The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-05-22

will be opened to the public July
first.
The nomination Of James Shields
to be Internal Revenue Collector
for Montana and Idaho has been
confined by the Senate.
Many of the locations made last
year on Pine creek, Oregon, are
proving 10 be rich. About three
hundred locations were made.
Quite a number of prospectors
have passed through during the
week, some for Snake River, others
for Pine creek.-Boise Republican.
Boise people contemplate the
formation of a stock railroad Com
pany TO build branch broad
gauge from Nampa, on the Oregon
Short Line, to that city.
Work in the placer mines of
Boise county is booming and min
ers are busy washing the shining
dust out of the ground. The sea-
son promises to be prosperous
one.
VIM. p. Nobel of Salt Lake, will
Immediately ship 1000 head of
cattle from southern Utah to Evan
ston, from which point they will be
driven north to the Wind River
country.
p. J. Kinney has made a survey
and estimate of constructing the
Bruneau canal for the Snake River
Co., of Providence, X. |. He thinks
work on the canal will commence
soon.-Democrat.
w. w. Stevens was up from To-
ponis yesterday. Billy has settled
on n ranch at the mouth of Little
Wood River, and reports everybody
prospecting a number of fruit
orchards were started in that sec
ton this spring, and "still there's
mole to folIow."-Journal.
The Nez Perez News, published
at Lewiston, says one hundred and
fifty immigrants, from North Caro-
lima, arrived recently in North Ida
no. The party that got off at Lew
iston numbered sixty men, women
and children. Some got off at
points below on Snake river, 9th
ers going to Asotin. Another lot
is expected soon. They will stop
at Lewiston.
The Union Pacific is building n
hotel at Beaver Canyon, for the
purpose of accommodating the
travel to the National Park, and
also for passengers and employees
on the Utah & Northern Bassett
Brothers are making extensive pre-
partitions for taking visitors to the
Park over their stage line, there
heinz an Indication of larger travel
than ever before.
By the test of Napolen's aphor-
ism that "the woman deserving
best of her country is she who
bears it the most children " Mrs.
Conklin at the east end of Murray
has a bright promise of national
gratitude. She is not quite 30 years
old, and last night gave birth to
her Twelfth child. Four are dead
and eight now living with her.-
Murray Sun.
A few weeks ago the Journal
stated that tonsorial firm in Sho-
shone would reduce the price of a
shave to 10 cents, and hair cut. to
80 cents. Now come the KEYSTONE
and tells us that beer is sold by a
saloon at ketchum for 5 cents n
glass. We ask our sister town of
Haley how alb out this? A reduc-
ton to the south of us; reduc-
ton to the north of us, and-well,
we'll add, and plenty of ore to the
east and west of us.-Bellevue
Herald.
1t cost Idaho almost one, thou
sand dollars per month to have her
insane cared for in the Oregon
asylum There are at present thir-
ty-fve patients from this Territory,
eighteen of whom ore pronounced
incurable. The authorities at the
asylum say that the patients from
Idaho are of the worst types of
mental disease; show more aggra-
waited cases in proportion than Ore
gon. This arises from the fact,
probably, says Controller Moody,
that our unfOrtunates are not sent