The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-10-19

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iured victims were taken to Pueblo
and are now in the Sisters hospital,
where they are receiving the best
medical attendance. It was i'm
possible to recover the body of the
man at the bottom of the we'll, on
account of the flames, and in all
probability the flames consumed it
in short time. Should the vein
prove extensive it will be extremely
valuable, Notwithstanding the tragic
circumstances attending its discov-
cry. At last accounts the gas was
still burning, and it was not known
what steps the railroad company
intend to take in regard to utilizing
the valuable gas.
ANOTHER ENocH ARDEN.
About eight years ago Henry
Brubaker, q well-to-do farmer of
Huntertown, Indiana, disappeared,
leaving a wife and six children be-
hind him. After waiting four years
and receiving no tidings of him.
Mrs. Brubaker, believing her hus-
band to be- dead, married farmer
named Conrad Snyder. A few days
ago Brubaker appeared at his old
home and explained that actuated
by an irresistible impulse he bad
gone to California and made q for
tune. When informed that his for
mer wife was happily married to
another husband, he accepted the
situation philosophically and the
next day started on his return to
California.
ELOPCD WITH A CONVICT.
Quite sensation was created in
Little Falls, Mimi, q few mornings
ago BY the discovery that Mrs. J.
P. Sand, wife Of the depty sheriff,
had taken her husbands revolver,
keys, and fifty dollars, and after
liberating John Mitchell, sentenced
at the late term of the district court
to the State Reformatory at St.
Cloud, eloped with him. She was
seen to board the midnight train
north, and it is supposed he got on
the same train from the opposite
side. The sheriff and deputy are
in hot pursuit, but will prob ably
not get Mitchell as he is we'll ac-
quainted with the Cass county
woods where the couple are sup
posed to be hiding. Mitchell was
convicted of highway robbery, and
now that he has even robbed the
jailer of his wife and his money, he
is looked upon as quite a novelty
in the way of a crook. Mitchell is
20 years old and the woman is 40.
She leaves besides her husband,
three children, the oldest being just
the age of Mitchell.
A ROUGH EXPERIENCE.
w. P. Thompson, editor of the
Guthrie News and attorney of the
Iowa Indians, experienced, lately, a
long siege of outrageous treatment
at the Otoe reservation. He went
there with two interpreters in his
his capacity as attorney for the
Iowas, TO consummate a plan for
the removal of that tribe of eighty
persons from their own reservation
near Guthrie to that of the Otoe,
the preliminaries of the transfer
having been previously arranged.
A pow-wow was in full progress
when a party Of half-breed scouts,
hostile to the removal, made an at
tack upon the council. The inter-
prefers took to the woods and
Thompson managed to reach Red
Rock station. There he was dis
covered by the pursuing scouts,
who at the point of their muskets
marched him to the agents house,
where he was examined. He was
finally allowed to 60, after being
refused food and shelter and was
obliged to walk to the nearest sta
ton. This treatment, it is sup
posed, had been dictated by the
fear that he would be an instrument
in causing the Otoes to consent to
opening their lands to settlement.
IGNORANCE IN ENGLAND. >.
It is said that one good is likely |
to result from the recent visit of EN-
peror William to England. Among
the many questions he asked in his
nervous incisive way, was one
as to the percentage of illiterate
persons in England. An approx
mate estimate being given him, he |
bluntly expressed his surprise at
the existence Of such a condition
of popular ignorance in q country
so wealthy and SO high in the
scale of civilization. His COM
ments were repeated to the Queen,
who lost no time in laying the |
matter before her advisers and re-
questing them to suggest q rem
edy. The persistent agitators who
have for so many years kept the |
question of free schools before the |
public in spite of their discourage
ing experience, feel at least that |
there is a prospect of seeing their |
labors crowned with success, but |
they complain bitterly of the indif- |
ference of most of the people of