The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-10-21
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1nere was %, OUU,UUU nre III new
York city this week.
Lucy Stone died at Neponset,
Mass, Oct, Is, at Is years of age.
About 1876 students have enrolled
at the State University.
Two thousand head of cattle were
shipped last month from Shoshone
to eastern markets.
Night-sessions of the Senate have
begun. The silver fight seems to
have developed into game of
freezeout.
In the burning of the Chicago
City Railroad barns last week, over
four hundred horses were roasted
in the flames.
Ada county warrants are dis
counted 20 per cent, and the Boise
National bank refuses to take them
at any price.
Four saloons in Pocatello have
closed their doors within the past
fortnight, and there has been no
revival there either.
Gov. Mcconnell has appointed
four delegates to the Farmers Ma
tional Congress which will meet in
Savannah, GA, December 18th.
Thomas Francis was struck by
rock falling in a stope where he was
working in the DeLamar mine, Last
week, and died few hours after.
The Salubria Citizen says that the
grass on the ranges in that vicinity,
which has grown since the fall rains
begun, is now fifteen inches long.
Thirty-seven of the sixty-fve men
who captured train at Sanderson,
Texas, were fined $40 each in the
police court at San Antonio.
Mrs. John r. Wilson, a Worlds
Fair lady manager from Dead wood.
was robbed of $4,000 worth of dia
monds at the Palmer House.
Oscar Wilde will visit New York
soon to witness the production of
his new play, "a Woman of No I'M
portance." There will be demand
for sunaowers.
A Wallace special says the Gem
mine resumed work on the 18th
with 25 men and the Frisco with
TO- II the price of lead goes up
more men will be put on.
General Lucius Fairchild of Wis
consin was elected Commander-in-
Chief of the Loyal Legion at the
annual meeting in Chicago to sue
coed the late ex-President Hayes.
A wealthy contractor of Quincy,
Ill, was a victim recently of the
deadly folding bed. He was lying
upon the bed, when it closed upon
him and he died from suffocation.
The Iowa populists have twenty
five speakers in the field. Every
county in the state is being thor
oughly canvassed. They are giving
the two old parties terrible shak-
ing up.
The bill has passed :he Senate
for the relief of prospectors to sus-
pend for one year the operation OF
the mining laws requiring 800
worth of work to be done annually
on mining claim.
Jerry Simpsons constituents tel
egraphed him to stand tor free
coinage, at a ratio of l6 to l, till
hi froze over, and they would
send him a pair of skates to come
home on the ice.
The Salvation Army of San Fran
cisco has received information that
host of tranps is moving upon
that city for winter quarters. They
expect about $4,000 of them in the
city before Christmas.
Idaho is the only state or coun-
try that will receive three medals
and diplomas in the Horticultural
department at the Worlds Fair.
As a fruit-growing region Idaho's
reputation has won the iaurels.
President Cleveland is making
more converts for the peoples party
by his peculiar advocacy of bimet-
allism, or method maintaining the
parity of gold and silver, than
Stewart and Weaver combined.
Hon. D. F. Mahana, who was a
member of the legislature from Nez
Perez at the last session, died at
his home last Saturday from the
effects of injuries received from be-
ing thrown from his horse about
three weeks ago.
A man has been sentenced in
Germany to prison for six months
for insulting an editor. The knights
of the quill are not regarded with
such a lofty degree of reverence in
this c .untry.
76l,C26
was the attendance at the Worlds Far
Chicago Day. About ! cent per mile
takes you to Chicago via the Union Pa