The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-06-16

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be attended to, even if tho exchequel
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state News.
Fremont county has lost several
costly bridges BY the recent high
water.
Governor Mcconnell has offered
= reward Of $500 for the conviction
Of the murderer of John Randolph
of Logon county.
The Cmur d'Alene Miner says the
Frisco mine and mill are running
in full blast, and tho Poorman and
Gem will resume operations in q
few days.
Lewiston Was flooded last week
by the breaking of the dyke. Side
walks and fences were swept away
and the lower floors of the build
ings damaged. No lives were lost.
Shoshone Journal: Someone
went to the Silk Brothers ranch
near Taponis last Tuesday and shot
and killed five head of horses and
Ave head Of cattle belonging to the
Silks. There is certain party sus-
picioned, and it promises to be a
sensational case.
A terrible wind storm swept over
Nampa and Caldwell one day last
week. Roofs were blown off, sheds
and outhouses demolished, and the
fruit trees and shrubbery badly
damaged. The leaves Of vegetation
turned black and shriveled up, it is
said, - If they had boon exposed
to tho beat of . furnace.
Nampa Progress: 8. Gundaker,
state boiler inspector, was in Nam
pa Tuesday waiting for q train from
the west. The duties of his posi-
ton keep him on the run. He re-
ports that there are $50 licensed
engineers in the state. They pay 81
. year for their licenses. It costs
$40 for the proper inspection of q
boiler. The Office is almost self
supporting.
Sundays zephyr was a scorcher.
It came dancing along from the
southwest with = spirit. of frolic and
mischief. It ripped off the roof Of
q freight car standing near the de-
pot, dismantled Bergh's windmill,
tore Simpsons awning from its
fastening, ripped open some cotton
signs, uroofed a Aimsy cabin, and
toppled over some rotten-posted
fences. The wind was not hot but
it withered vegetation along its
track.
Blackfoot News: The state wagon
road may furnish world of accom-
to travellers through the
interior of the State. but its politi-
cal pay will be of the poorest kind
to some Of its early friends and pro-
jectors. If they pull through the
next campaign it will be wonder.
Silver City Avalanche: On
Thursday afternoon of last week
! cloud burst near the head of Roy
holds, Wilson, Squaw and Jump
creeks in this county, flooding
hose streams and doing consider
able damage to ranches. At Rey-
holds the creek rose about four feet
IN a very short space of time. Chas.
Shares alfalfa field was covered by
several inches of sand and debris,
running the hay crop for this year.
AT Babbington's, the food de-
,troyed a portion Of the orchard,
swept through the fields and de-
many acres of growing al
Falfa. J. n. Brunzell's pipe line
which was bridged across the creek,
vas badly damaged, necessitating
considerable new pipe being put in.
Hon e. NJ. Hays, who has extern
tive interests on Squaw creek, visi-
ed his ranch early this week.
From him We learn that the torrent
carried away the heavy stone cor
ais (three walls about four feet
vide) and also the wall around his
orchard, some of the rock being
Washed over half q mile distant.
DeLamar Nugget: The number
# people who have come into this
lamp within the past ten days would
uggest that several contingents of
;oxey's army had moved in this d.
ection were it not that many of
he people who have come here
ave come in their own wagons,
ringing with them their wives,
'abies, horses and camping outfits.
there are camps with families.
lorses and cows strung ell up and
lown the gulch. What under the
un are they all going to do? How
re they all going to subsist here?
What brings them here? Nearly
II the people coming here are look
ng for work. They are but few of
hem miners. and coming hero With
sams, would look As if they we're
jobs of hauling wood or
imbers. But few Of them have
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