The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1882-08-25
The hop crop is light on The Pacific

lJ,UUO,U'U mas been expended on
DeLesseps' canal enterprise. 3
$780, 900 worth ofeattle have been |
sold by Montana stock men. II
A SAG, 900 damon found in Georgia.
California sent petroleum TO New
York in 1858.
a vein Of coal six feet in thickness
was discovered at Mantle, Ill. at +
depth Of 400 feet.
Miss Anna ingram, Of Albany, /
Oregon, shot big black bear; It is
supposed to be the animal that treed
the Montana bridegroom.
company of settlers in naming
their town called it Dictionary, be-
cause, as they said, chats the only |
place where peace, prosperity and |
happiness are always found.
| The Central Pacific railroad Is
about to erect new machine shops nt
| Wadsworth The buildings will be
extensive and are to be located on
the opposite side of the river from
town.
/ A herd of buffalo between Dead
wood and Cheyenne, are supposed |
to be the cause Of the break in the
telegraph line. The old bulls have |
a trick of scratching themselves
against the poles so vigorously that
they upset them, wires and all,
| A fish story from Washington ter
ritery has it that IN some ofthe small
streams tributary to the Columbia
river the salm6iI run in such big
; schools that tie less robus fish are
crowded out of the water, and that
the banks are strewed with dead fish
) thus forced out of their element.
Josh Billings says. "A reputashun
once broken may possibly be re-
paired. but the world will alwtls keep
; their eyes on the spnt where the
lSrack was" This is reproduced as
hint TO candidates for office to look
out for any skIacks" that they may
have
A Mr. Gotch haa started as rival
to Oscar Wilde, and is drawin {
crowds to his Rsthetic lectures in
London, He pronounces the pre-
sent male attire idiotic, condemns
hat, coat and vest, and reserves spe-
eiai bitternessf fbr trousers. He gnes
in for Knielserbockeis and stock
. ings no shir. fronts, no coat tails and
no pockets!
s, Bisinarck's artcsiah we'll Is down
$50 feet The Fargo we'll has a
depth of 147 feet. The well at Sioux
q City ie now down 1,790-feet, and is
going down at-the rate of ak inches
TO one foot a day in granite, The
job was let by contract for 1000 feet
/, and the contractor has aiready los,
money: Biologists claim that gran
ito is the bedrock, and that whef
a that compositi6n is struck there il
sno. use boring further for water,
.fhas Chicago, Milwankce & st
= Paulls work in Dakotais nowfapidil
approaching cdrnpletion. fthsss th,
twenty eight miles of the Scotiar,
& ine twenty miles Of the Spencer an
" Spirit lake branch to iron, and ther
is every prospect that the works vii
be completed e,tiiy' IN August TIL
other unfinished work in Dakota j
m about as follows: The Correction
vile line, forty-tLres miles, and th
Calliope line, fifty miles is all th
= uniformed grisde III which the n fsh
western Is interested, The Siau
City & Pacific has but the five mile
tlat and beyond the big cut at the N
obrara crossing The Wabash
n doing nothing toward completin
II. its patches OF grinding OH the nai
row glsage kne'snarthwes, of D.
Moines. and Is likely TO do nothih
this summon. The Burlington cedp
Rapids 4 Northern track shouI
have reached Spirit Lake ON the I'll
Z. and there is only the thirty mics {
parity buia Crude to Worthinggo
toeompictes Farther contracts. an
I. the beginning 81 work Oh eeiatrac'
III. sl,eads i6,, IS sfa Sioux v,ty- Dc