The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-10-20
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The Soldiers Home at Boise will
be ready Tor occupancy about Nov.
10th.
The telephone line between EN-
met and Caldwell has been COM
plete3.
Payette offers : block Of ground
and go, 900 in cash for the perma-
nent county scat of Canyon county.
The state board Of equalization
has reduced the assessment on
sheep from $50 to 81 . head on
range cattle from I'll to IS head,
aud on range horses from $12 to
80 q head.
A rich strike of ore has recently
been developed at thu Tip Top
mine in Silver City which assays
5000 per ton in gold and IS in sill
yer. The mill is crushing about
As tons per day.
The total railroad assessment in
the state is &c, 269, 73O, exclusive of
property off the rights of way. The
total number of miles of railroad
in the state is 1OFO49. There are
99817 miles of telegraph lines in
the state, assessed at $68, 866.88
The total number of telephone lines
is 4214 miles, assessed at $17, FOB.
DR.. J. G. B. Justice, who was con-
victed at Lewiston last week of an
assault to commit murder, was
sentenced to six years in the peni-
Tertiary. Three days afterwards
he committed suicide in the county
Jail by shooting himself in the
mouth. The ball penetrating his
brain. The sheriff was to have left
the next day with him for Boise.
Silver Messenger: The Republi-
cans of Custer county are all
''broke up" Through neglect they
failed to file their county ticket with
the county Auditor Is days before
election as specified by law. The
Republicans claim the Populists
are in the same boat. The Popu-
lists filed their county ticket on
October 18th.
Bellevue Herald: Miss Edna Nc
Coy, who was teaching school about
five miles below town, met with a
sad accident on Friday of last week I,
by being thrown from her vehicle
and sustaining dislocation of her
hip.
The Horn Silver mine, at Erie.
which was sold to the Last Chance
Mining Company some years ago
and was worked until a year ago by
that company, was recently leased
to w. G. Sharp, P. II. Clarke, Frank
Clarke and E. J. Clarke, who have
recovered from the tailings about
400 pounds of quicksilver and $40
in silver. The leasers have struck
what is believed to be an extension
of the Frank Martin crevice, which
yielded heavily in the past, and feel
rather pleased with their prospects.
They brought in the quicksilver
and some specimens of rock.
Shoshone Journal: At this season
of the year it is an interesting sight
to visit the Salmon Falls and watch
the salmon trying to climb over the
falls. These falls vary from twenty
to sixty feet in height, and at some
places there is perpendicular fall,
and at others the waters slide over
the rocks at an angle Of. about As
degrees. The salmon take run
and jump" aud try to leap over the
falls and get up the river. It is
common thing for these big fish to
jump twenty feet in the air in their
frantic efforts to climb over the
falls. Some Of the larger ones sue
coed in getting up the river when
they can slide up the inclines.
Moscow Mirror: Hon. J. w. Reid
was thrown from his buggy while
en- route to Lewiston from Moscow
recently, and seriously injured.
Moscow Times: Little 5-year-old
Freddie Alfs was run over by =
heavily laden truck, Wednesday af-
ternoon and tho back Of his head
and breast frightfully crushed BY
the monstrous wheels. Death was
instaneous.
Caldwell Tribune: Another sub
stantial inducement is offered to
the taxpayers Of this county for To-
eating the permanent county seat
in this city. The people of Cald-
we'll now propose to present to Cam
yon county q substantial and COM
modious court house, already built
and occupied. and : block Of
ground, the combined value Of
which 10 not less than 80, 900, and
tho acceptance Of which will save
to the voters many Thousands moro.
A county jail costing between four
and five thousand dollars and =!