The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
STATE NEWS AND CONTENT.


The crickets are Matching out by
the millions in Washington county.
Progressive whist parties are the
leading social events of Silver City
at present.
: A telephone line is being con-
structed between Salubria and the
town of Weiser.
A lodge Of Knights of Pythias
has been organized at Glenn's Ferry
in Gilmore county.
One hundred teachers attended
the State Teachers Association at
Boise City last week.
Canyon county has let a contract
for the building of new Jail at
Caldwell, to cost 5000.
The placer mines at Murray, in
the CGur d'Alene country, have
commenced operations.
The base ball craze has struck
Idaho in earnest, and every town
in the state is organizing club.
Six new postmasters were APP
pointed for Idaho last week, and
six more republicans are out Of a
soft job.
Ada county has bar association
who are investigating some charges
of crookedness against the law firm
of Badger & McCarty, of Boise.
The Owyhee opal mines are still
turning out bushels of these pre-
cious stones, and there is eminent
danger of overstocking the market.
The regular spring religious re-
vival has been inaugurated at Lew
iston, and there is an increase of
workers in the Lords vineyard at
that place.
The Pocatello democratic mayor
and republican council are at log
gerheads, and the council refuses
to confirm any of the mayors APP
pointments.
The summer season was opened
at Mountain Home last week by
the Methodist church giving an ice
cream festival with the thermom-
eter 2 degrees below 0.
A number of Nez Perez Indians,
accompanied by their white allies,
have gone to Washington to op-
pose the opening of the Nez Perez
reservation to settlement.
At Horseshoe Bend, on the Pay
cite river, 1880 acres of placer
ground has been located by some
Caldwell parties who will work the
ground on an extensive scale this
summer.
Gov. Mcconnell will attend the
transmississippi congress to be
held at Ogden, April Oath. If the
governor will keep his mouth shut
there can be no objection to his 60
ing down and looking on.
The plats for the new land sur
veys, in Idaho county, have been
placed in the Lewiston U. S. Land
Office and filings are being received
at rapid rate. The plats cover
$4,000 acres of choice land, most of
which has been settled for a num-
Der of years.
Hon. J. F. Mills, a member of the
late legislature, seems to be out OF
a Job at Pocatello, and the Tribune
has suggested him for most every
deputyship in the new county. lie
will probably be appointed court
house janitor-if no one else wants
the job.
The DeLamar Nugget says that
there are three ladies living in one
house in that village whose com,
bined weight is $50 pounds, and
that there are two more ladies in
the camp who would bring the
weight of the five fair angels to
over 1850 pounds. The Nugget
has the audacity to charge this ten
dency toward corpulency to the
climate.
The Wallace and Wardner banks,
which failed last week, have turned
out to be regular swindling con-
Germs. The liabilities Of the two
banks amount to $136,G79.73 and
the assets to $54 ,927 "a. There was
less than $500 in the till when the
banks closed, and $4,000 in de-
posts, mostly the savings of the
labor people, where swept away by
the robbery.
Twenty-six years ago yesterday,
April 4th, the town of Salmon City
was laid out by Senator Shoup and
Messrs. DeYoung & Vandruff. The
snow was three feet deep in town
and on the summit of Leesburg
mountain it was fully eight feet
deep. \ The trail between here and
Leesburg was shoveled out through
the snow the whole distance end
toll was charged.-Salmon City
| Recorder.
The City of Pocatello had an in.
come last year amounting to nearly
$4,000. From gambling licenses
the town received 81, 1880 for the
10 issued. There were 50 saloon
licenses issued which netted the