The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-12
IDAHO NEWS.
Items Of Interest Taken From Our
State Exchanges.

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permitted to make up time.
There was another jail-break a,
Pocatello last Saturday, and two
prisoners made their escape.
Ben Cooper of Grangeville is re.
ported to have had 1000 sheep swept
into the river and drowned in the
recent cloud burst on Salmon river
On the 23d the first horses wen,
into the town of Seven Devils, the
snow having gone off sufficiently
to permit them to get to the Peacock.
Ex-senator Dubois left Blackfoot
last Saturday for Chicago to attend
the meeting of the National Silver
Republican Committee which met
in that city Tuesday. Mr.. Dubois
is committeeman for Idaho.
While attempting to board a
northbound freight train at Idaho
Falls Tuesday evening George c..
Smith fell under the wheels of the
car and both legs were cut off below
the knees.
Payette Independent: Jack Con-
nelly, one of the sheep shearers
killed in the Oregon Short Line
wreck at American Falls, spent some
time in Payette just previous to go.
ing out with the party of shearers.
Before leaving!he deposited $50 with
J. R. Banks. The entire party of
shearers spent their last Sunday on
earth at this place. So far as known
the men were without families.
Paris Post: Apostle Heber Grant,
at an early hour last Friday morn:
ing, was attacked by appendicitis.
He was removed to the Holy Cross
hospital on Saturday, where an OPP
Grafton for the removal of the YER
inform appendix was performed by
DR.. Richards. The operation devel-
oped the fact that the inflammation
has been so severe that hole had
been eaten through the appendix,
the pus to escape into the
abdominal cavity and stomach. His
is extremely critical.
Salubria Citizen: John Athen. a
prominent mining expert who is
well-known throughout the entire
and in the mining world
generally, accompanied by assist
ants, was in the Seven Devils dis
trict last week and visited the
Peacock mine. In conversation
with him he said that there was
more pay ore in sight on the sur
face of the Peacock mine than he
had ever seen in a developed mine
under ground in all bis experience
as mining expert.
Pccatello Tribune: A horrible
accident occurred at Oxford Mon
day in which the nine-year-old sob
of Martin Boysen was dragged to
death. The boy had started out
early in the morning TO herd some
about four miles from his
home and was either thrown or fell
off his horse. His foot caught in
the stirrup and be must have been
dragged for quite time. The body
was horribly mangled. The neck
was broken, one shoulder crushed,
one leg broken and the whole body
kicked almost into a pulp.
At Moscow, last week, a lot of
were convicted who
had been caught manufacturing
spurious coins on Salmon river, in
Idaho county. Judge Beatty SEN
fenced them as follows: James and
John Eddy and Emmett Taylorto 16
years at hard labor and fine of 5000
each. Chas. Scroggins and Frank
Frelighe were convicted on four
count. and were given six years and
a fine of 800 each. 1.W. Splaughn.
who was convicted upon four counts
was given eight years and a similar
fine. Sam Splaughn and Newton
Eddy, who were convicted upon one
count, that of conspiracy,were given
two years and twenty months re-
spectiyely, and fined 81 900 each.
They were all sentenced to the house
of correction at Detroit, Michigan.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Coakley re-
turned from Detroit last Saturday.
where he escorted the eight United
States prisoners. They will not be
allowed to see or speak TO each
other during their confinement In
the prison.
Alfred Freel confessed to cell
mate at Mountain Home that he
killed John Kensler, that Mrs. Ken
sler was not at all implicated with
the murder OF her husband. His
cellma,e gave his confession to the
public and accompanied it with an
affidavit. We refrain from pub
fishing Freel's confession as it is
unfi, to appear in the columns OF
paper. The Mountain Home
Bulletin says: Freel's confession
fell fiat in this community. But
few, if any, have given 1t serious
consideration. The channel through
which it was procured and the cir.
as we'll as Mrs. Ken
,ler's statement, after her sentence,
hat "Freel did not do the killing