The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-09-16
STATE NEWS AND colnuur.

I
neer, died at Silver City last week
Most of the public schools in the
state have opened for the fall term
Canyon county has over two
million dollars of taxable property.
The Pocatello public schools
have opened with 422 pupils en-
rolled.
The ladies of the Idaho Falls
Presbyterian church advertise for
plain sewing.
Mike Ryan, of Crichton, is in
the Logan county Jail charged with
stealing hogs.
Grangeville has dramatic club
which will soon produce the COM
edy Nevada"
Outside of the railroad property
Gilmore county has $711,147 worth
of taxable property.
Mark Ainsley has taken a new
10-stamp mill into Neal district,
to work on gold rock.
The placer mines of the Dead
wood district are reported to have
paid we'll this season.
The cost per day for feeding the
prisoners at the state penitentiary,
is II 2-5 cents per day.
The Poorman mine, at Burke,
and the Bunker Hill, at Wardner,
have resumed operations.
The placer-gold yield of Lenhi
county this season will far exceed
that of any previous year.
The Arid Club, the heightened
social club of Boise City, has been
closed under a $3.50 attachment.
w. D. Robbins. ex-Indian agent
of the Lapwai Indians, has opened
real estate Office at Grangeville.
The valuation of taxable pro-
perty in Fremont county amounts
to million and quarter OF dol
lars.
The Boise Typographical Union
has consented TO ten per cent re-
duction in their wages until times
get better.
A Grangeville undertaken adver-
tises sure fit in collins, and init
mates that his neighbor is not a
first-class filter.
The Challis Graphic has gone to
the wall. 1t was very good local
paper, but its patronage never JUS
titled its existence.
The assessment roll Of Ada coun-
ty foots up $3,4O2,52l; Washing
ton, ST, OSO,624; Lemhi, $726,327 !;
Bear Lake, 1858, 1856.
Newport is a new town, half of
which is located in Kootenai coun-
ty. Idaho, and the other half in
Stevens county, Washington.
Major Gallagher, of Pocatello,
has returned from a trip to Oregon,
and reports that wheat is selling at
25 cents bushel in Baker City.
A special tax of half mill on
the dollar has been levied by the
Lewiston city council, to make
park and cemetery improvements.
Mayor Stein, of Pocatello, had
the city marshal eject Councilman
Condor from the council chamber,
at a meeting last week, for being
drunk.
The Pocatello Herald reports
that business on the Union Pacific
system is picking up, and that the
old scale of wages will soon be re-
instated.
The Caldwell Tribune has new
brick printing office. Such dis
play of prosperity will cause some
damphool to start another paper in
that town.
The Snake river gold miners are
still booming the country. They
have a machine now which will
save gold just as we'll where it is as
where it isn't.
What has become of the Nampa
diamond excitement. the Caldwell
opal mines, and the Payette SAPPHIRE
beds. Canyon county has fertile
lands, and more fertile immagina-
tons.
A conference of Methodist preach.
ers is to be held at Moscow next
week, and the married men have
notified their wives that there will
be no lodge meetings during the
conference.
One of Payette's modest girls
says she wouldn't 60 all the way
to Southern Kansas to see the
Cherokee strip if he was the last
Indian on earth.-Independent.
Evidently this young lady is not
aesthetic.
The U. S. grand jury in session
at Biackfoot. last week, indicted
Editor Wallis for conducting lot
terry scheme. Lottery law was not
made to persecute, but it seems
that the officials are using it for
that purpose.