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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-08-01
CALL FOR
Democratic County Conventions.

Pursuant to call Of the Chairman the Dem.
ocratic Central Committee Of Altu, ~ County met
at the Courthouse in HALEY. July SOth. 1890. when
the following business was transacted:
It WAS decided that two Conventions be held
composed Of 20 delegates each.
TRsr-A Convention to DO held in Ketchum
MONDAY. AUGUST 18TH. 1890,
for the purpose Of electng delegates TO the State
Convention to be held In Boise City August 25th.
1880; and also to nominate . legislative ticket
consisting of one Senator and tive Representatives.
The Primaries for this convention to be held in
each precinct Tuesday, August 18th. 1890.
SACoND--A Convention to be held in HALEY
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER lsr. 1890.
at2P.M.,
1t the Courthouse, for the purpose Of nominating
County Ticket
The Primaries for this convention to be held In
each precinct Wednesday. August goth. 1890.
The Democratic voters at each precinct are re-
quested to meet at come convenient place and se.
lect their own Judges and Clerks, Polls to be
open frem to O'Clock p. N.
In all precincts where there 10 member OF
members Of the Central Committee, they ere r.
quested to post calls for primaries and select
polling places.
Tho apportionment Of delegates from each pre-
rinct IA an fOl1Owa.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-08-01
Sarsaparilla

ooadby IN druggists. p; SIX for Ss Prepared only
b G. j. HOOD . CO.. Apothscaries. Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses Ono Dollar
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-08-01
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A Rare Opportunity.
Male Help Wanted.

Cc0 SALARY. $40 EXPENSES IN ADVANCE,
WOO allowed each month. Steady employment
at home or travelling. No s0iciting. Duties de-
liyerinR and making collections. No postal cards.
Address with stamp. HAFER l. co, ttqua, Ohio.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-08-01

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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-08-01

RESOURCES.
Loan. ana discounts. .,..,.......3 81 ,a0s 50
Overdrufts, secured aud unsecured.... $500 81
u 8. bonds to secure circulstion...... 2,6O0 90
Stocks securities. judgments, claims.
Due from approved reserve agents.. S,A72 93
Due from other national banks, 2,lx. O6
Due from state banks ard bankers. 2.212 81 /
Bsnkino- house FURNITURE. and Axtures 6,301 70
Current exuenaes and taxes paid 49,. 29l o.
Premiums On o. g. Bonds ,.,.,,. 400 90
Checks and other cash items. 02O 90
Bills OF other banks. 100 W
Fractional paper currency. hickels and -
soecie. ........ 49,, ..,..,........ ISL 06
Legal.tender notes. tbs 90
Is Der cent. Of circuls,ion).. -. 500 10
Total ......... $50 9o6 o6
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in..... .......9 5000 90
Undivided prodts .................... 8,3O7 o.
National Bank Otes Outstandtng..... II $50 90
Individual deposits subject to check. N.iO6 -
Demand ccrtiacates Of deposit. l9.222 IS
Due to ether ,ational banks.......... 1.35O 80
Due to State banks and bankers. 4,860 60
State OF idaho. County Of Alturas, ss.:
l, c. J. 8ELwYN, Cashier OF the above-named
bank, do solemnly swtar thai the above statement
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
The Discoverar of Oregon.

"Bartolome Ferrelo, a Spanish
navigator, in search for the myth
cal Straits of Anian, reached, on
March 1, 1910, the 44th degree of
north latitude. This was off the
coast of the northern boundary of
what is now known as Douglas
county. To Ferrelo then, belongs
the discovery of Oregon, and on the
promintories of the southern Ore
gon coast will rest like the halo of
romance the credit Of being the
land Of all the northwest territory
on which the eye of civilized man
first rested. Sir Francis Drake, in
trying to elude the vigilance of the
Spanish by attempting a northern
passage to England, arrived off the
coast of Oregon in 1878. He landed
at the mouth of the Umpqua, and
put on shore his Spanish pilot.
This was the first Caucasian on
Oregon soil, $500 miles from his
Mexican home, left to find his way
through trackless forests and desert
wastes alone. .'-Exchange.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
Soldiers in the War.

An estimate recently made Of the
number of soldiers of the late Re-
bellion surviving July 1, 1890,
shows grand army of 1,246,OS9.
The number enlisted during the war
excluding re-enlistments, was 2,213-
365. Of these it is estimated,
1854, ,116, died of wounds or disease
during the war. and 25,2S4 died
after discharge prior to July l,
1855. Deducting, also, 121 1896
deserters left /, ,7O2, ,O69 survivors on
July /, 1865. Some of these by
reason of wounds or disease con-
tracted in the service were subject
to greater death rate than tie
ordinary s'life tables" Making
allowance for this calculation shows
that on July 1, 1890, there were
probably 1,246,OS9 survivors, of
whom more than 100000 were 81
years Of age or over. Nearly one
third of the survivors appear to be
on the pension rolls, the army inva-
lid pensioners numbering 392,8O9.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
Marvels of Surgery.

So life be left in our bodies, no
matter if they be hacked and hewed
or manned or broken, the surgeon
will set hopefully about the work
of repair. The process of grating
animal tissue is now carried to such
an extent that the deficiency of one
creature is made good by taking a
piece or part of another. A dis
figuring birth-mark on the face of
a child was recently nearly cut
away, and a patch of skin taken
from the arm Of the mother was
transplanted to cover the wound.
A man so frightfully burned as to
lose the greater part of his epider-
mis- was successfully covered with
frog skin. Recovery will have a
double meaning henceforth for him.
Oculists have taken the cornea from
the eyes of rabbits, cats and dogs,
to replace and make good the Wis
of human beings. That wonderful
fiber, the nerve, has also yielded
itself to the skillful touch of science.
The nerves may be patched and
pieced. The nerves of brutes have
been successfully joined to the
stumps of severed nerves of men.
Badness may be cured by grating.
A New York physician has recently
repaired ravages of this kind by
first taking gratis from the patients
own scalp, where time had spared
his locks, and afterward eking out
the supply by portions taken from
the head of another person, doubt
less selecting hair of the proper
color. "These gratis were cut by
means of a punch, and included
not only the thickness Of skin, but
also subcutaneous tissues beneath,
which left them fully a quarter Of an
inch thick. Holes corresponding
in size to those left after the removal
of the gratis were, of course, made
in the scalp for their reception. All
the gratis united well, without sup
puration or untoward results and
bore hair luxuriantly." Even the
bones, where they have been splint-
cred by accident or destroyed by
disease, may be replaced with bet
ter bones and become incorporate
with the complete osseous struct-
ure.-Philadelphia Record.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
Love and the Tobacco Habit.

Speaking of brides, does man
ever realize how gross creature he
usually is, and how much dainty
girl has to undergo in first learning
to endure the monster and then
embrace, as the verse says of vice?
Think of his tobacco habit. Still,
those who are opposed to the use OF
tobacco, and their name is legion,
have received quite a setback in
their persistent attacks upon the
filthy weed" and if this new bit
of testimony in favor of smoking
and even of chewing be what is
known as san honest statement of
fact" why, it behooves all men,
and women, too, for that matter,
who may contemplate voyage to
any land peopled by gentle canni-
balls to begin the use of tobacco at
once. For let me tell you that these
gentle folk will not eat a smoker,
and as for a tobacco chewer, why,
thy would no sooner think of serv-
ing him up with sauce blanche au
gratin, a la maitre d'hotel or aux
fines herbes than we would think
of eating crow. He is positively
repulsive to them and they drop
him the very instant they catch a
Whit of the, to them, detestable odor.
A smoker lately escaped the grill by
the good fortune of having an old
clay pipe in his pocket. No doubt a
stump" of cigar would effect the
same purpose, only see to it that you
smell strongly of the herb, that's
all, and the stronger the safer for
you. There's a consolation to be
drawn from nearly everything in
life, and therefore, oh, patient and
ong-suffering wives, when your neg
lectful husbands come tumbling
into bed at midnight smelling
strongly of tobacco smoke console
yourselves with the thought that if
they were to be made prisoners on
their way home by the terrible
anthropophagi you would not be
left to mourn in wretched widow
hood. This is beautiful thought
and it out to do much to reconcile
you with the sight of your white
lace curtains growing yellower and
yellower day by day as the clouds
of tobacco go curling up among
their white folds.-Clara Belle, in
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20

land on the earth; the total area
of the "public domain" sold and
unsold, amounts to 1,S49,O72,5S7
acres, and constitutes n per cent
ofthe total area of the United States,
including Alaska. About 100000
600 acres of land have been sold
and donated about 1,15O,OOO,OO0
acres remain unsold. AS the area
of Alaska is 36O,53O,O9O acres, the
area unsold exclusive of that terri
tory is about 7SO,OOO,OOO acres.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
UPS and Downs of Fortune.

Twenty years ago William Dods.
worth, a wealthy citizen of this
state, married a Hamilton, Ohio
heiress and arranged to spend the
honeymoon in the East. Instead Of
taking the train, the happy groom
arranged for relays of coaches be.
tween Hamilton and the City Of
Brotherly Love. The affair was
talked of all over the country and
reports of the novel trip published
in the newspapers of this country
and Europe. The groom created a
furor in Philadelphia by spending
money lavishly and lighting 81
cigars with S. and $40 bills. This
morning the happy groom Of twenty
years ago was a prisoner on the
yellow bench in the police court.
He got drunk in Cumninsville last
evening and threw stone through
a saloon window. He was fined $5
and costs for disorderly conduct,
and, not having the money, he was
sent to the celI-room below.-Cin-
cinnati Times-Star.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
Ten Ponies for q Wife.

Among the Tibetans man mar
ries only one wife, whom he purch-
ases from her parents, belle often
costing as much as ten ponies and
thirty yaks. The price to be paid
for the wife is arranged by a rela-
tive or friend who acts as go-be-
tween, and the only marriage cere-
mony is a grand spree, lasting as
long as the bridegroom can afford
to keep it up.
The life of Tibetan woman in
this part of the country cannot be
deemed a hard one. She makes
the tea, it is true, but with that the
housekeeping ends; for no one ever
dreams of cleaning the kettle after
wards, and every one has to mix his
own tsamba and lick his bowl clean
when he has finished. Every four
or five years she may have to sew
new sheepskin gown for herself or
for some one of her family, but
certainly not oftener. She cannot
herd the cattle or sheep; men must
do that, as there is danger from
marauders. She passes her time
spinning yarn, weaving a coarse
kind of cloth out of which bags are
made, turning a prayer wheel, and
destroying too, voracious vermln.
Her toilet requires rearranglng
only four or five times a year
when she visits Kumbum or some
other fair; she never washes herself
or her garments, and her children
cannot outgrow their clothes. They
have only to let out a little the folds
of the gown, their unique garment,
tucked up around the waist, and 1t
will fit them until they are grown
uD.-CenturY,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
The Maine Partingtons.

The Maine Mr.. and Mrs. Parting
ton are still on deck. One lady
Just returned from Boston informs
the neighbors that she rode ''up
stairs in a refrigerator and had her
clothes washed at a foundry" A
Maine man recently rose in mu-
nicipal meeting and solemnly an
nounced that "for reasons unknown
to himself he desired to resign" "
An old lady in Bath recently NOR
tilted her relatives intensely. At a
grand dinner she overheard lady
guest politely answer to the wielder
of the carving knife that sit was
immaterial which portion she had. 7"
A luscious slice was passed up to
her, and our old lady, after an ap-
preciative glance, guessed that she
would have small hunk Off the
immaterial. ."- Lewiston, Maine,
Journal.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
The Man with a Patent.

The New York Sun relates the
following story: "There were only
half a dozen people in the palace
car all day long, and after dinner,
when the man who had been sleep
ing and reading in car No. II
came over to me for a chat, | well
coined him with open arms. He
said his name was Saunders, and
that he had a patent or improve
ment on some part of a locomotive.
He was going through to Cincinnati
to have it perfected or adopted or
something of the sort. He had been
in partnership with mean man
a man who had tried to swindle
him out OF fortune. To get even,
he had stolen the patent and run
away. He had it with him in a
valise. That was all he said just
then, but later on be confded to
me the fact that at town about
thirty miles away this wicked part
ner of his might possibly be on
hand to board the train and attempt
to wrest the treasure from his keep
ing. He wanted my advice, and |
offered to take charge of the valise.
He thanked me with great effusive-
ness, and as we approached the
town he shut himself into the smok-
ing compartment.
las the train drew up l saw an
old acquaintance on the platform,
and while we were talking a posse
was hunting the train for my friend.
They didn't find him, as" he had
dropped off and struck out for the
country. | went on to Cincinnati,
taking his valise along land although
| was there four days he didn't
show up. | arranged to leave it
with the landlord, and it was car
ried to the office, to be opened by
meddlesome clerk. Instead Of a
patent, it contained wedges, drills,
a brace, fuse, and other neat little
devices for successfully working a
burglars job, and it cost me two
days of the hardest kind of talk to
satisfy the chief of police that l
wasn't in it. l had ridden over 100
miles with full-hedged gambler,
and one who had made his mark,
and | must say he was better
talker and more of a gentleman
than any governor [ ever met"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
DEATH VALLEY.
The Coming Government Expedl-
tion--A Veritable Hades.

The coming expedition to Death
Valley, in Southern California, un-
der the auspices of the Agricultural
Department, says the San Diego
Sun, will be watched with interest
by the people of this State, to whom
the valley is almost as much of a
terra incognito as equatorial Africa
was to the civilized world before
the days of Livingstone. This re-
gion lies in Inyo county, about 100
miles northeast Of Barstow, near
the Nevada line, and its nearest
railroad town is Keller. No scien-
tific expedition has ever traversed
Death Valley, though several recon-
noisances have been made. The
heat there ranges from 10 in win
ter to $50 in summer, and the air
is dryer and hotter than in the Sa-
hara desert. Mirages are common
and more than one emigrant train,
in the old days, was lured to ruin
by them. One of these expeditions
seeking the San Bernardino valley
from Utah tried to cross the fatal
sink and the bones of the travellers
to this day cumber the ground to-
gether with the skeletons of their
wagons and the remains Of their
animals and utensils. No human
being has ever been known to go
entirely through the region and no
living thing has its habitation there.
Even the rattlesnake gives the
place a wide berth, and birds Of
passage, in flying over the dessolate
wastes, succumb and their bodies
dry up on the sands and alkali and
coral beds where they fall. 1t is
claimed that valuable mines exist
and romantic story is told of a
miner finding a skeleton on the
sands beside which was a pickax
and a red bucket containing an
enormous chunk Of solid gold. The
discoverer carried his find to Gala
varas, where the miners tortured
him to make him locate the ledge
or placers he was believed to have
found. Many expeditions started
to explore the valley, some of which
perished from heat and thirst and
others returned decimated and
mpty-handed.
The Agricultural Departments
survey is expected to enter the val
ley at various points and meet at a
common center, in the meantime
making Typographical map of the
region and collecting specimens of
inanimate nature. An abundance
of water will be taken, together
with appliances for boring, artesian
wells.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
No Place to Move To.

There lives out in Joe Cannon's
district in Illinois an old farmer
who is a jealous republican, one 0.
the red hot partisan stripe. When
he heard of Cannon's defeat he said
to his wife, who is one of those
women who obey their lord and
master blindly:
MARY, pack up everything. I'm
going to move"
"Why?" asked Mary.
Because Joe Cannon is beat and
Ivon't live in democratic district.
"Very well," said Mary with a
little resigned sigh.
Then the old man went to town
to sell his farm. There he heard
all the election news. He returned
home, and entering the house, said :
Mary, you can quit packing up.
| amt a going to move"
"Why?" inquired Mary.
Because" be replied, sadly,
"there's no place to move to. ."-Ex.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
One Phase of English Gallantry.

Nowadays when an English gal
liant wishes to compliment a lady
(married or SINGLE he goes to the
florist and leaves an order for GER
tain elaborate floral decorations to
be sent to that lady's home. For
example, the staircase of her hotel
must be decked with roses and NIL
mosas, the boudoir with lilacs and
camellias, the dressing-room with
carnations and lilies, and the bed
room with violets and heather. The
gallant's card is left with the con-
cierge, with few words or COM
pliment penciled under the name.
Imagine, if you can, what a scene
would be precipitated if any young
chap in the states were to attempt
any euch palaver with the average
married woman !-Chicago News.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
Causes Of Death.

Shakespeare says: "Men have
died and worms have eaten them,
but not for love-" Some one else
says very few men die of age. Death
is the result of disappointment, per-
sonal, mental or bodily toll or ac-
cident. We often see the strong man
cut down suddenly and the invalid
living his four score years and ten.
The fact is that the strong man uses
up his strength and the weak one
nurses the little given him. The
passions certainly shorten life, and
sometimes suddenly end it. "Chok-
ed" With passion is very often not
an exaggeration. The lower ami
mails which live temperate lives
have their prescribed term of years.
The horse lives twenty-five years,
the OK fifteen or twenty, the hog ten
or twelve, the rabbit eight or nine,
the guinea-pig six or seven. The
numbers all bear proportion to the
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
A Story of the Good Old Style.

Abner Dungrass, from away up
beyond the White Mountains, had
penetrated to the Hub. 1t was Alb
ner's first visit to the city-in fact,
his first visit away from home.
A relative doing business in the
metropolis had spent the previous
summer with Abner's parents, and
in return for many kindnesses he
had invited his friends of the coun-
try farm to visit him in his city
home.
And thus Abner chanced to be
in Boston, and was now dining at
a hotel with his host.
At first our countryman hardly
knew what to do with himself at
the wondrously laden table. His
relative observing his hesitation,
whispered to him:
Don't be backward, Abner, help
yourself to just what you like"
By and by gentleman sitting
opposite directed a waiter to bring
him a plate of ice cream.
The cream was brought and the
gentleman set it down before him
while he finished dish cf scallops.
Abner looked up and saw the deli
cate-looking mass in the plate not
far away. 1t was tempting, and he
reached forth and took it. He had
put a spoonful of the frozen mix
ture into his mouth, and was hesi-
tating between SURPRISE and delight,
when the gentleman opposite rather
abruptly and not very politely said !:
"Well, my friend, that's what |
should call decidedly cool !"
"Yaas," responded Abner, inno-
Gently, when he had swallowed a
frigid morsel. "It's about the coolest
pudd'n' I ever tasted. l swan tew
man eff I don't believe it's really
teched with frost !"-N. Y. Ledger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
GEO. J. LEWIS, Agent.
Notice of Forfeiture.

10 J. w. LANE and WILLIAM LANE, their
heirs and assigns:
You are hereby notified that l have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred (1OO) dol
,ars IN labor and improvements upon the
a.OkNlNG STAR lode mining claim,
situated in Sawtooth mining district. and
a;alolnlng the Telephone and Emma min
nig claims on the southeast, in Alturas
county count Idaho Territory, in order to hold
salu .i premises under the provisions OF Sec
S Soh 252i, Revised Statutes Of the United
n,lsates, being the amount required to hold
Iue Iuso same for the year ending December 81,
a, aoo9, and If within ninety days from the
afttvice ate OF this notice, or within ninety days
nat, nater this notice by publication you fail or
nlIse snoh TO contribute your proportion OF
aucn au. expenditure as co-owners, your inter
Hso ;s oelng an undivided one-third, amount
VIZ n;f, 70 s5333A your interest in said claim
nrd mi become the property of the subscriber
N''0ef The provisions of said Section 1924.
u JOHN COLLINS.
Ne'chum, /. T., January %, 1890.
First publication, JAN %. 1880.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
Old Maids at Auction.

Ancient Babylon did not mean
to have any old maids on her hands
and so she declared that every mar.
riageable girl should be put up and
sold once a year at public auction
But as only the pretty girls found
husbands by this device, the price
for the pretty ones was turned into
the public Golfers as doweries fol-
their homely sisters. In this way
that terrible old sinner found hus.
bands for all her girls. Those men
whom she could not catch with
beauty she shared with money
Boston Herald.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20

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-
developments, as we'll as matters of local
importance in the growth of Ketchum the
future metropolis OF Idaho, it is aninvalua-
bic 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.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-12-20
!, IDAHO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1890.

time the animal takes to grow its
full size. Man is the only animal
that fails to come up to the average.
He ought to live 100 years accord
ing to the physiological law, for five
times twenty are 100, but he scarcely
reaches the period of four times the
growing period. To sum it all up,
man is the most hard working and
laborious of animals, also the most
irregular and intemperate. He is
irritable and often wears out, and
is consumed by the fire of his own
ehections.-N. Y. Ledger.