Ketchum daily keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1884-1884, 1884-07-25
TOWN TIDINGs.

j. H. Hawleys claim for $50 In de-
Tense OF Pierson was cut to s162. so and
that amount allowed
The Independent and Diamond mines
at Elkhorn have been bonded for sixty
days to s. b. Woodwork: privilege OF
purchasing Tor $4,000.
Main street is daily crowded with
teams, and yesterday there was more
than the usual number. Several wagons
loaded with salt for the Vienna mill were
among them.
VIM. Gailhouse appeared before Jus
tice Wheeler this morning on charge
uf stage robbery, and was held to appear
before the next Grand Jury bond fixed
at 81 900.
1t was generally thought yesterday
evening that the other person supposed
to be implicated in the stage robbery
Wednesday has managed to escape from
the country.
1t is said that Gov Bum will make a
visit to ketchum shortly. 1t is time for
him to explore this portion Of his do
minions, and find out what mineral
country is made of.
The Broadford Miners Union has is.
sued an address to the public explana-
tory of the late difficulties among the
miners at the Minnie Moore mine and
the employers. The strike continues.
Legal and medical business about
ketchum just now is dull. Neither doc
tors nor lawyers are growing rich very
rapidly. The general health OF the
community is good and society disposed
TO peace.
Fine, pleasant days now on Wood Eiv-
er, but the nights are Geld, especially to-
ward morning. The gardens about
town look fourishing. and apparently
have suffered nothing from the slight
frost one night this week.
Among the proceedings Of the Beard
yesterday we find the following war
rant was ordered drawn IN favor Of C.
II. Furey for 1885, to pay for the conn
tvs proportion of the cost of building
the new branch jail at Ketchum.
The News Miner says: "sherif Flu
rey left yesterday morning on the train
for Boise, carrying with him three rris-
oners for the penitentiary. They We're
as follows: James Fletcher and James
Latissure, grand larceny. one year each,
and All Sin, Chinaman of Vienna,
grand larceny, for two years.
MIR. Althouse is here with some very
rich specimens of silver, copper and iron
ore from late discovery on the Lost
side of the divide, at the head of the
North Fork OF Wood River. The mine
is called the Copper Bottom. The ore
shows copper that can be cut almost
anywhere with knife. The rock was
being assayed yesterday.
Parties who were down on the river
yesterday evening near the saw mill re-
port lively exchange of shots between
some unknown persons ON opposite
sides of the river. From twenty to thir-
ty shots were fired-the bullets whist
ling among the trees and striking the
banks in way that induced sudden
retreat on the part of several Ioiterers.
Who the parties were, or what the shoot
ing was about is something of a mystery.
Taylor Althouse, from Atlanta, is here
on mining affairs, in which he is inter-
ested all along the line of Wood River.
He informs us that the Tehoma mill, ut
Atlanta, is completed, and the water
turned ill., The mine is in good shape
to extract ora to run the mill steadily
with small force of men. There are
I'VE mills at Atlanta, including the
Monarch, which will be in running or
der in October. 1t is 15-stamp mill,
owned exclusively by the Monarch
Company. The Monarch mine is work
ing thirty men; and other mines alto