The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-14
IDAHO NEWS.

Shosh0ne Journal: The Govern.
or has made the following appoint
ments for our new county: County
Commissioners, II. T. Smith, A. S.
Senter, J. L. Fuller; Auditor and
Recorder, F. A. Chamberlain; As
SCISSOR, w. Wells; Treasurer, C. S.
Doan; Sheriff, O. Robbins; Pro-
bate Judge. H. s. Hampton; Coro-
ner, T. J. Redmond; Surveyor,
Mill Sanderson.-The four men
who did the work for Lincoln and
Alta counties, are Ike Garrett and
Judge Parsons, of HALEY. and A.
s. Senter and VIM. Wells, of Sho-
shone. This combination beats the
"big four" of Boise.
Avalanche Jack Brady, the
horsethief who escaped from Jail
with Mike Dolan, was captured with
both feet frozen.--We have in
this Office some fine specimens of
Ignite coal taken from mine not
far from the Democrats on the Rey-
nolds creek road. It is jet black,
hard and free from gypsum and
other impure substances, and burns
down to a small per cent of white
ash. The vein is two feet thick.
and chunks have been taken out
weighing rs to 100 pounds The
tunnel on the Black Jack is in 1880
feet, and is in character of rock
which indicates that they are ap-
preaching another ledge.-The
finishing strokes have just been put
on the new Black Jack mill, and
that structure now stands the most
complete and best equipped mill in
the camp although not as large as
it had been reported the company
would build. The mill is supplied
with all the latest labor-saving de-
vices, the ore not having to be ham
died from the time it leaves the
crusher, it being complete gravity
mill. The ore is dumped on plat
form about fifty feet above the set
tier floor from whence it dropped
through grizzleys to an ore bin hold
ing 125 tons. The coarser rock
which runs over the grizzleys is run
through crusher and dropped into
the same bin. From the bin it is
run in chutes to automatic battery
feeders, and the pulp from the bat
teries runs into an incline tank
from which it is drawn by troughs
into the amalgamating pans and
thence to the settlers. The quick
silver is carried back to the pans
by an elevator.
Idaho World: The May Flower
mill at Warrens is to start up at
once to crush five tons of rock which
goes $4,000 to the ton.-The
Washington mill shut down las,
Wednesday and 10 men are laid off
at the miue.-Mrs. McGuinness.
nee Oracle Hazleton, committed
suicide at Denver the latter part of
February by shooting herself.
Gilmore Bulletin: During the past
ten years Idaho has increased it,
population almost $50 per cent.
The census returns placed the num-
Der of inhabitants at $1,000, but
owing to the fact that there are 50
many scattered ranges and mining
and numbering camps that were
never visited by the enumerators,
the number is fully 10000. Sta
tistics show that there are 2,418
miles of irrigating bitches in the
State, supply 1880 acres of land
with water, and there are 7,141 400
acres additional which are suscept-
ible of irrigation. The total indebt-
edness of the State is 1922. 437.71
while the combined county indebt-
edness amounts to 81 ,488, 317.43
There are in operation 1927 miles
of railroad, with an assessed valu.
alton of $4,591.621, and STIFF
miles of telegraph lines, valued at
SCI, 1926. The total valuation is
$13, 28O, SOB. 95 and of personal prop
erty $1O,386.675.47, making a total
of $23 ,567 1912.
Idaho Democrat: G. n. Wymans
was, last week. admitted to the bar
of the supreme court.-The Wing
free school bill was passed by both
Houses over the governors veto,
more than two-thirds voting for it..
-Engineer Mckinney was badly
hurt by being crushed between two
cars at Nampa, on the Sth. He was
coupling them.-The Anaconda
Standard says there were SO deaths
in Butte in the month Of February,
SO of which were from pneumonia.
SINCE General Manager Clark, of
the Union Pacific, dispensed with
the testing department at Omaha a
pretty story has leaked out about
the brain quality of the experts
who conducted the test of the vari-