The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-01-30
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Blackfoot Insane Asylum.
. A handsome opera house has just
been completed at Wallace.
Eighteen new patients have been
received at the Blackfoot Insane
Asylum since the holidays.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature to prevent mine.owners
from running stores in connection
with the mines.
Miss Alice A. Thews, of Malad
Oneida, has been appointed county
school superintendent. She is q
sister of Mrs. H. C. Branstetter, oil
Boise.
Freighters are going into Idaho
City with wagons. 1t is said to be
the first time in the history of the
country that freight has gone over
that road on wheels in January.
The supreme court has ruled that
appointment of county attorneys
is illegal and that the district attor-
ney will continue to act until bis
successor is elected and qualified.
This ruling will also settle the pro.
bate judge and school superintend-
ent question, and those elected to
the office of probate judge will dis
charge the duties ofsuperintendent
also.
Brig Adams, one of the most prom
inent stockmen ofthe Jackson Hole
country, was accidentally killed one
day last week near Market Lake.
While chopping tree, heavy limb
fell off, striking him on the side OF
the head. crushing in the side of his
face and skull. He remained uncon-
scious about twenty-four hours,
when death came. His remains
were taken to Mensn and inferred.
He leaves young wife and large
number of relatives in this State
and in Salt Lake.
Idaho Democrat: The Boise Sem
tinel received $3.50 for printing 5, 900
copies of the governors message
$50 per thousand. The Idaho Dem
ocrat wishes that establishment had
got $500 for the job. Will the other
political parties Of Idaho please
not disremember that the populists
stick by their papers through thick
and thin?
Statesman, Jan. 23rd: Elk Sheriff
John Joyce of Owyhee county ia in
Boise for the purpose of securing
from the state an offer of a reward
of $500 for the clearing up of the
surrounding the disappear
ance Of Richard Thomas and his
wife from their ranch on Sinker
Greek about the Goth of March last
year. John Thomas, brother of the
missing man, is willing to offer $3.50
and the present sheriff will add
800.
MIR. Thomas thinks his brother
was murdered and that the woman
went off with q man named Murphy,
with whom she lived before marry
ing Richard. There are some per-
sons who are thought to know more
than they have been willing to tell
and it is believed a reward will
bring forth information leading to
the apprehension of the woman.
Thomas was last heard of about
March 18th. Some time after that
Mrs. Thomas went to her sisters
and got poison for the purpose, as
stated, Of killing mice. The couple
were soon afterward missed. The
house was found locked and NO
trace of either has since been found.
In Caldwell last Friday Colonel
A. C. Hand was arrested on charge
of stealing from the assessors office
the assessment roll Of 1898. He
waived a hearing and was bound
over in the sum Of $1,000.
Hand was deputy assessor under
Jake Horn. When the time came
for turning the Office over the roll
was missing. 1t was finally dis.
in room connected with
the Office of Mr.. Griffith, the lawyer.
Griffith was arrested, but he ex-.
planned that the room had been
used by Hand and that the latter
had brought the roll to the apart
snent. He was thereupon released
and q warrant sworn out for Hand.
The case has created something
Of sensation in Caldwell, and it
is intimated that racy developments
will be forthcoming. The motive
for the alleged theft has not been
The progressive ladies of Westdeid,
Ind, issued "Womanb Edition" Of the
Westfeld Ne,os, bearing date Of April 3,
1896. The paper is filled with matter Of
interest to women, and We notice the fol-
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