Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1901-09-12

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home at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
yesterday.
Books, pencils, tablets, ETC., at
t5e NJ. Il NJ. Cash Store.
Usual services at the Baptist
church Sunday q. m. and p. m.
Say! But isn't it hot? Cool of
at The Right Drug Store.
/ A deal is pending for the sale of
the Bedrock Flume Co, property
in Warrens, to a new company.
The latest fad ia the cities is an
Orange Phosphate. Try one at The
Right Drug Store.
At Mt. Idaho, Idaho, Sept. IL,
1901, John D. Skaggs and Miss
Olive M. Way,nire, W. N. Knox,
Minister of the Gospel, officiating.
Joe and Vincent l.orang have
sold $500 worth OF cattle from
their Salmon river stock range and
have invested the proceeds in
calves.
Parties from Salmon RIVER re-
port that the Black Jack quartz
claim, near the Mckinley, is pro-
ducing some ore that is worth q
dollar u pound.
1t costs the state of Idaho 3S
cents per day for the maintenance
OF each inmate of the state insane
asylum at Blackfoot, and 4S cents
for each inmate of the penitentiary.
There are many pred ctions
that dollar wheat will prevail be-
fore spring. Meanwhile the pre-
sent price hangs fire at AZ cents
in Lewiston.
Ex-COnnty Commissioner Joseph
B. Cook has leased his farm in the
Sunnyside district and will shortly
build residence in growing
Grangeville and remove here to
reside permantly.
Pumps. Well we have a large
line Of Pitcher, Lift, Cistern and
Force pumps, with prices that you
can't afford to do without one any
longer-see them. The Yellow
Front, opposite postoffice. H. s.
II. Hardware Co.
A Pure Paint Store-this is our
well earned reputation for we
always have the very best paints,
oils, varnish, etc., that money can
buy. The Yellow Front, opposite
postofice, II. & Fl. Hardware Co.
At the Presbyterian church, the
regular service on Sunday at 8 p.
m. The sermon will be on Goods
Day." There will be special
music by the choir. At 7:l5 p. IN.
the G. L will meet. Subject,
"Trne Honor" The public is
cordially invited to both services.
Geo. K. Reed has presented
Hose Co. No. 1, of the Grangeville
fire department., with beautiful
gold lined trumpet as memento Of
their victory in the special race
} here on July 6, 1901. 1t is nicely
engraved and bears the names Of
the members of the team.
John o. Levander, of Golf, has
sold a large tract Of placer ground
on Salmon river to Chicago COM
pany, and they have arranged to
install complete hydraulic plant
on their premises and operate the
property for all it is worth. The
expert, as we are informed, re-
ported to his principals that the
ground contained all of $50, 900
worth of gold, and that it was a
first-class proposition all around.
All the flags in town were half
masted Immediately upon the re-
ceipt of the news of the shooting
of President Mckinley last Fri
day afternoon, and every heart
was bowed down in sorrow at the
thought that our chief magistrate
had met an untimely death at the
hands of a vile assassin.
G. j. Lisle, one of the new pur-
chasers Of the Standard, arrived
Tuesday from Butte, Montana,
where he has been engaged on the
Inter- Mountain for the past Is
months, and is now in the harness.
Both Messrs. Brown 4 Lisle, are
we'll pleased with the outlook here
and we wish them success in their
newspaper enterprise.
II The county commissioners went
to Harpster Tuesday to inspect
the remains of the old Jackson
: bridge across the sonth fork of
the Clearwater, an old landmark
which has done duty for 10! these
many years, and which collapsed
last Friday. 1t is getting about
time that Idaho county woke mp
to the fact that she is cuttin. y lot
of ice nowadays, and we rise to
suggest that an iron or steel
structure to replace the old one
will be found the most economical
way of doing business.
The m ineral wealth of Idaho is
attracting so much attention that
people generally outside Of the
State do not hear much about the
record made in production of the
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