Clearwater Republican., 1922-04-14

it just as 1T is given:
May 23rd Makeys partner. Dr..
for mending boots, $500; for TWEEN
ty lbs. potatoes, $500 paid.
May 26th. l. Connolly, Dr., 4
drinks, s1.OO paid June Sth. Bor-
rowed of Levi Ankeny $4,000.
July 18th. Miss Chase, for lat
tnes, scots paid. Coon & Co. for
lattness scots. settled in disgust.
Aug 8. l box of cigars of Capt.
Wallace, $500; spent SCOTS,
Aug. 8. Miss Maria Ann, Dr.,
2 drinks and l cigar 75c l. Con-
nelly, Cr. half gal Port wine, $500;
games $500. Soap bitters $1.75.
Sept. 1st. For $4,000 scrip SS.
and paid license in scrip, $4,000.
Miss Petty Cr., for six drinks, $3.50
before $1.00. Maria Ann, drinks
$1.0O.
Sept. 5. For bulliten and Gold
en- Age. Merrill Cr. $1.25.
Sept. 81. 30lbs. beans $500:
5 lbs. coffee, $3.50, Maria Ann, 5
drinks $1.25.
Sept. %. Bought of Miss Lapp
stove. l clock, l looking glass,
paid $4,000.
Nov. 49, Maria Ann Allen, 3
drinks 75c. illustrated Harpers soc
Nov. 26. Bought of l. Connolly
thirty dollars city scrip at soc $500
and paid license with the same,
$4,000 to Fraser, City Treasurer,
pro TEN, ending quarterly Feb 25,
1864, also paid clerk fees to said
Fraser in drinks, $10O.
NOV. 80. Levi Ankeny left this
h,,~
Warner, and or more.
Dec. 27. Miss Mclaughlin. Cr.
doz eggs $500. drinks 800.
Peter Dickinson, DR.. 6 drinks $1.5O
2 eggs $1.0O.
Dec. 2sth. I. Connolly. dr., 2
drinks, soc, 3 egg nocks, $1.5O; 3
more $3.50; paid
Jan. 10th, 1864. Mr.. Christian
Swendsoa refused to play a game Of
cards when l asked to come in the
game with Dominick, Peter and
himself, therefore (.....).
Jan. 18. l.. e. v. Coon DR.. 1-2
gal coal oil. $500. 1 can oysters
$500.
Jan 10th. Mrs. Atchee Mclean
burnt to death this day and died at
o'clock happened at or between 3
and 4 O'Clock.
Jan. 29th. Stephen Bird, Kan
akee, Dr., 1 can oysters $500. 1
box sardines 800; drinks 75c.
| Feb. s. Paid to Cowen, express
and mail carrier, for year, subscrip-
tion $500.
March 12. 1, ]. C. Heltebrand,
said | would not take the knife on
my side from any body until the ar
bitrators being no more / is gone,
D. Howard and the rest (......)
| Sept. %. Paid / weeks board
$500.
Sept. 20. Send shisholm.s bill
to A. Bittner, Globe Hotel, Lewis
ton for collection, drinks and meals
Closely perusing the above copy
taken from the account book of ].
c. Hiltebrand, Is like viewing the
skeleton in the closet of old Pierce.
Whiskey at two-bits a drink, was
cheap as anything else. and seemed
to be standard article for both
sexes. Flour $40 to $12 a sack, and
bacon SOC to 75c. Beef was cheap
er then than now. Nails soc per
pound. Lumber 25c per foot. Sim
gle meals were $1.00; day rates.
| $500. But there was no fixed price
on any commodity, they fluctuated
suddenly. Most Of the supplies were
packed in and many Of the merch-
ants owned their own pack strings.
But there were outfits who made a
business OF packing. l presume, like
others l have seen, they were just
ly proud of their strings, and we'll
they might be. for a 40 mule string
with aparejos holding the cargoes
and top cinched with the diamond
hitch. and the faithful pack animals
| strung out on the trail, was an i'm
posing sight.
Shoshone first became county
In 1858 created by Washington ter
ritory. 1t embraced a vast piece of
territory. Every thing east Of the
Columbia river to the mouth of the
Snake river and all east and north
OF the Snake to Its source with the
rocky mountains on the east to the
49th parallel on the north. Later
1t was trimmed down to include
that part that Is now in Idaho and
part of Montana to the rockies.
On July s, 1861 an election was held
and the first county officials were
elected, namely: county commission
ers. ]. Tudor. w. Caldwell, ]. c..
Griffin; probate judge. d. NJ. jesse;
sheriff. R, L. Gillespie; auditor, E..
Bradley: treasurer. L. H. Coon: as
SCISSOR, II. M. Bell: coroner. d. Bell
Pierce was made the county seat
and remained as such until 1884
when the county seat was taken to
Murray, in the northern part of the
county where extensive placer min
ing was going on and shortly the
great lead mines of the Coeur d.
Alenes were found. The new coun-
ty of Shoshone in 1851 had very
little assessable property. Many or
of the county officials did not hold
their offices long and the records
are filled with new appointments
for those who resigned.
The first complete record of the
assessment of Shoshone county is for
1865. At this time Shoshone coun-
| ty had been whitfield down to the
present Shoshone county and the
county OF Clearwater, excluding
small piece of territory on the
west side and on the south, across
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