The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-09-30

The profits of the DeLamar mines
last month was nearly $4,000.
Heavy forest fires have been rag
ing in the Seven Devils country.
The Bannock Indians are sup
plying the Pocatello market with
hay.
A state wool growers association
was organized at Mountain Home
last week.
Hon. A. J. Crook has sold his in
terests in the Clayton smelters and
mines.
Canyon county farmers will ex-
pertinent with broom corn next
season.
Monte Gwinn is still picking
strawberries from his ranch near
Caldwell.
A new thousand -dollsr Methodist
church is soon to be erected at
Glenn's Ferry.
A mining excitement has been
inaugurated on Weston creek, in
Oneida county.
A Pocatello man has patented
gate latch on which he expects to
make fortune.
A Challis woman cut her finger
off in attempting to amputate the
head of a chicken.
The Soldiers Home has finally
been located at Boise City in con-
sideration of $4,000.
The Harrison Lumber Company,
of Harrison, kootenai county, has
made an assignment.
A large number of men are at
present employed in the placer
mines near Leesburg.
The Globe smelter, of Denver,
has stopped purchasing ore in the
Ceur d'Alene district.
A couple of men are in Jail at
Montpelier for attempting to rape
two girls of that place.
Gibbonsville, Lemhi county, is to
have pyrite smelter, to be erected
by a Montana company.
Eugene Lorton, of the Boise Sen
tinel, will start paper at Emmett
about the 14th of next month.
Gov. Wiley. in connection with
others, has sold body of placer
ground, near Warren, for $4,000.
A railroad is talked of between
Payette and Emmett, and Cald-
we'll will build one to the Worlds
Fair.
The fruit growers near Weiser
are in danger Of losing their prune
crop on account of continued wet
weather.
Bonaparte, a once-famous min
ing camp in the Rocky Bar coun-
try, has but three families living in
it at present.
The tax roll of Binghsm county
does not contain a piano. The peo-
pie of Bingham county are evident
ly not musical.
The state land department Off
Gals have filed twenty contests In
the Boise land Office, and more are
to be filed soon.
Shoshone county had to dispense
with the regular term of court on
account of not having any funds to
pay the expenses.
Business men at Glenn's Ferry
are rebuilding with stone where
their wooden structures were re-
Gently burned by FIRE.
Grangeville wants to incorporate,
and wants water works, electric
light plants, race track, q $25,OOO
brick hotel and a county seat.
It is intimated that Governor
Mcconnell will not resign on ac-
count OF any disgrace that might
arise from private business troubles.
Pocatello has a sensation in a
rape case, in which a prominent
young man of Pocatello figures as
the rapist, and girl under IA as
the victim.
Commissioner Wells has been
completing arrangements to have
weekly shipments of Idaho fruit to
the Worlds Fair during the month
Of October.
A mica vein has been discovered
in the Last Chance mine at Ward
ner, and J. F. Cameron, one OF the
owners, has fallen heir to 100000
in England.
The State University of Idaho
opened at Moscow on September
Dist, with 80 pupils enrolled. The
stone and brick work on the build
ing is completed.