The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-12-07

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The ladies' Of Silver City collected
$3.50 for their Christmas tree.
{ Al. Short is now acting - night
clerk 1t the Capitol Hotel in Boise.
The new town Of Nez Perces j,
located about fifty miles from Lew.
iston.
The Blaine and Lincoln county
cases have -been set for hearing thu
10th Of this month.
The Poorman mill has. closed
down at Silver City pending furt be,
Investigations at the mine.
Little Harvey Edwards, the eight.
year-old son of w. D. Edwards oil
Boise, was run over 81 . trolley car
last Friday the 18th ult. and crushed
to death.
Joe Kaufman, . miner employed
at the Black Hornet mine near
Boise, was badly injured : few days
ago by an explosion Of giant pow .
der that be was thawing out.
The Democrat says forty-txo
needy families of Boise were given
a bountiful dinner on Thanksgiving
day by the Relief society, besides
a lot of substantial provisions.
The estimates of appropriations
of the secretary of the treasury sub
mitted to congress Monday con-
tains an item of 100000 for the
posto flee building at Boise, Ida.
The Oneida Standard says a Pc
tition is being circulated in Preston
asking for the pardon of John j.
Hurst, who killed Morgan P. Nor
gan, his wife's betrayer, about q
year ago.
The Blackfoot News says: paul
P. Lawson, the Houston murderer,
is still in the regions where the
woodbine twineth," and with none
to modest or make him afraid. His
is most remarkable CASE"
Costin Simmons, a pioneer At
lsnta miner, died at the Kelly hot
springs, on Monday night Of cancer
of the liver, aged sixty years. He
with John Strobe and Mr.. Down
ing were the original locators of the
Monarch mine on the great Atlanta
lode in 1863. They sold the mine
to an Indianapolis company. Like
all pioneer miners he was warm
hearted and liberal. His dying act
was one of liberality, for in appfe-
citation of the tender care and un-
attention bestowed upon
him by Mrs. Clark, of the springs,
he presented her with a check for
$1OOO.-Boise Democrat.
The Statesman says: Friends of
]. B. Oldham, who is a patient in
the asylum at Blackfoot, will be
pleased to know that he is enjoying
good health. He has added con-
siderable to his flesh, his waist
measure now being 81 inches. 1t
is understood move is on foot to
apply some of Mr.. Oldham's prop
erty here to the erection of a neat
cottage near the asylum building
for the exclusive use of Mr. Oldham,
and to employ an attendant to wait
on him. Mr.. Oldham would much
prefer this to being continually as
sociated with the other patients,
and it is believed if the plan were
carried out it would add several
years to his life. The matter will
be left to Mr.. Oldham's guardian.
The cases of Walter Daugherty
charged with robbing the United
States mails, and O. S. Glenn,
charged with forgery in connection
with land contest at Glenn's Fer
ry, were dismissed in the United
States court which met at Boise
Monday. The Daugherty case bad
features, and had been
on the docket a long time. P. ..
koonze, was arrested two years ago,
charged with robbing the stage on
The Creighton route, which he drove.
He pleaded guilty, and implicated
Daugherty, assistant postmaster at
Koonze was sentenced
10 one year imprisonment, but was
Dardoned by President Cleveland.
Daugherty was indicted and tried,
he jury disagreeing. Since that
lime the case has hung fire. In
he meantime Koonze made num-
Der of different statements. One
vas that he had perjured himself
n duplicating Daugherty, and an
,ther that he had been forced at
he point of q revolver to make the
,tatement that he had committed
perjury.
Geo. w. Jenkins, editor Of the Santa
Maria "Timcs," CAL, in speaking of the
,arious ailments of children said: when
NJ childen have Group there Is only one
,atent medicine that ever use, end that
. Chamberlain Cough Remedy. 1t pos
esses some medical properties that re-
ieve the llt.le sufferers Immediately.
{ is, in my opinion, the best cough med
cine in the market If this remedy il
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