The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-29
IDAHO NEWS.
Items OF interest Taken From Our
State Exchanges.

ing like hot cakes for IS cents.
The commissioners Of the Black.
foot Asylum have closed their in.
vestigation of the charges brought
against DR.. Givens, with the result
that he is completely exoperated
from all blame.
A Chinese company that hal
been working placer ground or
Moore creek, just above the Hall
Way House, between Boise and
Idaho City, for ten years past, it il
said, have made in that period, $42,-
600.
Bruneau John. who died 1t GlenR's
Ferry few days ago, nearly 1OO
years old, won distinction for his
services as Government scout dur
ing the Bannock war. The War
department. presented him with a
silver medal in recognition of these
services, and Bruneau John priced
it above everything else.
The supreme court of Idaho has
handed down decision in the case
of Arthur Brown vs.. G. V. Bryan
ct al involving title to one-third
interest in the Red Elephant mine at
HALEY. It was decided in favor of
Brown. The decision lie important
because of the fact that it definitely
lays down the rule that in this
State trust deeds must be toreclosed
as mortgages.
The Shoshone Journal says: "The
bills of two or three persons who
attended the teachers institute last
fall have again been disallowed.
The commissioners believe in spend
ing the school fund in hiring tutors
to teach the children Of our own
county. in place of blowing it in
having teachers from other parts of
the states go out on picnic excur-
sion, and Lincoln county foot the
bill at the expense of her schools. /"
The Nampa Leader says: I'VE
have just received generous sup
ply of boom matter concerning a
particular locality in southern Ari-
IONA, and in a private letter the
manager wants a column of free
space as a matter of public inter-
est" Now we would like to have
granted the request but the circular
says, call we lack is water" Well,
water is said to be all that HI
lacks, and we cannot give free space
to such countries.
Fearfully Burned.
The Boise Democrat reports a
terrible accident which occurred in
that city Saturday. Two small
children OF Mr.. and Mrs. Hauk,
while playing in the kitchen around
the cooking stove, pulled a pot OF
boiling beans over and spilled the
scalding mass over their breasts
and stomachs. Both children we're
fearfully burned and the attending
physician feared one Of them would
die from its injuries.
Steamer for Snake River.
A dispatch from Portland, Or,
Jan. 21s, says: A steamer to be
used Oh the upper Snake river was
to. day shipped in sections from this
city by rail to Huntington, Or,
This is an incident in a big scheme
Of mining development in eastern
Oregon and Idaho. The develop.
ment plan includes the opening and
working of mines and building and
operating smelters, railroads aud q
steamer line.
Isaac Blake of New York, presi.
dent Of the Utah-Nsvada Company,
a corporation capitalized At $5,OOO,'
600. which was organized for the
purpose of managing other corpora
lions, and which controls the com.
pany concerned in this development
in Oregon and Idaho, is in the city
looking after the interests Of hi'
company.
The steamship shipped to Hunt
ineton will be used on Snake river
for carrying ore from near Mineral
Idaho, to the new copper smeltei
and to carry copper matte to Hunt
ington for shipment to market b,
rail. Blake states that his companl!
will start up their smelter near Min
eral, Idaho, in about three weeks
A Daring Eqaestrienne.
Boise Democrat: Miss Howells
the graceful, daring and matches.
young equestrienne whose appear
ance on the streets mounted on
spirited horse always draws GU
admiring crowds, came near losing
her life on Friday. She was riding
a powerful and fractions horse
which was unshod. The streets
were slippery and dangerous. u
Tenth her animal slipped and fel
and in the mix up she was kickee
in the breast by both hind feet
The force OF the kick was broker
by her being either 500 hear or TOT
distant. But her breath was knocked
out and the men who ran to bel
assistance believed her dead. Cent,
picking the young woman up tw'
men carried her up to DIR. January
~. Min and thin fivl