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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-01-25
Margaret Sanford.

The belle of Deadwood, South
Dakota, is a young and dashing
girl who turned her nineteenth year
recently. Her name is Margaret
Sanford and she is an orphan. Who
her mother was no one seems to
know. Her father entered a mining
camp about twelve years ago foot
sore, ragged and almost starved,
having walked across the canyons
from Nevada. The miners gave
him food and clothing and began
to constitute themselves little Mar
garet's body guard. One night the
old man was found dead before his
door, which the drifting snow had
fastened so he could not enter. The
child was asleep inside. After the
funeral she became q sort of wan
derer, going and coming at will,
and making many valuable dis
coveries of ore. She learned to use
the rifle and revolver, and became
one of the crack shots of the camp.
With two exceptions she was never
molested, and there was a funeral
after each of these attacks. A year
ago she struck an ore bed richer
than most of those in that vicin-
ity, and again led the miners to the
spot. This time they made volun-
tary contract to give her one-fourth
of the yield. They kept their word
and she is now q rich woman. She
is tall, slender and good looking
and wears long golden hair stream
ing down her back. On horseback
she is perfect backwoods picture,
with her short skirt, buckskin
leggings, brown shoes and wide
brimed hat.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-01-25
Bucoda's Name.

Bucoda is the name of a town in
Washington. The origin of the
name is of a somewhat curious ma
ture. However, it arises from
civilized sources. It may puzzle
some of the commentators when
they endeavor to search for it's
origin. You might, says the Salem
Statesman, search all the foreign
languages in the world and still not
be able to discover it. This is how
it was christened: There were three
great railroad men in that portion
of the country where the town is
now, and their names were Buckley,
Coulter and Davis. Each of them
wished the town to be named after
himself. But they could not come
to any agreement, and finally, as q
compromise, the two first letters
from each name were taken and
placed together, and thereby origin
ated Bu-co- da.-Oregonian.
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Tobacco as g. Medicine.

Peter Coulter of Rushville, Ind,
declares that he has been kept alive
for seventy years by the constant
use of tobacco. He is now eighty
four years of age, says st. Louis
Globe-Democrat correspondent, and
commenced smoking and chewing
when a boy of IA, although then,
as now, he detested both the taste
and smell of it. He would gladly
quit using the noxious weed, but
fears that he would probably not
long survive it's discontinuance.
When a boy about the age above
mentioned he was suddenly taken
i'll with fever, and the disease left
very dangerous sore on his left side
that grew quite large and annoyed
him with constant and increasing
pains. His physician informed him
that there was but one remedy,
"use tobacco" or he must die. Te
this he at first objected, but finally
began smoking. For four years
the smoking made him sick and
did not seem to decrease the size
of the sore, though the pain was
much lessened.
The doctor then recommended
him to chew tobacco instead Of
smoking. He did SO and the sore
at once began to show an improve
ment, and the pain ceased altogether
But whenever he ceases chewing
for any considerable length of time
the sore returns and increases in
size, and he states that to desist
from chewing for month would
be at the risk of his life.
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For Cold in the Head.

There are q numher of ways of
aborting cold in the head, but
most of them are by means of quite
powerful drugs, which person un-
familiar with their use is never
justified in taking on their own re-
sponsibility. The Swiss method of
treatment is one Of the simplest
and most ehicaoious. It is applied
in this way: Half FILL q jar with
water, and into that put q teaspoon
full of well-powdered camphor.
Fashion out Of writing paper q fun
mel With which cap the top Of the
jar. The camphor steam should
be inhaled through the nose for ten
or fifteen minutes, the inhalation
being repeated, if required, every
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"Then I pronounce you man and


At this point the daughter, Agnes,
clasped her hands over her eyes and
fell in dead faint. She had been
standing with her head forward, and
the color coming and going in her
cheeks, and her eyes fairly blazing.
They worked over her for more
than an hour, while her father stood
near by and wept and prayed by
turns, thinking she was going to
die. But when restored she seemed
to regain her old-time spirits, with
out the excitement that had been
shown so plainly before. Her moth
er said the girl had overworked in
preparing for the occasion and that
she would now be all right. The
rest of the evening passed off as
such evenings generally do.
The mother had told the truth,
but she had not told the whole story.
She did not know it. The cause of
all the excitement which Agnes had
shown was document sealed by a
court of an obscure village of In
diana more than eighteen years be-
fore. It was an absolute divorce
granted to her father from her moth
er in the days when divorces were
almost as easily obtained in Indi-
ana as a warrant in a case "pro-
woke" The father had been infat-
uated with a widow of the neigh
borhood at the time the divorce was
obtained, and had gone over to In
diana to get free from his wife. His
attention to the widow had created
quite little talk in the church at
the time, but the widow had died of
a fever suddenly, and then every
body had felt very sorry for having
talked about her, and the matter
was soon forgotten. 1t had hap
pened that the divorce was granted
just when the widow was sick.
Mr.. Conover, having lost the wid-
ow, had found himself in a pecu-
liar condition. He had not the
courage to confess his sin to his
wife, and so had continued to live
with her all those years unlawfully.
He had lived model life in all re-
spects save this one. The daughter,
in clearing out the garret, had found
the divorce inside of an old carpet
bag, where it had been placed be-
tween cover and lining. In putting
her hand in the carpetbag she had
felt the outline of the document,
and curiosity had prompted her to
rip it out. Then she had taken it
straightway to the barn, where she
had read the riot act or some other
sort of severe lecture. to the old
man, and he had been glad to adopt
the method she suggested to get
him out of his scrape.-Fort Wayne
Special to N. Y. Sun.
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among the victims had he taken the
train. His wife then concluded that
he was right after all in missing the
train rather than his flask.
Again he was passenger on the
ill-fated Missouri Pacific train which
crashed through the Gasconado
bridge over thirty years ago, killing
most of the passengers on board.
Judge Cady, strange to say, escaped
with but few scratches, although
persons in front and behind him
were killed outright. 1t is needless
to add that he had the same old
brandy flask in his possession at the
time, and was just indulging in a
"wee nippe" when the accident oc-
Cured. He placed a very high value
on that flask, and would not part
with it when travling under any
circumstances.--St. Louis Republic.
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A Japanese Tattooer.

A Japanese tattooer Of great skill
has recently opened a studio in
Hongkong. He receives his visitors
in small office full of fans, screens,
topsy-t6rvy pictures and sharp
corners. On a big table in the
middle of the room are pattern
books. The visitor tells whether
he wishes a humorous, pathetic,
sentimental or religious design for
examination. Most persons choose
none of these designs because they
are too expensive. The tattooing
with representations of animals is
the cheapest and the most popular
A butterfly costs but 81, three but
tertlies 50 so, five butterflies 81. A
dragon, the most expensive animal,
costs $25.
After the customer has chosen his
design the tattooer leads him into
an operating room, over the door of
which hangs this notice: 81 never
work while am drunk" The GUS
toner lies on a couch and bares the
limb on which the design is to be
done. The operator then pricks in
the skin with fine needles the lines
of the animal or scene ordered. He
applies little colored powder and
a pinch of vaseline to the spot he has
pricked and the job is done. He
can prick three butterflies in about
forty minuets. The execution Of q
big dragon, however, occupies five
hours. A day or two after the
operation the skin about and above
the design comes off and all the
lines become clear.
The masterpiece of the Japanese
tattooer is the representation of
little fan covered with human fig
ures. This bit of tattooing adorns
the forearm of a young English
woman in Hongkong. The opera
tor himself hasn't an unadorned
square inch Of skin on his body.
Snakes, birds, cattle, women, pic
mics, dinner parties and steamships
in wild hodge-podge cover his back,
chest, legs and arms. His income
from his business is about $1,000 q
year.-New York Sun.
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The Bird Market at Lucknow.

Some birds are used incidentally,
and it is we'll known what strange
ideas native doctors have of the
virtues of blood flesh. Both the
flesh and the brains of the common
sparrow, especially the cock spar
row, are in great repute for certain
diseases; so a cageful of these ia
miliar chatterers are never missing
in the market. Certain species are
used in making love potions, and
are administered by rejected suitors
to the objects of their alteration.
On the other hand, the blood or the
flesh of an owl is supposed to make
person insane who drinks or eats
it. On. this account men who are
devoured by jealousy of a rival or
hatred of an enemy come furtively
to the market, and, purchasing an
owl, in silence carry it home secretly
and prepare decoction which an
accomplice will put into the food
or drink Of the object of their ma
lignant designs.
The list of uses for bird flesh is
not exhausted yet. Eating a crow
is supposed to to prolong life by
keeping the hair black and pre-
venting it from turning gray. The
common roller, often called a blue
Jay, has certain rites performed
over it and is then set free after one
feather has been plucked from it.
This feather is then worn as an
amulet and is supposed to have
great potency in averting the evil
eye. Another purpose for which
birds are purchased every morning
is to be set free again. This is done
by Hindoos as a work of merit,
and the Mohammedans, after cer-
tain rites have been performed, as
an atonement in imitation of the
Jewish scapegoat. It is essential
that bird used for this purpose
should be strong enough to fly away,
but that does not induce the cruel
dealers to feed the birds or refrain
from dislocating their wings or
breaking their legs. They put down
everything to good or bad luck and
leave the customer to choose
strong bird if he can get one and
to go away if he cannot.
The merit obtained by setting a
bird free is not attributed to the
Deity, but is supposed to come in
a large measure from the bird itself
or from its attendant spirit, and
hence birds of good or bad omen
and especially kites and crows, are
in much demand and are regularly
caught to be sold for this purpose.
Pioneer.
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Cut Off Short.

Chauncey NJ. Depew recently told
the following good story concern
ing Horace Greeley:
To interrupt Horace Greeley when
he was in the throes of bringing
forth an editorial-an editorial
which has never been equaled in
the journalism of America-an ed
itorial which was a slogan for his
party, p thunderbolt for his foes
was a danger which no friend, no
enemy, none but a fool dared to
encounter. l was once in his edi-
torial sanctum when the fool was
there. To relieve your apprehen-
sions, | was not the fool. But he
was one Of those itinerant and per-
sistent gentleman with subscrip-
ton book. He kept presenting it
while old Horace was writing-as
most of you remember, with his
pen away up to his chin, like this
(illustrating), and Horace had q
habit when any one woald interfere
of kicking, and 80 he kicked at the
subscription fiend. Finally, when
he saw he could not get rid Of the
intruder by this means, he stopped
in the middle of a sentence, turned
around, and said raspingly in that
shrill voice of his:
"What do you want? State it
quick, and state it in the fewest
possible words"
"Well," said the subscription
fiend, II want subscription, Mr..
Greeley, to prevent thousands of
my fellow human beings from 60
ing to hell"
Said Mr.. Greeley: II won't give
you a cent. There don't half
enough 90 there now"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-01-25
BAeeAeE cnEcks.
The Origin Of System Univer-
sally Appreciated.

-. u. Merrell OF Union Clty, MICH
igan, said to a Tribune reporter !:
John Palmer of my town is the in
ventor of the baggage-checking sys-
tenn. / will tell you his story as he
told it to me: John Palmer was
born in England some eighty-two
years ago and came to the United
States in 1909 and to Union City
in 1885. In those early days he
was in great demand, for his violin
enlivened many and many winter
night. One great annoyance he ex-
perienced was the constant trouble
people had in finding their coats,
hats, wraps, robes, etc., after the
party broke up. Well, it was an
nounced that there was to be big
dance at Berlington on Thanksgiv-
ing evening, about 1850, and Mr..
Palmer was to have charge of the
music. He knew that there would
be terrible crowd there and that
there would be lots of trouble with
the clothing, and he went to work
to devise a plan to obviate it.
Well, after studying on it long
time he had solved the mystery.
He got out eight cards, marked
them in pairs-1 /, 2 2, 8 3, 4 f.
and one of the greatest blessings to
the business world was born. Now
for the first test. He had four
children; he took their shoes and
stockings, tied each up by them
selves, put tags l, 2, 3, 4, on each
lot and put them away. When the
children got up they inquired for
their shoes. He gave each one the
check that corresponded with the
check on the shoes and told them
to go into the other room and pick
out their own by comparing the
numbers. Each child got its own.
Now for a trial on larger scale.
He prepared a lot of checks in the
same way for the guests of the
party. About the first to arrive
were the four railroad men from
Marshall. Three took their checks,
one would not have the thing and
threw it on the floor. When they
called for their clothes they had
forgotten all about their checks and
demanded their things. Mr.. Pal
mer asked them for their checks.
After hunting some time the three
produced their checks and at once
received their goods. They had to
identify the goods for the fourth
man.
Shortly after this there was an
other party at Burlington and
among the first to arrive were six
railroad men from Marshall, includ-
ing the first four. They said they
wanted their things checked the
same as before. They watched the
plan the whole evening and went
away convinced that they had found
grand idea. Inside of three months
it was adopted by the railroad COM
panies of the United States.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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The Dying Husband Racket.

A Michigan exchange gives this
advice to it's readers: IF a gray
haired women of so in moderately
respectable attire is put off the ears
in your town because she almost i'm
mediately receives a telegram urg-
ing her to come home on the next
train because her husband is dying,
and if she tearfully and desperately,
in pretty loud voice, announces
that she is going to walk home 100
miles, you let her walk. She and
her confederate, who sends the tele-
gram, have worked the dying-hus-
band racket in half q dozen
Michigan towns at net profit, it is
figured, of SIS a day.
The pilgrim g Progress" has been
translated into Amharic, the LAM
guage of Abysinia. The book has
been translated into "a languages.
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Notice to Creditors.
Estate. Of ALBEIT W CoMsroCK, d

Estate. of ALBERT w. COMSTOCK, de-
ceased
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
~ undersigned, administrator OF the es-
tate of Albert w. Comstock, deceased, to
The creditors of. and all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to exhlnlt
Them with the necessary vouchers, within
ten months after the first publication OF
this notice, to the said administrator at the
FIRST National Bank in the town OF ketch-
um, Ill the said county of Alturas.
GEO. M. SNOW,
Administrator of Estate of Albert w C0m-
stock, deceased.
Dated at Ketchum, Idaho, Oct. q, 1889
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TREED BY SNOW.
A Colorado Miners Unique Expe-
rience Above Minnesota Gulch.

Many of our readers have doubt
less heard of hunters being freed
by bears and other wild animals,
but it remained for San Juan mi
ner to be driven to a tree for refuge
while the snow was sliding for hun
dreds of yards all around him. The
hero of this incident was Patsy Gil
Ian, who has recently thrown up
hard contract on the Red Lion
mine. Last week he secured con-
tract to work the assessment on q
claim just above Minnesota gulch,
on Cement creek. Any one who is
acquainted with that section knows
that the lay Of the ground there
can be viewed in winter with any
thing but complacency. The hill
side is not very steep, but just steep
enough to hold all the snow that
falls without allowing it to slide,
unless assisted by jar; then it
comes with an emphasis that means
business, and the entire hillside ap-
pears to be moving to a lower alti-
tude. The timber is limited to only
few Of the most substantial spruce,
that have lived long enough to get
used to the customs of the country
and strong enough to hold their
own in case of accidents.
The open cut that was to be cas-
sessed" is situated in the midst of an
open space, and when blast was
fired, Patsy had to run and hide
behind tree. One of the men who
did the work last year, who was
rather slow in his habits, was on
one occasion helped into his posi-
ton by a fat piece of rock, which
struck him in the beefy portion of
his anatomy and lifted him about
ten feet. Last Monday Patsy put
in lifting hole about five feet deep
and primed it with four sticks of
No. / giant. After splitting the fuse
he made bee-line for the big tree,
when he suddenly thought of the
snow. 1t was five feet all around,
and when the explosion should oc-
cur nothing could stop it from slip
ping. He had no time to run, and
there was no way left to get out of
it but by climbing, and climb he
did. Patsy climbed for dear life,
and just got one foot on the lower
branch when off went the blast. In
a moment the air was filled with
flying rock and snow, followed by
a loud crack, then the rumbling
sound of moving snow, accompa-
MED by the muff1ed crack of timbers
as they were crushed into kindling
sticks. Patsy thought his time had
come; the crushing force of the
thousands of tons of snow was be-
hind the big tree he was in and it
seemed that nothing short of mir
acle could save it from being torn
from its roots. All the sins of. his
lifetime passed before his eyes in
panoramic view and he felt that he
could almost forgive the yandal who
robbed his cabin last week. But
the alarm proved needless, the snow
swept by and as Patsy came down
from the tree he made solemn vow
that never again would he take such
a chance without frst insuring his
life in an old-line company.-Sil-
verton (Col.) Miner.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-01-25

The KEYSTONE has long been acknowi-
edged to be the sole representative of the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and, located as it is in the
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth, and leav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers =
developments, as well as matters of local
importance in the growth of Ketchum, the
future metropolis Of Idaho, it is an invalua-
BILE guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
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ST. Mary's Academy
SALT LAKE CITY,
CONDUCTED BY, THE
Sisters Of the Holy Cross

Studies for boarders and day-pupils will
De resumed Monday ,September2 1889. The
English courses include all the branches
necessary for q first-class education. The
languages, linear drawing, vocal music IN
class, plain sewing and ornamental needle
work form no extra charge.
Terms are modified when two or more OF
the family are at school at the same time.
Students attending All Hallow's College
are permitted to visit their sisters at the
Academy.
Half rates can be secured on two of the
tsailroad lines.
TERMS MODERATE.
For catalogues, address as above.
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Z, IDAHO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1890.

four or five hours. If, in spite of
it's unpleasantness, the inhalation
is persisted in, it is said that three
repetitions will always effect cure
however severe the "cold in the
head" may be.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-01-25

,,rrrN VIM. HYNDMAN.
HYNDMAN & BATTEN,
Attor s-a tia w
Ketcbum, Idaho.-Practice in all the Courts
and Land Offices.
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PROFESSIONAL.


rrORNEY-AT-LAW,K Ketchum. Idaho.
A PRACTICES in all the Courts OF the Ter,
-;torv - Conveyancing and procuring OF
patents a specially.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-24
A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE.
From The Chicago Tribune.
-. Ua-k CVruSi What was that ~

FROM MN, Inc .n.caso w nr,osn Nc .n..,,
Yak Cyrq Ev wIt Ta Se t Sa 20 Sleep will you,.
For few moments silence ieis"e' III '''o ''''p"'
.cyrus win,erbottom, there's somebody in the
mouse rTs,s tat te, np IN bed and III listened
a it!' t Inc, cat cat he srambIed drowsily.
"A cat 1t doesn't wear oOoU' anu ~ "'''"' 'p''
TS bahv stirred and Mrs Winterbottom soothed ii
INC Ddof s'H''u anu '
don't see 9o Wsf aRyGody with Ma1S t% se' S
nothing to-helgii-ho 10 S'eai III "'A' p' " WIZ
mouse Sohn Sset to steal There's platefu of tarts.
p'. some =, Of your~heisll.ho-y concoction.
Emily !" ,r, .,.,. ~
,be e lGSc S01,e al and u.
He'll never get to the sllyerware Emily, if he
distorted body in the morning
Hush! iark1 an ,.,s or,nt put nrescntIv
ne nstcnc Somnd as Of somebody moving about
an I'M & hoe aroused even Cyrss dued senses
on tle noor 0c'oW, n,roachng the stairway cyrus
steps seemed 20 oc ont from mn5er his pillow climbed
City the SGST Of m The Tifs IN and
got behind IT, nrst na I and leaye matters entirely
w ~, ha no MAKE ''O "0''' anu ''''
softly ana steriI nc Ti The dim Icht Of the night
lamp the dressingcase fell upon the swar' 10TH
Mrs wnterbotom screamed at sgns 81 Is h bnrrar
baby woke mp and h3wled' anu peofe nt, e into
could recover from the mon,qno"' d throyyn him
which this unexpected reS &c, ,o,r n'
You Internal sCOululci. ~ M .hn"~cb von ~
move muscle or IL put o',l - = rcar ar uore
The revolver hadn't been lOadtd for year vi 'o'''
and Cyrus knew IL, but the burglar didn't.
The Mil ful wretch stood perfectly still.
Take of your mask!' sternly commander Cyrus.
The burglar complied. With ashen face ana mean
hangdog look he stood there and said nor Wot.,'
Mrs Winerbotom had recovered her selt-possessioh'
IL would serve yOu right. you snclking contenRu1,
BILE villain" said Cyrus in deep, tragic voice III
'houLt hoo, Won where Won stand believe I'll DO
II anvhoyv
Mercy Mcrcy,' pleaded the trembling wretch;