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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-29
!, IDAHO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20. 1890.

ping on the OCner SlQe. w nen tnlS
one had been picked clean the whale
skulled quickly ahead until it was
600 or $50 feet away from the boat.
Then it began series of antics and
displayed an agility scarcely to be
expected from 80 great an animal.
It darted straight ahead, it suddenly
backed water, it swan in a circle,
it gamboled like a dolphin, it threw
itself clear from the water, making
a great splash and dangerous waves
when it fell back; last of all, it put
it's head down and fukes up, throw
ing nearly half its length into the
air, and rose quietly beside the boat.
The chopped meat was thrown over
board and we drove back to shore
while this odd pet was feeding.
"How did 1 get him?" the plan
ter, in answer to my flood of ques-
tions. "It might be more accurate
to say he got me first. One day
some years ago 1 was sailing the
lagoon with barrel full of chopped
meat to bait pool in the reef be-
yond. All at once / felt the boat
lifted up and overturned, and when
I had righted her and clambered
aboard there was the whale feeding
on the meat, which had been scat
tered all about. He was only twenty
feet then, but that was quite long
enough to give me good scare, in
addition to my ducking. Somehow
or other he never seemed able to
find the pass back into the sea, and
now he is so big that he could not
get out even if he wished to. From
being afraid of him | grew recon
ciled to his presence in the lagoon.
One day he came up close to the
boat, and though l was very much
frightened I began to pick these
crabs out of his eye.
From that time he attached him
himself to me, and l found that he
relished being petted. Once when
I was ill I left him unattended fol
several weeks. He came down the
lagoon much farther than usual
and at last run himself aground
just below my house and had to
wait several hours for the tide to
float him off. That shows that he
missed me. Here is another sam
pie of his intelligence. When the
boys drum upon the bottom of the
boat he hears the sound long dis
tance under the water, and at once
comes to the surface. Then if
blow the horn he knows that have
come out to feed him, and come:
quickly up to the boat. But if l dc
not blow the horn he never come!
close, but frolics around Us at lont
range. 1t is not easy to say hov
much sense whale has, but thi
ought to convince any one that my
big pet is possessed of considerable
MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-29
Witch Burning.

New England was not the only
place where they burned witches in
the "good old times" In Bambers,
Germany, 5000 were burned in less
than four years; in Wurzburg over
900 in the same time; in Geneva
500 suffered the extreme penalty in
less than three months. The public
square of Coma witnessed the burn
ing of 1000 in the year 1924. In
France over 100000 perished at the
stake during the century ending
with 1910. In Spain the number
was even greater. In Germany 3OO,-
600 are computed to have perished
during the century when the pros
ecutions were most active. In Italy
this number was equaled, if not
excelled. In England over 10000
are believed to have suffered death
by burning, while in Scotland and
Ireland executions by process of
law mount up far into the thous-
ands, to say nothing of the vast
numbers who were informally con-
demned and put to death by hang
ing, drowning, beating and other
forms of torture inflicted by mobs.
The records of every English court
of two centuries ago are filled with
minutes of the trial and condem-
nation of witches. In 1612twelve
old women were condemned in one
day at Lancaster; on the following
day judgment was passed on eight,
and the twenty were hanged to-
gether on the third day. In 1919
seventy-three women were put to
death in the same town, and in 1614
the number of executions rose to
1O2. In 1922 six were burned at
York. Ten years later there is re-
cord of seventeen being hanged in
Lancashire; in 1914 seventeen suf:
fered at Yarmouth; in 1915 fifteen
were burned or hanged at Chelms-
ford; in 1916 sixty-three were
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-29
Forty-Seven Years Ago.

In1S43 a merchant on Lake street,
one store west of Dearborn, organ
lied a party to 60 over the noun
tains to Oregon. 1t was late in the
fall before they got under way, and
were caught in terrific snowstorm
in the Rocky Mountains. For days
they wandered about starving. AT
last to save the party it was decided
that some one must die. Lots
were cast, and Charles Stanton drew
the fatal ballot. He opened vein
in his limb, and the others catching
the blood drank it. They afterward
devoured his remains. 1t was re-
ported at the time that the wolves
ate him, but such was not the case
Mr.. Burley and others knew him
well.-Chicago Journal.
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Black Walnut.

Black walnut is rapidly becom-
ing exhausted and there seems to
be : nothing in this country to take
;ts place. No other tree is so valu-
able. It grows rapidly, will thrive
in any soil and is very hardy, re-
curing very little care, because no
animal and but one insect feeds
mon it. It has a value but little
Known. which is that the European
or "French walnut" as it IS called
grows firmly on it and IT lseaslIy
grated, 2 It can, in that way, oe
made to yield a fortune If cultivated
on a large scale. In twenty years
it will more than pay all expenses
and interest, and in fifty years IN tne
trees would be worth at least $4O,-
600 an acre.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-29
NOTICE..

a A MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of the First National Bank of
hetehum, Idaho, held at its banking office
on the 2stn day of February, 1890. the own
ers OF over two-thirds of the shares voted
20 go into liquidation on the 2Sth day of
April, 1880, and close up its affairs. All
hote-holders and other creditors of said
association are therefore hereby notified to
present the notes and other claims against
the association for payment.
dated at ketchum, Idaho, April 26, 1880.
ISAAC l. LEWIS, President.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-29
Timber 1000 Years OLD.

Probably the oldest timber inthe
world which has been subjected to
the use of man is found in the an
cient temple of Egypt in .cennee-
ton with stonework which is known
to be Ut least 4 900 years old. This
was the only wood used in the con-
struction Of the temple, and is Ia
the form of ties holding the end of
one stone to another. When two
blocks were laid in place an .exca-
vation about an inch deep was made
in each block, in which one of these
wooden ties, shaped like an hour
glass, was driven. 1t is, therefore,
very difficult to force a stone FROM
it's position. These ancient ties are
made of tamarisk or shittim wood,
the same as that from which the ark
was constructed.-St. Louis Rep.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-29

The KEYSTONE has long been ackDowl
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 ninvalua-
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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NOTICE..

WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE
~, TOR any labor to be performed on the
Di4e Jacket mine. situated on Eagle Creek,
'n warm Springs Creek mining district, in
:AnuIas county. Idaho, or for supplies furn-
nheo Tor the same during a lease on said
NINE, which lease will expire on December
4, 1871. CAD AYLWIN,
CHAPMAN & LIBBY.
By Las. NJ. BLossoA, Attorney INTACT.
Aetchum, Idaho, June /, 1890.
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TWO GREAT FORTUNES.
How the Treadwell Brothers Be-
came Millionaires.

The writer of fiction has told no
tale more extravagant than that
connected with the personal history
of James Treadwell, the quicksilver
millionaire of California. Twenty
five or thirty years ago the Tread
we'll brothers, John and James, left
their place in st. Andrews, New
Brunswick, determined to win fame
or fortune, or both, in the far West.
California was their goal, and it was
the goal of many another New
Brunswick lad. But it has remained
for New Brunswickers to acquire
the immense fortunes that these
two brothers now own. John found
his wealth among the gold hills of
distant and bleak Alaska. Going
thither on prospecting tour, he
fell in with the owner of gold
claim, who was willing to sell out
for mere song. He bought the
mine, secured the capital to develop
it, and it is now producing more
riches for it's owners than any other
gold mine in the world. But the
story of John Treadwell's fortune
is commonplace when compared
with the mysterious manner In
which his brother James claims to
have acquired his wealth.
This is the story as gathered from
the lips of himself. Chief among
Mr.. Treadwell's friends in Califor-
MIA were a young married couple.
The husband was native of New
Brunswick-a fact which will prob
ably account in a great measure for
the warmness Of the friendship ex-
listing between them. Husband and
wife were ardent believers in spir-
itualism and were devotedly at.
tached to each other. Mr.. Treadwel|
had little faith in their spiritualism
and did not hesitate to make known
his skepticism. But subsequent
events caused complete change in
his opinion. Some years ago Mrs
R. became i'll and died. Though
removed from her husband in the
flesh he claims that she held fire.
quent communions with him II
spirit. During one of these con
ferences she expressed desire te
meet Mr.. Treadwell, intimating thai
she had communication ofimport
ance that she wished to mak'
to him. After some coaxint
from the husband of the departed
woman Mr.. Treadwell consented tc
meet the spirit. The form appeared
to him at the hour and place indi
Gated, and, through the medium ol
the husband, informed Mr.. Tread
we'll that if he sought in certain
quarter he would find a rich bed O
quicksilver.
At first he had little faith in tht
announcement, but when it was re
peated twice he determined to in
vestigate. He had little trouble in
locating the spot of land where the
spirit had indicated the quicksilver
deposit lay. Excavations were be-
gun, resulting in quicksilver being
found in immense quantities. Mr.
Treadwell pressed upon the hus
band of the departed spirit to accep
share in his great riches, but ht
strenuously refused, declaring tha
he had ample to live upon until ht
joined his wife in the spirit world
A year ago death visited him, ant
his desires in this direction were
realized. The mine still continues
to be worked and is yielding fabu
lous wealth to it's possessor.-Ney
York Sun.
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right arm and hand from sight with
the duster on his left and looking
steadily the other way all the time.
The man who is robbed never sees
the face of the man who takes his
watch at all, and this is a great
point in case he makes a roar. AS
rule | never take the chain. They
are mostly plated and there's moth
ing in them. It is easier and quicker
to take the watch alone. The rings
are only sprung into the watch
stem, not riveted, and as you take
the watch you can twist the ring
free from the watch and chain by
an easy effort of the thumb and fore
finger. You don't drop the ring;
you bring watch and ring both, but
separate from each other.
WHEN THE WATCH CASE OPENS.
Sometimes a ticklish thing oc-
ours. l get hold of watch that
opens. easy and spring it open be-
fore know it. OF course I've got
to let it remain that way. Shutting
the case is clean out of the ques-
ton. Closing a watch case under
those circumstances makes a noise
like a gun.
"You cannot protect yourself
from a pickpocket. He can get any
thing you have on but a ring from
your finger. Your pin is his every
time; so is your watch, and the
tailor never made a pocket he can
not explore as thoroughly as if he
took a lantern.
l was talking with gentleman
one day as l am with you, and he
called my attention to an emerald
stone of great value which he wore
in his scarf.
"Valuable, amt it?' he asked.
II should judge it was l said,
but I don't know much about en-
eralds. A pure one, / hear, is worth
as much as a diamond
so it is,' he replied; you would
rather like this one | wear, wouldn't
you?' and at that he laughed as if
he supposed couldn't look on any
thing without wanting to steal it.
"No,' I said, L don't want your
emerald; they bring bad luck. Ii
wanted it I'd take it,
"'You couldn't get it. It's fast
enings are harder to get at than you
think
"We let the matter drop and
talked about something else. Some
thing, as we talked, got my eye
and panied me greatly-eyelash, |
guess. I was in great pain and ne
volunteered to get it out. He work
ed about ten seconds, and then |
winked and declared the eye all
right. AS he stepped back [ handed
him his emerald, that he thought no
one could get. He was very much
astonished, but didn't say much. ]
could see that it destroyed his faith
in those complex fastenings, though
Another time Robert A. David
son and Judge Adams had been de-
Tending some of the family and got
them clear and we were giving them
little supper among other things
by way of celebration. Talk turned
on thieves and their work, and both
Davidson and Adams, like every
other man on earth, thought it i'm
possible to plunder them. Yor
could rob other men, but they were
altogether too keenly sensitive
They would know the minute a THE
got within block of 'em, to heal
'em tell it. While the talk was 60
ing on the boys robbed them o
everything they had, even their eye
glasses. Of course we gave the
stuff back.
"Well, can't be with you always,
he said; 4 must CO."
AS he shook hands at parting ne
left my own pin in my hand. He
had taken it from my scarf while
we were talking. The pickpocke
was "Mollie Matches"
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burned in Huntington. Such are
some of the brief memoranda left
by cotemporary historians-brief,
but embodying in few words a
story of unparalleled suffering and
agony-Boston Transcript.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-11-29

Darwin defines the wag Of a dogs
tail as "an escape of nervous force
restrained for the moment fron
other modes Of expression.
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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
THE IRON CAGE.
Designed by the Bishop of verdun. Who
Was Its Pirst Occupant.

Designed by the Bishop of vcrdun. Who
Was Its Pirst Occupant.
For Louis XII of Frauce-whom Sir
Walter Scott and Mr. Henry Irving
have made so familiar TO the English
public-the iron cage had great at
traction, and he seems TO have equip
ped with it nearly every one of his
state prisons When the Due de Ne
mours, previous TO his trial was trans
ferred to the Bastile, he was put i'm
cage of iron; and the king, learning
that some indulgence had been shown
to SO illustriousa prisoner, wrote in the
most uncompromising terms to the
Sire de Saint Pierre, one of the com
missaries appointed to try the unfor-
tunate prince. He was not pleased, he
said, to learn that the letters had been
removed from the dukes limbs, that
he had been allowed to leave his cage,
and that he had attended mass when
him to take care that the prince never
left his cage, except to be put to the
question: is, to be tortured-aDd
that this should take place in his own
apartment.
Other important personages in the
reign of Louis made acquaintance
with these iron cages of his; among
ohers, William of Harancourt, Bishop
of Verdun, and the Cardinal de la
Balue. According to an eminent
French antiquary, each cage was
about nine feet long, eight feet broad
and seven feet high, and consisted of
4 ponderous frame work of timber,
strengthened by solid iron clasps and
fenced in with stout iron bars,
weighing altogether a couple of hun
dred pounds, and costing about 367
livres, at the then value of money.
Philippe de Commines, the historian,
makes some characteristic comments
upon King Louis XI and his cages. :
1T is quite true" he says, that
the king our master ordered the con-
struction of some rigorous prisons
cages of iron and of wood, covered
With plates of iron outwardly and in
.ernally, and with terrible iron bars,
each about eight feet wide and about
The height of man, or one foot more.
The man who designed them was the
Bishop of Verdun, and in the very
first that was made he was inconti-
nently immured, and lay therein for
fourteen years, Many Of us since
have poured our curses upon him, and
forone, having had an eight months
taste of this kind of captivity. For
merly, too, the king caused the Ger
mans to make for him somo heavy
and terrible letters to fasten upon
prisoners feet, and an iron ring to
clasp around the ankle, with solid
chain attached, and great iron ball
at the end of the chain. These instru-
ments of torture were known as les
fillettes du roy or the kings maid
ems. These, nevertheless, l have
seen on the feet of many prisoners of
rank, who have since risen into honor
and great JOY and have received many
favors from the king. ALL the Year
Round.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
The Queen and tho Snow Children.

There is an incident in the queens
life, well known to the gypsies, but
little known out of the charmed Ro-
many circle One bitter winter day.
when the snow was lying thick all
over Windsor park, "A gypsy family
were crossing it, when the tent had to
be suddenly pitched, the pangs of
labor having overtakcn the mother
a few sticks wegc huiriedly gathered,
but there was hardly any time to
scrape away the snow and get the fire
lit before the gypsy woman gave birth
to twins. The park keepers, OF course,
came up and ordered the tent to be
taken off the ground.
But the birth Of the twins in the
snow under her windows reached the
ears of her majesty, who at once sent
food and drink and clothing TO the
wanderers. Amongst the presents
were some baby's WOODEN stockings.
knit by her majesty's own hands, and
n pair of blankets which but q short
time before, it is said, had lain OH a
state bed. Gypsies repeat tAis anec-
dotewith great pride, and ''thc socks
knitted by the queen of the Gorgiass
are frequently referred TO by them
when they speak of deeds of thought
full and timely charity. = Sheffield
(Eng.) Telegraph.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
A Thrifty Farmer.

The grasping-t though not miserlv
nature of the native New England
farmer is somewhat proverbial. 1t is
hard to get the better of him in a
"dicker," and he very seldom gives
anything for nothing. His keenncss
in this respect was well illustrated by
an experience of a young Boston man
who recently spent q week in Now
Hampshire. The young man wanted
to hire a boat for the day, and the
farmer owned one which was moored
to the bank of the river. Can you
let me have your boat for the dayY" he
asked of the owner. "Well, let me
see, was the cautious reply. "Idon't
know as | can. You see, thars
man over here, Mr.. So-and So, that
other Teller, yer know. He said
t'other day he wanted my boat, and
he may be raound this morning."
"Well, I'm sorry, as | should like it
today very much. You don't think
you can let me have it2" mo; cum
ter think of it, feel purity sartin that
other feller'll he 'raound after il to-
day. And if he wants it, he orter
have it. THAT settles it then. sup
pose," said the young man. But can
you tell me of any place near here
where you think l can hire boat9"
ooh, you want to hire boat, do yera"
eyes" "Wall, naow, SEEM yer want
to hire boat SO bad-come to think
on it, it's gittin' kinder late, and do
not believe that other Teller will be
'raound, this morning-it's mos 8
o'clock. You want to hire it, you
say?" Eyes. How much will you
charge me for the day2" 1.-THE last
time l let her l charged thirty cents
for her; but / kinder thinks that's
leetle might high. guess I'll let you
have it for twenty-five cents. "-Bos.
ton Times
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
ADVICE TO NORTH DAkOTANs.
Chicago Men Telegraph Governor Miller
Against the Lottery Bill.

Chicago Men Telegraph Governor Miller
Against the Lottery Bill.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-The following tele-
gram, signed by John r. Walsh, Chicago
National bank; j. j. Gage, First National
bank; William Penn Nixon, of The Inter
Ocean; Joseph Medill, of The Tribune;
James w. Scott, of The Herald; Judge
Gresham, Judge Gary, and large number
Of other prominent business men of Chicago,
was sent to the governor of North Dakota,
Bismarck, yesterday:
The undersigned beg to express to you, and
through you 10 your legislature, our deep So
icitude in view Of your impending peril in the
astonishing consideration given the so-called
lottery revenue hill" We believe that in
stead of temporary and future relief, its adop-
don will irrevocab!y fetter Sour state in all its
financial credit and conditions, and in all ma
Serial prosperity.
In our judgment you cannot afford TO assume
The stigma of transferring to your virgin state
and legalzing n practice so pernicious in its
Effects and so held in adherence by all good
citizens throughout the country, and that is so
soon to expire in the last state that perforce
,ives il tolerance.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
Diving I'm a Sea of Ink.

If the designer of one of the large
theatrical posters that adorned GER
tain high board fence on La Sale
street lately could have seen an act
that was witnessed by number OF
people he would have been pulled up
with pride. 1t was one of those wild,
tempestuous sea scenes and it attract
ed the notice of newsboy who was
passing. Full of life and frolic, he
took up position on the curbstone
and surveyed the raging waters. He
had a companion who was waiting
for him down the walk, but the lad,
it seemed, had no idea of hurrying.
He had in all probability read dime
novels and had strong desires to play
the part of hero. Doubtless in the
flood before him was some fair maiden
clinging to u broken mast or piece of
floating wreck and he was going to
save her or perish in the attempt.
Whatever his idea, he put his hands
over his head as boy does when pre-
paringto make dive, and rushed for
ward as if in reality he was going to
make q plunge. The little fellow
miscalculated the distance and banged
hard against To- .----:ds of the fence.
They were sprung to some extent, and,
giving as he went against them,
swung back. throwing tho lad out to
the edge of the walk again, where he
fell into puddle of real water that
had accumulated on the walk. He
picked himself up and joined his
laughing comradc looking as sheepish
as possible. But the act illustrated
how real the sen scene had appeared TO
him. Chicago Herald.