The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-05-01
IDAHO NEWS.
Items Of Interest Taken From Our
State Exchanges.

| DianODO1lElU JACK was sen
fenced by Judge Stockslager las
Saturday to be hanged on June 4th
, The Idaho Board of Pardons re
!, fused to commute Sid Earkins' sen
tence. He was hung yesterday a
} Blackfoot.
| Governor Steunenberg has re-
ceived from the national govern
ment 1925 as the allowance fol
the soldiers home for the quarter
ended March 31st.
| Fred Gleeson, who was charged
with the murder of Daniel c. Cum.
mings in February last has been
acquitted. He was at once rearrested
on the charge of being an accessory
in the murder Of John G.. Wilson
for which "Diamondfield Jack" il
condemned to die.
The Kensler and Ereel trial is in
progress at Mountain Home. About
80 witnesses were summoned from
Glenn's Ferry and vicinity. The
murdered mans little daughter, 9
years old. came from Ogden Mon
day, where she has been for the
last five months. It is supposed
she will figure considerably in the
evidence.
John Varcoe returned from his
trip to Bellevue, Ida, yesterday,
says the Park City Record, where
he had been inspecting a dump with
a view of moving up his jigging
plant to work up. Mr.. Varcoe says
it is good proposition and will
return in few days to make prep
arations for commencing work. He
will take several men from Park
City when he goes TO- do his work.
A dispatch from Portland. Or,
April 25th says: Charles O'Neil, a
prominent attorney Of Wallace,
! Idaho, died suddenly this afternoon
at the residence of B. d. Crocker
in this city. The deceased was
married last Tuesday to- Miss Flea
nor H. Truax. He was stricken
with acute BEight's disease Thurs
day, which developed uraemic poi
son, resulting in death. O'Nell was
q native of New Hampshire. He
went to Wallace in 1884, and was
Prosecuting Attorney of Shoshone
county, Idaho, during the strike in
the Occur d'Alene mines.
Mayor Reeves of Pocatello, has
instructed the members of the po-
lice force to arrest all boys that
they find on the streets after $50
O'Clock and take them home calling
the attention of their parents to
what they were doing. If they find
the same boys out a second time
they are instructed to arrest them
and lock them up in The city Jail
and keep them there until their
parents come for them. Upon the
third arrest for this offense the po-
lice officers are instructed to lock
up the boys and prosecute them
the same as they would any other
law breakers.
Paris Post What might have
proved a fatal shooting affair oc
Cured in Paris on Friday afternoon
at the home of Henry Bolton,
One of the large boys of that family
had been hunting that morning
with % rife, and laid it behind
the door without taking out the
cartridges. A small boy, child-like,
saw the gun, took it upr and sho,
it off. just as his 12-year-old sister
was going out of the door. The
bullet entered the left shoulder and
imbedded itself somewhere in the
body, nobody knows where, as all
attempts of the surgeons who were
called in have failed to locate it.
But the little girl shows signs of
recovering from what at first seemed
fatal wound.
Payette Independent: Ed Bran
man,, formerly proprietor of the Pa
cific hotel at Caldwell, has become
resident of Payette. Mr.. Brannan
has purchased the furniture and
taken three years lease on the
Hotel Idaho and will take posses
sion of that popular hostelry on
the first of the coming month.
We have seen a letter written by
Mr.. Edison of New York to Mayor
Moss of Payette, in which the gen
tleman who is said to- be closely
identified with our Seven Devils
railroad, expresses his satisfaction
with the selection of Payette as a
starting point and says he hopes to
be with us soon when he will look
over the entire proposition. We
hope our mayor may be able to say
something to the exmayor Of New
York that will draw like loadstone.
We have plenty of intrinsic value
out here and are just waiting for
some fellow who can inject little
fiat into it.
Seven Devils Railroad.
Weiser Signal. Developments
are very meagre indeed. The New
York parties have not arrived and
g.. NO ooo no learned thpro is