The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-05-01

tised for bids for the surveying of
townships in this county where the
survey is incomplete.
Mrs. Judge Gray will in a few
days take a trip to Oregon and
California for her health. She has
been quite unwell lately and the
trip and change of climate is
recommended by her physician.
Statesman.
| Major w. A. Mensch, Deputy
Supreme Commander of the Select
Knights, A. o. U. w., came in on
the train Thursday from Boise.
He has been making a general tour
of inspection of the different lodges
throughout Idaho. He leaves for
Boise again to-day.-Bellevue Her
aid.
Those who contemplate taking
up public land under either the
presumption, timber culture or
desert land acts, had better do SO
at once, as it is highly probable
that each Of these acts will be
repealed during to present session
of Congress. Persons locating
lands now could prove up and per-
feet their titles after the repeal of
said act.
Prospcctors are leaving for the
hills every day in twos and squads
Of half a dozen in search of placer
mines and lodges of shining
metal, says the Boise Statesman.
There is no better field for this fas-
cinating employment than in Idaho.
The prospector is not always sue
cessful, but the chances for success
in Idaho are two to one over any
other NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal.
Rev. II. K. Hines, D. D., editor
of the Pacific Christian Advocate
of Portland, Oregon, and Rev. A.
Eads, P. E., arrived in this city on
their way to the dedication of the
NJ. f. Churches at Ketchum aad
Haley. They will visit the Sho-
shone Falls on their trip and an
effort will be made to have DR..
Hines preach some evening while
here.-Journal.
Theodore Warlick was found
guilty of murder in the first degree,
at Mt. Idaho Tuesday morning, and
the Judge sentenced him the same
evening to suffer the death penalty.
A few minutes after his removal
from the court room, after the read
ing of the verdict, he tried to hang
himself with fragment Of a rope
and nail which he inserted in a
chink of the cell lining.-Nez Perez |,
News.
The Idaho Statesman says :
4" Next Sunday will be Easter Sun
day. Easter will not occur again
until late in the next century"
Idaho refreshments must have a
bad effect upon the editors of that
section. But then he came within
one hundred years of being correct
in his statements, and that is get
ting pretty close for this age and
generation when they talk about
religious matters. - Butte City
Free Press. az t- e }o~
The 0. S. L. Railroad Company
has secured seventy acres Of ground
at Montpelier and will shortly COM
mence the erection of car shops and
other buildings at that point at a
cost of fifty or seventy-fivo thous-
and dollars. Montpelier is expert
encing quite boom in consequence
and several new buildings are under
and many more talked
of. Montpelier is destined to
become quite an important point
on the o. S. L.-Statesman.
MONTANA.
NJ. D. Baldwin, of Ohio, has been
by the President and
confirmed by the Senate as agent
of the Blackfeet Indians in Mon
tana. '.is-si &rHt-
The papers Of Butte have all
abandoned the stereotype plate
matter and will hereafter be act up
at home. This is due to action byi
the Typographical Union of Butte.
At West Boulder last week, a
cowboy, named John Victor, stab
bed Will Kavanaugh, a cook, in the