The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-11
STATE NEWS AND COMMENT.

Moscow wants new opera house.
The Legislature adjourned Mon.
day.
The streets of Moscow are very
muddy.
Albion, Cassia county, has dog
poisoner.
Owyhee county is still working
for railroad.
The Governor signed the state
wagon road steal.
A successful revival is being con-
Quoted at Weiser.
The Nampa Leader is still boo M
ing the opal fields.
Montpelier working men will
build bath house.
The public schools of Cassia
county have closed.
Wild geese have commenced to
arrive in Boise Basin.
The mines at Gem are all work
ing full force of men.
The Payette Ensor flag cure" is
doing rushing business.
Pocatello is a county seat. 1t
should be the state capital.
Saint Anthony is the county seat
of the new Fremont county.
Bingham county has sold $685.
600 in bonds to local capitalists.
The DeLamar Mining Company
ship $4,000 a week in bullion.
0. G. Thayer, of Shoshone, has
been sent to the insane asylum.
There is talk of a boom in the
Salmon river country this summer.
Since the legislature adjourned
the Weiser hens quit laying eggs.
The state teachers association
will meet in Boise the first Monday
in April.
The State University has re-
ceived $50, 564 from the sale of
school lands.
Over $4,000 has been raised by
the Lewiston people as a subsidy
for a railroad.
A Silver City belle presented the
Avalanche editor with fine mice
pie" Rats"
Pocatello is still keeping up it's
metropolitan air by having several
business failures.
Montpelier has a dog canning
factory and the Post wants the po-
lice to suppress it.
There are six meat markets in
Pocatello, and yet the city talks
about taxing dogs.
The Inter state hotel at Nampa
has suspended on account Of silver
being low-in its till.
A Canyon county farmer has
purchased 10000 hop plants and
is going to raise hops.
Caldwell has organized a COM
pany to build a court house for the
new county of Canyon.
A three-foot wen of coal has been
opened on Willow creek, near the
thriving burg of Caldwell.
J. H. Hockensmith, of Salmon
City, wants to be agent at the
Lemhi Indian Reservation.
The people Of Enterprise Bar
wants law passed limiting the
powers of the mother-in-law.
1t is said that Governor McCon-
nell is the father Of the illegitimate
of Bingham county.
A rancher near Caldwell has pur-
chased 200 head of brood sows, and
will start pork-packing business.
Ezra Baird is after the Marshall
ship of Idaho, and it is said ex-
Governor Stevenson will back him.
Buffalo Bill has purchased 100
head of Bingham county saddle
horses to exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
The Salubria Citizen has entered
on its fifth year, and it's editor has
been elected president of a literary
society.
The three U. P. engineers who
we're arrested at Pocatello for at
tempted burglary and rape, were
fined $50 each.
Bingham county has given birth
TO twins-Fremont and Bannock.
The ''kids" will probably live, but
he old mother will probably die.
The Bunker Hill mine, in the
Cnur d'Alene country, has closed
down, throwing $50 men out of en-
ployment, and stopping a pay roll
Of $4,000.
The Moscow Democrat advises
he farmers to hold their hogs.
When hogs are selling at 6 to 8
cents our advice to the farmer is
aot to be hog, but sell.
The Blackfoot News says that
he state is too poor to erect tomb
stones over all those who killed
themselves by neglect of the peo-
ole's rights and their own duties,
1T Boise City this winter.
NNalty Bramlett, aged 26, and