The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-15
STATE NEWS AND cQlflrRHr.

through seeding.
Sixty-two Japanese have recently
arrived at Aampa.
The Pocatello Herald will soon
put on q new dress.
A big saw mill has just started
to running at Payette.
The Payette Ensor Institute fol
DRINKS has II patients.
Eighty-seven opal claims have
recorded in Owyhee county.
Missouri chills prevail in Salu-
bria, Washington county.
| Coal has been discovered near
Lewiston in Nez Perez county.
| Cattle thieves have commenced
operations near Salmon City.
A new quartz mill will be put up
| in the Dixie district this spring.
| The Nampa and Silver City stage
is compelled to carry ''swamper."
Idaho Falls and Pocatello will
organize base ball clubs for the
coming season.
Regular steamers are running
from Bonner's Ferry to the SLOGAN
mining country.
| The Silver City kids shake dice
for candy, and the Boise boy plays
marbles for keeps.
The first term of the Canyon
county court will convene in Cald-
we'll on April Oath.
A rich strike has been made in
Ruth mine, on War Eagle Noun
tain, near Silver City.
Annie Miller Mock, wife of F. G.
Mock, of the Nampa Leader, died
at Portland on the 7th inst.
A 5OO-karat opal was found re-
Gently in the Bengal Tiger claim in
the Owyhee county opal fields.
Burglars broke into a Salmon
City jewelry store last week, but
got nothing ofvalue for his trouble.
April 9th was the 9th anniver-
sarv of the organization of the G.
A. R., and was celebrated by Idaho
Posts.
Lewiston has voted improvement
bonds, and work will be begun at
once to make it the prettiest town
in the state.
Sheep shearing has already COM
| menced at Mountain Home, and
10000 pounds have been brought
in for shipment.
Lettuce, onions and asparagus
have made their appearance in the
Lewiston markets. They are OF
home production.
Eggs are only 10 cents dozen
in the Salubria market, and it don't
pay for the wear and tear of the
hens constitution.
! Private schools are being organ
lied all over the country. The
legislature should have established
few more colleges.
James A. Pierce, eldest son of r.
A. Pierce, editor of the Challis
Messenger. died at Irwin, Oregon,
on the 23rd of March.
| A Payette man recently caught a
sturgeon weighing $50 pounds, and
the people of that town are enjoy
ing the luxury of ALBANY beef"
The Times says that eighty per
cent of the Cassia county school
teachers are females, but it don't
say whether they are manageable
or not.
John Holland stabbed David
Shear three times, at the Payette
| Jag cure, last Sunday. Shear is en-
ployed at the Institute and Holland
was a visitor.
A stick of giant powder was ex-
ploded against the japanese quar-
! tiers at Caldwell blowing out near
ly all one side of the building. No
body was hurt.
| The Ada county grand jury has
indicted Howard French, who was
Turnkey at the Penitentiary, for
the murder of a prisoner named
Hatton last January.
Kaslo, the new mining town on
Lake Kootenai, in British Colum-
bia, is having a real estate boom.
There are 100 real estate men now
doing business in the town.
The Good Templars of Caldwell
gave poverty social last week
at which they Melted $40. AS mil
lionairs were not invited the editor
of the Tribune was not present.
A proposition is on foot to move
the famous natat0rium OF Boise
nearer to the business center of the
town, and to build an immense ho-
tel to be operated in connection
with the natatorium. "
The pioneer dog "Topsy," Of
Mountain Home, died last week.
She was buried in a coffin, at the
foot of the liberty pole, with very
impressive ceremonies, under the
auspices of the Ancient Order Of
Damphools.