The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-01-09
IDAHO NEWS.
Items of Interest Taken From Our
State Exchanges.

oCaC0 Exchanges.
Two children died from scarlet
fever at Emmett last week.
Nampa is to have a creamery.
Col. Dewey has donated block of
ground and 10000 feet Of lumber
toward the project.
The Call says it is reported in
Boise that Willie Mcconnell, son
of our ex-governor, was arrested in
Portland Monday for passing coun-
terfeit money.
Harry G. Foraker managing edi-
tor of the Chicago Chronicle, who
was in Mountain Homela last summer
in search of better health, died in
Chicago on the 29sh ult. of con.
sumption.
The Avalanche says: Silver City
receives and sends more mail mat
ter than any other town of its size
III the state. The money order busi-
ness during 1896 amounted to from
$4,000 to $4,000, without sim
gle loss to the sender.
Senator Fred T. Dubois, as has
been his custom for years, remem-
bered his Blackfoot friends with
Christmas gifts. Two barrels of
| oysters in shell, and large box of
varied gifts for the little folks were
on the list from Washington.
A man named Thomas Stanton.
in moving from Camas Prairie to
Toponis. put a package containing
a pound of powder into the cook
stove, aud when the stove was set
up forgot it and built a fire. The
stove was blown to pieces and he
was badly burned.
The Coroner's jury, after COM
pleting the inquest at Glenn's Ferry
over the remains of John Kensler,
on the 31st, found that he "came to
his death by unlawful, felonious
and criminal means, and We do
hereby charge Josie Kensler and
Alfred Friel with the willful murder
of John Kensler, committed at the
time and place above set forth"
Boise Democrat: The newspaper
fraternity received no little recog.
milton from the political parties at
the late election. Frank Steunen'
berg, of the Caldwell Record, gov.
ernor. Capt. Gum, of the Sentinel
congressman. George J. Lewis
formerly proprietor of the Ketchum
KEYSTONE, secretary of state, Albert
! H. Alvord, Lewiston Tribune, mem
Der of the house. Cal. G. Clawson
Blaine county, member Of the house
Lewis and Ciawson, however, are
not at present in the newspaper bus
mess.
| Salmon City Recorder: The ca
pacity of the A. D. & NJ. mill a
Gibbonsville will be increased b,
the addition of 80 to 40 stamps a:
soon as the necessary machinery
can be brought in from the railroad
] This will mean the increase of 1Ot
men in addition to the present force
/ With the opening of spring Glib
louisville will be about the livelies'
mining camp in the state. The
Bingham Placer company will re-
new operations on a large scale
and the Munson Bros, the pur
chasers of the Hughes creek placer
property, will be here to pay thu
second installment and make th'
necessary arrangements to put
crew Of men Ut work as soon a
the weather will permit.
Weiser Signal: A sad case o
insanity developed in East Weise
last week. A lady by the name o
Womack went raying mad, her pit
iful Authorizations being that he'
children were to be taken away
from her. She walled that she hat
"signed them all away to tn
church" The matron of the asy
lum arrived Sunday and took he
to Blackfoot. The family had beef
in very Strengthened circumstances
though the husband is an honest
Woodworking man, who deepl..
feels the blow. The mother is tenn
porarily taken away from eigh
small children. Sympathetic pei
SONG rendered all the aid possibl
and different ones have taken tn
; smallest of the children to thei
, homes to keep during the winter
A paper was circulated and tn
father given some financial assist
, ance.
Silver City Avalanche: Las
Tuesday morning as Messrs. DeVo
and Ward were on their way t
north Sinker TO do some assessment
work, they discovered the body Q
a man lying below the trail in tn
willows. They returned to tow
and notified the sheriff, who i
? company with Coroner Weston an
: others. drove out after the body
which proved to be James Gormie,,
Coroner Weston held an inqnes
on the remains after they wer
brought to town, the jury renderin
verdict of death by exposure an
exhaustion. We learn that NJ
Gormiey left Joyce's ranch at !
o.olnck Monday morning, feelin