The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-06-22


there, and reported that his party
has been successful beyond all ex-
pectations in their explorations,
and especially in Southern Chihua-
hua. Here living cliff and cave
jewellers were found in great album
dance, wild as any of the Mexican
tribes of Cortez conquest. The
abodes they live in are exactly sim
liar to the old abandoned cliff dwell
ings of Arizona and New Mexico,
about which there has been SO mucn
speculation and so much money
spent in investigation. 1t was al
| most impossible to get very near
them, so wild and timid are they.
| Upon the approach of white people
they fly to their caves In the cliffs,
by notched sticks placed against the
face of the cliffs If too steep, al
though they ascend vertical stone
faces if there are the slightest crew
ices for the fingers and toes. These
cliff dwellers are sun-worshippers.
throwing their new born children
out in the full rays of the sun the
first day of their lives, and showing
many other forms of devotion TO
the sun. They are usually tall, lean
and well-formed, their skin being a
Dlackish-red, much nearer the color
ofthe negro than the unprecedented
Indian ofthe United States. Schwat-
ka claims that heretofore nothing
has been known about these people,
except by the half Indian mountain
Mexicans, and thinks his discovery
will be of immense anthropological
value. He estimates the cave and
cliff dwellers from 5000 to 10000 In
numbers, armed only with bows
arrows and stone hatchets, and to
thoroughly study them will furnish
enough work for year or two for
half a dozen expeditions. Schwatka
pronounces the scenery of the Cen
trail Sierra Madres as stupendous
beyond conception the grand bar,
ranca of the Uriqua equals, if not
surpasses the grand canyon of the
Colorado, while the Arroyo of the
Churches is the most beautiful
sculptured rock of fifteen or twenty
miles in length, probably in ex'
istence.
| "ABsURp STUPIDITY"
| A portion of the survivors of the
great flood in the Conemaugh Val,
lev seem to have lost their common
sense, if they ever had any, and
publicly burned their Bibles, be-
cause God did not perform a mira.
Gle and hold the waters back when
the dam broke. The Salt Lake
Tribune of the 18th inst. has for
chile and sensible editorial with the
heading absurd Stupidity, which
we copy: as it might as we'll apply
to lesser calamities and ills, where
individuals blame Providence fol
their own carelessness and disobe
dience Of Natures laws:
! The most absurd freak to which thu
Johnstown calamity has given rise, is tn.
reported loss by the survivors of thell
faith in Providence, and their open burn
ing of their Bibles. As if Nature, OF
Providence, call it which you will, wer'
responsible for hanging that sixty mill
ion tons of water up there three hundred
feet above the town! Probably there wa
never lovelier or more dashlng stream
let down from the mountains than tn
South Fork of the Conemaugh, winding
between the crowding hills. Tha
is what Providence provided for man.
!. use and enjoyment. 1t was for mans idl
hours, no: even to turn his water wheels
that man damned the stream and the
neglected the dam until an ex,raordinar,
rainfall swept it away and with it thous
amos of people and their homes and prop
erty. Ii we are to repudiate the swee
legend that not sparrow falls to tn
GROUND without our Heavenly Father
notice, let us do it on some more tangi
bIe ground than that Providence is l
2 any sense responsible for the distress, til
: loss, the sudden death and wide sprea
> devastation consequent upon the burstin
of the South Fork dam. Away benin
all crpeds and beliefs are the immutabl
laws that hold the universe serene, I'll
!. planets and suns in their orbits, tn
l occans within their shores. Que Of thes
laws the men of Pennsylvania chose
defy and they suffered. That is all the'
r was TO it, aud the most cowardiy thin
1 that mortals ever can do is to seek
: make Infinite Wisdom responsible fl
D their infinite foolishness.
: AN INCIDENT OF THE FOOD.
); A Pittsburgh dispatch of late dat
i says that one week before Mis-
Sarah B. Duncan was homeless
d wanderer on the hills of Johnstowl
thinking herself the only survive
of her family. At o'clock of tt
seventh day. after her distressin
:, experience Miss Duncan, arraye
S in bridal robes and surrounded b
g all her family, linked her fortune
/ with Albert J. Warden, of Sharp
) burg, whom a week before she ha
+ mourned as dead. The ceremon
8 was performed at the home of II
y brides father in Allegheny, imm
q diately after which the happy part
i went to the groom's pleasant hon
!, in Sharpsburg. The brides faith
ri