The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-06-08

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Strawberries ars selling ID Payetss
for = bit = quart,
The trustees Of tho soldiers home
are taking steps to secure from tn
general government the annual 81
Iowance Of 500 for each inmate d
the home.
Charles Ny, ! native Of Finland,
while descending . ladder in The
Red Cloud mine, near HALEY, last
Monday, missed his hold in some
way and fell Z distance Of 100 feet
and Was instantly killed.
Tie house, barn aud corral Of
George Froman at Froman's ferry,
ton miles from Caldwell on the
Snake river, were burned on the
morning of June 1st. Loss between
$500 and $1,000. Il 10 supposed
to have been the work of an incen-
diary.
Gilmore Bulletin: w. T. Smith,
who left here nearly two..years ago,
and who has since travelled through
Utah. Kansas, Colorado, New Mex
leo, Texas and Florida, returned
last Thursday q wiser, if not a
weather. man. He says the peo-
pie of Idaho do not realize the
meaning of the words "hard times, .
and that he has returned here to
remain.
Silver Messenger: Coroner Jones
went down to Houston on the 18th
of May, exhumed the remains Of
George Watson, held an inquest,
and the jury brought in verdict !:
I'VE, your jury, find that George
Watson came to his death from gum
shot wounds by a gun held in the
hands of Paul P. Lawson" Coroner
Jones then gave the deceased a
decent burial-had q good coffin
made, washed and dressed the
corpse-and a large concourse Of
people were in attendance at the
funeral. The first burial of Mr..
Watson, previous to Mr.. Jones ar
rival, was inhuman in extreme.
The corpse was placed in rough
board box without being washed
or dressed, with q sack Of hay for
pillow.
The preliminary examination Of
Paul p. Lawson and son was beld
before Judge Seigler, of Challie, on
May 9th and 28th. Paul p. Law
son was held without bail to await
the action of the district court, and
O. Lawson was placed under $500
bonds, which were furnished, to
appear before the district court.
Boise Democrat: John Farley
now believes that he can successful
ly work his rich silver ore at Sheep
mountain without building costly
smelter. He has been experiment
ing for two or three years himself
and recently man came along and
gave him the pointers he had been
hunting. This man will accompany
Mr.. Farley to Sheep mountain and
assist him during the season in his
efforts toward separating the silver
and gold from the base stuff. His
friends hope that when he returns
in the fall he will bring down on
packtrain cargo of bullion. The
lodges out there are fabulously rich,
but the great drawback to thorough
development has been their inac-
feasibility only for small portion
of each year in consequence of alti-
tude, depth of snow and distance.
Notwithstanding this, however, the
wealth of that region cannot much
longer remain hidden.
The Democrat has piece of ore
from the rich strike recently made
in the Gen. Petit mine at Atlanta.
This valuable property, as before
said in these columns, is owned BY
Gen. Petit, F. r. Coffin, D. Falk,
Hal Coffin and A. L. Richardson,
and is one of the Group on the
ledge that was pronounced by Prof.
Clayton to be the richest and most
extensive in the world and practic-
ally inexhaustable.