The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-02-23
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Mountain Home Bulletin: Idaho
to her offspring Good morning
Elmore and Logan! Come forward
and have your noses wiped and
then hug and kiss Miss Alturas and
all the rest of your little sisters
And, pay attention, now, Gilmore
and Logan if | catch you making
faces over the back fence at Alturas
l will severely punish you. Be off
now, and be good to yourselves
Adm Hall had in his possession
and was pasturing a Wood Rive,
horse. On the day of rejoicing over
county division, although Is miles
distant, when this old horse heard
the booming Of cannon he pricked
up his ears and listened. Just then
Zach Hungerford's gentle voice
waited across the sagebrush to Ben.
net creek, saying: "Wuddent give
TO- bits for Haileyp' and the old
horse suddenly threw up his tail
and dropped down dead. The noble
old fellow exhibited more good
sense than the Haley people. He
died easy-they die hard.
Lewiston Teller: Last Sunday the
wife of old Timothy died, at her
home on the Alpowa, w. r., at the
advanced age of ninety-fve years.
She, up to the last, had her faculties,
and remembered we'll the advent OF
Lewis and Clark when, in 1904, they
passed through the Clearwater coun-
try, having come through the
mountain wilderness and arrived at
the mouth of jim Ford's creek just
above the mouth of Orc Elmo creek
on the south fork of the Clearwater,
and were Hospitality entertained by
the Nez Perez Indians, and after
wards repaired to near the mouth OF
the Clearwater and camped on the
ground where Lewiston now is
built, which was named from one
Of the party. Old Timothy still
survives her and also bears remem-
brance of Lewis and Clark. Old
Lawyer and White Head, who died
few years ago, also remembered
Lewis and Clark and used to men
ton them with much reverence
and no doubt that this visit of those
explorers had as much to do with
making the tribe the friends Of the
whites in after years as any other
circumstance. Before the war Of
1877 it used to be the boast of these
Indians, that they had never shed
the blood of the white man, and had
the government kept faith with them
that war could have been avoided
The germs of permanent peace
will remain with the youth of the
tribe when the old people have gone
Weiser Leader: Nutmeg Flat is
now contending for the county
seat, and wants newspaper. Her
citizens-four slick tailed coyotes
a deaf mule and a sheep herder-
claim great natural advantages fol
that point as the proper location
for the seat.
Cassia County Times: Simon
Schwabacher, who was badly frozen
about ten days ago, the particulars
of which were published in last
weeks Times, we are panied tc
chronicle, died from the effects in
Albion last Saturday evening. He
was taken from Mr.. Rice's place to
the residence Of James Pierce, where
he could have better care, and from
there it was thought best to remove
him to Albion, where he could have
the constant care of a physician
At the time it was not thought by
any that his condition was at al
dangerous, but in this it seems thai
all were mistaken and he died soon
after arriving in Albion. In the
early days of the Rocky Bar min
ing camp, Mr.. Schwabacher, togeth.
er with Jas. Bascom, our former
townsman, now deceased, was en-.
gagged in mining in that camp. HI
afterwards became member of the
firm of Lewis & Co., forwarding and
commission merchants of Kelton
Mrs. Clara Yon Pow, who
formerly bore the title of Cray
Jane," was recently arrested in
Winnemucca, Nevada, charged with
unlawful cohabitation and misce
genation. It will remembered that
the woman and the Chinaman, Yor
Pow, were married in Albion about
two and half years ago.
Wardner News: Colonel jim
Whitlatch, known throughout the
entire country as one of the most
successful mining men of the age
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