The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-10-26

present. A1Ler Lue CcIcuOuy VIC
Prince and Princess will leave for q
honeymoon amid the northern lakes
after which they will go to Schon-
stein, the center of the Hatzfeldt
estate in Germany. Mr.. and Mrs.
Huntington will sail for America
on the 3Oth in the Teutonic. The
Prince is described as being q
blonde, of medium height, and of a
square and symmetrical figure, and
is thirty-six years old, though he
looks much younger.
INDIANS TO VOTE.
The Indian as a practical factor
is a feature of politics which is
likely in the near future to attract
public attention. By recent acts of
Congress every Indian over 81 years
of age who receives an allotment of
land in severalty becomes a voter,
clothed with every attribute that
attaches to citizenship. The sue
cessful termination of the negotia-
tons with the Sioux Indians, by
which they surrender a large part
of their reservation in Dakota, will,
it is estimated, by next year throw
into the politics of that state the
uncertain quantity of 4,937 votes.
This vote, thrown solidly, as it prob
ably will be in both state and ma
tional elections, is likely to become
an important factor in that state.
Negotiations now in progress with
other Indian tribes will soon make
more Indian voters. At the Interior
department at Washington it is es-
timated that upward of 10000 In
dams will be entitled to vote in the
next presidential election. How
"Poor Lo" will conduct himself as
a part and parcel of the nation, and
not as it's ward, will be watched
with interest by all who are inter-
ested in the solution of the Indian
problem.
ALMOST OVER NIAGARA.
Miss Mary Fellows, a well-known
and handsome young lady: of Sus-
pension Bridge, almost lost her life
a few days ago at one of the Sister
Islands at Niagara Falls. She was
with a party of friends and attempt
ed to step from one rock to another,
when she fell between them. For
tunately she had presence of mind
enough to hold on to the rock un-
til rescued. When she slipped she
uttered one sharp cry, "Save me %
and chung desperately to project
ing rock. Her hold was slipping
when two members of the party
seized her and took her out of her
perilous position. The water rushes
between these rocks like lightning
and it is the greatest wonder that
Miss Fellows was not swept away.
She had just been telling her friends
about the accidents and suicides
that had taken place at that very
point, which is one of the most dan
gerous and secluded on the islands.
The escape from death was so close
that the incident will go down in
the tragic history of Niagara Falls.
Miss Fellows tainted after realizing
how close she came to a dreadful
death, but recovered shortly after.
LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE.
A recent dispatch from Taunton,
Mass, says that poor forlorn, half
starved farmer boy, named Fred
Hall, whose home is in Ferndale,
CAL, arrived at Fall River on the
steamer Puritan, a few days since,
whose sufferings OH the high seas
since leaving San Francisco have
been frightful, the recital of which
would move the hardest heart to
pity. This is the boys story:
He received letter last spring from a
cousin, Mrs. C. w. Gibson, Springfield,
VT, saying that if he came east he could
get employment. He started without
cent in his pocket, working his passage
on the steamer Mary D. Hume to Frisco,
where he intended securing berth as boy
or ordinary seaman on q vessel bound
around the Horn. he reached Frisco
June 20, and within An hour after his ar
rival went up Jackson street in search of
shipping Office. He was tapped on the
shoulder by a man who asked him if be
wanted q chance to go to sea. He replied
that he was anxious to reach an eastern
port. He was told that he would be
found and given $50 monthly. He was
invited into the saloon where he got .
drink, but he remembered nothing more
until he awoke next morning on board
the ship Commodore T. H. Amer, Captain
Merton, for New York. He was hustled
on deck by Second Mate Game. He re-
quested the mate to allow him to send
word to his relatives, but was referred to
the "old man." For attempting to speak
with the captain, the mate kicked him
of the poop deck and drove him to work.
Thence until he reached New York, 1O8
days after, his life was one long misery.
He was kicked and cuffed until he had
serious thoughts Of jumping overheard.
One day while working in one Of the
"channels" the ship lurched, sending him
overheard. He was rescued with much
difficulty and pulled aboard exhausted.
Yet Third Mate Saul set him to cleaning
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