The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-05-29
IDAHO NEWS.
Items Of Interest Taken From Our
State EXCHANGES.

State Exchanges.
The Shoshone Journal says the
HALEY Town company have q
choice water power in Shoshone
which has heretofore been reserved
from sale. We are informed by
Judge Waters, their agent, that if
the people will build q mill, that the
company will donate the mill site.
The Pocatello Daily Tribune has
suspended. The publisher pub
lished detsiled statement showing
that the paper was running behind
about $4OO per month which in
duced the suspension. The Tribune
will hereafter appear as q semi
weekly.
Miss Mamie Dick who resided
with her parents at Little Basin
near Albion while riding horseback
one day last week, fell from her
horse, her foot remaining tangled
in the stirrup, and, the horse start
ing to run, che was dragged and
kicked to death.
NJ. H. Jacobs, who attended the
funeral of C. Bunting at Blackfoot,
informs the Boise Statesman that
there was a large crowd present from
all portions of southeastern Idaho
and many from Utah. Among those
in attendance was Mayor Glenden-
ming of Salt Lake. In reference to
the insurance carried by Mr.. Bunt-
ing on his life, Mr.. Jacobs says it
was for $S5 900, and all in favor of
his children.
Psyette Independent: Joseph
Johnston, the fellow who has been
trying to demonstrate to the Pay
etters that be has discovered a new
way to build railroads, without
either money or credit. by simply
proclaiming that he belonged to
the buckupperson family of Buck
uppersonville, finally got tired Of
bucking up against Grant Whitney's
fence last week and subsidized. Not
so with the men he had succeeded
in bringing here under false repre-
sensations. They also became weary
Of wind-pudding and promises, and
at an early hour Tuesday morning
they invited Joseph to caucus al
the camp, from whence, for some
cause or other, be did not return
to his hotel until late hour in the
evening, and it is rumored that the
boys would have eaten him, gall
and all, had it not been for the in
reference of some of our citizens.
But Joseph is still with us. big as
life. though his grading outfit has
gone back to Boise.
A Fatal Accident.
Idaho Falls Register: On Tues.
day very sad as we'll as singular
accident occurred Which cost John
McGill, young man % years old,
his life. He was running sulky
pillow drawn by four horses breaking
up large field. About IL O'Clock
in the forenoon his sister went out
to take him a drink of water and
found the team standing quietly on
the plowed ground several burrows
from the last one and his lifeless
body under the pillow with the point
sticking about six inches in his
body under the left arm. Death
must have been instantaneous.
His sister at once gave the alarm
and secured assistance. Upon exam.
ming the ground it seemed proba-
bile that the unfortunate man in
turning corner had through some
cause been thrown from the sea,
directly in front of the pillow which
must have been out of the ground
in making the turn. After he had
fallen the team had travelled about
fifty yards and stopped.
Bitten by Snake.
Lewiston Teller: A little child Of
Mat McGillick, 20 months old, liv'
ing five miles from this city was
bitten by a rattle snake last Sunday
The mother was temporarily absent
from the house and returned just
in time to hear the baby scream
from pain. The mother hurried
frantically to the back yard to find
the snake, a large RATHER, ceileo
around the child's arm from the
wrist TO the shoulder. The poison
Gus fangs of the reptile were sunk
deep in the tender flesh Of the hand
between the thumb and fore finger
The mother tore the serpent away
She corded the wrist to prevent the
poison from going to the body, ano
hailed a neighbours wagon which
was passing, and was rapidly driver
to town. DIR. Shaft cauterized the
wound and under his treatment tht
child, which was badly poisoned
has fully recovered.
Man Drowned.
The Lewiston Teller gives an &C
count of a sad accident that oc
Cured at the Clearwater ferry neal
that city on the Goth inst, by which
Thomas Aram, stock grower from
Camas prairie, lost his life. H'
was a passenger on the boat wheI
it sank from an over load of cattle
d;,onou0od from thu