The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-29
STATE NEWS AND coM1rIur.

school building.
1t costs Latah county $1,000 q
year to take care of her poor.
Donaldson Rowles has been APP
pointed postmaster at Challis.
The tax levy in the new county
of Canyon is only d per cent.
Washington county farmers are
setting out acres of fruit trees.
The horsemen of Salubria talk Of
holding a horse show in June.
The town Of Wardner was burned
on the Goth inst. Loss $250,O0O.
The Lewiston city improve ment
bonds have been sold to Harris &
Co., of Portland.
A Uniform Rank of Knights of
Pythias has been instituted at Mos
COW, Latah county.
The Idaho Insane Asylum is to
be heated and lighted by electrici-
ty in the near future.
Jim Corbett, the California pugil-
ist, and his wife will be on exhibit
ton at Boise, May 9Th.
The DeLamar mine shipped
$1O8,854 in the month of March.
The profits were $65, 522.
James Smith, aged 81 years, an
old Idaho pioneer, died at Placer
Vile, Boise county, last week.
There will be but few peaches,
so the growers about Lewiston
state, but plenty of other fruit.
The Payette Dramatic Company
made a successful debut last week
in the play of "Under the Laurels. F"
Eight passenger conductors were
laid off on the Utah & Northern
last week, for knocking down." it
is said.
The Latah county commissioners
have appointed Mr.. William Cuff
as state road commissioner from
that county.
The late chief of police and one
deputy, at Boise City, have been
"fired" on account of drunkenness
and gambling.
The city council, at Caldwell
have granted a charter to the Bell
Telephone Company to place a
plant in that city.
The little two-year-old son of J.
S. Boyer, of Lewiston, fell into a
wash boiler of boiling water and
was scalded to death.
The Cariboo placer mines will
be worked to their full capacity,
and the quartz mines will resume
work also it is thought.
The Mckinley Comedy Compa-
! ny, which wintered at Lewiston,
has hit the road again, and are
working their way east.
Fifty-two burial permits were is
sued the past year in Moscow, a
very small death rate for town
of so many inhabitants.
Frank McGuinness, of Bellevue,
wants to be deputy collector of in
ternal revenue for South Idaho. A
better appointment could not be
made.
A Mormoa residing in this city,
recently declared that Joe Smith
and Brigham Young, together with
seven angels, could be distinctly
outlined at the dedication of the
temple in Salt Lake a few weeks
ago.-Logan County Review.
UNDER SHERIFF PILMER has
handed in his resignation and Geo
Chapman, of Boise, fills the vacan'
cy. Pilmer has made himself 8
general favorite about town and biz
friends hope he has no intention O
leaving us.-Caldwell Tribune.
T. l.. Perkins came in from the
Yellow Jacket last week. He say
that the snow is very deep on The
range between the Yellow JACKIE
land Salmon City, and that the Vel
low Jacket will be the best caml
in Idaho this summer.-Salmor
City Miner.
/ John S. Atchison, late of tn
| McAulay- DeLashmutt syndicate,
has recently been commissioned
notary public. Notorious republi
can" would probably be NOR
profitable job in the partisan stat
management of Idaho at the pres
ent time.-Wallace Democrat.
John C. Hull, of Gibbonsville
died last week from the effects Of
dose of poison. either taken acci
dentally or administered by som
unknown person, a fact which tn
Jury could not ascertain. Hi
stomach has been taken to Sal
Lake for further analysis.
At Caldwell considerable inter
est centers in the test soon to b
made of q new machine or inven
ton for saving flour gold. 1t j
owned by Portland capitalists, VIII
are confident of the ability of th
machine to capture even the fines
particles Of gold. The quicksilve
bath and sensitized process is used
and tests will soon be made at o
near the home of County Connie
sioner Paul, on the Lower Boise
Payette Independent.
County Treasurer Richardson, {
Washington county, has got hi
foot in it. He has loaned the Pay