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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29
$500 PER YEAR

came to Stites, twenty odd miles away
he grew rich hauling wheat to the
railroad by wagon. Two years ago,
the railroad came up Lapwai Canon,
and he grew richer, selling wheat to a
great grain-buying company, right on
the ranch.
And so with all of them. There is
nothing very grand or picturesque
about them-but they have laid the
foundations for the development of the
country. They have not amassed any
mighty fortunes buying irrigable
lands at 500 an acre and selling the
same at $4,000; nor in fiers in mines
or standing timber; but they have
made fifty bushels of wheat grow to
the acre where only bunch grass and
the blue-howered camas grew before.
Grangeville is a part of the old
West. You will not see it from a
Pullman window You will have to
get OIL at Spokane, or Boise, or Lew
iston, and travel by branch line or
stage for half a day before you reach
its fringes.
And with the present generation it
may be that it will disappear entirely.
Still, in the breaks of the Idaho rivers
and out along the dry upland benches,
the cattlemen carry guns, wear chaps
and sombreros, and talk the same old
lingo-but they are few and far be-
tween, and perfectly harmless.
1t is all getting crowded back into
pretty small corners, this old West.
Now, there lies on the table this morn
ings copy of the Portland Oregonian.
"A front-page story tells of surveying
parties, representing Mr.. Hartman
and the Milwaukee road, locating
lines through the Lolo Pass. They
have been doing that for years; but
some day someone will really come
through Lolo Pass, Just as, some time,
somebody will shove railroad
through every rift in the mountain
chain. And when it happens the
West will move again. Elk City, to-
day almost Bret Harte camp, only
a little more sordid at heart, little
tougher inside and better upholstered
outside, will be tanned to look like
Cripple Creek, or Wallace, or any
other mining centre on the main lines.
Grangeville, 1daho,-and all other
Grangevilles that men made grow in
hard places-will cease to be Grange
vile when it listens to the thunder of
the transcantinentals through the
mountain passes.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29
ourt House

VI county commissioners
\ o'11'raet = az for painting the
- = ,honney of this city
'4,s fas last Tuesday. The
IT, .o' Two coats of paint,
te lead and Minnesota
0e used. The color will
., s.eel gray trimmings.
started at once.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29

road it is building toward Grange
VILE He cites the fact that the
Pittsburg and Gilmore road is incor-
porated to build to the mouth of the
little Salmon, a point lying midway
between Salmon City and Grange
vile in direct line between the two
places, This point would be the log
ical place for the road to leave the
Salmon river to build through the
Elk City region to Grangeville.
Such move would give Hartman
people better access to the upper
Clearwater country than could be OBJ
tanned through the Lolo pass. Mr..
McNutt also states that by following
the Salmon to its mouth and connect
ing with the Huntington branch
down the Snake at that point water
grade to the coast could be gained.
These surmises as to the purpose of
railroad construction on the upper
Salmon strengthen the belief that
before long the Chicago and North
western whose present western termi-
nus is Lander, Wyo., will be running
trains into Seattle over the p. & G.
and North Coast. Whatever the
correctness Of these conjectures, it is
evident that Salmon City and Grange
vile which were so long without rail
road transportation are to become
important railroad points of the noun
tain section.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29
Work Has Descriptive
Article of Grangeville
SAY LAND FOR CAPITAL
Crangeville a Part of the Old
West Now Disappearing

The August issue of the Worlds
Works, a prominent eastern magazine,
is devoted almost exclusively to the
West and among other articles is one
on Camas Prairie which we produce
below. This is most interesting
number, copies of which may be OBJ
tanned at the Mclean Book Store:
Down in bend of the Clearwater
Mountains, under the shadow of Mt.
Idaho, there is little city called
Grangeville. Around it stretch the
prairies-rich, rolling, verdant. In
the spring, its roads and streets are
knee-deep in black volcanic mud. In
the summer, dust flies in clouds.
Forty-five years ago, men planted
Grangeville-men of strong faith, and
courage beyond the understanding of
civilized people. Since that day many
tides have swept about it. Pierce
City and Buffalo Hump, reckless
camps of miners, sprung up in the
mountains behind it, lived their up
roarious day, then faded into history.
The worst of Montana, fleeing the
vigilantes, came down through the
Nez Perces and Lolo passes, and made
the place a one-night stand on the
road to Lewiston. Floods of people
came and went, miners, farmers, drov-
ers, stockmen, timber cruisers bound
for the hills, traders bound coastwise
everyone came and most went.
A few stayed. \ cattleman, saw
ing hard-earned money, laid it out in
a farm on the blue-fowered prairie,
A sheep-tender came and settled be-
side him. The little store, as time
went on, grew bigger, trading with
passing miners, prospectors, and farm
hunters. Then, as the mining camps
in the hills multiplied, trade grew
rapidly-and the town struck its roots
deeper into the prairie and announced
that it was there to stay.
Now it is the county seat Of Idaho
County, which is as big as Rhode Is
land, Delaware and Massachusetts, put
together. Grangeville's population is
about four thousand people. 1t has
banks, electric lights, good stores. In
May it was talking abont macadam-
lied streets, and trolley line that
struggles fitfully along the prairie
There is nothing fashy or wonder
ful about Grangeville. 1t looks as
though it took hard work to make it
and would take more hard work to
make it very big. Yet, as solid as
its foundation is, the town lives on its
conquest Of the country, not on its
development; for there has been no
real develowment. A typical Grange
vile citizen will tell you, for example,
that he herded cattle in the ridges
forty years ago. Then he planted
wheat on the prairie, and fed it to the
hogs so that it could walk to market
by itself. Then, when the railroad
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29

l. subjects will be dis
l,'ay at the Christian
a. m The Full Grown
~ H. Lowest Thou Me. !"
= - eVenlng service. We
present at these SER
" Morgan, Minister.
the green ho. 90
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29
Want Releases

An examination of the record of
suits for divorce at the county auditors
office during the last few days shows
that IA cases are now on record and
the end is no yet. The complaints in
six other cases are in the hands of local
attorneys and will be filed before the
next term of court which begins
August 30. This will bring the total
number of cases to20 which is more than
double that Of any previous term of
the district court in this county. The
cases filed to date are as follows: j. w.
kidder VS.. Martha kidder, Jessie
Hurry VS.. Ira Hurry, John Sheehy VS..
Esther w. Sheehy. Mary f. Derford
VS.. Peter Derford, Alma b. Turner
VS.. F. {. Turner, Alice NJ. Raboni VS..
Edward Raboni, Laura M. Martin VS.
w. }. Martin, Emma Harris VS.. Joel
a Harris, Anna Bell Meyer VS.. Asker
+. Meyer, Harry Brown. VS.. Jeanette
Brown, Elmer J. Hartman VS.. Chris
tina Hartman, Minnie l.. Smith VS..
Charles A. Smith, Major J. Hendrick-
son VS.. Bertha M. Hendrickson and
Pearl Beaton VS.. John Beaton.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29
Road Center of
Railroad Interest
IS BUILDING INTO IDAHO
Coming Down Salmon Toward
Grangeville

The activity of railroad construc-
ton around Salmon City is creating
quite as much interest in railroad
affairs as the rivalry between the @.
X. y N. and Northern Pacific in the
Lolo pass has done. The fact that
millions are being spent in the con-
struction of an expensive route across
the Bitter Root range seems sufficient
proof that the Pittsburg and Gilmore
Valley road is subsidiary corpora
ton to either Hill or Hartman in
terests.
The Boise dailies see in the Pitts
burg and Gilmore road connecting
link between the Hill roads in Mon
tana and the old Boise Butte survey.
and contend that this will give Hill
interests direct outlet to the south
move made to counteract the aggres-
sion of Hartman in Hills territory
IN the northwest. The opposite be-
lief, however, that the road under
construction is under Hartman con-
troll and will serve as direct connec-
tion between Hartman lines in south
ern Idaho and those of Idaho county
seems more PLAUSIBLE. Whatever in
terest is back Of the new route, it will
certainly be All important development
for Lemhi and Idaho counties.
Reports from Salmon City are that
the work on the new road is being
rushed with all possible speed. j. f..
Barstow who returned the first of the
week from Salmon City reports that
there are about thousand men en-
ployed on the work near that place.
The grading crews are working from
each end Of the line, and more than
half Of the roadbed has already
been completed. The contract
for ties has been let and the
needed material for bridges and track
is being delivered along the right of
way. A mile and half of rail has
been laid west from Armstead. A
report has come from the head engi-
neer of the road that trains will be
running into Salmon City by January
There are many indications that
the Pittsburg and Gilmore road is a
branch of the Hartman system.
The Oregon Short Line recently pur-
chased 400 acres of land adjoining
Salmon City. The surveyors have
worked from Salmon to point half
way to Lewiston, while crew of
Oregon Short Line running north
from Blackfoot. These surveys
would give the Hartman lines di-
rect route from Pocatello to the low
er Salmon river valley.
w. G. McNutt, who has been in
the city for the past week and who is
considered the best informed engineer
on the physical features of the country
considered, gives it as his opinion
that if the P. 4 G. is a Hartman
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29

The al[day meeting and basket
dinner at the Christian Church last
Sunday was success in every way.
The attendance was good at all the
services. Following the morning
services the contents of the many
baskets were spread on the lawn in
front of the church and the crowd did
the rest. This was followed by bus
mess session which resulted in the ell
ection of one new clerk and two new
deacons, also clerk and treasurer res
pectively, MIR. Eimers, Mr.. Groonough,
Mr.. Manning, Mr.. Cobbs and Mrs.
Cobbs. Mrs. Van Pool and Mrs.
were chosen as deaconesses.
Plans were made for more delinate
work along all lines.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29
Bound Two Over

The preliminary Of John Siebel,
the man charged with rape upon the
person Of Lille Hendricks, young
girl, was held Monday and the defen-
dant was bound over to the district
court, his bond being fixed at 81, 900
which he was unable to furnish.
Jack Swan of Harpster, charged
with the same crime upon the person
OF Mrs. Myrtle Burris, was up the
same day and also bound over to
await the action of the district court
Mrs Burris was charged with adultry
and her hearing will be held Septem-
Der II.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29
} For Barns

onss nson has received plans
Tyea T's method in BARN con-
lne l.', object Of these plans
si'nout a any cross beams
aoor and the roof, afford
Th!, T1L and a great saving in
hn ue ldea, =. which is patented,
~ a New York concern.
] nas ast taken e., the agency for
alla will dispose of ter
s, % those wishing to use
construction.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29

"A. I. Tony and Geo. Patterson
two Warren mining men, came out
from the camp the first of the week
and passed through this city on their
way to register.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29

George ID. Smith returned the first
of the week from Alberta where he
has been looking the country over.
he says he considers it good invest
ment and intends buying some land
shortly. While in the north he took
a chance at Spokane and other reser-
walton registration points.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29

Miss May Evans, who has been tbe
guest OF MIR. and Mrs. Robert Jones
OF Spokane, arrived in the city Tues
day night for stay at the Mcconnell
home. :
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29
, as Though Hartman
will Build Cut Off
GOES TO kOOSk|A
Teams and Contractors
Gone to That Point

nation reached the Evening
That the Hartman forces are
} begin active work in con-
. a line between Spaulding
ksoula at once. This develop
! was learned came after an
|sful attempt to carry out the
j division Of the territory in
lewiston country. The tenta-
eemeut between the Hill and
an interests, is now in the air
failure of the treaty involves
e the construction of the new
pt also the operation Of the
Fille-Reparia line on a joint
While the Northern Pacific
{ no antagonistic move the
signing the agreement with
!. Il N. has caused the latter to
h suspicion the move of the
Pacific in letting contracts
lissoula cutoff.
y Teams for KOOSkia
elopment in connection with
fling of the Missoula road ap-
Foday when forty four-horse
assed through the Lewiston
loaded with scrapers and
uipment- The men of the
uld not talk freely, but gave
information that they had
p the Elgin branch in Oregon
enroute to Kooskia to do
road grading. 1t does not
'DaDle that the q. X. x n.
gin its work on a Missoula
Ooskia but, the men refused
whose employ they were
clarlng that they had been
on the Elgin branch.
& N. Buys Horses
ust been learned that two
n to be in the employ of
man interests, were in the
day and have gone out into
y Tor the purpose of buying
pe used in the work that
Plated. The Hartman inter
completed a cross-section
N n spalding to a point above
Engineer Eastmen having
escutlng this character Of
ne is now in the Middle
u hve miles above Kooskia.
my owns considerable right
ady and in this respect will
yea In any work that NAV
= fact that arrangements
On oI OF the territory have not
e'ea e'e! i. before this time gives
Hlief that the Hartman
!! 'ali intend to be outgener-
lllding a Missoula cutoff
Us clash between the Hill
nan interests is not improb-
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29

MIR. and Mrs. Robert Jones and
son, Mrs. Zilg and daughter of Mil
waukee, mother and sister of Mrs.
Jones, and l.. r. Scott of Chicago
arrived Tuesday night for visit in
this city.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1909-07-29

! The green box. 2.1O
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
A NOVEL LEGAL POINT.
Mrs. Pitkin lnherits $4,000, But Ho'
Sisters Are Barred.

New York, May 3.-An interesting in
depreciation by the English Chancery
Court of the old deceased-wife's -sistel
law gives Mrs. Helen Pitkin of Brook
lyn, widow of DR.. Leonard F. Pitkin,
who was surgeon for the marlborough
Railroad at the time of his death, a
legacy Of $4,000.
Mrs. Pitkin was one of four daught-
tiers in one family who came under the
ban of the old English act which made
invalid the marriage of a man to the
sister of his deceased wife. Mrs. Pit
kin obtains the legacy because she
happened to be born in this country,
where the union between her father
and mother was perfectly valid in the
eyes Of the law. Her three sisters, who
We're born in England, cannot obtain a
share in the estate.
The old deceased-wife's sister act
was repealed by Parliament two years
ago. The repeal legitimaZed all issue
from such marriages, but it was not
retroactive as regards requests that
had been made under the old law. The
issue that was raised in the case of
Mrs. Pitkin was new and the English
court is said to have been greatly in
terested in it.
comes from the estate of Thomas
Green, her grandfather, who died in
England in 1910.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
SUFFOCATED IN MUD.
Father Sees Boy Die Unable to Help
Him.

New York, May with his father
looking on, helpless to aid him, Charles
Doty, eight years old, was suffocated
in the mud of a shallow pond at One
Hundred and Forty-second Street and
tho East River. The boy lived on the
Richmond, a canal boat, and was fish
ing from a craft in the pond, when he
toppled overheard.
The depth of the pond is regulated
by the rainfall, and there was about
four feet of water. His father threw
ropes to him, but they fell short. In
the meantime the men on the boats had
been calling to him to swim out, but,
although the boy made the usual mo-
tions, he did not advance an inch. 1t
was not until too late that the two men
realized that the boys feet We're i'm
prisoned in the mud, of the pond,
which was gradually drawing him
down.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
DELIVERS MAIL BY WIRE.
Device to Save Trouble for People Off
Rural Mail Routes.

Clay City. Ind, May 3.-John w.
White, former county treasurer, of this
city, has invented a device on which
a patent will soon be issued, for the
delivery of the rural mail, The pur-
pose of the invention is that of con-
veying the mail to and from residences
at a distance from the route, doing
away with the necessity Of walking
back and forth to the stationary boxes
along the line. The carrier, on coming
to station by the roadside, puts the
mail for. patron who lives a quarter
or even a half mile away into a small
receptacle, or box for the purpose and
shoots it over a strand of wire which
has been adjusted between points;
this signals it's arrival at the residence,
it is emptied and matter to be mailed
is deposited into it, when it is shot
back to the carrier, making the round
at the rate of mile a minute. By a
very simple manipulation the impetus
is given it at either end to carry the
special box over the line. The invent
or says that it can be adjusted SO as
to make delivery mile from the rural
route,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
TREE CULTURE IN HOLLAND.
Elms on Canal Banks and Lindens
French Monarch Guarded.

There is perhaps no other well popn-
lated country in the world which has
so many well-wooded towns as has
Holland. Most of the streets and
grachts or canals have avenues OF
trees. Utrecht has two rows of trees
on either side of it's quaint canals. Its
canal banks are constructed as If in
two stories. The lower story, almost
flush with the water level, is lined
with warehouses and vaults, while the
upper story has dwellings and shops.
Both levels are planted with trees.
So many avenues of trees make n
Dutch town exceedingly pleasant, cs-
pecially on hot day. The foliage
tempers the glare of the sun and the
vistas of green are refreshing to tho
eye. These abundant growths in
thickly populated towns are highly
useful as we'll as ornamental. 1t is
recognized that, from hygienic point
of view, they are valuable tc the c!ti-
zens.
In Holland these useful services are
gratefully recognized and the trees
are carefully tended by the municipal
ties. The cost of this care per capita
in the different towns varies somewhat.
Last year, for example, Utrecht &C.
voted q cents Dutch) to it's trees for
each inhabitant, and The Hague IS
cents for each of it's 259.0O0 citizens. 1t
takes 2 1-2 Dutch cents to equal an
American cent. About ten years ago
the annual cost of carins, for the trees
of The Hague was 10 cents tDutch)
per capita, but since that time many
new trees and shrubs have been plant
ed throughout the city and new parks
have been laid out.
1t has been found that not every
kind of tree will thrive in the streets
| of a town, for trees have many enemies
both above and below ground. Gas
escaping from pipes under ground is
the worst enemy of trees, because
quite small quantities of it are deadly.
For this reason special precautions are
taken against the leakage of gas in
Dutch towns. How electricity escap-
ing under ground acts upon trees as
yet has not been sufficiently studied to
be understood. Trees will not grow in
very narrow streets, where houses are
high: neither will they thrive if the
pavement does not let in moisture and
air in sufficient quantities.
The best trees for street planting in
Holland are elms and lindens, but the
elm is the harder of the two and will
grow where a linden will not. Trees
of these kinds reach a great age, like
the old elms along the quiet grachts
of Edam. one of the "dead' cities of
| the Zuyder Zee, which saw the fleets
of Van Tromp and De Ruyter in the
harbor of Edam-the harbor which APP
pears so tiny to modern eyes that one
with difficulty imagines "the terror OF
| the North Sea" anchoring there. Then
there are the magnificent lindens of
the Mallebaan in Utrecht. which APP
pealed to the French monarch, King
Louis XIV. Those lindens he COM
| manded his soldiers to pare on peril
of their lives.--The Hague Correspond
ence of the Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Railroad Man
Badly Crippled,
HAD MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.
Ussd Urie.o and Became Entirely
Cured and Recommends the Remedy
to Fellow Workmen.

John B. GRAHAM, well known signal
tender In the Maine Central Railroad
yards at Pittsfeld. Me-, has the follow
ing to say in favor Of Urico-O.
For several years past. suffered I'M
told fortunes from muscular rheu ma
tism. 1 paid very little notice to the
trouble at first, thinking it would pass
away as I grew older. but instead.
from year to year the disease in
creased until my muscles had become
80 contracted at the knee that I was
almost unable to follow my occupation.
Through the recommendation Of drug
gist H. H. Nutter, began the use of
Uric-O and have taken six bottles and
can truthfully say the remedy has en-
tirely cured me.
I have treated with the most emmi-
rent doctors and have used various
medicines recommended by friends, but
Neither gave relief.
arm glaG to testify to the merits OF
uric-O for rheumatism and believe
that it will cure the most obstinate
forms of this terrible sease.
Ur.c-O is sold and recommended by
F. P. Burns. by c. H Beane, Gardiner
by -Spauldings Drug Store. Hallowell
and b.; F. S. Jackson. Winthrop at 75
and 500 the bottle. They will furnisl
samples ard literature upon reques
or same can be obtained by wr:tin:
to the Smith Drug Co., 2t6 Smith Bdlg
Syracuse. N. Z