The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-07-11
State News.

ouu0ay.
/ It was LOG in the shade at Bots,
Sunday.
i Payette is to have fruit packin,
establishment.
! Cherries and Strawberries ar
plentiful at Shoshone. and are sole
at from 5 to 10 cents per quart.
TheWomans Edition of the States
man cleared about $500, which sun
will be divided equally between tn,
free library and the relief society
The expense of the edition was $457
The Blackfoot News suggests
that if the manager of the Boise
Statesman would employ some o.
the ladies who were on the editorial
staff of the Woman's edition tina,
it might be a great improvement to
the regular issue.
Challis Messenger: We learn that
the strike at the Yellow Jacket has
been settled favorably to the Union,
and operations will be resumed this
week. Throughout. this has been
a very peaceable strike, the Union
having acted a part worthy Of the
highest respect.
Boise Mail July 9Th: William
Augustus Hamilton of Laramie,
Wyo., and Ruby Violet Piummer,
daughter of Captain and Mrs. j. w.
Plummer, were made man and wife
this morning at St. Michael's church,
Bishop Talbot officiating. The
brides father is manager of the
great DeLamar mines of Owyhee
county. and it ia told that the cap
tain few weeks since endowed his
daughter with a check for $4,000
az q wedding present. The groom
resides at Laramie, and is archdea.
con of the Episcopal diocese.
Weiser Signal: An Oregon wool.
buyer bought several clips of wool
in Weiser, and when he went to the
railroad Office to arrangs for its
shipment.to Huntington, he found
that the least possible figure that
the company would carry the freight
for was go cents per 100 pounds.
The buyer then concluded to try
the old style of freighting and
found no trouble in securing teams
to haul the freight at % cents per
100. The distance from Weiser
is twenty-three miles. IL went by
team.
William Kern met accidental
death few days ago at Wilson's
ranch: three miles from Boise. He
was stacking hay. The fork fell
and struck him on the back, a tine
piercing his body. He died in a !
few minutes.
Wallace Miner: Richard d.
Downs and w. Carr struck and |
exploded an old charge of dyna.
mite while drilling a hole in the
Gem mine, hurting both men very
severely. They were brought i'm
to the Providence hos.
pital, where their wounds were at
ended to by Dr.. Stone. Both men
we're badly bruised and filled with
mall pieces Of the rock, the most
wounds being in the
yes. The doctor thinks there is q
,ood chance for their recovery but
is doubtful about saving their
yes.
Idaho World: June Both Bert
Seward, wac working in a mine be.
ween Placerville and Garden valley.
| round of holes had been charged
nd the fuse lighted. Two of the
harges failed, and in pulling out
be fuse a cap from one was left in.
n cleaning out the hole, the spoon
'bich Mr.. Seward was using came
contact with the cap and fired !.
be charge. A physician was sum. /
,onsed who found Mr.. Stewards /
ice was considerably cut by fine t
ravel, one tooth broken off and B
re upper lip cut through. His |.
yes were so badly swollen that it =
as impossible to tell to what ex. :
mt they were injured. d
Boise Statesman: The board of b
ardons met At Boise Tuesday and .
considerable business. =
he board granted a pardon TO \
ark Dean Phelps, the boy preacher
I'd son Of Mrs. Naomi Mcdonald
helps, who was sent to the peni- !
ntiary from Elmore county on I,
pril Is, 1895, tor two years for q
irglary committed three years q
'ior to the prosecution, and when o
e lad was hut II years of age.
be board made careful examina-
IN of the record and came to the &
Inclusion the prosecution was ma y
'ious. With the board had been in
ed several petitions, one bearing
er 1000 signatures, asking that 3
ecutive clemency be extended to til
q boy. pl
The board also pardoned John J. b
lrst, and he will tomorrow leave To
e peniteutiary, where he has worn &c
. somber prison garb for few fo
ys over 13 months, free man.
lrst was sent up from Oneida F,
unity or.W years for murder in