The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-04-07
THE CITY OF SAINTS.
Scenes and Saunterings Of Ye Ketch
umites in Zion.

0cS0eS anu 04u0CeT@&S OF re AeCcQ"
umites in Zion.
EDITOR KEYSTONE Since their
return home from Zion, most of the
festive party who went to see the
two great tragedians have devel-
oped phenomenal propensities for
the stage, and may be heard on
every hand hurting about the wits
Of great Shakespeare with eloquence
and precision equally commend
able. Some slight variation from
the immortal bard's text will be
excused, when it is remembered
that the boys got there late and had
to take a back seat. Those elo-
quent opening lines of Mark Anto-
ny's speech to the Romans,
Friends, Mormons and country
men, lend me your rocks" will be
appreciated by students of Shakes
peare who have been "abroad" and
are now short of cash. Butwe agreed
to spare you from quotations.
Those who went from Ketchum all
arrived in due season to take in
| the performances of the world-re-
nowned actors, Booth and Barrett,
and unanimously agreed that they
had never seen anything in the dra-
matte art to equal them. In Othello,
on Friday night, Barrett as the he
roic Moor, and Booth as the dew
lish Iago, each portrayed his part
with a conception and refined and
artistic rendition beyond the APP
proach of the keenest criticism. So
it was in Hamlet, Booths greatest
character, and in Caesar, when both
were equally matched, and neither
detracted from the force and brill
fancy of the other. The three per-
formances will be remembered a
lifetime by thousands of people
who have never before, and will
probably never again behold so
strong and successful a combina-
ton Of dramatic artists. The re-
ceipts for the engagement were
about $4,000, and there is no doubt
that the gross amount paid by those
who occupied the seats amounted
to $4,000.
Salt Lake City is experiencing a
veritable real estate boom, and there
are now over one hundred agencies
in the city engaged in the business.
Among them are Harry McCallum
and Theo. Brough, both formerly
of Wood River, and they seem to
be doing a good business. It is
said that the recorders office there
employs thirteen clerks by day and
nine by night, making record OF
property transfers. The boom is
founded on the general resources
and excellent location of the city,
and is bringing in Gentiles by the
thousand. 1t is estimated that two
thousand have settled there in the
last thirty days, and glance at the
daily hotel arrivals in the Tribune
will dispel all doubt as to the truth
of the statement. At present the
streets are dry and dusty; the grass
growing, foliage coming out, and in
fact spring has come in all its glory
The streets are as busy as those Of
a great metropolis.
Among the visitors from Wood
River met by your correspondent
: were J. M. Burkett, Mr.. and Mrs
George B. Smyth, Art Smith and
Pete McPhee of HALEY, and Dick
West, Frank Stone, George Mills
Joe Pinkham, H G. Lewis and Geo
,, Lewis, of Ketchum. The boys be-
haved themselves very we'll, and we
have no complaint to make as tc
their conduct. One of them asked
dummy in front of clothing
store where the Cullen house was
another wanted a Ratchet to blaze
the trail to his room, and another
tried to pick a row with a wooden
Indian, but these little Irregular
!, ties are excusable when we consider
their isolation on Wood River from
such deceitful contrivances of mod
ern invention and the ramifications
,, of modern cities and hotels. Thanks
to the generous Mormon policemen
6 however, the boys all answered t.
! final roll call and got aboard thu
: home-bound train without any Sc
rious casualties.
: Wild Flowers.
The flowers and the robins have