The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-07-21
IDAHO NEWS.

ten hundred, nnder the supervision
of q man named Moon, have loca-
ted 1900 acres near the falls of the
North Fork for town site, to be
called st. Anthony. Mr.. Moon says
he viii have FIVE hundred Mmilies
in there by next spring.-Eagle
Rock Register.
j. Morril, of HALEY, ex-county
commissioner, expects to settle soon
at Tacoma, w. T.
| John E. Booth has quit the Sal
mon City Reporter aud turned the
paper over to HE successors, 0. w.
Mintzer and Mrs. Ada Merritt, wild
ow of H. C. Merritt.
]. H. Bressler has at last received
his commission as postmaster of
Mountain Home.
At Murray, county warrants have
suddenly jumped from go to 20
cents. A few weeks ago they went
begging at IS cents. New purchasers
have entered the arena.
Woods, the Pocatello wife MUIR
derer, who was to hang on the 21st
and broke Jail at Blackfoot. is still
at large. It is said that the 1ndi-
ans have helped him to escape.
They have a superstitious reverence
for negroes.
Democrat: Governor Martin, of
Kansas, made a requisitlon on Gov
ernor Stevenson, on the 18th inst,
for the return of j. j. Fret, who
stands charged with the crime of
fraud, committed in Lincoln county,
Kansas. Frank McGrath was ap-
pointed the agent for the state of
Kansas to convey him back.
Caldwell Tribune: Joe Pence, of
Boise City, discovered a Chinaman
taking liberties with his hen-roost
without an introduction, the other
night, and after an exciting chase
captured him. Using the China
mans queue as a halter. Pence was
leading him toward town, when the
heather pulled a jack-knife. cut off
his queue and made another dash
for liberty. He was captured again,
however, and lodged in jail.--The
instruments and fixtures for the
telegraph line have at last arrived.
The line will soon be in active OPP
eration.-Mrs. Sherman Coffin
and her sister. Miss Phelps, started
on an excursion to the Guyer Hot
Springs, near Ketchum. yesterday.
The town is full of wool and
sheep men, but no wool transac-
tons of any Importance have been
transacted. The contract for for
warding and hauling the Orc Elmo
freight to Silver City was let to Mr..
Marley, an old hand at the freight
business, and will be forwarded
from either Caldwell or Nampa, at
the option of the contractor.
| Challis Messenger: w. H. Banta
and R. L. Banta (alias H. W. Bax-
ter and G. A. Ashley, the two men
charged with robbing the Blackfoot
stage near Challis on the morning
of June 23d, were brought in from
Dillon, Montana, Saturday,the 14th,
by deputy sheriff Trapp and divis-
| ion agent Watson, and lodged in
the county Jail. They were ar
raigned before the probate court on
Saturday afternoon bat waived trial
until the Oath inst, when the pre-
liminary examination will be held.
When arrested in Argenta, they
were in possession of a horse which
was stolen from L. A. Sherman
on Pah Simari, about June Oath.
| They claim. however, to have pur-
chased the animal from one Smith,
resident of the upper Lemhi or
Observation-Disclosures. Peterson, the
young man who was caved on in
the Ramshorn mine, Bayhorse, on
Monday night, died Tuesday,
Jas. Briner and Enos Watson de-
parted for Sheep mountain and Sea-
foam mining districts last Wednes-
| day. Mr.. Watson has some good
claims in that country which he
goes to look after.-The Bonanza
mail. service has been changed from
tri-weekly to six times week.
| Inter-Idaho.: Jas. D. Agnew has
been appointed justice of the peace
for Graham, Silver Mountain) and
Jesse Pollard constable, by the
Boise county board of commission
ers.-There was another meeting
of mine-owners, merchants and
business men last evening at Watts
Office. twas unanimously agreed
to ask the U. p. railroad for uni
form rate of $40 per ton on all ores
from Wood River points to the
Missouri river.
| Malad Enterprise: Arumor which
spread like wild fire throughout
Malad during the week was that
Gov. Stevenson will make it his
personal business to see that the
sheriffs of this territory will exer-
else the utmost diligence in seeing
that every Mormon will be arrested
who attempts to vote at the COM
ing fall election.
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