Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-08-22


Co. Supt. of Pub. Inst.
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G. w. ROBBIE who has been visit
ing relatives on Salmon river, is in
town and will leave Saturday for
his home at Rush City, Mimi
Uncle Joe G. Stephens raised a
crop of wheat on one Of his 100
acrce fields west of town which
threshed 36 bushels per acre for
the entire tract.
The school trustees are arrang-
ing for the election Of one or more
trustees early next month as sew
eral years has elapsed since an
election was held for that purpose.
w. f. Travis, general manager
of the Idaho, Nevada & California
Stage Co., is spending few days
in this city looking after his lines
in this county. Mrs. Travis ac-
companies him.
j. ID. Scharf, the popular COM
mercial man who sells Mascot kid
gloves, Empire waists and wrap
pers and childrens head wear, is
spending few days in town the
guest of his nephew, VIM. Stein
heiser.
The managers of the free street
fair have decided to elect the earn
wal queen by popular vote and
voting will commence Saturday,
at the Right drug store, and post
Office. Tickets for sale at all
business houses.
Erick johnson was brought
over from Denver yesterday and
lodged in Jail at Mt. Idaho charged
with insanity. He imagined that
everybody was trying to poison
him and became violent at times.
He will be given an examination
tomorrow.
The railway mail service has au-
thorized the railway postal clerk
on the Clearwater Short Line to
extend his run from Stuart SO as to
commence at Sites, making total
distance of 1922 miles, and the in
crease being $50 miles, the line
to be known as the Sites and r.
p. o.
Messrs. j. 4. Wilkinson and A.
F. Parker. the soliciting commit
tee appointed by the board of
trade to canvass for funds for sur
veying TIE electric road announces
that they have secured the sum of
800, and have not yet been off of
Main street. This sum represents
the work of only two afternoons.
The state hoard of equalization
on Tuesday raised the valuation on
merchandise as follows: Ada
county 10 per cent, Bannoek 5,
Bingham Is, Blaine 90, Boise 20,
Canyon 5, Custer 6, Fremont 5,
Latah 80, Nez Perez 5, Owyhee 5,
Washington 25. In the other
counties the valuation remains as
returned by the county officers.
What has become of the repub-
lican predictions of such dreadful
calamities if the fusion ticket were
elected last fall? Capital was to
withdraw, property was to de-
preciate, and fearful things were
to happen, yet the county assessors
of the state report an increase of
personal and real property valua,
tions for the last year of four and
a half million dollars.
The county commissioners of
Walla Walla county have set apart
August Goth as "Straw day. or in
other words, day to be devoted
to strawing the county roads. The
dust ON the roads become almost
at this season of the
year and it is claimed that straw is
the best possible preventive that
is at all successful. 1t might be
well for many other counties in the
Inland Empire, where the dust be-
comes so excessive, to follow
Walla Walla county's example.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Z. Matte
son, who have been at the Shep-
pard Sanitarium for several weeks,
left this morning for their home at
Grangeville, Idaho. Mr.. Matte
son returns to his Western home
happy man, as he has had a large
cancer successfully removed from
his left cheek by DIR. Sheppard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matteson are very
genial people, and they have made
warm friends during their sojourn
n Upper Sandusky.-Wyndot |
Ohio) Union.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matteson reache d
ere Tuesday evening looking ex-
eedingly we'll after their journey. !