The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-10-07
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ming in Snake river.
There is but one prisoner in the
Fremont county Jail.
Weiser capitalists talk of building
an air line to the moon.
Two Fremont county hunters
killed 2O6 sagehens in one day.
The Fort Hall Indian School will
use 200 tons of coal this winter.
Editor Jones, of the Blackfoot
News, is taking in the Worlds Fair.
American Falls is the chosen
spot for settlement of Kansas col
ony.
A wen of good coal has been
opened in Teton Basin, Fremont
county.
A rancher nesr Lewiston recent
ly killed q deer that dressed $50
pounds.
The total value of assessable
property in Idaho will exceed $685.
600 600.
Mayor Soma says that the Boise
City cemetery is in deplorable
condition.
The Grand Lodge of Good Tenn
plars will meet in Boise City on
the 18th inst.
Caldwell is working up a coloni-
cation scheme, and Kansas farmers
are to be the victims.
The Fremont county commits
sioners have advertised for bids for
the sale of 500, 900 in bonds.
The total valuation Of property
in Boise City is $2,OO3, 245, an in
crease of $3.50, 900 over that of last
year.
W. NJ. Ingersoll, of Mountain
Home, has been appointed a dele
gate to the Los Angeles Irrigation
Convention.
A sliding scale of wages has been
agreed on at the Ceur d'Alene
mines and over 1000 men have
gone to work.
Idaho county has formed a Bar
Association. In Kansas that would
be construed as an evasion of the
prohibitory law.
The Signal says that arrange
ments NAV be made whereby the
Weiser Commercial Company will
resume business.
Three car loads of prunes have
been shipped by a single Payette
dealer, this season. Payette must
be full of prunes."
The trustees of the Lewiston State
| Normal School have asked for
plans and specifications for $780,
600 school building.
Nampa has 4 hotels. 2 boarding
houses and 2 lunch counters with
a new hotel to be built. No neces-
sity of starving in that town.
The Caldwell Tribune's building
has az. elevator, for the accommo-
dation of dissatisfied subscribers,
spring poets and disgruntled poll
ticians.
The electric light plant has at
last been placed in the insane asy-
lum at Blackfoot. This will throw
some light on the ways of that es-
Enlistment.
There was recently deposited in
the Denver mint $50 ounces Of placer
gold and 24O ounces of retort, from
the mines of Lemhi county. A good
showing for our neighbor.
Business on the U. P. line is pick
ing up very rapidly, both in freight
and passenger traffic, and it is re-
ported that the evening passenger
train will be put on again.
A Chinese gardener at Mountain
Home was held up one day last
week and robbed of 5000 in gold.
The robbers are in Jail and part of
the money has been recovered.
Grangeville will pay the defcien-
cy in the state appropriation to
build the Elk City branch Of the
state wagon road, providing the
state appropriation is available.
Uncle Danl Bacon and his Pro-
gress, of Nampa, have left the Re-
publican party. 1t is now thought
that the party will disband. Uncle
Dan'l don't say whether he will
ioin Mcconnell or not.
The State Wool Growers Associa-
ton, which was recently organized
at Mountain Home, has fixed the
wages for help as follows: Herders,
$50 a month, and camp tenders,
$35 month. The association prays
| that wool may not be placed on the
free list.
The State W. C. T. D., which was
in session at Pocatello last week,
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, Mrs.
Mitchell, Of Idaho Falls; Vice
President, Mrs. Barton, Caldwell !;
Recording Secretary, Mrs. Ogden,
Shoshone; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Mrs. Magee, Nampa; Treas
urer, Mrs. Grow, Idaho Falls.
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