The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-04-05
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
A SENSIBLE YOUNG LADY.

and conditions OF men ana WOMEN
as it's dark and dirty covers attested
When the juror announced his dis
covery there was lively argument
between counsel. The young lady
asked to be excused and the judge
cut the argument short by announc-
ing that it was sufficient that she
be sworn by her uplif!ed hand. II
am not surprised at the refusal OF
the Witness" said the judge. II
will not kiss a dirty book like that
myself. This custom is a relic OF
idolatry and should be abolished.
She was right to object to kissing a
dirty book. / respect her regard
for her person and her health"
No doubt disease has more than
once been contracted by witnesses
who have touched the be-fouled
covers of the Sacred Book. Such
use of the volume is dissertation.
STRANGE ACCIDENT.
The accidents and incidents oc-
curing in consequence of the spring
floods are many and exciting. Per-
haps one of the most singular &C.
cidents was one that happened at
Clarksville, Tenn, while the driver
of hearse was crossing a creek
much swollen by high water. The
hearse contained the body of col
ored person, and in fording the
creek the water came up so high
that it caused the doors of the
hearse to open, and the coffin con-
tanning the body floated down the
stream and was lost.
CLOSE OF AN EXCITING CAREER.
Henry w. Klutshak, who was
member of the Franklin search
party under Lieutenant Schwatka
in 1878, died in New York last
week of consumption. He was born
in Prague, Hungary, in 1S48, and
came to this country in 1870, when
he joined the whaling bark Glacier,
which penetrated as far as Repulse
bay. On his return Klutshak went
on seal hunting expedition to the
Antarctic ocean, subsequently act
ing as interpreter on ocean steam
ers. His love for adventure and
the fascination of arctic explora-
ton led him to join the Franklin
search party, which was the smallest
in number of any organized. 1t
was Klutshak who discovered the
body of Lieutenant Irving, an Off
Ger in Sir John Franklin's Inflated
expedition. Klutshak mastered the
Esquimaux language and was in
vited to deliver a series of lectures
on arctic explorations and discov-
cry in Germany and Austria, En-
peror Joseph comforting upon him
the cross of honor for his services
to science. He died in abject pow
erty and his funeral expenses were
paid by the few friends who, out of
their own poverty, had spared
enough to keep him from starving
during his lingering illness.
NOBLE MARTYR.
An epidemic of diphtheria re-
Gently visited Bruin, N. F. There
is no doctor in the district, and the
sufferers were attended by Rev.
Father Walsh, who, with his own
hands, cleansed the threats of the
victims. Of forty cases that the
priest attended only one proved
fatal. The priest took the disease
himself and died after a few days.
illness.
LOST DIGGINGs FOUND.
Great excitement prevails at AL
buquerque, New Mexico, over the
sending of troops into the Navajo
reservation after party of nineteen
prospectors who are in the Caraiso
about hundred miles
north of Gallup. The party has
been there three weeks and it is al
legged have found the "lost Adams
They are we'll armed
and are determined to thoroughly
prospect the section or fight. The
Indians drove out party a short
time ago that had sunk a thirty
foot shaft on a body of very rich
native and free gold ore. The large
party then went in and the Indians
aotified the troops at Fort Wingate
20 take them out.
NEW INDUSTRY FOR WOMEN.
Lincoln Shannon, of Chicago,
vas robbed by female footpads
ew evenings since. He was stroll
ng along Peoria street, near Van
Buren,, when he was suddenly con-
ronted by two women with revolv-
RS. They requested him to hold
Up his hands and he promptly COM
'lied. AS he stood with his hands
pointing skywards, one of the fair
ootpads went through his pockets,
Ter companion, meanwhile holding
m ugly-looking gun unpleasantly
lose to the victims head. The
women were respectfully dressed
nd heavily yelled, making it i'm
possible to see their features. One .
vas very large and strong look
ng woman, and the other was of ,
Medium height, and together they :