The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-02-25
STATE NEWS AND COMMENT.
Challis wants a railroad.

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| The Leader says Nampa is to
I have Touring mill.
Alfalfa is worth $3.50 a ton in
Clayton, Custer county.
Mason, Idaho county, is to have
a lodge Of Odd Fellows.
Albion complains of much sick.
ness among their people.
! A semi-weekly stage runs from
Nampa to the opal fields.
The Carolyn Gage dramatic com.
pany are playing in the state.
A new town called Dubois has
sprung up in Bingham county.
1t is feared that great many
cattle will die in Cassia county this
spring.
The Silver Messenger has been
resurrected, and is now printed at
Challis.
The Grangeville Free Press takes
ham, wood and county warrants on
subscription
Lewiston donated 10 acres of it's
city park to the Normal School for
a building site.
A Wallace butcher killed, skinned
and dressed a beef in Z minutes
and IS seconds.
Salmon City wants an Epworth
League. 1t is a side issue Of the
Methodist Church.
The Cosmopolitan Hotel and all
it's contents were burned at Ward
ner, on the 10Th inst.
The Nez Perez Commission has
failed to make treaty with the
Indians for their lands.
Wolves keep the Salmon City
people awake at night. Something
dead or dying up there.
Hon. Frank Beane, Of Bingham,
has been to see Cleveland about
political appointments.
Ten machineists from the Sho-
shone railroad shops have been
transferred to Pocatello.
The severe cold spell just passed
killed the fruit on lower Snake
river, says the Lewiston Teller.
Tramps infest Moscow. They
have gathered there to sign the pc
titions of Federal office-seekers.
A. ]. Crook, of Clayton, is one of
the new members of the Board of
Regents of the State University.
Type and material have arrived
at Bellevue for new paper. 1t
will be called the Logan County
Review.
Gov. Mcconnell has placed him
self on record as in favor of rob
berry by signing the state wagon
road bill.
Pocatello has a steam laundry,
80 saloons, 16 houses of ill-fame, a
revival and a board Of trade, all in
full blast.
Sherman M. Coffin, of Caldwell,
has been appointed a member of
the Board of Regents of the State
University.
Snow and ashes fell from heaven
at Murray one day last week, says
the Sun. Snow and ashes makes
very good I've.
The Blackfoot News gets poeti-
cally pointed ITO the U. S. SEN
ate the heaviest load is the one to
go over the wagon road"
Idaho Falls people talk of taking
a trip to Alaska. Better 60 over
the Boise City Wagon Road if you
are looking after snowslides.
The citizens of Lewiston arc rails
ing S75, 900 in cash as bonus for
railroad. The first "a citizens
called on subscribed over $4,000.
Nampa had a Milk Maids Con-
vention last Thursday night. We
don't know what kind of a "picnic"
that is, nor who does the milking.
A new law just passed by the
legislature, provides that witnesses
in criminal cases shall receive 81
a day and Is cents a mile one way. |
Three U. P. engineers got on a
drunk at Pocatello recently, and
got themselves arrested on charge
of burglary, and one got shot in
the face.
Boise City, besides getting the
state wagon road, wants the agri-
cultural college. The Boise hog is
always in front, with both feet in
The swill trough.
The Pocatello Water Works had
! flume break and that city was
water four days. The sup
DIV of whisky held out three days,
md no water could be procured to
make more.
Salmon City will soon have
wagon road to Boise City which will
oe sufficient outlet for that city for
he next 80 years. It is the state
wagon road, and will be open DUR
ng the month of July each year.
The citizens of Boise showed
heir usual enterprise and liberality
n getting up a Legislative ball.
and then charging the members