The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-06
STATE NEWS AND C0HlrENr.

Nampa will issue city bonds t
improve their town.
Sheep will be assessed at So
head in Custer county this year.
The spring was opened on the Is
, inst. at Albion with horse race.
A two-story lodging house wa
burned at Pocatello last week. Los
$1,000.
Camas prairie has 900 acre
} of tillable land, best adapted t,
raising grain.
Sheep owners report the lamb
ing season as being very success
full and profitable.
The new new city hall at Bois'
City has been completed, and is al
imposing structure.
i! The first state convention of tn,
Young Peoples Society of Chris
tain Endeavor is in session a
Moscow.
David G.. Browne, of Helena, has
been appointed collector of inter
nal revenue for the district of Idaho
and Montana.
Estimates place the amount oil
lumber cut on the north fork of the
CGur d'Alene river this winter al
100000 feet.
All the state are talking railroad
and if all are built that are on pa.
per every man will have one in his
back door yard.
Bonner's Ferry has given fran
chise to an electric light company,
who have contracted to put in $50
incandescent and 10 arc lighte.
Encourage the preacher, says the
Challis Graphic. The experiece OF
Mrs. Tilton lead her to believe that
they needed no encouragement.
! Canyon county newspapers are
having their annual growl over the
county printing. The Caldwell
tribune was awarded the contract.
F. T.: Morris has been appointed
postmaster at Warrens. One by
one the plums are falling, regard
less of the assurances of Freddie
+, Dubois.
1t is probable that a civilian will
be appointed agent at the Nez Perez
reservation. The Indians protested
against the appointment of a mill
tary man.
The city council and mayor of
Pocatello are at loggerheads, and
both are making fools of them
selves and laughing stock for their
neighbors.
H. w. Early, the Boise merchant
who failed last week, has been Jug
ged for conspiring to swindle. His
bond was fixed at 81 900 which he
failed to give.
The county commissioners of
Gilmore county have ordered that
all the petty criminals of that
county be placed to work on the
public highways.
w. A. Coughanour, the newly ap-
pointed postmaster at Payette, is
said to be worth over 100000.
Some people are not satisfied with
all that is in sight, but they want
the earth.
John Carroll, a Salmon River
pioneer and a prominent citizen of
Custer county, died at Bonanza on
the 18th inst. He was native of
Ireland and was 81 years old. He
was the first assessor and collector
of Custer county, and the discover
of several valuable mines, among.
which was the Daniel O'Connell"
on Dickens Hill, between Bonanza
and Custer, which he developed in
to good gold and silver mine.
Senator Johnson came in on
Mondays stage and spun a few
yarns with his old friends in Salu-
bria before departing for his pine
tree home in Council. Johnson
says the menagerie 1.-THE legislature
was bowling success if the num-
Der of lobbyists and the quantity of
their gall went for anything; but
if the people expect to have any
good laws enacted they will have
to do away with the lobbyists.
Nothing can be done without their
consent and as rule all the best
bills are killed through their in
strumentalities. The Senator will
begin in few days to develop his
Rapid river mining property.-Sa
lubria Citizen.
The Silver City Avalanche says
the organizing of a min
ers' union at that place: "A ru-
NOR to the effect that there is or
has been talk of organizing a min
ers' union in Silver City has reached
US. While it may not be anthem
tic, we would for the benefit of all
concerned, protest against such
q step being taken. In the first
place there is no necessity or ex-
cuse for such an action, as the
maximum wages are paid at the
mines and no discrimination is
made in favor of any class or ma.
by the employers. Every