The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-01
IDAHO NEWS.


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State Exchanges.
Latah county farmers have pait
of 100000 mortgages this fall
The good price for wheat enabled
them to do so.
Mrs. DR.. Bean of Pocatello hal
gone to Alaska. taking big lot o
drugs to stock q drug store in one o
the growing camps in the territory
Mrs. Steunenberg, wife Of Idaho,
chief executive, sent doll made
by her own hands to the Chicago
doll show which was recently given
BY the Kings Workers for "Sweet
Charity"
John D. Bell of Blackfoot has
been appointed to q clerkship in
tho Office Of the surveyor general
of Idaho. Miss Lucia Leonard oil
Boise has been appointed stenogra-
pher in the same Office.
The town of Meridian has been
terrorized by two robbers. They
held up James Christmon and !
Deputy Sheriff, and at the point OF
revolvers forced them to disgorge,
securing nearly $50. They nearly
beat . Chinaman to death, taking
$50 away from him. There is talk
Of organizing to hunt the robbers
down.
The Monolith mine at Shoup.
Idaho, has recently encountered one
of the richest bodies of ore ever
discovered in the state. Two weeks
ago the main tunnel ran up against
dyke which seemed to cut the ore
of. It was cut through and found
10 be about seven feet thick. A
winze was then sunk from the breast
Of the tunnel about 10 feet when it
struck the ledge. A round Of holes
vas put in the ledge and when fred
disclosed a vein of quartz about
,wo feet thick literally alive with
rec gold, which is estimated to 60
away up in the thousands.
A special from Moscow to the
spokane Review says: Sunday at
ernoon, while Walter Craig who,
having attended church, was visit
ng at the Driskell residence was
Engaged in game of draugh.s with
Walter Driskell, Miss Tilla Driskell,
n a playful mood, picked up a re-
oliver lying on shelf and rushed
lp to Craig with the cry, Hold up
our hands !" Almost at her word
he revolver, which she supposed
mpty, was discharged, q bullet
ntering Craig's nose near the top.
Or. Watkins probed the wound for
distance of three inches, finding
10 trace of the bullet. Craig, who |
'as not rendered unconscious or
nocked over by the shot, is resting
uietly, though complaining of =
evere pain in his jaw. The bali
1ay have been diverted from its
curse and lodged there.
Counterfelters i'm Idaho.
Counterfeiters have been operating
Oddly in Ada county. Boise has
cen flooded for some time with
ogus coins, principally half dollars
nd dollars. The authorities at
aldwell have discovered counter
'iters' joint. Although they failed
} get the men, they secured two
folds, such as are used for coming
5 and $40 gold pieces. They are
pparently new and seem to be per-
ct in the minutest detail.
step-Father's Crime.
J.J. Tebow was arrested ct Boise
st Saturday morning and locked
p in the county Jail on advice re-
,ived from the authorities in Hunt
Igton, Ore. Tebow is wanted at
lat place on the charge of GRIM
ally assaulting his 15year-old
ep-daughter. He had been in
Disc for several weeks. The crime,
was alleged, was committed last
,ptember. The constable arrived
onday and took the prisoner back
Huntington.
Mule-Packers For Klondike.
A dispatch from Pocatello Dec.
tn, says: e. w. Knight, a cele-
ated mule.packer, accompanied
: . party of fifteen stalwart men Of
e same profession, passed through
ocatello yesterday en- route to
to lend relief to the suf-
rers in that country. They had
til them four cars of pack mules
ID a car of Government supplies.
ley will pick up number of dogs
Vancouver, B. c., and will be
med there by . doctor and one or
o other useful men. These men
We been secured by the Govern
ent at large salaries, and will be
lrried into the cold country where
is expected they will render In /
lculable services. The party was
ven q fast run over the Oregon !
lort Line system. I,
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