The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-10-05

pealing for portion of the money
He says the people Of the Williams
port section consider they have beef
badly treated by the State commits
sion; that their losses will exceed
$8,OOO,OOO; that they have received
but 100000 from the $2,OOO,OO(
donated, and that there is mucl
suffering.
A YOUNG AND PRETTY HoRsETHIEF
Eta Robinson, seventeen-year
old Virginia girl, has been arrested
and tried for horse-stealing at Park
ersburg, West Virginia. Eta il
described as being an extremely
pretty girl, who during the past 81,
months has stolen a number O.
horses. She is a good judge O.
horse flesh and always chooses the
best. Six months ago Eta paid q
visit to her brother who is working
on farm belonging to a wealthy
citizen of Putnam county. One
morning Eta was missing, and
also a fine horse belonging to Ma.
than Mccoy. After a search fol
some days throughout the neigh
borhood, including some of the
toughest of hills and thlckest ra-
vines, the horse was found in the
girls possession near the Ohio river.
While her pursuers were debating
what to do with her, Eta dashed
into the Ohio, still on horseback,
and endeavored to swim across.
She was captured and placed in
Jail, but broke out and returned to
her brother, when Mccoy, from
whom she stole the horse, took pity
on her youth and refused to prose-
cute her. A short time afterward a
horse belonging to a farmer named
Smith was missing. Just at that
time the low country in the Ka
nawha valley was all flooded. The
horse was tracked to the edge of
the waters. The next day Eta and
the horse were found in a hollow
near the river. The girl had swan
the stream, a mile wide, on horse
back. She had slept out nights,
and lived upon what she could
steal A second time her youth
protected her and she was not
prosecuted. Six weeks later she
stole another horse. She was pur-
sued across the Ohio, captured and
taken back to the Putnam county
Jail. She was confined there sew
eral weeks, in which time her win
ming ways won her the confidence
Of the jailer, who allowed her many
priviles. Two weeks ago he awoke
one morning to find his fair pris-
oner gone, having cleverly made
her escape by cutting through an
old wall. She had stolen suit of
mems clothes, stolen a fine horse,
which had been left temporarily in
the jailer's care, and fed the coun-
try. She was captured with the
horse in her possession near her old
home. During her escapades she
lived on berries, corn or anything
that she could find, and wandered |
through the widest and most dan
yerous territory. This young ad-
ventures says that she steals SIM
ply from the love Of excitement and
Her face wears a very
innocent expression, and her beauty
and general excellence created a
vast deal of sympathy. The trial
lasted several days, when the jury
decided that she was insane, and
turned her over to the care of her
parents, her father pledging him
self to see that her insanity did not
result in her appropriating any
more valuable horses belonging to
her neighbors.
EDISON DECORATED.
A dispatch from Paris says that
the grand cross of commander of
the Legion of Honor has been be-
slowed upon Thomas A. Edison.
Spuller, minister of foreign affairs,
in comforting the decoration said it
was given in honor of services rem
dered to science and for the part
taken by him in Paris exposition.
MRS. JAMES G. BLAINE, JR.
A special to the Herald, from New
York, of recent date, tells the story
Of the desertion of young Mrs. |
Blaine by her husband, the name
sake of the "plumed knight. Pity
the young man had not been taught
more 'knightly" and honorable
ways. The dispatch in question,
after saying that it was fortunate
for poor Mrs. James G. Blaines, Jr.'s
peace of mind that she was not able
20 hear the wedding bells at Rich
ield Springs where her young hus.
band was prominent among the
oyous guests at his elder brothers.
'ecent nuptials with the several
nlllion-heiress, Miss Anita McCor-
mack, tells the following sad story:
When she and her infant child were
deserted by the youngest son of the sec-
etary OF state year ago. she was left
absolutely penniless and with even debts
IT her husband to pay and the expenses
# her then recent confinement. Although