The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-08-18
state News.

The Challis Messenger says the
Yellow Jacket will give work TO soc
men this fall.
There are now 104 prisoners in
the penitentiary, three more than
at any time in the history of the
institution.
DR.. w. G. Maxey, Of Caldwell,
has been appointed commandant OF
the Soldiers Home at this place.
He will take control Of the home
October LIST.
Mrs. Laura Bunting, wife Of Chas.
Bunting, the banker at Blackfoot
and republican nominee for state
treasurer, died at Blackfoot August
18th after . short illness.
The Lemhi Republic says: It is
said that all the fords on Salmon
river are washed out, and So far no
one has been able to find place
where it can be crossed.
The Evening Mail says that there
is report to the effect that General
Otis has ordered the abandonment
of the Boise post and that the
troops will be sent to Detroit, Mich.
Shoshone Journal: Monday last
an order was posted in the shops
notifying the men that on Septem-
Der LIST, or as soon as work was
completed on two engines now un-
dergoing repairs, the shops would
be closed for an indefinite time.
The above is a hard blow to the
mechanics and laboring men who
for years have toiled at this point,
and also to the general community.
Charley Black, the Spring Greek
rancher, near Bellevue, had mar.
row escape in a runaway this week
while moving. The team made a
total wreck of the mower, and Mr..
Black got his feet tangled up in the |
lines and was dragged a hundred
feet or so, but escaped with only a
few scratches.
Idaho Democrat The Democrat
regrets to state that Mark Ainslie,
the we'll known and popular mining
man was probably fatally injured
last evening. In returning to Neal
in carriage his team ran away and
plunged over an embankment. He
was thrown out and sustained in
juries resulting in paralysis of the
arms and lower portion of the body.
He was brought back to Boise and
his recovery is extremely doubtful.
Mountain Home Bulletin: APP.
parently, Pat Linnehan, who with
MS wife has been conducting the
Gilmore hotel in this place for a
of years. is heir to a large
sum Of money-$1OO, 900 or more
~ the death several years ago Of a
1ephew at Phillipsburg, Montana.
A gentleman named Evans, who re.
sided at Phillipsburg at the time of
he death of Jerry T. Linnehan, and
Who was not only an intimate &C.
luaintance of the deceased but a
brother Odd Fellow, CHANGED to
meet Mrs. Linnehan at her hotel
asst Saturday evening and question
ng her regarding her relatives he
vas convinced that an heir to the I
state of Jerry Linnehan had at last
zen found, and that that heir was
zone other than Pat Linnehan, now ]
t bis ranch in Owyhee county. )
Ceur d'Alene Miner: The Gem
1lne is now running smoothly with
Is full complement of miners. 8
he new compressor was started
p at the commencement of the
eek and is giving excellent salts
action. They have introduced the ,
'urleigh drills into the shaft, which
now SO feet deep.
The Bunker Hill company has
cen dropping off some of the con- !
actors recently and is doing the
anne work under days pay. There ..
re 26O men at work at tho mine !
nd in the shops, tramways, etc.
round it, those at work in the mill !
up the number to about :
% in the employ of the company. :
he pay rolls last month amounted !,
} $38, 600. All work beneath the !.
vel of the Reed tunnel has ceased
II the present. =
The Poorman is again in full :
asst, with about IT'S men at work. i
urke has, consequently, resumed "
old time activity, but it will be :,
veral weeks before the jingle "
the silver dollar becomes mono. n
nous. =,
Idaho World: John Early arrived .
ire last Sunday from Greyhound
ountain. He brought eighteen
cks of ore to Banner which will b,
obably be worked in the Banner b
i'll. Mr.. Early had some magnif- =
mt specimens of ore from his r
ines. They are literally filled RI
tn silver in the form of chloride ID
d sulplurets. Mr.. Early expects &
haul out large quantities Of ore
ef the State road to Banner next
ar, and will probably haul out a Sc
; this fall. He says he has been th
nearly all the great mining camps =
the Pacific coast, and has no Oh
eitancy in saying that the best so