The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-09-01

NOTWITHSTANDING tu0 NIlpP4o VIVA
papers claim over 100, and the deep.
est one, the Victor, is $50 feet, the
balance average about 100, perhaps
100 feet. The rock is easily worked,
consequently the greatest number
of men employed At any of the most
prosperous mines is about 40, and
some included in the % enumerated
work as low as 6 men.
The Union claims that there are
about $50 men employed in the
camp, which includes Cripple Greek,
Mound City, Barry, Lawrence, See-
qua, Victor and Altman, the two
latter places possessing nearly all
the mines of any account.
When I came here there were
nearly 1900 idle men in the camp,
but the number has been lessened
by migration to the San Juan and
other camps, until there remains
about 500, and q sorry lot they are,
tramping these hills from day to
day, taking in tho various mines in
the vain hope that POSSIBLY they
may get a job at something. but
generally meet with that stereo-
typed answer, "We are full"
There are three of the Idaho men
employed; the balance of us are
simply tramps, helping to make up
the great cavalcade of labor hunt
ers. A man could get the nomina.
ton to congress easier than get a
job. Go TO some mines and you
meet tho influence of the Union
against you, at others they are not
slow to inform you that unless you
belong to that un-American institu-
ton, the A. P. A. (which the Re-
publican party is pushing for all it
is worth to carry this county in the
interests of the plutocrat, but are
very liable to fail), your name is
Dennis.
There are frequent hold ups here
and several persons have been shot.
The Republican press immediate
ly set up the howl that it is the
Union men who are endeavoring to
kill some imaginary deputy. not
withstanding the Union offered & !
reward of 500 for the conviction of
the parties who done the last shoot
ing few days ago. They are con-
stantly trying to bring on trouble
and keep up the i'll feeling. Colorado
Springs, q blooded un-American
English Colony, where they drive
tandems with their lackeys in knee
brseches and plug hats, and where
one of their danes is reported a.
saying that she had been in Ameri- |
ca three years but had never soiled
the sole of her shoe by stepping
upon Ameican soil, are the promot-
ers of all the deviltry from the drst
outbreak, and the ones who dined
the 100 brave deputies who we're
three weeks trying to get from Bull
Hill to Gillette, . distance Of two or
two and a half miles, until the mill
tia came, when they became unman-
ageable from anxiety to get at the
ESQ or possibly 800 miners on Bull
Hill. They have been levying .
constant hlackmail upon some Of
The mine owners ever since, and
to tar aud feather STRAIT
Ion. the owner of the Independence
mine ut Victor, because be refused,
last Friday, twenty-four. while in
Colorado Springs to be further hled.
This Republican highhandedness
reminds one Of the famous recon-
struction days in Dixie, when they |
kept the bloody shirt in the breeze
to further the interests Of tho 6. Q. p.
It IL doubtful if it works - sue
here. /
The Populists are not asleep, and
many . good man who 10 tramping |
these hills knows that It Is the foul
not of 1873 by the Republican party |
that has caused this over produc-
ton Of labor, and nothing slse. |
Now that the Demo- Republican
tariff farce 10 ended the silver men
who 90 to tho next Congress can
have : hearing. hope they will
DO men whose national platform
declares in favor Of unlimited coin
ago, 16 70 l, and no compromise,