The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-07-01
STATE NEWS AND COMMENT.

The U. S. Cout will convene in
Moscow July 9Th.
The name Of DeLamar postoffice
has been changed to Regan.
Three thousand cords Of wood
were burned by an incendiary at
Idaho City, last week.
Capt. Vanorsdale, of the United
States Army, has been appointed
Indian Agent at the Fort Hall res
ervation.
Col. Jones, the veteran editor of
the Blackfoot News, has entered on
his duties as Receiver of the Black
foot land Office.
Eugene Lorton, formerly editor
of the Salubria Citizen, has entered
into a o-partenership with Capt.
Gum, in the publication of the
Boise Sentinel.
The Fremont County Times is
the name of new democratic news
paper to be issued next week from
St. Anthony, the county seat of
the new county. J. w. Lamoreaux
will be editor.
Five hundred acres of prunes
have already been planted on In
dian creek, Ada county, and 500
acres more will be set out this fall.
Envious neighbors will soon be
! able to truthfully say Idaho is "full
of prunes."
Payette Independent: Weiser
has organized company to build
an electric railway to the Seven
Devils, with branch lines to the
sun, moon and several other i'm
portant planets. Great is Walling-
ton of Weiser.
The Nampa Progress needs a
printer. Its reading matter, if it
has any, is dumped into the forms
hit or miss, mostly miss, then
daubed with mud and, evidently
printed on hay press. If it has
any editorial ability it is covered in
the debris.
The receipts Of gold at the gov.
eminent assay office at Boise for
the year ending June 3Oth, have
been 1882, 501.S0. For the year
previous they were $64l ,414.8l, an
increase of $141 ,O36.99. During
the year the number of deposits
were 500. The deposits closed fol
the year on Saturday last.
Statesman J. G. Duncan is in
town with report of rich placer
district which he has recently dis
covered. He says he can make SIC
a day with rocker and that there
is ground enough for 1000 men
The district is from 80 to so miles
from Boise, but the discoverer will
not disclose its whereabouts unit
he has given some old friends, John
Jones Smith and K. P. Plowman
an opportunity to secure locations
He has sent down the valley fol
Smith and the party will proceed
to the diggings as soon as he ar
rives.
Silver Messenger: From las
Monday only three trsins per week
will be run on the Wood Rive
branch of the U. P. Railroad. By
this unjust scheme Wood River ane
Custer county will receive only
three mails each week. The mai
DAYS in Custer county being Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
| Just because times are dull on thu
railroads and other business, thi'
great free government that We liv'
in and help support, Is willing
to have thousands Of law-abidini
I American citizens deprived of |
daily mail because a railroad wants
it that way. This is a good argu
ment why the government shoult
own the railroads instead of tn
railroads owning and running tn
government. The people of thi
and our neighbor county shoult
enter a most bitter protest agains
such injustice. The day is cominI
when the people will control tn
government, and not be serfs to rail
road corporations and the none.
kings. God hasten this day !!
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