The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-05-15
IDAHO NEWS.
Items of Interest Taken From Our
State Exchanges.

Episcopal church.
Oassla county is anticipating
mining boom this summer.
8 The News says the Blackfoe
: river is higher than it has been j
2 the past ten years.
1t is estimated that 10000 hea,
, of cattle will be shipped from th
neighborhood of Lewiston, Mort
Idaho, this month and the averae
price is placed at $18 per head.
! Warden Van Dorm has a contrac
on his hands in connection wit
the care of Mrs. Kensler, soon t.
be sent to the prison. There ar
no proper Accommodations for femal,
convicts and it will be necessary t,
employ a matron for this one pris
oner.
/ Idaho Falls Register: Franz
Hirshey, the Nebraska sheep buyer
last week unloaded carload O
dogs, and a carload of camp para
phernalia and wagons at Weiser
preparatory to starting out thu
thousands of mutton sheep which
he will drive from Washington
county this year.
Prof J. Marines hypnotist and
mind reader who has been exten.
sively advertised in the north part
of the state lately, has been bound
over to the district court in the
sum of $4,000 on the charge of
committing criminal assault on
a young girl of Denver, Idaho
county, while she was under byp-
motto influence. He is now in Jail
at Mt. Idaho.
Moscow is experiencing a mining
excitement. The mountains six
miles east of that town are full OF
prospectors. The Moscow Times
says: 'The excitement is due to
the incorporation of the Golden
Gate and Lucky Hank. two pros
poets that have very little develop
ment work done on them, in fact
none to warrant this excitement.
The two prospects above mentioned
are probably worth about $500 as
gambling proposition, but when
they incorporate for 81 900, 900 and
place the stock at cents we con-
denim it as highway robbery.
Boise Call: Thursday night r. S.
Tincher, one of the victims of the re-
cent Short Line wreck near Glenn's
Ferry, died at St. A phonsus hopital.
Drs. Dubois and Higgins held a
post mOrtem examination on his
remains yesterday to ascertain the
nature of his injuries. Tincher
was buried in Morris Hill cemetery.
The Short Line officials, it is under
stood, at one time offered Tincher
$4,000 to compensate him for the
injuries received in the wreck, but
that he refused it. 1t is now un-
derstood that his widow, who is
here, will ask the courts TO give
her much larger amount. She
has two children.
Boise Statesman: The question
of the application of the anti
gambling law to this city is to be
tested in the courts, the point in
dispute being whether or not the
clause in the amendment of the
special charter comforting the power
upon the city to regulate and license
gambling suspends the law as to
Boise. Yesterday for the purpose
Of making a case, Thomas Con-
stance applied for license from
the city. The council ordered that
one be issued him and it was done.
The plan is understood to be to
have him arrested and then apply
for a writ of habeas corpus. The
license issued is for faro game.
Lewiston Tribune: Miss Della
couey of Denver, Idaho, who was
outraged by Prof. Marines while
lnder his hypnotic influence, was
placed On trial for insanity yester-
lay before Probate Judge Scales at
ut. Idaho. The physicians all tes-
ify that Miss Couey was mentally
wrecked and irresponsible, and was
n fact insane. Judge Scales &C
ordingly so rendered his decision
nd an attendant was summoned
rom Blackfoot to convey the poor
,irl to the asylum there. This de-
'lorable result upon the girl is liable
o term mate in Marines ultimate ;
scape from justice, as there now
GEMS to be no testimony that can
each him since hers will be mad ,
aissible in law. The people of that /;
ection still express the belief that
fartines is guilty of most heinous ,
rime, but do not see how the law +.
an reach him. :
Silver City Avalanche: John F.
LUCENT, whom all in this section +
now, and who now is in the en- !
10y of an English mining company s
, Australia, writes home some very I
lteresting incidents which come b
nder his notice in that far-off O
1untry. A short time ago be wrote i,
is father, Judge Nugent, that he q
ad just had his first experience n
it'll funerals. Two English miners 7