The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-04
STATE NEWS AND COMMENT.

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Idaho Falls has the mumps.
Pocatello is firing the hobos.
Malad City wants to incorporate
Salmon City is agog over a new
church organ.
F.! A Weiser butcher who didn't ad.
vertise busted.
No more -diphtheria or scarlet
fever at Caldwell.
Salmon are being caught out Of
Snake river at Weiser.
! The Boise City Evangelist wants
a Sunday law enacted.
Lewiston has issued city bonds
to improve her streets.
The fruit around Lewiston wac
all killed by late frosts.
Weiser is going to have q lawn
tennis club this summer.
A large elevator will be erected
at Idaho Falls this spring.
Opaline, in Owyhee county, has
petitioned for postotfice.
There are three democrats apply
ing for the Grangeville postoffice.
Moscow has a dentist who ex-
tracts teeth without payin'.
Mountain Home has organized
a Knights of Pythias lodge.
Two hunters in Cassia county
killed IS rabbits in two hours.
The Snake river is now open fol-
navigation up as far Lewiston.
The grain crops Of Nez Perez
county, says the Teller, are looking
fine.
The city election of Pocatello
takes place the first Monday in
April.
A Mormon is just as good as a
niger or any other man now, he
can vote.
The Moscow Democrat wants the
hoodlooms fired, and its city coun-
Gil aired.
A chain gang will be one of the
metropolitan features of Pocatello
this spring.
Nampa proposes to boom this
summer, and build a railroad to
Silver City.
The spring term of court for
Logan county will open March 10th
at Bellevue.
The Government has commenced
operations to improve navigation
on Snake river.
The Post Publishing Company
of Montpelier, has Incorporated
with a capital of $1,000.
The Blackfoot News says the le-
gality of the wagon road bill will
be tested should it become a law.
A lot of Japs started to work on
the Payette ditch, but a lot of white
laborers ordered them to leave and
they left.
The Moscow citizens complain
because they have to wade through
mud and slush. No sidewalks is
the cause.
In Pocatello a man gets thirty
days for stealing a bucket. He
would probably get six months for
stealing tub.
One hundred men quit work at
the Bunker Hill mine, near Wal
lace, last week, on account of the
danger Of a cave.
The Lemhi Placer Mining Com
pany will commence hydraulic OPP
erations on their claims on Kirtley
creek, this spring.
The Tribune says Caldwell this
spring will have new paper. 1t
will have to be "daisy," to COM
pete with the Tribune.
It has been discovered that a
travelling Insurance agent has done
up the farmers of Bingham county
by issuing spurious policies.
AL Davis, member of the Poca-
tello city council, has been sent to
the insane asylum. He should
have been sent to the legislature.
Hon. Frank w. Beane, the dem
ocratic king of Bingham county,
has returned from Lakewood, N. j.,
where he was called to consult with
Cleveland about his cabinet, we
guess.
The mossbacks of Boise City are
opposed to the railroad coming in
to town on account of the smoke
killing the trees. If it would kill
a few mossbacks it would be good
thing for the town.
The editor of the Montpelier Post
must be rustler for business. He
is the sire Of eight children, four
girls and four boys, the last boy is
only week old. If every one did
as much for the state as the editors
it's population would soon be equal
to that of New York. Let everybody
try and do something this year.