The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-04-04

state News.
Messrs- Gooding will commsnce
sheep shearing Il thsir ranch about
the 18th.
Tho brewery at Moscow which
originally cost @35, 900 was sold last
week for 900.
Major P. Gallagher. Of Pocatello,
has been nominated by the president
to be Indian Agent, at Warm
Springs Agency in Oregon.
Tom Pollock, Of north IdahQ,
has been granted 4 pension of $1,000
per month for services in the Mexi-
can war, and back pay for 40 years.
Idaho's vacancy on the Demo-
cratic congressional committee has
been filled by the selection Of James
! H. Hawley, of Boise, in place OF
John NJ. Burke.
! Mrs. Nuffer, lady Of IS years
who lives on Cub river, Oneida
county, was horribly mangled by
big Newfoundland dog last week.
She is not expected to recover.
Sentence has been passed on the
murderers of Emmett Fox at Cen
nesee. Frank Smith was sentenced
to be hung and Harry Gordon to
imprisonment for life in the peni-
Tertiary.
The Shoshone Journal says:
"There was a crowd of IS sheep
shearers stopped at Gooding Tues
day to shear the sheep, but there
was some misunderstanding about
! it, and they all took a tie pass back
to Shoshone.
| Oscar Hasselrys fell 240 feet III
an upraise in the Black Jack mine
at Silver City, this week and was
instantly killed. He was timber
man and was engaged in timbering
the upraise when be lost his footing
in some way and dashed to death.
| Richard Angel, the deputy dis
|trict attorney, had q narrow escape
a few nights ago, says the HALEY
Times. Having a sore throat, he
got up to drink some vinegar, but
got hold Of a bottle of ammonia,
instead. His wife, hearing him
choke, hurriedly poured some sweet
| oil down his throat. This relieved
him at once.
i Harold L. Butler, eldest son OF
i Mrs. Frances Butler, of HALEY, is
located at Valparaiso, Ind, where
he is leader of the finest choir in
the state, and is also director OF q
brass and reed band Of IS pieces.
Mr.. Butler has besides large class
in vocal music and is improving his
own voice with q lesson weekly
from Signor Gottschalk of Chicago.
Weiser Signal: Mr.. Thomas, .
gentleman from Wyoming has
been here for some weeks arranging
to buy our spare market sheep.
He is paying 81 Is for yearling
weathers, $1.35 for yearliEg ewes
and 81. 60 for two-year- Odds. Wash
iington county will have about o.
600 surplus sheep to dispose of this
spring, which will bring in from
this item about $4,000. The Sig
nal wants a little Of it and invites
all sheep men to subscribe.
1 Elmore Republican: Eli Perkins
will long remember his visit to
Boise and Mountain Home. He is
rampant goldbug, and knowing
this the committee who settled
with him here presented him with
la sack containing $40 in silver.
My, how he did kick On taking the
"vile stuff" as be called it. He
asked if he could get it exchanged
for gold or greenbacks, and was
| told that he could not At Boise
he was forced to take 500 in silver
cart wheels, but exchanged them
for gold before leaving the city.
! sPocatello Tribune: It is an in
teresting scrap of pioneer history
that Elk Mayor J. A. Pinney, Of
Boise City, is one of the five men
who discovered and located what is
I now the famous Virtue mine, near
Baker city, Oregon. It was in the
summer Of 1863 when he and party
we're en- route to Oregon from Boise
Basin. Mr.. Pinney's money paid
for it's recording and in those days
2 900 feet could be located as one
claim. Having something better
he never returned to it, and ten
years afterwards got 81 900 for his
signature to a deed for his interest.
| Boise Statesman: Monday Judge
Richards passed sentence upon five
persons, including James Ellington,
who was convicted of murder in the
first degree for the killing Of Chas.
Briggs IN December, 1894. Elling-
too was sentenced to hang last june,
but the appeal to the supreme court
acted % . staylof proceedings. The
| supreme court affirmed the judg-
ment Of the lower court, and Judge
Richards again sentenced the con.
! demned man, fixing the date Of his
] execution on the 9th Of May.
Henry Capps, convicted Of man
alanUhfar for the killing near No