The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-09-25
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tn President has appaineo
Warren G. rsnton fos pooemaste
At Boise City.
Il II rumored that Ex-India,
Agent Tstes y still some $1,000
short in his settlement with q
government.
Judgs Beatty has appointed Jane
81. W1ilis, editor Of tho Paris Post
United States Commissioners for til
District Of Idaho, by Judge Beatty
At Boise one day last wssk Judg
Stewart sentenced . man convictet
Of perjury 70 ten years il the psni
Tertiary. This 10 the first convic
ton for tho crime Of perjury tha
has been had Ia Idaho for I eoo<
many years.
The name of the town of VollmeI
in Latah county has been changed
BY vote Of tho citizens to Troy
The residents Of that place Or,
nearly all foreigners. They canno
articulats tho sound Of ". Fol
that reason they voted to change
the name.
The Wallace Tribune says Scott
Harmon, of Burke, Conrad Seem
Charles Range and Mr.. Barnum, o.
Murray. and it 10 believed some
others from this district we're among
the passengers on the Eliza Ander'
son which sailed from Seattle Aug
ust 10 for Dawson City and which
10 reported to have gone down d
sea in . gale about 50 miles from
whore the Mexico sank, and thai
every soul on board was lost.
DeLamar Nugget: Stud poker Il
again fourishing in town. The
tih horns are putting in long shifts
once more.
Idaho Falls Register The printer,
]. D. Nash, who was bound over
about two months ago for forging 4
signature on . check, escaped from
Jail last Saturday and is still 1t
large.
An Awful Accident
Pocatello Tribune: The year old
baby of Mr.. aud Mrs. Sorgatz met
With m awful accident yesterday.
The baby's older brother was chop
ping wood and the axe few off the
handle and struck the babe on the
bead cutting . fearful cash in its
head and severing the temporal
artery. DR.. Steeley was summoned
ust in time to save tho child from
to death. It is reported
getting along AZ we'll az could be
now.
Chila Drowned.
Emmett Index: A Two and one
half year old child whose parents
reside near Van Wyck, in Long
valley, wandered away from home
IN the 9th inst, and after travelling
almost two miles through fields
md over bitches, fell into q shallow
BOND and was drowned. The body
vas not recovered until the next
lay. The child had crossed an
rrigating ditch in which the water
vas running . foot deep and then
drowned in q little pool of still
water only . few inches in depth.
Fruit Shipmsnts.
Weiser Signal: The packing
,ouse Of Harrel and Moulton 10
,usier this week than last week.
Eighteen oftwenty additional hands
ire at work packing the fruit coming
a from several orchards. About
he same number have been put to
york picking in Harris prnne or.
hard by H. 4 NJ. Several growers
ire picking their own fruit and
lauling to the packing house. The
rice delivered is cent per pound,
ID the tree 4 of q cent.
Boxes cost 8 cents ready for
packing 8 cents, each holds
70 pounds-2O cent, freight to Chi
ago 20 cents per box. It costs
bout 60 cents, all told, to pat .
70 pound box Of prunes from Weiser
nto Chicago market, which 10 about
g cheap 10 California can do 1t.
The railroads have given Harrel d
doulton very liberal freight rates.
they will ship about Is cars from
Veiser and 9 cars from Payette.
Rack Trom Klsndfks.
Boise Statesman George Lane,
former resident Of this city and
property owner here, passed
through Nampa the other day On
cute for Chicago. He left Boise
net June for Klondike, where he
las been very successful In the
lunt for gold. w. w. Lynch Of
his city met him at Nampa on
'usiness.
Mr.. Lane is going to Chicago for
be purpose of securing dogs with
vhich he expects to return to Alaska.
making tho trip over Chilcoot pasa
his winter. He s4ys that the perils