IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS.
VOL. 22 , NO. 22
ORANGEVILLE. IDAHO COUNTY,
IDAHO, THURSDAY, OCT.
31 , 1907 .
$2.00 PER YEAR
for time in which to dispose of his
IAS AN
Death of Deceased Mourned
of R- E. Lockwood at
Riggins Last Week.
Death
STATE-WIDE REPUTATION
by Idaho Generally.
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From facts obtained it is evident
the death of R. E. Lockwood at
Biggins last week was caused by
the accidental discharge of a revol
ver which be had given to a friend
and was in the act of showing him
how it worked.
The death of Mr. Lockwood is
untimely, he having reached that
where the highest capibalities
üFa bright intellect are attained.
Robert Edward Lockwood was
born on a farm in western Oregon
in 1869. He began the printers'
trade at the age of 17. In 1890 he
went to Weiser and established the
Weiser Sjgnal which he made one
of the leading weekly and semi
weekly papers of the state. In 1891
he purchased the Weiser Leader,
combining it with the Signal. He
was married the same year and to
this union one sou, George Lock
jwood, »ge 15, survives, togertier
with the wife.
In 1901 Mr. Lockwood took into
[partnership with him F. 8 . Hard
ing and turned the active manage
ment of the newspaper business
nver to him and purchased a ranch
and placer mine at Riggins in Ida
ho county, where he has devoted
[the greater part of his time ever
In 1905 he sold bis interest
age
HDce.
n the Signal to Mr. Harding. In
1903, Mr. Lockwood erected one
if the best business blocks in the
:ity of Weiser for the use of the
lignai.
For tlie last six years Mr. Lock
vood had devoted Iiis energies and
ittention assiduously to his ranch
loti placer mine whicii he had de
reloped into valuable property.
When Senator Dubois
ha idea of establishing the Scimi- J
»r, Mr. Lockwood was offered !
he position of managing editor,
le accepted the position but asked
conceived I
Extraordinary Special Values
J
le llnM
Women's wool, fleece lined
vests and pants, regular and
extra sizes; 75c goitys
Women's 50 c
Underwear^ 35 c
Extra heavy ribbed, soft fleece
Vests and pants in
regular and extra sizes. 50c
values on sale at
50c
at
finished.
Women's natural gray union
suits. Made of extra select
yarns. Regular 75c
values at.
Children's Munsing vests and
pants superior to all others
for fit and wear, ( >,r > c CAft
values on sale at_llUv
35 Os.
65c
Children's 75c
Union Suits, 50 c
Greatest values ever offered.
Now is the time to get under
wear bargains.
place.
Heres the
Women's natural gray vests
»ml pants, the finest winter
underwear
fine 85 cent values
Women's natural wool vests
aud pants,
unexcelled iu fit and durabil
ity. $1 .25 values
Munsing make,
fo r
women.
SI.00
60c
at
at
Children's $1 M'sing
Union Suits at_
$1
Children's $1.25 M'sing
Uniou suits at.
85c
\
Women's heavy ribbed slight
ly fleece lined Union Suits
»1 60
Women's Munsing union suits
in all wool, wool and silk in
natural, flesh and white,
value«
$ 1.00
$1.50 up to $5
WINTER CLOTHES
Most comprehensive assortment you were ever asked to select
from. Every kink of fashion, every garment perfectly, properly
made by the world's foremost tailors, Kohn Bros. 1 here's a lot
°f mighty poor clothes shown iu this town, but it isn't at this
■tore.
Yon take uo risk here.
Prices that mean money to you.
WHERE THE SIGN FLASHES"
it
for time in which to dispose of his
interests at Riggins.
_ It is known
that he had parties from Spok
interested and expected to close the
deal with them. It is supposed
that he had done so as he had writ
ten to Senator Dubois that lie
would leave for Boise Tuesday.
This letter, which is probably
the last he had ever written, was
as follows:
Riggius, Ida., Oct. 17, 1907.
Hon. Fred T. Dubois,
Boise, Idaho.
I will bave my af
fairs here in shape so that I can
leave for Boise on Tuesday or Wed
nesday next. I hope to be there
by the 25th.
ane
Dear Fred:
Sincerely yours,
R. E. LOCKWOOD.
It is known that Mr. Lockwood
had a valuable property and it is
believed that he disposed of it for
a sum that would enable him to
fullfill his lifelong ambition to set
tle down with his family, and
joy life.
Besides being a terrible loss ami
shock to his family, his death will
be a shock to thousands of friends
over the entire state, who had come
to know and honor theman.
He had always been an
Democrat, attending all the
conventions of the parties and
widely known and respected.
one of the best newspaper men
in the state and iiis anticipated
turn to the profession was awaited
with pleasure by the newspaper
fraternity of the state.
A
eu
active
state
was
lie
was
re
Not Guilty.
In the case of the state of Idaho
vs E. A. Randall, tried Saturday
and Monday before Judge Vine
yard, the court found the defendant
"not guilty." This was a case in
which J. M. Dobbins accused Mr.
Randall of stealing three head of
steers on or about October 3rd.
The evidence introduced failed to
prove the charge. Both parties
are from Joseph Plains and it is
hinted by some who claim to know
that the action was the result of
some neighborhood quarrels.
it
J road can secure tlie same by calling
! upon the bank designated as their
depositary. Geo M. Reed, Seere
tary Board of Trustees.
Can Get Your Notes Back.
Those who have givpn their
notes to aid in t,he construction of
I the Lewiston Southeastern Electric
TEACHERS NERF
lie
Pedagogues for a Week's l n _
struction
THE ATTENDANCE IS LARGE
Friday Will Wit
Successful
ss Close of
ession
1
is
to
I he County Normal is in session
this week, Monday being the open
ing date. The attendance is above
the average and the teachers
taking great interest in the work.
A corps of instructors have been
secured by Prof. Greenough that i:
doing very grod work.
Prof. Hibbard, who instructs in
mathematics, has imparted
siderable knowledge to the teachers
and is a strong advocate of the
"shortcut" method. He gave an
illustrated lecture at the court
house 1 uesday evening, taking as
his subject the "Origiu aud De
velopment Of Mathematics,
lecture was
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The
one of great interest
and brought a large attendance.
Miss Marie Long, who has charge
of the instructions inprimaiy work
advocates
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new methods in the
teaching of tlie young and tier talks
and lectures have evoked renewed
interest.
A.
in
of
to
is
of
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Miss Henry
English, is well fitted to handle
her subject,
suited through her efforts and it is
safe to say many will leave the
institute with a more thorough
understanding of the English
language and methods of teaching
it than heretofore. Miss Henrv,
wlio lias traveled extensivelly in
Europe and for a time was a resi
dent of Paris, will lecture at the
court, house tonight ou ''Interesting
Features of Paris."
The following is a list of those
registered up to Tuesday night;
Stites.
Mrs. Rena Adams,
John B. Carter,
Miss Jennie Peterson,
Miss Stella Siewert,
Denver.
Normau B. Adkinson,
Edna Ratcliff, ;
Dosha Ratcliff,
Alma Ratcliff,
Margaret Denaain,
Grangevilie.
who instructs in
Much good lias re
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of
Alma Almen,
MAY BE CREAMERY
Parties Here Looking Over the
Field Are Well Pleased
WILL RETURN AGAIN IN YEAR
Means Money to Ranchersand
Will Make Dairying Pay
In the issue of the Free Press of
July 25th, this year, we advocated
iu strong terms a creamery for
Grangevilie and in a half column,
Hcare head article, stated facts and
figures showing why it would be a
profitable investment as well as an
important factor in building up the
country by developing the dairy
Tlie agitation has
interests.
brought results for if the plans of
Messrs. Erwin and Goodhue, who
have been here for some time past,
are carried out before another year
Graugeville will have a first-class
creamery and the ranchers will be
able to take a good profit from a
new industry. The gentlemau left
during the early part of tlie week
for Mabton, Washington, but wiil
return again in the spring to take
up the work. They met with great
encouragement and are well satis
fied there is an excellent opening
here. When they return the work
will be taken up and we hope to be
able to tell our readers of some
plans to be carried out which will
give to us one of the largest and
best equipped creameries iu Idaho.
Goodenough Dividend.
The five stamp mill that has
been in use on the Goodenongh
property, iu the Marshall Lake
district during the summer, on ore
taken out during development has
pounded out enough gold to pay all
the operating expenses and left re
ainount which will
maining an
make it possible for the company
to declare a dividend of 10 per
cent.
Elma M. Clark,
Geo. W. Cotton,
Mrs. Edith A. Crosby,
Yinnie Denny,
Anna Flynn,
Lucile Hawkins,
Mathel Henry,
Clara Hoyt,
Esther Moon,
Henry J. Muuro,
Mabel Muuro,
Geo. A McDonald,
Doretbea McCarty,
Leola Peebles,
Maud& Peebles,
Mrs. Sarah Spedden,
Carrie Stautial,
Eunice Atkins,
Alice J. Stevens,
Janett Wood,
Mrs. Zumwalt,
r. Yawthers,
lizabeth Burrows,
Mt. Idaho.
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R. R. Arnold,
Ettie M. Arnold,
Woodland.
J. F. Bennett,
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Westlake.
Lillian Brockman,
May Brockman,
Kooskia
Archie Vouham,
Fred Carlberg,
Luella Palmerton,
T. Rossiter,
Helen Hovey,
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Harrisburg.
A. K. Carlson,
White Bird.
E
dna Cochran,
May B. Meyer,
Ferdinand.
Mrs. Edgar Fry,
Mrs. J. W. Nichol,
Winona.
E
. W. Gibbons,
Mrs. M. E. Parsons,
Blanch Rapp,
Alartiia Pickett,
Kamiah
Elmere Hastings,
jueah Wilson,
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Green Creek.
W. C. Hood,
Tolo.
Helen McGrew,
Frances Stewart,
Cottonwood.
Anna Nicholson,
Florence Stevenson,
Clearwater.
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Martha Sempert,
Mrs. Nana Garter,
Canfield.
Zoe Tilley.
Cottonwood Hotel Sold
Joe Paine, the landlord of the
Hotel Cottonwood was in this city
this week aud informs us he bas
disposed of the property but will
continue to conduct the business,
having leased the place of its uew
owners, E. E. Ehrharte, president
of the First National bank of this
city, and Walter Brown a well
known local capitalist. The con
sideration was $8,500.
Thirteen months ago Mr. Paine
paid $5,000 for the property, made
a number of improvements and
brought the property up to a point
where it was known as the best
hotel east of Lewiston. The splen
did service of the hostelry under
Mr. Paine's management is well
known and he has leased back from
the present purchasers for a period
of thirteen months and will per
sonally conduct the business until
the expiration of that time.
Coincident with the sale of tiie
hotel Mr. Paine acquired three
hundred acres of tine land five
miles south of the new town Voll
mer, the consideration being $ 11 ,
000. This land purchased from
Mr. Ehrharte, one of the pur
chasers of the hotel. ' 1 G 0 acres of
the land purchased by Mr. Paine
is now in crop and under lease and
the other ICO will be leased also,
thus producing a splendid revenue.
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A Good Copper Property,
Fred A. Davis returned the first
of the week from British Columbia
and the Metaline district of Wash
ington where he has been during
the summer. Mr. Davis is the
original locater of the properties
owned by the Black Diamond Cop
per Co., near Whitebird and left
for there yesterday. This company
is an organization of capitalists
and practical mining men and owns
nine claims on the west side of the
Salmon river, in the Camp Koward
district. Assays show values run
ning from $10 to $160 to the ton
and with the arrival of a railroad
it looks as though the property
would make one of the greatest
copper propositions in the west.
has
ore
has
all
re
will
Presbyterian Church.
Rev. Boozer will begin a series
of sermons on the home next Sun
day morning with the ''Father and
the Child.
per
» y
like
big
I
told
Six
three
and
made
mill
ning
aud
air
week.
the
and
of
the
the
side
its
the
time
Our Fellow Townsman Tells
Butte of Our Greatness
ADTERTISES THE COUNTRY
Men of His Stamp Valuable As
set to Country in General
Orangeville is getting some big
boosting through Rudolph Bertsch,
who is on iiis way east, as the fol
lowing clippings from Butte, Mon
tana, papers indicate. Men like
Mr. Bertsch, who have the interests
of their town and county at heait
are the kind that lift little country
towns to cities. The enthusiastic
citizen is the most valuable asset a
town can have.
''Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Bertsch
and their daughters, Pearl and
Ruby, of Orangeville, Idaho, are
here visiting their brother, Otto
Bertsch, 119 Second street.
Mr. Bertsch boasts of being from
the largest county in the United
States without a railroad, and the
only city in the United States
where you can get your tickets, get
ting your baggage checked to any
place in the country. Grangevilie
is the county seat in the largest
county in the United States.
Air. Bertsch also informs us that
tA Northern Pacific railroad is
now constructing a branch line
from Culdesac to Orangeville,
working a crew of 1,500 men from
day to night, expecting to complete
same in May nr June.
The crops yielding from the
prairies are from 50 to 70 bushels
per acre. A $65,000 hotel is being
built."
"Rudolph Bertsch, many years
ago a resident of Butte, but now a
prominent business man of Grange
ville, Idaho, is visiting old scenes
here. Mr. Bertsch was here when
the narrow gauge reached Butte,
and lie recalled today the scenes
on tlie principal streets wheu that
event was celebrated."
''Butte looks very different t-hau
in those days," he said. '"It's a
good old town, but we think we
have a better one down our way
Idaho. Grangevilie, is the
ldRest town in the United States
on a railroad, and a prosperous
place. Two railroads are building
our way aud we expect to be better
known when we get railroad trans
portation."
of
such
of
from
L.
hotel
last
by
tlie
he
eight
the
ports
find
filed
on
who
some
with
and
to
i
,
of
Ore Crusher on Buster Prop
erty Ready for Operating
PLACING OTHER MACHINERY
Will be Pounding Out the Yel
low Metal Within Month
* 1 ore crusher in the new 10 -
mill at the Buster rniue was
its trial run Thursday of last
and since that time the ma
chine lias been in almost constant
operation crushing rock for the
concrete that is used to wall the
boilers and for other places in tlie
mill. The machine is capable of
crushing 250 tons of rock a day,
and this aud the capacious ore bins
provided at every trausfer point
between the shaft and the batteries
guarantees that the ten stamps
will have to be worked to their full
capacity for them to treat the pro
duction of the mine.
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Building Nearly Complete
The progress on the mill building,
the installing of tlie machinery,
etc., has been great tiie past two
weeks. The mill building is prac
tically complete, so far as outside
appearance is concerned, tiie roof
work having been finished tlie
middle of the week. The force of
carpenters lias been divided and a
number of the meu are at work on
the cyanide buildiug, the frame tor
which was completed before the,
construction work on the mill was [
begun. The material for the dozen
or more large tanks is on the
ground, and wbile work on the
cyanide building is in progress
other men will be engager! assembl
ing the material and putting the
tanks lip. ^
the
left
the
ton
Six Concentrators.
The placing of machinery is
keeping pace with the work on the
Sun- building, this being in charge of
and Brown and Thompson. In fact the
bustle and appearance is very much
like in the machinery hall of a great
exposition a day or two bch re the
big show opens. That as
I pression of the whole,
ticulars
an 1111 -
As to par
many new things have
transpired since Mining News last !
told its readers about the big plant.
Six concentrator in two sections,
three in a sectiim. are in a place
and the tailingB connection partly
made with the cyanide plant; the
mill engine is placed and in run
ning order; bricking the new boiler
aud placing the shafts for the
centrators and batteries is
progress; the storage tank of the
air compressor and also the air
compressor was put in place this
week. Enough lumber to complete
the mill building has been tawed,
and as soon as a sufficient amount
of rock for the concrete is crushed,
the boiler that was used to operate
the sawmill will be moved along
side the new boiler to supplement
its power.
Superintendent Joseph Thorn
thinks everything will be ready
the mill can begin operating some
time about the 15th of November.
—Mining New^
con
now in
so
a
of trouble last week but finally !
Hiiceeeded in getting matters in |
such a shape lie was aide to get out
of the country. His trouble dates
from a time when he departed from
Florence and left a bill unpaid. O.
L. Benson, the landlord of the
hotel who had provided food and
shelter for Langer and his party,
brought a civil action against him
last Monday. The case vvhh tried
by Judge Vineyard who gave the
plaintiff a judgment for $38.10 and
tlie cost. On tlie criminal charge
he pleaded guilty and was fined $50
which he paid, and given forty
eight hours in which to get out of
the county. According to last re
ports lie was leaving no grass grow
under his feet in his anxiety to
find new haunts. His wife lias
filed a suit for a divorce and she
certainly lias sufficient grounds up
on which to obtain one.
Got Out of the Country.
Eugene P. Langer, a .voting man
who was brought up froin Florence
some some weeks ago and charged
with lewd cohabitation had all sorts
1
The opening of the skating rink
Saturday night was well attended
and the uew maple lloor met every
expectance,
to be as popular this winter as last.
The sport promises
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Both Phones Main 321
Here We Go
coming back, again
riRht at you people witli this biR sale proposi
tion. It's Rood, and every one seems to realize it, so
why not keep the Rood work Roing and tell you
again it lasts the full month out.
Saturday
will be
Remnant Day
Hundreds of short ends the biR sale has made
for us. They are yours at about half the former
price. No use to bother with them and take up shelf
room which is valuable, so away they go.
Boys and Girls—Saturday Only
Get your tablets, no matter what the price, you
receive FREE a pencil or ruler. Tell your friends
and companions it's just Saturday only.
Blankets, Bedding and
Quilts
The Rreatest week we ever had in this line. Not
all Rone, not a symptom that any other store can
equal the low prices we put before you. If you need
beddinR, the accepted time is now. If you want to
make your own comforts, see our cottons, silkolines
and calicoes.
The Big Buffalo
Grangevilie's Greatest Store--Wholesalers to the Masses
W. F. Schmadeka
HEATERS
^^TOVES
RANGES
SAD CASE INDEED
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!
Man Examined for Insanity
Tells Pitiful Story.
REALIZED HIS CONDITION
Ambitions of Youth Thwarted
by Mental Breakdown
P. H. Kelly, a forest ranger em
ployed on the Bitter Root reserve,
was brought up from Kooskia the
last of the week aud examined by
the probate court as to his sanity.
Mr. Kelly's case is a very sad one
and excited a great deal of pity in
tlie hearts of those who heard him
recite the details. It seems from
tlie time he waH a youth of ninteen
lie lias realized he was subject to
mental troubles aud has all his
life guarded against the spells that
would at times come upon him.
Mr. Kelly stated he had known for
a great many years of his condition
! but had " ev f r r " li ? ed he , *" in ;
| Han « tt, ' d Bbou,d have treat,nen *
of
to
1 until recently when he discovered
he was unable to distinguish
imaginary tilings from what was
real.
He spoke of a time when he »was
young au<l ambitious and bad de
cided upon a course in life. How
he had taught school for several
yeurs and was expecting to go Jto
college after he had accumulated
sufficient money and take up the
study of medicine. How, after he
had taught several terms he was
subject to mental trouble and re
luctantlly gave up his cherished
hope and turned hiB hand to physi
cal labor as a means of gaining a
livelihood. He made no objection
to going to Orofino for treatment
and Htated in the examination he
had come to realize the seriousness
of Iiis condition. After listening to
the evidence the examining physi
cians decided it would lie best for
iiiui to go there for treatment. It
is the hope of Iiis friends that per
manent results may be obtained
and be may live to see the ambi
tions of bis youthful dayB realized.
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