The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-02-13
IDAHO NEWS.
Items Of Interest Taken From Our
State Exchanges.

received a commission as notary
public of Ada county.
Two more patients arrived at the
Blackfoot Asylum last week-a
man from Idaho Falls and young
girl from Bear Lake county.
The De Lamar miners having &C.
cepted the proposed reduction of
wages, there will be no strike there.
The new scale Of wages is: for tim
bermen, $3.50; miners and carmen,
50 per day.
The secretary Of state has received
a receipt signed by Vice President
Adlai Stevenson acknowledging the
safe arrival of Idaho's electoral
vote, which was in the keeping Of
William F. Smith.
The Statesman says rumors have
been in circulation for some days
that a change in the wardenship of
the penitentiary has been arranged.
The man slated for the place by the
street rumors has been Charles Van
Dorm. ]. B. Coakley of Weiser is
mentioned as candidate and many
believe he will be selected.
De Lamar Nugget: ALT Sothern
came in from the mines on Quick
silver this week, and says he now
knows where the coolest spot in
Idaho is. They had no barometer
in the camp, but knew that one day
last week one would have registered
AZ degrees, because quite crust was
frozen on some quicksilver there.
James T. Mcmahon of Silver City,
SO years old, was found dead in his
bed Sunday, Jan. 31st. From the
position of the body it was evident
| that the unfortunate young man
(who was fully dressed, with over
coat, overshoes, and hat) had been
in the act of leaving the room when
he was stricken with an attack OF
epilepsy, to which he was subject,
and fell upon the bed with his face
buried in the bed-clothes, causing
suffocation.
HALEY Times: A dealer from Kan
sas is down on Silver creek and
Little Wood river buying up all the
cattle he can get hold of, and pay
ing SIS to $40 for cows, $i7 to SIC
for coming 2 .year.olds, and So to SIC
for coming yearlings. The prices
are from 1921 to 25 per cent better
than have ruled heretofore, and
much higher than ranchers can gel
in the towns. The buyer is shipping
to Kansas, where he can get corr
for 10 cents a bushel, and he viii
sell his corn-fed cattle in Chicago
Grangeville Free Press: Quite {
little stir in mining circles has beer
occasloned by discoveries of COCO
bodies of copper ore at White Bire
on the west side of Salmon river
II is reported that several ship
ments have been made to smelters
and returns show 40 per cent copper
and Is ounces silver per ton. Th'
ore is principally black oxide
with occasional pockets and string
ers of silica, showing much nativ'
copper. The property is now being
worked by Ceur d'Alene men wh'
have a shaft down 40 feet.
A week ago last Sunday, Johl
and Albert Dunton arrived in Glib
louisville from their camp on Sheer
creek, according to the Miner. They
reported the probable dsath by
snowslide of o young man names
John Hough, who has been working
with them this winter. The youne
man left the cabin two or three
days previously to go on an errane
to their mine anu then from Their
to a neighbours. As he did not re
J turn in due time search was mad'
} for him. 1t was found that he hs'
neither been at the mine nor at tn
, neighbor's and it was feared tina
he had been covered in a snowslid
that had occurred near the camp
The weather was bitterly cold an
a strong wind blowing, so it
probable that the unfortunate youn
man persisted. He was Is year
old and his parents live at Prairi
e City, Oregon.
2 New Idaho Road.
A special to the Salt Lake Tribun
t from Boise, Feb. 9th, says: 1t
probable that the railroad frot
Weiser to the great copper distrit
= of Seven Devils will soon be bull
g Joseph Johnston of the New Yor
Construction and Equipment con
q pany is now in the city and state
= that his Company has taken cor
!, tract to build 1O2 miles of the roat
This contract is conditional upo
the result of an investigation be
now making respecting the rout
He is going over the ground and
B. the conditions are found as repr,
e sented work will be begun by Apr
d lat. 1t is said that the Montan
owners of the Seven Devils cope
! properties are interested in the Ell
o terprise, or that they have sold III
,. mines to others who are furnlshln
re the money for this project. Y
this subject Mr.. Johnston refuses
e talk, but it is thought that ths col
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