The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-09-15
State News.

Miss Mary Ann Reagan, Of Em
NETT has been adjndged insane ant
sent to the Blackfoot Asylum.
Boise Evening Mail: The eight
year-old granddaughter of J. B
Lee and the nine-year old son o
Mrs. Mary Moore of this city, wer'
sent to tie deaf and dumb asylum
At Colorado Springs, yesterday.
Silver City Avalanche: Owyhee'
outlook is almost f1attering. Will
the present prosperous condition
Of her mines, and the slow bu
sure rise in silver quotations, Wit
can name our prosperity for 1895
In the presence Of = large nam
Der of citizens, the reconstructet
mill commenced its work of reduc
ing the ores Of the Tip Top mine
last Tuesday. This mill, which 4
situated almost in the heart of Sill
yer City, has not turned q whee
for five or six years past. It wal
purchased about month ago b.
Col. G. V. Bryan, and has been re-
modelled to suit the ores from The
Tip Top mine, purchased by the
Colonel at the same time. The busy
drop of the stamps at themill is q
welcome sound to Silver City. To
other ears the continuous pounding
might be disagreeable, but to resi-
dents of a mining camp it is sweetei
than a melody by Patti.
Idaho Democrat: Geo. w. Stills,
pioneer, died at his home Septem-
9Th. His disease was infrmities
of old age. He had been a resident
of Boise since 1864, and was one Of
tho early settlers of Boise Basin,
having reached there from Florence
in 1862. His age was approaching
eighty years.
Idaho Statesman Joseph Pink
ham, Monday, stepped down and
out of the United States marshal's
Office and J. l. Crutcher stepped in.
Marshal Crutcher has decided to
retain ]. R. Richards, who was with
Mr.. Pinkham during the latter's
term, as his chief clerk.
Sheriff Naylor of Latah county
arrived Sunday with Geo. N. Hinck-
ley, the forger, who is under r.
year sentence in the penitentiary.
Emmett Index: The report of q
sad accident with a gun comes from
the Liberty mine on Squaw creek.
The eleven-year-old son Of Mr..
who resides at the mines,
went out in the hills near the house
Tuesday last to. hunt rabbits.
The little fellow found a rabbit and
over cliff of rocks to shoot
It got excited, it is presumed, and
dropped the gun and as it fell down
The embankment was discharged
shooting the boy through the
stomach and killing him almost in
stantly. The remains were taken
to Caldwell for interment.
Weiser Signal: The vault and
fixtures of the suspended bank Of
he Idaho Commercial company
have been purchased by Mr.. r. F.
Butler, of HALEY, who has incor-
Dated company to conduct a
business here. The ar
icles of incorporation have been
lied, naming as directors for the
irst year, R. F. Butler, II. K. Thur
yer, c. J. Selwyn, F. H. Parsons
md G. v. Bryan. Mr.. Thurber is
rom Fort Worth. Texas, and the
est from HALEY. The capital
took is $25, 900 divided into $50
hares Of 500 each. Of this Mr..
suller has SIS, 600; Mr.. Thurber,
5000; Mr.. Bryan 500; Mr.. Par
ons, 500 and Mr.. Selwyn, 500. |
he rest of the stock is open and
nay be taken up by local parties.
Occur d Alene Miner: The stamp
ale at the Wallace postofice last !
month amounted to $2O3.17. For
august. 1898. the sales amounted
0 $162.18. The business of the
'ostoffice is a good index to the
eneral condition of business.
On Thursday night, as James
lynn was walking down the rail-
DAD track near Woods planning
nill he was seized by two men and
brown to the ground and his pock-
Is rifled of $83 and gold filled
'atch valued at about $25. He
talked all the way from Gem with.
ut mo!estation, but just as he was
pproaching Wallace, while walking
4 the middle Of the track, he met
NO men who were walking in such
manner that By continuing down
he center of the track he passed
them. At that moment
hey both seized him, then he com.
,enced to struggle and make some
how of resistance. At this one of
ae men applied q vile epithet to
i'm. and further added, IF you
3ueal we'll murder you" The
3bbery was over in a moment, and
10 men had decamped. His watch
as snatched so rudely the chain
roke at the FIRST link and was left
ehind.
Blackfoot News: Twenty-seven
omestead entries and seventeen