The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-06-15


for sale or lease, the present pub
fisher desiring to 60 ont Of business.
Two Thousand cows and calves
were issued to the Indians on Fort
Hall reservation in tho mouth Of
May.
Ninety-three homesteads were
filed in the Blackfoot land Office in
May, and these covered about 49,
500 acres.
Pocatello school trustees have
been flooded with applications for
teachers places. It is said they re-
ceived over two hundred.
S. G. Hale, mayor of Lewiston
and one of the pioneers of 1862,
died at his residence in Lewiston
last week Of heart trouble.
Mrs. Gross, widow of Otto Gross,
killed at Gleen's Ferry about elk
months ago, received judgment in
the District Court at Pocatello
against the U. p. company for
$1,000.
One evening last week a young
man was called across the street at
Mountain Home where three men
stood, when he was sand -bagged
and robbed by them. They made
good their escape.
Judge Standrod sentenced seven
offenders of the law at Pocatello
this week. Among the number was
Rasmus Olsen for incest upon his
three little daughters, he receiving a
sentence of six years at hard labor
in the penitentiary. All of the girls
were in court to testify against their
unnatural father, and the smallest
was hardly large enough to know
what swearing the truth meant.
E. J. Wright, charged with perjury,
was acquitted.
Trouble is again brewing in the
Ceur d'Alenes. The centre OF
trouble seems to be the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mine, which it is
proposed to start up under an
agreement with the leading citizens
that the company will be protected.
The Miners Union is said to be de
termined that the mine will not
start at the proposed rate Of wages.
Persons writing from there declare
that war will break out over it.
These persons do not give permits
sion to use their names, but there
is some very reliable testimony to
the foregoing effect. 1t is further
strongly intimated that the mine
owners and those siding with them
will make a finish fight Of it, and
that if the effort to control their
own property fails, the mines will
be permanently shut down.
Malad Enterprise: John Evans
on Deep creek saw a mouse running
acress the floor while be was eating
breakfast last Wednesday morning
and he prepared forthwith a pre-.
scription of strychnine and bread
for the little intruder. After the
preparation was made he laid it be-
side his plate to finish his breakfast.
In little while he began having
spasms and discovered to his hor-
ror that he had eaten the bread with
the strychnine on. Drs. Taylor
and Morgan were summoned and
in q short time he was pronounced
out of danger. An hour more and he
would have been beyond recovery.
Pocatello Advance: Last Sunday
night an entrance was forced into
the store of Thomas Crane q: Soda
Springs, the safe blown open, and
rifled of its contents, which con-
sisted of $1,000 in cash, and &c.,
600 worth Of notes, mortgages and
Salt Lake bank stock. The robbers
first broke open q tool chest be-
longing to Sam Gagon, to secure
an entrance. Sacks of oat meal,
dried peaches and other merchan-
disc was piled up over the safe to
drown the noise, and then the safe
door was blown entirely off with
nitro-glycerine. They had also pro-
vided themselves with water to put
out fire should one be started by
the explosion. The stolen papers
and the drawers of the safe were
found under the large wool ware
house near the depot, SO that $16 co
was all the plumber carried away.
Idaho Falls Register: Mrs. w.
Clemens, Of Soda Springs, COM
umenced divorce proceedings in the
District Court at Pocatello last
week. Mr.. Clemens filed cross
complaint and says that on Sept. Is,
1894 Mrs. Clemens, without cause,
left her home where she had been
we'll treated and abundantly pro-
vided for az his wife, and went
strolling over the country With q
baud of dissolute men and women
styling themselves The Kickapoo
Indian Show and Medicine Co., Of
which company the said Bert Inn
son was ! members" and that Mrs.
Clemens is still with the company
and living with Imson. He there
lore asks for an absolute divorce
from Mrs. Clemens and. The custody
of the children. ~ &
Word comes from St. Anthony