The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-19
IDAHO NEws.
Items Of Interest Taken From Our
State Exchanges.

Ate@s OF interest Taken From On,
State Exchanges.
The supreme court 10 in session
at Boise. The case of Blaine W
Lincoln county is on the calendar
Hon. Farley L. Williams of Sal
Lake and ex-Lieutenant Governor
Borrower of Shoshone will appear
in the case.
Shoshone Journal: Mr.. Peck kill,
an average Of 600 rabbits every
evening on his ranch near Toponis
Having made a wire netting cora
around his haystacks, he raises one
side of the netting and leaves it ul
all day. In the evening be lets
down the netting and clubs the
imprisoned rabbits to death.
The DeLamar Nugget says the
total output Of the DeLamar mines
since in the hands of the pressn,
company has been something in
excess of six million dollars. To
this may be added the million OF
more taken out BY Captain Della.
mar. More than eighty per cent
of this amount has been disbursed
in labor and supplies among the
laborers and producers of DeLamar
and vicinity
Silver City Avalanche: A young
man of excellent family has been
sentenced to a term of five months
in the county Jail for petty larceny,
by Judge Harris. The original
complaint was for grand larceny,
but it was amended to the minor
offense. The Avalanche only voices
the feeling of the county when it
expresses the hope that the young
man referred to will learn lifelong
lesson from this punishment, and
emerge therefrom with a full deter
mination to be a man, and worthy
of the honored name he bears.
Mayor Alexander of Boise re-
Gently returned from a trip east and
while &c route home he spent some
time in Omaha hooking over the
ground Of the Trans Mississippi ex-
position. He talked with the man
ayers and was shown the space that
il to be reserved until February Goth
in three departments for the Idaho
exhibits. In the mining building
The space for Idaho is 45x2O or 900
square feet and in the horticultural
building 3Ox25 or $50 square feet.
The first space at the entrance to
The agricultural building is also re-
served for Idaho and covers an area
If 26x24 feet.
Caldwell Tribune Tuesdays train
look from Caldwell Jesse Moore,
lily Peterson, Frank Combast and
Chas. Orr, all boupd for Dyea. The
men have gone TO Alaska where
they will work for the Transports
lion company headed by w. E. and
n. B. Sebree. The company pro-
poses to pack and sled supplies
over the pass and the boys from
here will have charge Of the work.
Twenty six head Of horses for this
particular business were shipped
about ten days ago, aud are now at
Dyea: A large number of people
were at the train to see them of
and wish them good luck in the
new field. B. B. HALEY and Will
Schuabel left to-day Saturday for
Dyea where they will engage with
The same company.
Idaho Rabbit Drive.
Idaho Falls Register: On Satur.
lay last we went up to Market Lake
20 see the great rabbit drive. Ar
irving there about l A. NJ. we found
probably 800 people had already
and they were coming IN
sleigh loads from Mensn, Labelle
and Lewisville,-and by noon there
we're probably 1000 men, women
and children. Three divisions with
4 red, a white and . black flag were
organized, and were carried out
rom two to three miles in sleighs.
where the captains of each on horse
back came up 10 a central point
where q raised platform had been
built from where, by signaling with
he flag, the division under that
aag would advance or hold back.
Coming up toward the corral was
where the excitement commenced.
There were from 1000 to 1900 rabbits
On about two acres Of ground,
jumping every way. Finally they
crossing the track and
going into the corral. A stock car
had been fitted up to receive them
but it had been switched away from
The chute, and q crowd was soon
inside the corral slaughtering them.
Parties from Butte took number
Of those captured alive back with
Them to be- used by the sporting
clubs. A number Of good photos
we're taken of the scenes enacted
during the roundup.
Economy in Buying Seeds.
Economy 10 not paying less money for