The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-09-26
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IDAHO NEWS.

IDAHO NEWS.
An Interesting Summary OF thu
Weeks Events.
Senator Dubois arrived at Boise
Wednesday.
Dr.. Collister oil. Boise is shipping
prunes by the carload to Chicago
They net 3 cents . pound.
On Wednesday evening, Septem
Der Is, DaniA Bacon, of the Namps
Progress, and his wife, celebrated
the fifty-second anniversary Of theil
marriage. They are undoubtedly
the oldest married couple in Idaho.
A petition is being circulated
at Moscow, asking for the pardon
of George N. Hinckley. who was
sentenced in September, 1894, to IL
years in the penitentiary for forging
$4,000 worth of county warrants.
E. A. Anthony, a fifty-year-old
man, was sentenced by Judge Stock
slayer, at Albion, Cassia county,
last week, to twenty-five years at
hard labor in the state prison, for a
criminal assault upon ten-year-
old girl.
J. E. Perry, the young man who
killed his mother with Ratchet at
Wallace, several months ago, has
been found guilty of manslaughter.
Perry has twice been an inmate of
an insane asylum, once in Colorado
and later at Medical Lake. The de-
Tense set up plea of insanity at the
trial and the verdict was evidently a
compromise, as the man should
either have been sent to Blackfoot
or hanged.
A message was received at Poca-
tello the first of last week saying
Major Gallagher was dying at Warm
Springs Indian Agency, Or. His
son, P. J. Gallagher, left Pocatello
immediately for the Springs to be
present at the bedside of his father.
He died the following Friday. His
remains were taken to Pocatello for
Interment. Major Gallagher was
about IS years old and leaves three
sons and three daughters, all of
whom reside at Pocatello.
There ie, a prospect of a mate b
factory being established in Idaho.
The Diamond Match Company re-
Gently lost one of its large plants at
Ontonogon, Mich, and the company
has since been looking for loca-
ion for a new factory that will be
IF easy access to the timber that is
used in the manufacture of matches. |
It is expected that this company
will be among the principal bidders
It the state land sale which occurs
n November. AT that time the state
will offer for sale a large amount |!
# white pine timber land in Latah
md Shoshone counties.
Shoshone Journal: A novel bet
vas made last week by S. e. Eros,
md J. L. Fuller. Frost has 600 tons
# hay cut and stacked. Fuller is
o pay Frost IS per ton for said hay
f Bryan is elected president, and
hould Mckinley be elected Fuller
,ets the hay for nothing. The old
'oys are getting blooded.
Salmon City Republic; Fred
Philips arrived last week from Cal
fornia. It is rumored that a big
mining deal il on the tapis. The1
involved is the Kentuck,
frunter, and other mines.
Wallace Tribune; P. A. MELON
Id, a miner employed in the Stand
I'd, fell in winze Thursday night.
Ding down 100 feet and was killed
A pick which he had in
is hands prior to the fall was yet
ripped in the lifeless fingers when
ae poor fellow was reached.
Boise Mail: John B. Hastings j.
I'LL in Rossland, B. c., and the fol- :
wing is an extract of letter just :
'ceived by Secretary Hunter of
'e Mining Exchange: =
II am travelling continually, look :
q at mines in search of something
feel justified in buying. We pur- {
'ased three-quarters of the Crown
Oint stock last week for $135, 600, :
I'd bonded some extensions for /.
10000, paying 10 per cent down = :
i'd provided a working capital of =
5000, and hope to make mine 6
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