The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-26
IDAHO NEWS.
| Items Of Interest Taken From Our
State Exchanges.

There were twenty new postmas
ters appointed in Idaho last week
The Helfrich Mercantile Co. @
Mountain Home shipped 185,OO'
pounds of wool to tho eastern mar
ket last week.
The latest news from the Sever
Devils country is that the rush ha
commenced and that wagons an,
pack horses can be seen at an,
time of the day coming into camp
Salmon City Recorder: Mr.. Bale,
arrived from Blackbird district yes
erday. He gave US fine specimen
of ore from q new lead just strucl
by Wiley J. Rose. The ledge il
about four feet wide and will q
about IS per cent. copper and from
IS to $40 in gold per ton.
The third interest payment Il
the Nee Perez Indians was begur
at the agency Monday. Seven hun
dred treasury drafts representing
1886, 900, will be issued, and it il
estimated that the week will bt
consumed in making the payment
The first day of the payment $4O,'
600 was cashed by the Lewiston
banks.
While going up the middle fork
of the Boise recently, J. w. Brill
entered an old cabin, on the floor
of which he found dynamite cap
He picked it up in his right hand
feeling of it, and when about to
rise from the floor he transferred il
to his left hand and put that hand
on the floor to assist him in rising.
The extra pressure was all that was
needed to explode the cap. blowing
off his thumb, the end joint of his
first finger, all of his middle digit
and badly SCATTERING the fourth.
After lying idle and unoccupied
for Eve years, says the Salt Lake Tri-
bune, the handsome hotel, Idanha,
ut Soda Springs, Idaho, is to be re-
opened by Fred J. Kiesel of Ogden,
who feels assured that a successful
season will result. The hotel was
built some years ago by the Union
and is now owned by the
Oregon Short Line, which road is
going to do all in its power TO help
the hotel. The place is a favorite
spot for Salt Lakers, many having
cottages there, but as for three
summers back the accommodations
have been poor and the crowd at
The springs very good, the opening
Of the hotel seemed justified by Mr..
Kiesel aud his associates.
A Power in Politics.
The Lawiston Teller says: "All
honor to the ladies who organized
and worked in the recent city cleo.
lion. This activity puts a new
phase upon the political situation.
The woman's vote will be considered
now when the candidates are named.
The man who said, II told you So"
10 not half so cheerful now when
he canvasses the new situation.
Cemetery Desecrated.
The people of Idaho Falls are
greatly incensed over the desecra-
ion Saturday night of the city
cemetery by vandals. All the
monuments, head and foot stones
If about fifty graves were pushed
over and knocked down. No one
IAN imagine what species of man
,r depraved being could so ruth
essly attack a peaceful graveyard.
There seems to be no clue to the
A late dispatch from Idaho Falls
o the Salt Lake Tribune states it
las been discovered that the desc
:ration of graves was committed
W q lad by the name of Meskill
bout II years old, and Earl Storer,
bout 10 years old, son of State
Treasurer Storer.. Young Meskill
tated that the reason all the mon
lments and head stones were not
Knocked down was because he was
lot able to do it. The city offered
reward Of 500 for the arrest and
of the vandals.
Another DsLamar Shooting.
DeLamar Nugget: Last Friday
Evan L. Williams shot
nd dangerously wounded Frank
wilson in Chris Farrel's saloon in
)eLamar. Williams was caught by |
'ersons who were present and saw
he affair and held until Deputy |
sheriff Pascoe arrived and took him |
q charge. His examination was put
# until Monday, and he was con-
nitted to the charge of the sheriff,
nth bail fixed at $4,000 until exam
nation be held.
From reports, it appears that
Williams had been drinking and got
nto a dispute with another party
q the saloon and when about to
ull his ever-too-ready gun, Wilson,
7hom Williams had accused Of
aving stolen a saddle from him,
and Williams, with the
smsrk, "You stole my saddle" i'm.
,ediately fred, striking the young
IAN in the lower part of the abdo.
len. the ball ranging around and