The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-03-20

fcrs being a bulll'rog in idaho 10 q
tadpole in Washington.
New additions are being made to
de ksh5shdEr maqliho' shops. a
Brass foundry for Instance.
The annexation bill is hung up
in the Senate and the chances for
its passage are almighty slim.
The Idaho Reporter says ave
llaxs pretty 20 Massarancc that the
annexation scheme will not pass
the Senate"
The New Northwest, published at
Deer Lodge Montana, comes to
us this week with eight pages of
choice reading matter.
Seven hundred dollars in addi-
tional subscriptions to the Atlanta
wagon-road have been secured since
the published listin the Statesman.
W. A. Goulder and c. G. Steven
son will soon make a tour of the
Territory to gather data for the
history of Idaho to be compiled
and published under the auspices
Of the idaho Pioneer Association.
= Two newcomers last week-Chi-
nese seeking refuge from the Wood
Riverites. They say Wood Liver
no good, Atlanta vely good; some
Mclean man heep likee Cinnamon.
Mabe he part Cinnamon me no no. "
Atlanta News.
In order TO test the matter Of
division AMI annexation of four
northern counties TO Washington,
let the matter be submitted to q
special election or the next general
election. The result would be
binding AMI no one would object.
Down on the Weiser a party of
big-hearted grangers assembled at
an unfortunate neighbours farm one
day and plowed, sowel and har-
rnwed twenty-five acres of ground
before sunset. The man is Geo.
Maxwell, whose wife del a few
weeks ago and whose family has
suffered greatly from sickness.
A joint stock. company has been
organized at Moscow with capital
of $4,000 divided into 500 shares
Of SO each, for the purpose Of pub
fishing a newspaper to be called the
Moscow Tribune. The incorporat-
ors are Arvid Hinman, w. L. Grit
fin. and j. Drattan. of Moscow.
We presume the Tribune, will be
a Democratic Newspaper, and as
Moscow is live town and need; a
live paper, we predict for to a.
bune long life of prosTe = and
usefulness.
IL 1t is evidsn. tint both sides of
Snake River adjacent to this town
will soon be occupied by settlers
and miners. Gentlemen from
abroad have carefully examined
the land, and pronounce it the best
lay tout doors" in the Northwest.
Hundreds of homes will soon be
planted hcreabouts, and few years
will develop one of the grandest
agricultural and mineral producing
regions of the Northwest. The
Upper Snake River Valley has an
area that invites to its generous
soil honest yeomen by the thous-
ands, and enterprises recently inaus-
uratcd for irrigation and other
enterprises justify their coming.
Idaho Register. ~
MONTANA. stsaaer
A Chinaman named Gong Gee
shot and killed himself at Fort AS
sinaboinc last week.
e. B. 7. Graham, book-kccpcr,
shot and killed himself at Butte
last Friday night Cause-whiskey.
morphine, and dcfalcat;on..
The Brunswick hotel and two
other buildings at Livingston we're
destroyed. W IRE last sgcsk - Loss.
$4,000; Insurance, $4,000.
The Hccla Consolidated Mining
Co., of Glendale, Montana paid
twelve dividends last year, each OF
$4,000 or a total Of 10000, or Sc
per share.
Frank Conley the we'll known
deputy Sheriff Of Custer County,
has been appointed guard at the
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