Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-12-24
TWENTYYEARS ACO
Items Taken From Free Press
At That Time.
IS SOME DIFFERENT NOW
Interesting Reading for the
Old Timers.

The following news item rs are
taken from the Christmas issue Of
the Free Press twenty years ago,
and will no doubt be- read with in.
terests by many Of our old subscrib.
ers:
Latsh county is thirty-six miles
square with population of 10, 900,
of whom 1929 pay poll taxes. Her
county debt ia $53, 900 and she
polled ,442 votes for delegate in
the late election, which max es her
rank the fourth county in the ter.
ritory in point Of population.
The fence law ought to be
amended so that wire above a
pole or rail would constitute . legal
fence.
Robt. Larimer writes us from
Boise City that the legislature or.
ganized on December 10, with J. P
Clough, OF Lemhi, president Of the
council, and II. z. Burkhart, Of
Ada, speaker Of the house. Mr..
Larimer was appointed assistant
chief clerk Of the council and Cliff.
ford Cearley, son Of J. L. Cearley,
a former resident Of Idaho county,
is messenger to the house.
Two surveyors of the Idaho
Transit company we're in town
Tuesday.
Well, we are waiting for work to
begin on the Camas prairie rail.
road. 1t does beat all how slow
they are.
The Grangeville post. office trans.
acted 81, 100 worth of money order
business last week, fact which
speaks we'll for the amount oil
money circulating in our little
town.
The youngest soldier in the
Union army during the war was
Edward Beck, our Grangeville
postmaster. His record as given
by an eastern paper will be pub
ished in the F. P. next week,
Mt. Idaho lodge No 9, A. F. &
A. NJ. elected the following officers
at it's last meeting to serve for the
ensuing year: W. NJ, l. S. We'll.
er, s. w., Ed. Brooks, J. w., ].
B. Sloan, Treasurer. j. NJ. Dor.
man, secretary, G. w. Case The
new officials will be installed
December 81, St. Johns day.
The fact that the surveyors have
been called in from the Camas
prairie survey, and that work has
been abandoned on all the o. r. &
N. branches, looks to a man up a
tree as though the o. X. & N. had
retired from business. The road
is leased to the N. P. and u. P.
for nieety- nine years, and the way
we figure it out there is no longer
an 0. r. & N. Co. in existence.
Bailey Chamberlain gave War
rens good send-off while he was
in Lewiston, and Leland published
a half column concerning the camp.
We hope the people of Lewiston
who are friendly to the develop
ment of the inside country. will in
struct the legislators from Nez
Perez county to vote for the terri.
torial wagon road appropriation,
which our Hon. G. M. Day is going
to ask for this session. and we want
Lewiston's help.
M j. Peterson has sold one OF
his fine ranches to Tom Crea, a
former resident of this prairie,
when he owned the farm now in
the possession OF Peter Riebpld.
Tom is brother of John B. and
George Crea, and has been living in
Oregon eince he left here. This is
another illustration of the fact that
everybody who has once lived here
and left, are never satisfied until
they are back again. 1t take Is a
long absence to find out how God
a country Camas prairie is, and
the longer you are away the better
you like it aud hasten yonr retu IN.
Mr.. Peterson will go back to his
old business OF mining.