The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-04-13

Ia the fall of snow was equally heavy
:; - in some places accompanied B
:, - thunder and lightning. At Wasl
: ington, D. c., a heavy snow an
- wind storm began about 9 o'cloc
. on the morning of the 9Th, and fror
that hour till night the air wa
! dense with fakes driven before
i strong north wind, but being mil
. it melted as it fell. Telephone an,
: other wires throughout the cit
y were demoralized, and telegraph
:, communication with the South an,
!, a West was wholly cut off for SOM
q hours. Snow fell to the depth of
foot on Snow Mountain, ten mile
west of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
n CHANGE OF DATE.
S The Springfield Republican hal
8 taken up the subject of changing
: inauguration day to some date il
! April, and discourses most wisely
8 on the subject. It is lucky, though
a that it had not been changed tc
s April 9th this year. That would
: not have bettered matters much
: To be safe, the date must be later
! in the month than that. We agree
; with the paperin question, in think
ing that the fatalities which have
resulted from Inauguration day
, ought to give powerful impetus
to the movement to change the date
to some time in April. The cases
of pneumonia, and the deaths at
tributable to the chilly drizzle un-
der which the President pronounced
his inaugural, and $1,000 men
marched between 200, 600 spectators
over wet pavements, will probably
never be counted up. Many visit
ors to the capital on that day went
home to die, and there has scarcely
been a physician in Washington
who has not had more cases on his
hands than he could well attend to.
The proposition to change inaugu-
ration day to April Both, failed in
the last Congress through the con-
servative indifference of members
of the House who expressed the
opinion that the Constitution is
we'll enough as it is" Perhaps they
will be convinced next winter that
the Constitution is worth changing
If the change will save hundred
human lives or more every four
years.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE SENATE.
The United States Senate ad-
journed sine die at 8 40 O. clock on
April I'd. The closing session, al
though hardly more than three
hours in length, was not without
interest. 1t was marked especially
by the failure to pass the tribute of
respect to the memory Of John
Bright, offered by Senator Stewart
on the day previous. The opposi-
ton came from Senator Sherman
and Senator Reagan, both of whom
were fearful that the precedent thus
established might some day plague
the Senate. After considerable dis
cussion in which Senators Stewart,
Hawley, Hoar, Teller, Evarts, Sher-
man and Reagan took part, the res
buttons were referred to the COM
mittee on Foreign Relations. The
action created considerable sur
prise, as the adoption of the reso-
ution had been regarded as certain. :
MASKED ROBBERS Fo1LED.
A dispatch from Winnipeg, Man
toba, says that masked robbers
the Office of the Pacific Do
ninion Express Go. at Indian Head, {
1t midnight on the 9th inst, and /
placing a revolver at the head of ,
he telegraph operator in charge, j
demanded the money in his keep e
ng. The operator suddenly blew $
'ut the light and opened fire. The r
obbers made off without securing 6
my booty. {
A TIN SYNDICATE THIS TINE.
Prof. NJ. c. Vinion, of the Royal t
Geological Society of London, ar b
ived in New York last week. Prof. Il
Union comes to this country in the
interest of the great English tin
indicate that has recently raised t
nillions of dollars to control the n
tin market of the world. c
A srupENDoUs FAILURE. Q
Mr.. James Macarthur, the senior :
nember of the we'll known firm of :
1cArthur Brothers, of Chicago and =
t. Paul, probably the largest firm = :
f railroad and bridge contractors = =
4 the northwest, has just returned :
rom Chilli, whittier he has been q
18th a large staff to see about :.
ontract for railroad. When at :,
ne 1sthmus of Panama, Mr.. Nc ~
-rthur took pains to carefully ex- u
mine the Panama canal. He pro- =, =,
ounces it monument Of imprac- =
cability" and says lit would bank n \
apt the government of France to :,
AIRY out the scheme as originally y
and the scheme is dead, -
least until new crop of fools :,
lall grow up" He says he spent =
We days in examining the work, =,
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