The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1884-03-12
Territorial Items.

Snow is about gone in the Challis |
country.
Weather mild and snow going in the
Salmon valley.
Tim Scannell froze his hands three
weeks ago at Custer, and lost three nm
gers.
The snug sum Of $500 was recently
cleared at Catholic fair in Reno. Ne
vada.
Mormons are reported as coming into
Northern Idaho to perform missionary
work.
DR.. s. B. Miller drew 5,7s7 so from
the hospital fund in the quarter ending
Dec. 3lst.
The snow is disappearing rapidly in
the Lost River county, and the loss Of
stock is abated-
Caldwell is anticipating boom. 1t
will doubtless be the thriftiest railroad
( town in Idaho this season.
The Kendall Comedy Company, well
known in the theatrical world, has
(! played to crowded houses for ten days,
at Haley.
I'm 1860" writes leyel-headed cor
respondent OF the weiser Leader, "we
were opposed to cescssion, and in 1884
we are opposed to the cesessicn Of North
| Idaho"
A Union Pacific railroad official in
+ formed the Salt Lake Tribune, that in
4 four days, 541 passengers had passed
/ over that road en- route to the Occur
d'Alene country.
Idaho has all the necessary resources
for successful state and only one OBJ
! iectionabie feature. Vigorous measures
will be necessary to remove it some
time.-C Caldwell Tribune.
The State of Oregon celebrated her
silver wedding on ST Valentines day,
having been admitted to the sisterhood
of States on February IA. 1859, 25 years
ago. 1t was eleven years Territory.
1 1t is now proposed to tunnel the Sier-
IA on the line of the Central Pacific
Railroad, from Truckee to Blue Canyon
and thus do away with the snow sheds
many Of which are getting old and rotten
and break down easily under heavy
4 weight of snow.
The altitude of Occur d'Alene district
is much less than is generally supposed
and great deal less than almost every
one of the hitherto great camps. Lake
Pen d'Oreille is 1000 feet above the sea
Rathdrum is $3.50 feet; and Eagle City
is 1890 feet.-Lewiston News.
The Dayton Chronicle mentions a cas-.
OF cruelty to an animal where brut,
named j. VI. Jamison, fastened cabl,
chain around horses jaw, and hitche,
another horse to the chain, breaking tn
jaw of the balky animal in such fright
full manner that it had to be killed TIL
fellow was properly jailed and held 70
trial
The annual repors of the Oman
Smelling Works Company, puts the pro
duction of 1888 at S12, zoo, 900. This i
an increase OF 80 per cent. over the out
put in the preceding year. The fore
employed last year averaged $50 men
Over IL 900 tons of coal and s, 900 tons @
coke were consumed, and $3.50. 600 pai
to the Union Pacific Railroad for freigh
charges.
The Occur d Alene miners have held
meeting. at which it was voted that tn
first Chinaman who yentured into tn
diggings should be hung, and not havin
sufficient rope at the time to swing
man miner was Immediately sent on
on snow-shoes to Trout creek, where b
bought twenty feet of the article and re
rned.-Lewiston News.
The proposed tunnel ON the Cascad
; division of the Northern Pacific viii b
; $4,000 feet long, 2,400 feet feet above st
level, and viii cost S3,O00,0 600. Thel
t are 25 miles of road completed from IL
! Columbia river, six miles above Ain.
worth, leading towards Yakima Cit,
which viii be of little practical value III
less completed to the latter poin
eighty-ive miles from the river Levi
a ton News