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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
A Popular Move.

The move to secure the construc-
tion of road up the Clearwater to
the mining district is proving very
popular and nearly every one is
lending hearty support to the pro-
ject. 1t is estimated that such a
road would save nearly one half
the freight rates to Orc Grande,
Elk City and Buffalo Hump. AL
ready more money has been spent
on excessive freight rates than it
would take to build the road. 1t
is said that the Hogan mine alone
would have saved $4,000. last fall
had this road been built and avoid.
ed lifting the heavy machinery
over the high divides. The pro.
posed road wovld be about 40 miles
long and it's estimated cost is $40,
600. OF this sum it is believed
one half can be raised by mine
owners and the state is asked to
appropriate the other half. The
greatest drawback to the mines
in this country is the great cost Of
transporting machinery and sup.
plies and this can never be over.
come until better roads are built
on water grades instead of ovel
high divides.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
Creditabie Work.

For speed and accuracy in the
dispatch of business there is per-
haps no public office in the state
that equals the county auditors
Office Of this county. At the ses-
sion of the board of county COM
missioners which ended last week,
there were 666 claims allowed
aggregating s19,O4O,7l. None of
these warrants could be drawn for
this money until after the board
adjourned and while they did not
adjourn until 8 o'clock p. m. last
Tuesday the warrants were all
properly signed aud ready for de-
livery at 3 O'Clock p m Wednesday.
Such work speaks well for Mr..
Overman and his able assistants
and shows that a thorough organ
lied system is observed in handling
the county's business.
The number of claims allowed
and warrants drawn on the separ-
ate funds are as follows; Current
Expense Fund, 516 claims $14, 1866
40.
Road Fund, 16O claims, 81, ,513. 72
Sheep Bounty Fund, Al claims
S16O,5O
No warrant is drawn for mor'
than 5000 and it required 600 tt
pay all bills.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
WANT THE ASYLUM.
Legislators Urged to Work
For it's Location at
CranQeville.

A we'll attended mass meeting Of
Grangeville business men was held
last Thursday night at the court
house to take steps to secure the
location Of the insane asylum at
Grangeville. A letter from Rep
resentative j. Loyal Atkinson
stated that there was more than an
even chance to secure the institu.
tion provided the people wanted it.
There is no question but what the
people want and no question but
what they have the right to expect
it. Idaho county is the largest
county IN the stale, one of the
heaviest tax payers aud as yet has
not single state institution. With
our rich agricultural surroundings.
abundance of the best water on
earth, plenty of building material
and congenial climate there
could be no better location for such
an institution than right here. A
committee consisting Of }. t. Nc.
Duffie, f. u. Richardson and Fen
Batty was appointed to draft reso.
luton urging the legislature to
make the location here. Our citi-
zens will do the right thing in the
matter of securing q suitable site
and no trouble will be experienced
in that direction If the location il
made here. There are a number
Of applicants for the institution in
north Idaho but the bill first intro
duced for a branch asylum named
Grangeville as the place and there
is no good reason why it should
not 60 through.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02

The forthcoming production of
the beautiful romantic comedy,
"My Partner" will be the most
enjoyable, laugh provoking per-
formance ever seen in Grangeville.
New scenery and special light
effects are 5eing prepared to beau.
tify the stirring situations. Con-
sideriug the fact that the talented
author and actor, Mr.. Leonard
Mitchell is personally directing the
the rehearsals is guarantee that
the Dramatic Co. will excel their
past efforts in every way. The
proceeds go to the Public School
Library fund. Each citizen should
exert every effort to fill the LOO F.
Opera House, Tuesday Feb. 7th.
The Dramatic Co. are giving away
absolutely free, five dollar gold
piece to the child who sells the
largest number of tickets between
Tuesday Jan. 80 and Tuesday Feb
7th.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
Thank You.

There is lamentation in Grange
vile printerdom. A republican
board has awarded a two years.
contract to the democratic Free
Press, so often accused in the past
few months of robbing the county
treasury. To one who knows the
secrets Of the art preservative OF
arts this action occasions little sur.
prise. It's all in the imam behind
the gnn," and the Free Press with
its splendid staff and equipment
would have won on square bust
ness proposition il it had been a
prohibition sheet. Hats off to the
man who carries a card. The new
board merits the appreciation Of all
our citizens for it's unswerving bus.
iness course in this matter.-Stitet
Journal.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
ALONG THE CLEARWATER,
Visitors see prosperity at
Harpster, Clearwater.

School district No. 27, known as
the York District, has a new school
house crowned with nice belfry
and is a credit to any county dis
trict w. G. Hood is practicing
the art OF pedagogue on the ban
ditta Of the community with good
success.
Clearwater district No. 16 has
the most up to date School house
in the county and the people Of
Clearwater are justly proud Of it.
The house has two rooms with a
sliding partition by means of which
both rooms can be easily thrown
into one. 1t has seating capa-
city of 100, which can be increased
when necessary by completing an
upper room. The lower room,
with the partition withdrawn is SO
feet by "a feet and is furnished
with single seats and nice organ.
Prof. Thompson is teaching the
young idea how to shoot and patron
and pupil are alike constant in
their prais.
Allen Stephens, Of Clearwater,
has bought out A. Bishop and Co.
and is doing lively business at
the old stand. Stephens says the
prosperity wave has not struck
Clearwater yet, but he is looking
for it every day and hopes to get
his share of it as soon as the real
thing manifests itself.
O'Bannon and Clark are doing
a profitable business at Clearwater
town. Clark is firm beliver in
the Roosevelt prosperity doctrine
and thinks that everything that
grows in the shadow Of the G. o. p.
is bound to thrive, but his epider-
mis- is not SO badly stained with
prejudice that he cannot see some
good in mule.
| Mrs. Mary Baker, OF the Clear
water hotel returned recently from
her old Kansas home where q little
girl she gathered hazelnuts and
made play aprons out of hickory
leaves. Oil has been struck on
the old homestead and the property
has became very valuable.
Harry expects his business tc
improve materially when spring
opens and he and his wife have
strong faith in the strike that was
lately made in Nugget Gulch, be-
J yond Newsome where even the
stage driver deserted his employer
and hied away to the hills in search
, of a mine. They had some fin,
} looking ore on exhibition.
II. G. Oliver is doing good
: business at Harpster, himsel
spending much time on a Cayu
looking after his Grangeville- Ell
City telephone line while his wifi
looks after the needs Of his custom
!. ers at the store.
o. G. Lapp is doing an ever-in
creasing business in the mercan
tile line at Bridgeport. He repor
: that in spite Of the great depression
in mining stocks and the small
amount Of labor expended in tn
mines last year, his 1904 sales wer
considerable in excess Of those {
1908. He expects a great future
the South Fork wagon road prove
~ a success.
O The Harpster School Dist. NJ
e 81, has been bonded to raise funG
d for building new School hous'
Y Young America is 80 much in ev
j. dence there that the old quarter
II are entirely inadequate.
y The School house on the hi
north east of Lewis Costley's 9
the Grangeville- Clearwater roat
is busy making history for its con
q munity. Miss Edna Ratclif' is th
queen bee and the hive is layiI
4 in store bits of knowledge th'
10 contribute to make life sweet an
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
Death of Frank He ath.

Frank Heath died at his home
seven miles northwest of this city
last Saturday, of pneumonia. He
was 81 years old and leaves a wife
and eight children to mourn his
death. Mr.. Heath come to this
country about four years ago from
Missouri and was one of our most
highly esteemed and prosperous
farmers. In his death Idah G
county loses good citizen and the
fsmily, an affectionate husba n d
ana father. A brother and family
are now enroute here from Miss.
ouri expecting to make this theil
home but have no knowledge Of
his death.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
Placer Mine Sold.

A deal was closed last Friday
for the sale of the Moose Creek
placer mines to a Chicago corpora
ton for q good sum. This proper
ty has been worked for many
years and has always been good
producer. G. P. Richardson, who
has successfully managed it for
several years past, has been the
principal owner and may remain
with the new company for awhile.
The gravel deposits here are per.
haps the largest in the county and
the new company will Immediately
take steps to work it on an exten
sive scale.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
Bowling Alley Sold.

D. B. Wilson has purchased the
bowling alley and will move it in
to the building with his saloon. A
partition will be built between the
bar and the entrance to the
alley so that they will be entirely
disconnected and parties can enter
the alley without even seeing the
bar. Bowling is not only heath
full but very pleasant exercise and
an alley should receive a liberal
patronage here especially during
the long winter evenings when
little else is going on.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
ToSTHE FREE PREss:-The

To-THE FREE PREss:-The om-
mission Of several lines in several
places in my article on the propos-
ed state depository law published
in the FREE Press last week, spoils
the article and commits me to doc
trines which ] utterly condemn.
The errors are too numerous for
correction, and l ask the public to
relieve me Of all responsibility for
the way it reads. F. PARKER.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
Notice of Estray

There came to my place about two
miles from Glenwood, P. o., Idaho
County, Idaho, one two year old red
brindle heifef, with white belly
and white stripe on top of should
er and white face; no brands visible.
Parties claiming the above ami
NAL please call; prove property,
pay charges and take property, or
it will be sold according to law.
Dated Jan. Is, 1905, at Glen
wood, Idaho. j. w. Smith.
Filed Jan. 10, 1905.
]. /. Overman, Auditor.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
Pleasantly Entertained.

Mrs. Minnie Parkins assisted by
her sister Mrs. Walter Crosby en-
tertained a few young people al
the home of Mrs. Walter Crosby,
Friday evening. Bunco and Pitt
were the order of the evening, after
which the company adjourned tc
the dining room where delicious
refreshments were served.
The young people went away de.
claring they had had one of the
most pleasant time Of the season
Those present were:
Misses Bessie Jasper, Alice Nc.
Dermid, Geneva Fertig, Jo Graves
Messrs. Wallace Sherwin, Otto
Almen Joe Budd, and Archie
Dyer. Guest.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1905-02-02
How to Secure Handsome Hand-D Decorated
AZ Piece Dinner Set

Dear Madam:-We have just received large ship.
ment of beautiful goldned, three.colored handdecor
ated piece Dinner Sets This ware is of absolute
y high grade quality and is handsome enough to please
the fastdious
We desire also to inform you that have a
tract with of the largest potteres in the United
States to furnish with this handsome China Ware
which enables us advertisement to place Of
these Dinner Sets in every home in this vicinity
Delivered to any of our customers old or new, who
wish to avail themselves of this opportunity
set of high. grade China Ware.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-19
Impure KetChup

A number of prosecutions have
been brought against Dauphin
county merchants for the sale of to-
mato ketchup, samples of which
have been found to contain chemi-
cal preservatives and coal tar dyes.
Samples have been procured from
many other merchants in that
county, and the division expects
soon to announce that number OF
additional prosecutions have been
brought. Actions have just been
taken in a number of similar cases
in other parts Of the State.
No hearings have yet been given
to the two merchants in Harrisburg
and the three in Cumberland
county, recently charged with
having sold "doctored" meats.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-19
Arbor Day.

Friday, October goth, is the day
set apart by the State Department
of Public instruction as arbor day,
and the schools of the state are
urged to observe the day by the
planting of trees and by other ex-
ercises designed to stimulate an in
terest in the science and art of
forestry. Since the establishment
of arbor day more than thirty years
ago millions of trees have been
planted within the borders of our
land, and thousands OF acres have
been set apart for forestry. The
observance of arbor day has ex-
tended not merely to every state of
the union, but to France, Japan
and other countries beyond the sea.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-19
500 Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be.
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that Is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only posi-
tive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a consti-
tutional disease, requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting di-
rectly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby de-
stroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith
in its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for
list of testimonials. Address
f. ]. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills tor cor
stipation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-19
Notices Plenty-Game Scarce.

Sportsmen after fall game will
find their hunting ground consider
ably circumscribed this fall by any
number of notices posted in every
section of the county as warning
against trespassers out hunting
additional notices are being put up
right along. This makes the hunt
ing grounds quite limited much to
the chagrin of the sportsmen and
lovers of game. If desiring to hunt
on anti trespass grounds, better
first get PERMISSION of the owner,
which in many instances will be
cheerfully granted to such as will
not act detrimentally to the owners S
property, as has often been the
practice of some, by injuring stone
and rail fences, carelessly setting
fire to the woods, and otherwise
being guilty of acts annoying to
the owner.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-19
Heart
W Gakne IS.

DR.. Miles Heart Cure has
made many hearts well after
they have been pronounced
hopeless. 1t has completely
cured thousands, and will al
most invariably cure or benefit
every case of heart disease.
Short breath, pain around
heart, palpitation, futtering,
dizzy, fainting and smothering
spells should not be neglected.
Take DR.. Miles Heart Cure
and see how quick you will
be relieved.
1t cannot make a new heart,
but will restore a sick one by
strengthening the heart nerves
and muscles, relieving the
unnatural strain, and restoring
its vitality.
81 had a very bad case OF heart
trouble. For six months ] could not
work. Last July ! was plowng corn
and feeling bad all day; In the after
down. or fall down. three times. My
heart throbbed as though It would
burst through. and l had difficulty In
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bottle OF Dr Miles Heart Cure. and
before / had used half Of It could
lay down and sleep all night. Previ-
ously had TO get up from five to ten
times n night. | have taken several
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and can work considerable for an old
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II. ID. McGILL, Frost, Ohio.
Or. Miles Heart Cure Is sold by
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-19
THEY LENT AND LOST.
Fourteen Men Duped by a Par'sia1
Woman with Paste Jewels.

FOo' tNV'' 'CH bppNN ~
Woman with Paste Jewels
A gifted Partisan lady has Giscov-
cred an ingenious and apparently SIM
pie way to make $4,000 year.
She took her valuable jewels to Lon
don and had them reset in imitation
diamonds and colored pearls. This
done, she pawned them at the Mont
de-Piete for 100000.
Her next step was to obtain a re-
ceipt signed by oomplaisant dealer in
pawn tickets, stating that the jewels
in question were set In diamonds and
pearls. That may be said to have con-
stituted all her stock in trade.
An advertisement was inserted In
leading papers stating that a lady
moving in the best circles, but in tenn
porary pecuniary difficulties, desired to
meet with a person of means willing
to enable her to redeem and sell some
valuable jewelry. A good commission
was promised.
| AS soon as a dupe appeared, she ex-
planned that as the Mont-de-Piete does
not lend money on diamonds and
| pearls, her jewelry, upon which she
had obtained a loan of 100000 francs
(s2O,O0O), was worth quite five times
| that sum.
Artful references to aristocratic
| friends and acquaintances, to successes
at the Opera Comique, to her dear de-
parted father, "a high military officer"
generally sufriced to convince the vic
tim that the lady's acquaintance was
highly desirable, and the speculation a
profitable one. He, as a rule, not only
willingly advanced the $4,000 neces-
sary to redeem the pledge but added
$4,000 to $4,000 to enable the lady to
meet pressing demands until the jew
elry could be sold.
The jewels having been redeemed,
the lady and her dupe would proceed to
a jewelers. to offer them for sale. The
offer was, Of course, refused, the prac-
ticed eye Of the jeweler detecting
straightaway that the diamonds and
pearls were imitation.
The lady played her role to perfec-
tion. declaring that she was the victim
of swindler who must have cleverly
substituted the false for the real, while
protesting to test them. The real dupe
took pity on the pseudo-dupe, and was
only too glad to pawn the jevelrs once
for $4,000, without insisting on being
paid back his advances in full.
This went on well for some years.
! AS the lady netted each time from $5,-
900 to $500 on the transaction, she
was in no hurry to repeat the opera
ton Three or four times in the course
Of the year were sufficient to keep her
in afiiuence.
, Fourteen dupes either believed the
lady's innocence, or, at any rate, took
the loss in silence. Not so the fif-
teenth. well-to-do provincial trades
man, whom the lady actually persuad-
ed to accompany her to London, as she
had good connections among London
, jewellers, and might, therefore, she
, said, obtain a higher price. This VIC
: tim was fleeced to the extent of S12,-
300, and at once proceeded to sue the
. lady for fraud.-London Leader.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-19

Daily. Daily, except sunday. "r' stops
only on signal notice TO Agent, or Conductor TO
receive or discharge passengers.
"kn stops only ON sunday On notice TO Con-
snctor to discharge passengers, or on notice 10
Agent TO receive passengers.
Trains leave BLOOMSBURG as follows:
For Pittston and Scranton as follows: 7.40 and
l043 a. m, 2.43 and 6.l5 p. IN. week days; lO.4S
a. IN. Sundays.
For Pottsville, Reading and Philadelphia, 7.4O
a. IN. and AIS p. IN. week days.
week days
For Lewisburg. Milton, Williamsport, Lock
Haven, kenova, Kane and Erie ll47 a. IN. week
days: Lock Haven only, s.3i a. m, and 4.07 p. IN.
kenova, Kane and Erie ll.47 a. IN. week days;
for Willamsport and intermediate stations,
5.3i, lL47 a, m. and 4.07, 7.25 p. m. week days.
For Bellefonte, Tyrone, lhilipsburg, and
Clearfleld, S'34 and II AZ a. IN, week days.
For Harrisburg and intermediate stations S34
and II. "A a. M, 4.07 and I.25 p. m. week days;
i.O7 p. m. Sundays.
For Philadelphia (via Harrisburg, Baltimore
and Washington S.3i and l47 a. m, 4.07 and Z 25
d. IN. week days: 4.07 p. IN. Sundays.
For Pittsburg (via HarrsbuLg), S.34 a m.
7.25 p. m. week days. i.07 p. IN. daily; via Lewis
town junction, S.3i and II Al a. In. week days;
via Lock Haven, S.3i and il.47 a m. week days.
pullman Paror and Sleeping Cars run on
through trains between Sunoury, W.IlamspoIt
and Warrington and oetweenHarrisburg, Pitts-
burg and the west.
For further information apply TO Ticket
Agents.
General Manager. Pass'r Traffic Mgr.
GEO. W. BOYD,
General Passenger Agent.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-19
Henry n. Rogers Kept His Word.

When Henry II. Rogers was a boy
he had remarkably long arms and legs,
and he found it impracticable to stow
the latter comfortably beneath his desk
in the old sChoolhouse of his native
town. Fairhayen. Conn.
"If ever | get money enough" he
used to say, "I'll build a school in this
place with desks to fit all sizes of
scholars" Since then this awkward
youngster, who in his early days sold
newspapers on the streets, has not only
given two schools to Fairhaven, but
also a million-dollar church, a library,
q water works, and other improve
ments which have literally trans
formed the town.
MI Rogers, who is now SO years of
age, is said to be worth about $65, ,000,-
900. He is tall, broad and square
jawed, with shaggy brows which hide
his eyes. When he talks, his utterance
is always incisive and to the point.
Not long ago, referring to a stock
which has undergone undue imitation,
he spoke Of 1t as "a handful of value
Dissolved in water" Persistently he
breaches the virtues of Standard Oil as
a public benefactor, calling attention to
the fact that, as he says, coil from
wells drilled in Pennsylvania or West
Virginia at cost of $4,000 apiece is
fetched to New York and sold for less
than the price of spring water that has
been transported the same distance"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-10-19
Weaknesses of the Great.

Every great man or woman has his
or her weakness, Queen Victoria's took
the form of innumerable underscoring
of words; Palmerston's was the be-
stowal of capital letter upon every
other word. Mr.. Birrell, who mildly
denounces those that confound will"
and SHALL" himself trips over who"
and whom" Mr., Chamberlain always
describes things as being different
to-" and pleads that such and such en-
gagements will prevent me making" "
and so on. Now this latter error, the
false genitive, was one which Glad
stone never forgave. Sir Edward Ham
ilton tells, us that he once received
quite hsnily" from Gladstone upon
the latter's detecting in letter, writ
ten by Sir Edward by his instructions,
the misuse of the genitive. The curl
GUS part is that Sir Edward, in a page
near to that on which this incident is
narrated, speaks of Gladstones meth
cd Of preparing speeches as being diff
ferent "to" that which Is now in vogue.
But Mr.. Gladstone was not infallible.