The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1895-08-24

Jesse Mileage, q fourteen-year
old boy living at Emmett has beer
adjudged insane and<sent to the
Blackfoot Asylum.
Boise Mail: J. II. Wickersham
who has Just returned from trip tc
Idaho City, reports that the forest
fires are doing much damage in that
locality, and that the possibility Of
getting them under control has been
abandoned. He says that one per.
son has already sustained the loss
of 500 cords Of wood, and various
other losses are reported.
A sheepherder in Jordan Valley
named Rollins met with what may
be fatal accident a few days ago
by an accidental discharge of his
gun. He was sitting down, reading.
with a shotgun. leaning on his
shoulder. 1t slipped down and dis
charged its contents into his left
shoulder, shooting away the top of
his left lung, two ribs and his collar
bone.
Challis Messenger: Mike Har-
ford. a prosperous farmer who
owned available ranch at Houston,
was accidentally killed last Wednes.
day. In some manner he fell from
load of hay and the heavy wagon
passed over him, after which he on
ly lived short time. He was an
old and hi bly, respected citizen.
On Sunday last s miles was lack
ing to complete the wagon road
from Challis to the mouth of Fourth
of July creek, and by Sept. 1st,
that short distance will be finished.
Also that portion of the road be-
tween the mouth of Fourth of July
creek and Yellow jacket will be
completed about the same time.
Malad Enterprise: Geo. c. Fish
er, of Oxford, died at Woods Cross,
Utah, of softening of the brain, in
duced by too much cigarette smok.
ing. He was forty years of age and
left a wife and large family. Malad
men with large families should
take warming from this sad incident
and remove their brains when
smoking cigarettes.
Caldwell Tribune: All Caldwell
sympathizes with poor Mrs. Mead
owcroft whose husband was buried
in Canyon Hill cemetery last Sum
day afternoon. Mr.. Meadowcroft
had been very i'll at Silver City and
the attendant physician advised an
immediate change to lower alti-
tude. This advice Mrs. Meadow
croft accepted and started at once
for Caldwell. The stage arrived in
this city on time and it was not un-
til its arrival that it WAS known
that Mr.. Meadowcroft was dead.
He had fallen asleep, apparently,
in his wife's arms and unconscious
Iy to her, had died several hours be-
fore. She had nursed him in this
position until the body had grown
cold and stiff and it was with great
difficulty that he could be properly
laid out for burial.
Mountain Home Bulletin: A 10
mule team, loaded with Atlanta mill
machinery, upset on the Lincoln
creek grade Tuesday and detained
the stage bound for this place sew
eral hours.
Manion's dog "Kieser" was found
a few days ago near his ranch on
the South Boise, but he was dead.
and the family mourneth. His body
was dangling from the fork OF a
small tree and was somewhat de-
composed. Whether "K!eser" COM
mitted suicide or not may never be
known, but the superstition now is
that he was jumping for a squirrel
in the tree when his head caught
in the fork, and not being able to
reach the ground with his hind feet
and extricate himself his wind was
shut off and he soon strangled.