The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-01-19
IDAHO NEWS.

uCllIS VI O1AlA<sAAly AA preparing W
fire salute on the event Of the New
Year, took some giant powder into
a saloon for the purpose of thawing
it out when it took fire, which
caused some of the men to scatter
and run. Others caught up the
burning sticks of giant and threw
them into the street when a terrific
explosion followed. George Stuck,
who stood near, was hurled into the
air and was picked up insensible
and bleeding from nose, eyes and
mouth. He came around all right
in few hours. Several houses
were damaged and the report was
heard for miles.
Wallace Free Press: Peter Por-
ter, one of the owners of the Custer,
had very narrow escape from a
snowslide near that mine yesterday
afternoon. He was out on the noun
tain side, between the upper and
lower tunnels, making some meas
urements, when, to his surprise,
he saw what appeared to be noun
tain of snow sliding down and to-
wards him. His eagle eye took in
the situation at once, and with more
than his usual agility he sprang to
one side. At the same time the
slide went flashing by him, sweep
ing everything before it. 1t was
almost miraculous escape. Had
he delayed an instant, fearful and
fatal results would certainly have
followed.
Idaho Democrat: In the early
years of Idaho the stiffness of both
branches of the legislature was
frequently broken by the clerk
reading in sing-song tone-An act
to prevent jackasses from running
at large; or, an act granting fifteen
days absence to Stephen B. Dilly,
probate judge of Alturas county; or
an act to sever the bonds Of matri-
mony existing between so-and-so.
In these latter days Of towering
intellect nothing short of an intro
duction of a university or forty
five page school bill relieves the
average legislator. Do we fly higher?
Do the world move, or don't she?-
-Badley introduced bill chang.
ing the time of the meeting of the
legislature from the second Monday
in December to January I'd. This
we suppose. to do away with any
more holiday junketings-.Buell
the man who is sinking Foote' s
artesian well, the other day brought
up from the depth of six hundred
feet big roll, which close inspection
proved to be nact entitled a nact
to amend a few more thousand Sec
tons of the revised code. 1t was
not supposed that this bed of chest
nuts would be reached this side of
the lowest stratum.-Mr. Still
we'll, a rancher, living in Boise valley
ten miles northwest of this city,
sustained a peculiar and painful
accident yesterday afternoon while
fooling with a vicious mule, of
which he is the owner. His thumb
became entangled in a knot in new
rope, at the other end of which was
the mule, and for while it was nip
and tuck whether the thumb was
going to be severed from his hand,
the animal pulling to accomplish
that undesirable result. Mr.. Still
well finally released his thumb,
which was badly hurt-The Ma
lad Enterprise wants the Legislature
to pass bill suppressing the pub
lication of the Southern Idaho
Independent, a weekly newspaper
printed in Bear Lake county. Good,
but does not 60 far enough. Those
filthy Mormon democrats have fine
farms and other valuable property
the possessions of years of toll
which should be taken from them
and equally divided among US lead
ing anti-Mormons, who have long
craved them. They also possess
beautiful women. Make your bill
"Booty and Beauty"-plunder and
women-Mr. Enterprise, and we are
all with you and could easily secure
its passage.
Lewiston Teller: The Chinese OF
this city have had erected a fine new
"Joss House" and on Monday night
about IL o'clock they began to
';run the devil away from it, firing
fre-crackers, shooting bombs and
playing their brass band till early
morn.-News was received here
on Saturday that just as the last cal
had got across the bridge at Riparia
the gorge of ice in the river, which
was nearly a mile long, gave way
and took the bridge down stream
How much damage was done We
1 did not learn.
| Weiser Leader: The Legislature
seems to be busy trying to create
new offices. A bill has already
passed both houses creating tht
Office of stenographer for each cour
district, and other bills have beer
introduced creating new positions
It seems to us that few territorial
and county Offices could easily b
abolished, thus leesening county