanning, at Pom
eroy. presented her husband with a
son last week.
Ed. Liston has bought the old
Clint Smith ranch.
ID. ii. Bolt will soon make trip
to California.
A. II. Tillson Jr. of Warren,
came out Monday. Mr.. Tillson is
another of the great throng who
are enthusiastic over the Thunder
Mountain section. As he has been
an assayer at the lola mine for a
number Of years, he is in good po-
sition 10 judge of the merits of the
district from an ore value stand
point. He himself has some inter-
ests at Thunder Mountain and will
return there in the spring after a
visit to his home at Dixon, Illinois.
He reports travel into Warren with
horses about at an end, and the
Nenable party who were taking in
supplies to work the Fairview
property, were on the Elk summit
about stalled-snOw five feet deep
and no horse feed.
Lack of space last week pre-
vented mention of the opening Of a
new business house in growing
Grangeville. Messrs. Cook &
Maxey opened their Matchmaking
and jewelers. establishment in the
Pearson & Wood drug store prem.
ises, and have on hand an excel
lent line of silver and plated ware,
and report that they are well
pleased with the patronage they
have thus far received from the
public. Among their equipment
is very fine lathe which will en-.
able Mr.. Cook to do excellen,
work. The boys have waited pa.
tiently for their stock to arrive,
and now that it is here their friends
hope that they will be kept busy
from early morn till dewey eve.
They will add to their stock from
time to time.
Senator Heitfeld has introduced
memorials passed by the last legis
lature praying that the two KrupE
guns taken by the Idaho regiment
in the PHILIPPINES, be given to tho
state to be mounted in the capito
grounds at Boise City: another
asking for the exclusion af Chimes,
and Japanese; asking for the estab
lishment of branch Of the soldiers
home at Fort Sherman, Idaho
another against the Grout bill ant
favoring the house substitute regu
lating the sale of oleomargarine
another asking for an appropria
ton for the construction of cana
around The Dalles- Cello rapids o
the Columbia river.
A correspondent writing from
Washington. D. c., to Hon. A. F
Parker and referring to the recon
mendatiOn of the commissioner o
the general land Office that tn
Stone and Timber act be repealed
says that the officials of the Int II
Tor department claim thut the Law
has outlived its usefulness and the
recommend it's unconditional re
peal. There is, however, no basi
for the prediction that Congress
will repeal the law if the western
. representatives make VlgOrOu
defense for it's retention.
Mt. Idaho lodge No. 8, A. F
& A. NJ, elected officers for tn
. ensuing year at their meeting las
SATURDAY. as follows: John Nor
wood, w. NJ; f. X. Cawley,
W.; Nelson Macarthur, J. W.; +
w. Oliver, treasurer; H. S. Arbo
CAST, secretary. The new official
will be installed on st. Johns day
tomorrow friday afternoon. 1
the evening the ladies of the East
ern Star chapter will entertai
MasOns and their families at an en-
tertainment in the Masonic hall.