The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-04-25
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state News.
A row Of buildings was destroyed
by FIRE at Caldwell Sunday morning.
Loss over 10000.
Mrs. M. T. Golden, of Nampa,
dropped dead one day last week
while doing her household work.
The Boise Mail says Dr.. Ellis,
the dentist, is back from : trip to
DeLamar, whore he placed . dia-
mond in = lady's tooth.
At Wallace last Saturday morn
ing q married man named J. E.
Perry killed his aged mother with
q Ratchet while, it is supposed, in
fit of insanity.
Mountain Home Republican: F.
R. Gooding, Of Shoshone, was the
first to ship wool along the Short
Line this year. He loaded two cars
Monday for Boston.
The Idaho Prohibition State Con-
vention was held at Idaho Falls
April is. Among the delegates to
the National Convention which is
to be held at Pittsburg, Pa, May
18th we note that of Mrs. J. Ed
Smith, wife of the well-known Pop
ulist orator.
The Female Minstrel performance
given at Boise last week by the
young society ladies of the capital
city was q grand success. The
Mail says: "The ladies were be-
decked with burnt cork, wore short
dresses, black stockings, white col.
lars and cuffs, red waists, and pre-
sented a very pretty half circle.
The interlocuteress was dressed en-
tirely in red, and the costume was
indeed pretty. The plantation sing
ing and dancing created fun"
Weiser Signal: Ed Short, of Pay
cite, has just been in Washington
county buying beef cattle for Saun-
ders Of Salt Lake and picked up
100 head at $11, 81 and $22.
Grangeville Free Press: Serjt.
Lambs old gray mare which used
to pack freight in the Indian wars
surprised her owner the ether day
by giving birth to = fine colt last
week for the FIRST time in her q
years of life.
8. l.. Upton, of Boise City, has
been expelled from the bar associa.
ton of the Third judicial district
The charge against him is that ht
J accepted brides from Chinese resi-
dents of Boise City while holding
the Office of city attorney.
! The Weiser Signal prints lettel
from Kleinsmidt & Bro, Of Helena
who are heavily interested in Sever
Devils copper mines, to their Weise
agent in width the latter 10 author
lied to contract for the hauling o.
800 to 1900 tons of copper ore dur
ing the coming season from th'
mines to the railroad.
The Payette Independent tells {
| good story on Walter Wells, wht
recently arrived from Baltimore t.
make his home with his father
Captain Wells. During the latter''
absence the son thought he would
pillow up some ground and surprise
his father. He mistook quarter
acre tract of choice strawberries fol
weeds and plowed them up.
| A dispatch from San Francisco
April Doth says: Gov. Mcconnell
of Idaho, who arrived here to-day
has received a dispatch stating tina
one -of the Sheriffs of Oklahoma
has arrested Jack Davis or "Dia
mond Fields Jack" for whom b,
had offered reward of $500. Some
months ago Davis shot and wound
ed a sheep-herder in Cassia county
Idaho. Afterwards there were two
other sheepherders foully murdered
while in camp. Davis was sup
posed to have committed these
crimes. This shooting grew out O
the war between the sheepmen ane
cattlemen over the disputes as t.
pxsturages on ranges.
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