Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1902-01-30

ton of the unpaid licenses for past !
years. The case in which the de-
cision was rendered was brought
in the name Of the State to enforce
payment of license of $50 per
quarter, the company being en-
gagged in the business Of loaning
money in Bingham county. Judg-
lnent was rendered against the de-
PENDANT corporation for $3.50
license money and $50 costs.
! Notes Of Week
Samuel Croker, of Kamiah, has
been granted an original pension OF
Sc per month.
Died-Near Cottonwood, Idaho,
January II, 1902, G. w. Long,
aged 50 years.
William Mohl, OF Lewiston, has
been appointed Horticultural In
spector of district No. /, compris-
ing Idaho and Nez Perce counties.
The Modern Woodmen will give
a grand ball at Denver February
10. Tickets $3.50. Everybody
welcome.
James Russell has sold his line
farm OF 24O acres q miles north
OF town to RobertHamill for $40
per acre.
1t cost close on to $4,000 to
maintain the state penitentiary
last year, and s37, 900 to keep up
the insane asylum.
There will be a public school en-
tertainment at Mt Idaho Saturday
evening, followed by the three-act
drama, Border Land"
!, Matt Truscott. the genial post
/ master at Mt. Idaho for more
4 years than we care to think about,
spent last Sunday IN growing
I. Grangeville.
! The Dewey Consolidated Mining
4 and Smelling company will hole
!. it's annual meeting of the stock
4 holders at Grangeville on February
II 20, at 10 O'Clock a. m.
There are 2, S45, 1l9 acres of pas
ented land in this state, assessed q
$13,152 764, or less than five dol
lars per acre. The improvement
<, on this land are assessed at 50 ,759,
rs 523.
- A private letter from Warren
3. states that Frank Stoakley, nat
'e, i've of Switzerland, is supposed t
IS be dead. He left the camp for hi
place on Elk creek, on the sout
= fork, some weeks ago, and nothin
= has since been heard from him.
.te The old Lapwai agency is to b
! discontinued, congress having n
:, fused the necessary appropriate
me- for salaries and maintenance. Tt
lie lie business will hereafter be done b
ed the superintendent of the India
ore industrial school.
'a Of County Assessor Overman lie
ate last Saturday for Boise City to a
I'D tend the annual meeting of asses
ed. ed. ore from all parts of the state Fl
INC, the purpose of exchanging vies
'rY with the desire to make the asses
'o' ments of the various counties
uniform as possible.
e. Florence lodge No. 80, l. o. o..
have elected officers to serve un
heir July /, as follows: G. M. Pei
ave ave lngton, N. G., w. FL. Morrisso
rev v. G., A. W. Sifton, Jr., Sc
n .its, w. A. Stevens, Treas, E.
.alh,o Watson, D. D. G.. NJ.
Re- Re-, Fred Hallett, opera ting the F,
1874 tune mine in the Robbins distri
y ear was a visitor last week en- route
thin Spokane, to invest in Vanner
lea. the mine. The two-stamp mill
p the working nicely, but as it lie a CT
aims inns centrating proposition they fou
vanner necessary to save the &
centrates.
During the month ending j
80 +. uary 4, taxes to the amount
ban s54, 776.4O were collected, leav
q s9Ol3.28 delinquent. The to
nI revenue for 1901 was 1857
hat SO that the proportion Ol uel
son quencies is about IA per cent.
~. ~ revenue for 1901 is about $12,
-. more than for 1900. while the
in linquent list footed up $9053.
81 which shows a marked impro
rful ment for the past year.
neu- According to the "Mineral
elief sources Of the United States,"p
r. lished under the direction Of CT
ntee D. Walcott, of the u. S. geolog
and survey, a nickeliferous pyrrlio
has been found about ID m
southeast Of Mt. Idaho, Id
county, and preparations are b.
weak made to develop the propert
svel. order TO determine the extel
help the deposit and whether it Cal
AIKEN proftably mined.
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