The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-07
IDAHO NEWS.

says the Owyhee Indian war wa'
all a myth.-We understand ou
old friend John Ward and Mrs
Peterson were married last Satur
day night.--D. E. Waldron, Esq
late of Haley, has opened law
office at Rocky Bar. He was one
of the attorneys for the defense in
the recent shooting scrape there
Shields and Bray were acquitted
and Tonkins held for the grand
Jury.
News Miner: It looks now as
though we will have no term OF
court until fall. Neither Judge
Logan nor Judge Broderick can
leave his own district to attend
here.-Monday evening about 8
O'Clock Gordon Mcdonald, miner
working at the King of the West,
broke his left wrist close to the
joint.
Shoshone Journal: The men who
robbed the Challis stage, Jund 23d,
were captured at Dillon, Montana,
and will be taken to Challis Jail as
soon as requisition can be made
of the governor of Montana for
their delivery. BY advice of their
attorney they have refused to come
withouta requisition.-U. S. Mar
shall Baird has gone to Sioux Falls
Dakota, with E. r. Cherry who was
convicted at Blackfoot of the crime
of incest and sentenced to twelve
years in the penitentiary. Two
daughters were victims. Hanging
would have been more deserving
punishment.
Democrat: Gov Pennoyer, of Or
egon, has issued a requisition on
Gov. Stevenson for the return Of
John Radley, who stands charged
with the crime Of horse stealing
committed in Baker county, Ore
gon. Said Radley is now in the
custody of the officers of Washing
ington county.
Nampa Progress: No Good Smith
and Milton Kelley propose to form
a co-partnership and start large
pictorial dail y at Kuna. This seals
the fate of Kuna. No town in the
west can survive such a combina-
tion.-A special car from Salt
Lake to Caldwell passed Nampa
last Wednesday night, conveying
physician, who was called by tele
graph, to attend Mrs. Howard Sc
bee, who is lying very sick at Cald-
well-It is reported here that II
or Is head of stock that were ship
ped at Caldwell died on the train
between that place and Pocatello:
supposed to have been poisoned by
drinking alkali water at Caldwell.
The republicans of Nampa did
not enthuse over the Chicago NOM
nations. They seemed to be dis
appointed becaused the plumed
hulSAt UiO NOV SCt ~.
Statesman Judge J. D. Heath
came to Boise City on the 28th from
Atlanta. He reports that the Taho-
ma mine and mill are doing good
work. Fourteen men are employed
in the mine and six in the mill
They are shipping their concentrates
to Portland in large quantities.
There are over a hundred men in
and around Atlanta now, all at
work mining. Things are looming
up a little at Atlanta at present. 1t
will soon have a boom. Judge
Heath left here last August, and
since then has run a tunnel into
the Washington mine, Of Atlanta,
one hundred and fifty feet, wheel
ing all the rock out himself. For
man whose age reaches up into
the seventies, we submit whether
this is not a good record.-John
Shields and his partner, Bray, had
their examination at Rocky Bar the
other day for shooting John Tonkin
and man named Outflow. They
were acquitted. Tonkin was held
in the sum of $500 to await the ac-
ton of the grand jury. He pro-
cured the required amount OF sure
ty. The third day after the shoot
ing Tonkin was up and about the
streets. The gun was loaded with
birdshot.
Challis Messenger: A petition is
being circulated for postoffice and
a post route to the new town Of
Orc Fino-Yellow Jacket-Judge
Jas. Burns returned from his east
ern trip, on Saturday, the picture
of good health and good spirits
Yesterday the shearers finished at
Dave Woods. They did good and
quick job. Four men sheared over
400 head in nine days and few
hours.-Ah Kuhn, the Chinaman
who is held for the killing of an
other Chinaman in Custer last fall
by the name of Poh Nee, escaped
from the Jail yard on Saturday even
ing about 9 o'clock by scaling the
fence by means of rope impro-
vised of bedticking and Chinese
scarf. He was recaptured Sunday
evening on the Bonanza road.
Idaho City World: Hugh Tur-