The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-04-13
IDAHO NEWS.

Statesman: The trial of Henry
Rice for the killing of one John
Laurensen at the town of Payette
last October, was concluded on the
5th inst. Laurensen had been work
ing for Rice, who is a fisherman.
The two men met at the Brewery
Saloon and Laurensen demanded
pay for his work, which being re-
fused scuff1e ensued, in the course
of which Laurensen was stabbed in
the abdomen and died on the fol-
lowing day. The tragedy hap
pened at about 1880 o'clock in
the evening, and as there was but
one lamp in the saloon, the light
was very imperfect. Five persons
saw the scuffle and saw Rice strike
at Laurensen, but none of them
saw the weapon that inflicted the
death wound. The jury rendered a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree.-Fred and Walter Wolver-
ton are both down from Banner.
They have had o contract for sink
ing in the upper mine. They say
the water has all been bailed out of
the lower mine, which was flooded
about month ago. The striking
of the reservoir, or vein of water,
at the depth Of two hundred feet,
has put work behind at least a
month.-On Thursday afternoon
We were talking to A. O. Bedell, Of
whom we had occasion to speak in
yesterdays issue. He said the lep-
rosy had broken out in Pineville,
Oregon, where he resides, and 49,
year-old Chinese boy had been at
tackled by it. When the Chinese
were spoken to about it they said:
"Take him out and make way with
him." Pineville will be remembered
as the place where there was quite
a mining excitement three or four
years ago.
Messenger: Our community has
been called upon again to mourn
the loss of one of our oldest and
most honored citizens, Mr.. Martin
Barber, who died at the Nevada
Hotel, March 25th. Martin, as he
was generally called, first came to
this coast in 1875: remaining in
Boise City and Atlanta about two
years, when he came to this Yankee
Fork country where he has resided
since. He has been one of the fore
most men in developing our county,
especially in the Sheep Mountain
and Seafoam districts, being at the
time of his death an owner in such
properties as the Vanity, Mountain
King, Ella Day, NJ. K. H. and
others. He was buried at Bonanza,
March 9th, followed to his grave
by almost the entire population of
Custer and Bonanza.-A move
ment, which is to be general, is to
be inaugurated at once looking to-
ward and asking for more efficient
mail service for Custer county. Our
mail service at present, though
somewhat better than at times in
the past, is bad, very bad, and es-
pecially for Bayhorse, Custer and
Bonanza, with Clayton as a point
to be mentioned above all others as
being without a rival in having
mail service that is the very per-
lection of ineficiency. The appeal,
by the people, will be made by pc
tition. A petition is to be placed
in every town so that each man in
Custer county can, in his own name,
ask for q benefit not now received
from his own government, to which
he is entitled as an American citi-
zen.
| Avalanche: John 3. Rebotham,
better known as "China Charley"
died at the county hospital, Thurs
day last. He was man of more
than average intelligence, and had
been a resident of this county for
over twenty years. At one time he
was comfortably situated in San
francisco, but owing to reverses
failed in business there and came
to this camp.