The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-11

in any case, and therefore, the act
may be read az if the provision was
not in it at all. Treaties and stat.
ptes relating to extradition have
always heretofore been held by the
courts to have a retroactive effect,
although they contained no special
provision making them retroactive,
and ipasmuch as the amended sec
ton amounts to nothing in its pres
ent shape, the court will probably
construe the act as whole, accord
ing to past precedent. If the clause
had read, "the provision of this act
shall not apply to any crime COM
mitted before the coming into force
of this act" the case would have
been entirely different, and the Uni
ted States colony in Canada might
have rested secure. As it is, the
prospects ahead Of them are not
very bright"
THE CENTENNIAL BALL,
over which the "upper four hum
dred" of New York worried and
quarreled for weeks, turned out to
bea disgraceful mob. Probably if
Ward M'Allister had managed it,
as at first intended, it would have
been better. At all events it gives
him an opportunity to say it would,
but under the mismanagement of
Stuyvesant Fish, it was disgrace
full. The whole country is talking
of the outrageous scenes in the sup
per room. When it is said that the
walters, policemen and messenger
boys drank most of the free cham
payne, the situation at midnight
can be imagined. Justices of the
supreme court, governors, staff Off
GERS, clubmen, lawyers, poets, mill
ionaires, with beautiful, refined
women, crowded blankly along the
supper counter, demanding in vain
the attention they were accustomed
to receive. Drunken men invaded
the ball room Aourishing bubbling
bottles of champagne. Free fights
we're of constant occurrence. One
woman received severe
cut on her shoulder from a drunken
stranger who broke a bottle of wine
on it in spite of the efforts of her
escort to shield her. The crowd
was so dense it was impossible to get
out of the way of any one quickly.
The ticket takers had no check
placed upon them, and there is no
question that they made lots of
money by letting in people who
never should have been there. Never
once did an accredited officer of
the evening interfere to anybody's
knowledge. The policemen who
we're sober were powerless. They
couldn't tell the dress-coated wait
ers from the guests. The unhappy
guests were denied even the privi-
lege Of getting away. By 1 o'clock
the most of the respectable element
we're making desperate efforts to do
so, but the crowd, extending from
The courtroom for 500 yards, was 80
dense that men whose names are
known all over the Union fought
heir way towards their coats under
The frequent clubs of the drunken
police, the jeers of the mob outside
and the pernicious activity of the
pickpockets. It was 5 o'clock in
he morning before the last battered
md ragged guest joined his family
1t the door and reached his car
rage. 1.-THE centennial ball was
The worst ever known in the history
Of the city," said a well-known man
about town; 81 left at 3 o'clock
without my hat or coat" 1t was
turned loose. The
400 shivered in the consciousness
Of the presence of a distinctly un-
desirable element. The remaining
5000 raised its eyebrows and was
The last 800 were
full of contentment and felicity.
Of course there is one fellow happy,
and that is Ward M'Allister. On
his return from Washington the
day after, he was congratulated on
all sides, and the 400 are more re-
solved than ever to trust themselves
to his guidance in the future.
Sixteen of the most prominent
women of the country had been in
vited to open the ball by dancing a
4uadrille. Mrs. Harrison of course
was to lead. Their partners were
to have been from among the lead
ing statesmen and soldiers of the
nation, but unfortunately none of
those selected were dancing men,
so they requested the committee to
provide substitutes, which was all
proper, but the committee blum
1ered again. Instead of providing
these elderly ladies with proper
partners, they selected very young
men, mere boys who were not pos
slssed of the proper experience to
teach them how to behave on such
IN occasion. Indeed, they seemed
10 lack common sense and COM
mon politeness. When the quad
rifle was concluded, these callow
youths left their partners to take
ooro Of fhonoaoluoo "a hook fhou