The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-06-22


sta&e News.
Mrs. Roman, who il under arrest
for tho murder Of her husband, has
babe only : week old.
The Nampa Leader says straw
berries arc now 10 cents : quart,
but should come down : little yet.
They are still too high.
The Montpelier Examiner says :
&C. T. Woodall was in town to-day.
He says that about 100000 head
of sheep will be sheared at the Soda
Springs pens this year. The town
is full Of wool buyers and things
are lively"
Salubria will celebrate the Fourth
in grand and rather unique style.
The ladies are given equal chances
with the gentlemen to win laurels
in the various sports. In the girls
foot race, girls from Is to 40. are
eligible. A genuine balloon ascen-
sion will be one of the attractive
features Of the day.
DR.. Given, Superintendent Of the
Insane Asylum, arrived at Boise
Wednesday aud Immediately drove
to.the penitentiary to examine Mar
garet Hardy, the murderess, who
has been feigning insanity. He was
accompanied by Dr.. Sweet, prison
physician, and another doctor.
They were introduced under as
sumed names. She proceeded to
go through q performance for their
benefit, but they were unanimous
in pronouncing her entirely sane.
Warden Campbell says he will now
break her of her madness, She
has driven them to distraction, but
he will conquer her if tina. is with
in the power of human ingenuity.
Caldwell County Argus: Joseph
H. Pierce, who has been resident
Of Genesee for about six years, met
with violent death on Saturday
evening while horse racing. His
horse SHE'D and threw him head
first against . corner of q heavy
timber, crushing the left side of the
head and face into jelly. Tho de-
ceased was 4 native Ut Missouri,
forty years old and leaves . wife
and child.
Boise Democrat Ex-Governor
Stevenson writes his son here that
be is improving at the springs in
Monterey county, CAL, and believes
he will return to Boise we'll as ever.
Matt Crump was arrested at Pay
ette on the charge of numbering the
late Thomas Roman in Lower Boise.
He had confessed to q man who
had gained his confidence, but after
arrest made affidavit that he had
seen Mrs. Roman murder her hus.
band with an axe. He was acquit-
ted on that charge and re-arrested
and held as a witness and is now
in Jail at Caldwell. Thos. B. Cess,
an uncle of Mrs. Roman, says that
Crump was not hired man of Ro-
nan, but was running little ranch
of his own near by. His brother,
however. employed on the Roman
ranch At one time, bad been dis
charged. Crump's conduct directed
suspicion towards himself from the
start, and be was constantly under
surveillance. His action since the
murder, his confession that be did
it and subsequent affidavit that be
saw Mrs. Roman commit the deed,
make him appear as the guilty
party. His accusation against Mrs.
Roman was the foolish act Of .
cowardly murderer.
Robert Crozier who, several years
ago, was engaged In mining on
Wood River and in the Sawtooth
country, accumulated q small but
choice cabinet Of specimens of rich
ore, which he left behind him in .
trunk when he went down on the
Washington coast. He returned to
Boise several weeks since, after an
absence Of eight years and the other
day wrote making inquiries con-
corning his trunk with the request
to have il forwarded If still there.
The parties with whom he had left
it were trustworthy custodians and
responded by sending it over with
not one Of the rare specimens miss
ing. Upon request he exhibited ~
the Democrat Office chunk of the
ore which had given an assay Of
i've thousand dollars in silver.
Havinx used Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in my family and found it to y
first class article, take pleasure IN
recommending it to my friends. ]. v