The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-01-14
STATE NEWS AND COMMENT,

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Der of Commerce.
Kendrick il. now lighted by met:
ropolitan electricity.
Pocatello has 40 new buildings
in course of erection.
Diphtheria is raging at Council,
Washington county.
Cassia county has been having
rains instead Of snow.
Guards at the state penitentiary
only get $50 a month.
Washington county farmers are
going to try raising corn.
Weiser has a hankering to be
the agricultural college city.
Lewiston wants State Normal
School established at. that place.
The delinquent tax-list Of Bing-
ham county is the largest in the
State.
A Butte, Montana, company is
going to dredge the Salmon river
for gold.
The delinquent tax list of the
town of Lewiston amounts to less
than $500.
Work is soon to be resumed
on the New York irrigating ditch,
near Boise City.
Idaho Falls has sent a strong
lobby to Boise to secure the agri-
cultural college.
The Northern Pacific railroad
want a right of way across the Nez
Perez reservation.
There are $50 persons in Dia-
mond Basin, restaurant, livery
stable and a saloon.
The Vishnu, Gilmore and the
Mountain Goat mines have closed
down at Rocky Bar.
Senator Shoup's health is rapidly
improving and he is able to be at
his desk in Washington.
The Pocatello Tribune has been
| purchased by lift, Fenstermaker &
Wallin, of Salt Lake City.
The Nugget says the DeLamar
Mining company will increase its
plants capacity q, per cent.
Salmon City saloons are closing
for want of business. Dull times
seems to have some good effects.
Payette's Jag cure" is doing a
good business. We are glad to hear
that the Payetteites are reforming.
Some of Idaho Falls saloons
have closed for the winter. They
couldn't keep their whisky from
freezing. $3.50.
The First National Bank of Ken
drick was locked out of its vaults
! for a week. Portland experts final
ly opened it.
| A five year old boy at Soda
Springs, Cassia county, drank a
pint of whisky recently. He died
in five hours.
The diamond fields are still in
Idaho, but the diamonds have hied
themselves off to some other fields
in search of suckers.
The Salubria Citizen advises the
farmers to raise fax. If Congress
don't pass a free coinage act, we
| would advise them to raise hemp
The Fit. Hall Indian reservation,
on which Pocatello is located, is tc
be opened for settlement this sum
mer. It contains some fine lands
Lewiston has FIVE churches and
Is saloons. Three saloons for each
church is a fair proportion. A "jae
cure would also do a good bust
ness.
George Dickerson was killed by
Purkins brothers. at his cabin on
Rapid river, on the night of the Isl
inst. The trouble was over a min
ing claim.
The outlook for the opening o.
the Nez Perez reservation has be-
come more favorable, and the Com
mission now have strong hopes o.
making terms.
| The Range and Valley printing
plant and building, also the house
hold furniture of Asa Abbott, the
proprietor, were destroyed by fire
on the fifth inst. Loss, $4,000.
The citizens of Lewiston are busy
devising ways and means to- raise
the subsidy required by the North
ern Pacific railroad for building .
branch to that town.
The Caldwell Tribune thinks the
repeal of the Mormon test oath
would save about half of our citi'
zens the trouble Of perjuring them.
selves regularly every two years.
The railroad employees held a
mass meeting at Pocatello last
week to protest against the legisla'
ture passing a law cutting passen-
| ger fares from 5 to q cents a mile