The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-03-28

6hoehone Journal: Frank Mile
came near going . join the angsll
last Saturday. HI va Just Gross
ine IT, bridge over Wood river, Of
lthe 6tifasr ranch, With : team ant
II heavy load, when The struotur,
collapsed and Frank, load and 81
lwsrs dropped into tls river. Butfol
timely aid, III would have been lost
A letter from Gooding (Toponis)
| IN tho Shoshone Journal says: r
r. Gooding has ! number Of teaml
| q work around his new house this
week blowing and preparing The
ground for trees.
The Gooding brothers have com.
menced work On their big Wood
river ditch. The ditch will be three
miles long, with 100 rods Of flume,
estimated to cost $1,000. It js .
good thing for this part Of the
county to have such enterprising
citizens % this.
Lewiston Tribune: To evade her
creditors, on Wednesday last Mrs.
Mary E. Goddard, recently tried
for the murder Of tho late John
Siers, filed homestead declaration
on her real estate in this county,
one chattel mortgage on a-hundred
head of her stock to Miss Mott, her
sister, another chattel mortgage to
Mr.. Thos. Robertson, an old friend,
= bill of sale of her hay to Sam
Likes, an old employe, and . deed
of her Spokane county real estate
to Jones & Givens of San Francis
CO. It is said that all these trans
fers were made to defeat and de-
fraud her faithful attorney, Mr..
Reid, and her faithful physician, DR..
Morris, neither Of whom have been
paid for their professional services.
Albion Bee: Miss Nellie Mccoy,
who has been attending school here
this winter aud whose home 10 1t
Bay horse. Idaho, made an attempt
to reach her home by tho way Of
Ketchum last week but was COM
PEELED to return to Albion. The
snow on the divide between Bay
horse and Ketchum is fifteen feet
deep. She left however on Mondays
stage and will 60 by the way Of
Blackfoot where the road is said to
be open.
Keogh Bros. and Sweetser Bros. &
Pierce are driving about 1000 head
of cattle acrose Snake river prepar-
atory to taking the trail for Mon
tana as soon ~ the grass is suf-
ficiently started to keep them in
flesh on the trail.
News-Miner: |. T. Osborn, J. C.
Fox and Geo. w. Richards, hereto
fore appointed by the probate Judge
of Ada county to appraise the estate
of J. B. Oldham in Blaine county,
performed that duty Wednesday.
The total appraisement amounts
to 1850.
The Secretary of the Interior has
recently rendered an important de-
cision in the case of q protest against
the application for patent for placer
claim 1t Gibbonsville, Lemhi coun-
~. This placer, % located, en-
braced about half Of the town Of
G ibbonsville, and was evidently only
located for speculative purposes,
locators thinking the townsite peo-
pie would be forced to buy them
out. Tho secretary's decision Was
in favor Of the townsite. This con-
test was commenced in the HALEY
land Office some three years ago.
Free Press "A subsidiary pay.
ment Of $4,000, withheld on legal
grounds at the time of the original
will be made to tho Nee
Perce Indians % soon % tho cleri-
cal work can be completed. There
is also another annual interest pay.
ment Of $4,000 overdue and like
y to b. paid At any date.
A great deal of wealth 10 going
10 be produced from the mines Of
Idaho county this summer and for /
many long years hereafter, and We
want to see the people Of Camas
prairie reap I'll the benefits to be
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