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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-11-27

Older voters, who lived through
the last era of prohibition in this
commonwealth, do not need to bt
told about it. The true friends o.
temperance were as disgusted with
the system and more eager to de-
stroy it than anybody. Nothing
was ever made more clear than that
prohibition was another way ofspell-
ing free rum. Liquor was to be
had and was consumed much more
abundantly than under the present
local option law. To-day there are
many districts in the state where
liquor cannot be bought, because
under the local option law by the
vote of a majority of their citizens
its sale has been prohibited. Just
as the advocates of this admirable
system foresaw, where there is an
overwhelming local sentiment back
of the prohibitory edict it is prac-
ticable to enforce it, and not 9TH
erwise. While, however, state pro-
hibition did not prohibit, it did give
rise to a fearful system of police
spies and infOrmers, who did such
outrageous things in their zeal for
hush money and fines that the
great principles of the personal lib
erty of the citizen, the inviolability
Of his home, and his right to be
treated as an innocent man until
he was proven to be Il criminal
were all trampled together under
foot. The state constables ranged
over the commonwealth with an
insolent swagger and a brutal bear
ing that had in them the spirit of
the Russian secret police and the
tone of the Napoleonic gendarmerie.
Old Massachusetts, found herself
maintaing a training school for
spies, nursery for informers and
a hotbed of corruption. Victor
Hugo's famous sleuth-hound of the
law, M. Javert, was being repro
duced with repulsive variations.
Prohibition was felt to be a reign
of tyranny, tempered by blackmail.
The hand of despotism overshad-
owed every mans life, and the only
way to lift it was to grease its
palm"
Such was the former experience
of Massachusetts, with prohibition.
In 1874 it was Indignantly voted
down by an enormous majority
Boston Globe.
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TRIPLES.

Mark Twain and Bert Harte
began their literary careers as book
canvassers.
Competition has reduced the fare
in London 'busses to one penny.
A rich Norwegian lawyer left all
his money to be used in buying BIZ
cycles for the Christiana school
children.
Prof. Goldwin Smith will deliver
eighteen lectures on English history
this winter at Cornell university.
If you sympathize with Charles
ton don't write poem about her.
Do not hit a fellow when she's
down.
In st. Petersburg the police can
at any time enter any dwelling to
search for nihilists, and there is no
habeas corpus.
When Mrs Cleveland rides out
she generally has as many friends
with her as the carriage will hold.
She bows pleasantly to those she
knows, and behaves generally in a
democratic manner.
Bedad, and Che Ohio people
must think a great dale of the
Prisidint," said a newly-arrived
Irishman. "Why SOP" asked
companion. "Faith, an didn't l
just come from town in the north
part of the Sthat that was named
for 'm."-Merchaht Traveller.
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San Francisco Bulletin

The Bank Commissioners, in
their report, make a very curious
statement in relation to silver.
They say "the silver standard dol
lar seems every day to increase in
popularity in our State. The
country banks find the unabated
demand for it hard to meet. Most
of them receive from $1,000 to
$4,000 a week from the sub-Treas-
ury in San Francisco, the expense
Of the transfer being paid by the
general government. This rapidly
goes into circulation and disappears,
no one knows where, as it never re-
turns to the banks" The Com
missioners, in their investigation of
this matter, found that it did not
return to the city through the
agencies of the country merchants,
for they do not pay their bills in
San Francisco in silver. The ex-
planatiOn of this fact can be readily
conceived. To pay their debts in
silver would involve the expense of
expressage. Upon the whole, the
Commissioners are disposed to
conclude that the missing dollars
remain in circulation. But it is
impossible that a coin should pass
from hand to hand without show
ing up somewhere in the regular
repositories of money. There is,
however, not the least mystery
about this drain of silver, which
must be enormous. The silver is
boarded by some members of the
community. The boarding is not
done by white people, for the saw
ings banks would certainly receive
some of it. The fact on which the
Commissioners have alighted is,
without much doubt, the Chinese
drain. The dollars go into the
hands of these people. They are
boarded by them until their return
to China. A portion finds it's way
into Chinatown in fulfillment of
the contracts to labor ofthe Coolies,
but not by the regular commercial
channels
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Texas Siftings.

Greed is not entirely confined to
animals of the porcine breed.
There are various breeds of human
hogs which, in point of selfishness,
are far ahead Of those unfortunate
creatures that are mentioned in the
New Testament as having run vio-
lently down a steep place into the
sea and perished in the billows.
Greed, or avarice, strictly speak
ing, is not a penal oficnse. Byron
remarks cynically: "For a good
old gentlemanly vice / think | will
take up with avarice." And yet
there is very little fun in boarding
up money. 1t is almost impossible
to take any of it with us when we
die and go to Heaven. Shrouds,"
to use the impressive words Of
some preacher, whose name we
have forgotten" Shrouds have no
pockets" This is fact, we pre-
sumo, although we have never crit
ically examined many shrouds to
see if they had pockets or not. 1t
would hardly be in good form for
person who is invited to funeral
to monkey around the remains
searching for a pocket in the
shroud merely to crafty idle curl
osity. Such a person would not
be invited a second time TO funeral
Now that we come to think we fail
to perceive why a shroud should
have pocket.
But we have drifted away from
our text, which was avarice or
greed.
There is such a thing as mistaken
avarice, where a man, in an effort
to save dime, loses a dollar. An
illustration of this is to be found in
the case of the negro during slave
times, who, having bought a hat,
put it under his coat to prevent it
being rained on. When asked why
he did not keep his hat on his
head. he replied: "De hats mine,
bought it wild my own money.
Head belongs to massa; let him
take keer of his own property"
This logic was very good, so far
as it went, but when the selfish ne
gro caught cold in his head from
exposure and died of neuralgia in
great agony, he regretted his narrow
minded selfish policy.
The man who occupies several
seats in a crowded railroad car
comes under the head of dressed
pork.
Another form Of selfishness from
Vermont A couple put of apply
ing for a divorce one term Of court
so they could profit by their tin
wedding.
Boys are supposed to be selfish,
but occasionally boy shows symp-
toms of liberality. A Texas boy,
after eating three whole water
melons, pointed triumphantly to
the seeds as proof that he didn't
eat whole ones. He had left the
seeds.
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A SAD PICTURE.

There are 100000 workingwomen
in New York. The highest average
earning Of these workers are s. a
week. Thousands are unable, with
sixteen hours work every day, to
reach the lower amount. The prices
for the work they do are miserable
almost beyond belief. Competition
both in trade and in the labor mar
ket has wrought this state of things,
and under the existing conditions
there is no prospect of better times.
With a continual foreign immigra-
ton which maintains the supply
of unskilled and partly skilled fe-
male labor, and a competition in
manufacturing which compels the
producer to avail himself Of every
help, the workingwomen are ground
as between the upper and the neither
milestone, and there is no help for
them. But it is evident that society
cannot longer tolerate a state Of
things which involves an inhuman-
ity that would shame savages !;
which gives the lie hourly to the
assumed C Christianity of the nation !;
and which not only fosters and en-
courages, but tends to justify the
feelings of hatred and enmity to-
ward the state and the whole social
system so menacingly progressive
and apparent to-day.
AS to the gravity of the subject
there can be no question, and it is
becoming more serious and more
pressing continually. It is literally
true that chattel slavery never in
volved such unmitigated suffering
as large percentage of our work
ingwomen endure. It is not less
literally true that human beings
thus chained to the oar can by no
possibility develop their higher fac
ulties. They can only be drudges
or dangers. They are, in fact, pris-
oners Of poverty, and in them the
New World has reproduced the sad
dest and most deplorable condition
of the old one.--New York Tribune.
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BLAINE AND LOGAN.
A Schrewd Fennsylvania Poll.
tlclaA's Opinion Of 1855.


Interview with Col. NJ g. Quay.
am more interested in catch
ing channel bass than in the angu-
larities and sinuosities of practical
politics." said the writer, "but l
would like to know what you think
of the chances of James G.. Blaine
and of BLACK Jack Logan for
president in 1885,"
The state treasurer took a birds
eye view of the speaker and rapid
glance at the drum lines on his
table, and said: az would rather
talk about the 2OOO-pound devil
fish Ben Sooy that l captured off
Punta Rassa, after stern chase of
two miles, but if l must give you a
reason for the hope within me
will say without fear of contradic-
ton that John A. Logan, who is a
manly statesman, full of the force
and fire which is to the manor
born among the prairies of Illinois,
has had from the republican party
small thanks for strong deserv-
ings'-for Logan whether you re-
gard him as soldier or civilian,
is brave. manly, double-breasted
statesman, whose public career, as
the lawyers say, cannot be influ-
enced by fear, favor or affection
and honesty and capacity enough
to make an admirable president of
the United states but don t think
he has any show in 1888, unless
James G. Blaine, of Maine, should
turn his force over to him."
"Then you think Blaine has the
call on Logan and the field?" per-
sisted the amateur fisherman and
guest of Matthew Stanley Quay.
eyes, 1 most certainly do"
answered the gifted and genial state
treasurer, 4" for l can only recall
one simile which will express the
furor among the rank and file of
the republican party for the man
from Maine. 1t is the expression
the great commoner of England,
Richard Golden, made use of when
making a speech against the Cri-
mean war. He said you might as
we'll reason with a lot of mad dogs
as to reason with the English peo-
pile against the Crimean war
But" said Mr.. Quay, "I do not
apply this caustic sentence to
James G. Blaine, because he is man
of the people, and his nomination
has passed beyond the point where
the politicians can control it."
"What do you tkink of Cleve-
landw
"Cleveland is a stronger man
than he was the first day he went
into the Office of president and he
holds his party well in hand, and
we republicans might as well admit
that Grover Cleveland will be in
'8S the most formidable candidate
the democracy of the East and
West can name as his own success
sor. But" added the cautions and
many-sided disciple of good old
Izaak Walton, "the republican
party were never more thoroughly
united, never stronger, chastened
by defeat; and right here l am re-
of what Mrs. Blaine, a sem
sible Presbyterian woman, said of
James G. Blalne-that her husband
would run best for president at
the close of democratic admins
tration,' and there is heap Of good
sense in the remark"
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atty at the will of the aggrieved
party: Thus, a husband detecting
his wife in adultery can go to the

atty at the will of the aggrieved
party. Thus, a husband detecting
his wife in adultery can go to the
magistrate and demand the capital
punishment of one or both parties
to the crime or, he may take the
lives of the offenders himself and
not be amenab!e if he can prove
the fact. If, however he fails to
substantiate the crime alleged, he
is held guilty of murder and pun
ished accordingly.
Capital punishment can be met
by proxy and the law be satisfied.
1t is not uncommon, therefore, when
q man of money is sentenced to
death, that he can, by the use of
money, secure stay of proceedings
long enough to obtain a substitute.
This is done by making an offer of
100, 200, or more hundred "taels Z"
(ounces of silver, about 1884 cents
our standard) for substitute.
Some impecuneous family, often
having 200 or 800 male members,
as the patriarchal plan of domestic
economy prevails, will agree among
themselves that they will furnish a
substitute for the profiered sum.
Lot is then cast to determine the
victim, and the doomed man ac-
cepts his fate with stoical indiffer-
ence, upon his MISREPRESENTATION
theory that his time has come, else
the lot would not have fallen upon
him individually. He accordingly
presents himself to the court, and
the convicted man dies by proxy,
while the family of the deceased
enjoy the proceeds of the arrange
ment.-Bon Ton, inc Columbia Jurist.
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POLITICAL REMARKS.

The policy of free-traders seem:
to be to drive workingmen out O
the democratic party.
The matter with Grover Cleve
land is egotism. He is an i'm
mense egotist. Grover Cleveland
is his ever prevailing and pervad
ing sentiment.-New York Sun.
Every Chicago anarchist is will
ing to lay down his life for his
great and glorious cause, but he
Just wants to see what the supreme
court may have to say first.-Puck
Unless Mr.. Cleveland can find
some way to get on good terms
with his party and unite it the
chances of democratic success in
1888 are hardly worth considering
Denver Tribune.
The administration has given q
good deal of patronage" to the
political managers in the states OF
Indiana, Virginia, Maryland, Wis.
consin and Illinois. This has been
done in a manner quite inconsist.
ent with the principle of public Of
fee as q public trust.-New York
Times.
The grand old democratic party
has been defeated by mugwump
Cleveland's milk-and-cider policy.
Get your sack-cloth and ashes
ready, and let US 60 into profound
est mourning over the folly OF Q
president who has never had the
good of his party at heart. He has
proven himself a man of greater
backbone and less sense than any
of his predecessors County
(Ga. Weekly.
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In Spain less than 25% Of the
population can read and write.
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The KrYsfoxR has long been acknowl
edged to be the sole representative Of the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and, located as 1t Is In the
very heart Of the most promising mining
country on the face of the EARTH and leav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers .
complete synopsis Of all mining news and
developments, as well as matters Of local
importance in the growth of Ketchum, the
future metropolis Of Idaho, it is an invalua-
bic guide for capital and informant to the
settler OF every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
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In Minneapolis a well-known cit
izen is building log house in the
heart of the city. It will be big,
rambling structure, will cost $780,
600, and be provided with all the
modern improvements.
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CREAM Oh THE NEWS.

Eight inches of snow fell i'm Rome
n. Y, on the Sth.
N. Hopkins Il Co., of Baltimore,
Nd, failed on he 9Th.
The Grant relics have been turned
over to the superintendent Of the Ma
tional museum.
The Guadalupe County Fair, held at
Seguin, is being attended by a large
number of people.
ii. ID. johnson, druggist at Hous-
ton, failed on the Sth. Indebtedness,
5000: assets, $500.
Hewlett Grincr, well known ranch
man at Del Rio, was killed by Next
can greasers, on the sth inst.
o.. j. Hale, a prominent member OF
the Milwaukee board of trade, was
found dead in his bed ON the morning
of the 9Th.
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A Bride for One Day.

Troy, n. Y, Nov. 9.-Dr. John f.
Hall, of Green Island, has enjoyed a
lucrative practice in that village for a
number of years, and was one of the
prominent members of his profession
in this ncighborhood. About two
years ago his wife died. Recently he
began paying his attentions to Miss
Georgia Smith, n beautiful and worthy
lady Of West Troy. Last week DR..
Hall was attacked with pneumonia,
and after short Hines; he realized
that he must die. Miss Smith was
summoned to his bedside on Tuesday
evening and the doctor asked her to
marry him. She consented, and Rev.
Mr.. Livingston, pastor of the Metho-
dist Church, was called. DR.. Hall was
supported in bed while the ceremony
was performed, and within twenty
four hours he died. lie was in full
possession of his mental facilities to
the last, and made will in which he
bequeathed his considerable fortune 10
his bride Of day.
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The Confederate Homo at Austin is
receiving about $1,000 weekly from
the sale of tickets to the concert, at
which tho lottery drawing takes place.
William Pcyton was shot and killed
by tho Cash brothers near Hubbard
City Oh the 9Th. Pcyton was a tenant
of the Cashcs, and the quarrel origi-
mated in dispute over rents.
James McKlcsky cut Sam Carter to
the hollow with pocket knife at
King, Tex, on the 9Th. Carter had
hit him on the nose with a bar of iron.
An impromptu due, with Winchcs-
crs was fought in the Indian Terri
tory on the 9Th between man named
Neil and an unknown party. After
emptying their rifles at each other, the
two men met and settled their differ
enccs amicably.
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Suicidcd.

ALTON, ILL.,, Nov. 9.-Mrs. Couzens
of Olathe, Kan, was found dead early
this morning in the cistern at the resi-
dcnce of her brother-in-law, Joseph
Luly, in this city. Mrs. Couzens was
called here by the illness of Mrs. Mar
garet Cullinwell, her mother, and had
acted strangely for the past week. The
inquest was held about a. m, and the
verdict was suicide from drowning
while laboring under temporary aber-
ration of mind. Last week w. Flyers,
of Foster, a relative of Mrs. Couzens,
hanged himself, and it is thought this
tragedy affected her mind.
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Fell From a Window.

MENDOZA. ILL.,, Nov. 9.--John
Scholl, supposed to have been suffer-
ing from political excitement, walked
in his sleep last night through his bed
room window and fell to the ground
beneath, distance of over twenty
feet. lie sustained some very severe
internal injuries, and grave doubts are
entertained as TO his recovery.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
by Telegraph.

Race Troubles In Washington County
NAvAsoTA. Nov. Capt w. f..
Barry has received message from
John Roberts. of Grabal, Washington
county, to come at once with fifty good
men, armed and equipped, as the
negroes are threatening the whites.
Much nncasiness is felt in the COM
munity. Sixty men left this place last
night under the command Of Capt.
Barry. Capt. Wcsson, Of the Nava-
sofa Guards, at o'clock last night re-
ccived the following messages;
AUSTIN, Nov. S.--Capt. j. NJ. Wes-
son, Navasota: Put your company
uudcr arms and report to j. ii. Rob-
crts secretary citizens meeting. Pre-
serve the peace at all hazards.
w. II. KING, Adjutant General
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
BRENNAN, Nov. 9.--This city was
all excitement this morning, A mes
sage WAS received from j. III. Roberts,
chairman of the citizens committee at
Graball, by the sheriff, asking that
fifty armed and mounted men be sent
to Lofts store, near Graball, immedi-
ately, as negro instruction was APP
pretended. In less than an hour the
sheriff and forty men were on the
road. The receipt of the telegram
has revived the bitter feeling toward
the white scalawags who are blamed
for the trouble with the negroes
ALI QUIET ON TIE BRAZOs.
Special to the Herald.
NAvAsoTA, Tex, Nov. Q, 2:22 p. H.
Quiet at Graball no demonstration
Of any kind.
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a CHARITABLE LADY.
Will Of Miss Henrietta Lenox Dispos.
ing OF $fO,OOO,OOO, Most of il to
Religious Institutions.

New YORK, Nov. o. The will OF
the late Henrietta LcnoX was offered
for probate to-day. 1t disposes OF
property valued at $20,OOO,O0O. After
giving the bulk of the fortune to rela-
tives, she makes the following bcquests
TO the Lcnox library, a piece of land
in Scventieth street and 100000; the
board of foreign missions and the
board of home missions of the Pres
byterian Church of the United States
Of America, $4,000 each the Ameri-
can Bible Society, $25 900; the Presby-
terrain Homo for Aged Women, Pres
byterian Board of Relief for Disabled
Ministers and the Widows and
Orphans of Deceased Ministers, trus-
tees of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of the United
States of America for the use of the
Presbyterian committees Of missions
for freedmen; VIM. M. Paxton, ID. d.,
to be used by him for the benefit of
the poor of the First Presbyterian
Church Of New York, $4,000 each,
and to the New York Association for
Improving the Condition of the Poor,
$4,000. The viii was executed July 20,
1881. Miss Lenox died July 6, and the
delay in offering the will for probate
was done in the hope of preventing a
contest. This failed, and protests have
been entered by VIM. Is. Banks, James
Lenox Banks and Henry Lenox Banks.
These three heirs contest the will ON
the ground that Miss Lenox was not
sound of mind when she wrote the
c0dicils. Isabel y. Satterthwaitc also
objects to the codicil of April 81, 1885.
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Treasury Department Statistics.

WAsHTNGToN, Nov. .. = Fourth
Auditor Shelly of the treasury, in his
report for the last fiscal year, says that
during the year considerable gain has
been made upon the work on hand.
The number of unsettled claims has
been considerably reduced, and now
che accounts of disbursing officers are
takc1 Up for examination almost as
ooon - rocrlvcd. During the year S97
oooodn>s, Involving $12,09l,ls2, were
eettled.
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The Indians Cannot Sell.

EMpoRIA, Kas., Nov. 9.-Thc Re-
publican of tomorrow with contain
an interview with United States SEN
ator ii. b. Plumb, in which that gen.
tleman, referring to the publication of
recent dispatches, to the effect that
New York and Colorado syndicates
have been formed for the purpose of
purchasing from the Indians the tract
of land, embracing about 100000 acres,
oil the north line Of the Indian Terri
tory, known as the Cherokee strip,
says the Cherokces have not the origi-
nal right to rake such sale; that the
government has an option to pur-
chase, which it will not waive to per-
nit purchase by private parties, and
that no sale will be permitted by con-
gress except to the government, and
then for the only and sole purpose of
resale to actual settlers in 100 acre
tracts.
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Mrs. Stewards Paintings,

New YORK, Nov. 9.-The magnifi-
cent collection of paintings belonging
to Mrs. A. II. Stewards estate will be
divided among her heirs. Such is the
wish of the legatees living in New
York, and it is not thought that Mr.
Charles Clinch, who is now on his way
to America, will oppose such action.