The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
EXCITEMENT IN FLORIDA.

daily papers few days ago, reads
more like a page out of dime
novel than record of real life. For
a week the town was in a state Of
siege, the place being virtually in
the possession of Major Cottrell
and band of armed men. Bust
ness was at a stand-still. People
did not dare to leave their houses
for fear of their lives. The United
States Custom House was closed at
the point of the revolver, and the
collector was threatened that if he
showed himself in the street he
would be shot on sight. Major
Cottrell is determined that his will
shall be law in the city, and he has
willed that the United States Gus
toms shall not be collected. He is
a man of education and culture,
but possessed of a most lawless
nature. His father is prominent
politician and highly respected in
Florida. He is in his second term
of office as Mayor. During the
past two years he has held the town
at the point OF the revolver, and
during the past year has killed four
men. The police authorities of &C.
dar Keys have been absolutely un-
der his control, and men have been
dragged from their beds, confined
in Jail forty-eight hours at time,
or ordered to attend to their bust
ness with the threat emphasized
with pointed revolver, that if they
reported matters outside the city,
their lives would be at stake. The
collector of customs succeeded in
getting dispatch to the Treasury
Department at Washington and
revenue steamer was sent down.
At last accounts the steamer lay
swinging to the tide off the city
front, her heavy twenty-four pound
or howitzers turned on the docks,
and her men ready to jump to the
boats at moments notice for
dash to the shore, and Mayor Cot
trell and his band were in hiding
near the town, having taken to the
woods on the approach of the steam
er. They had declared they would
not be taken alive. Such state of
affairs occurring anywhere west of
the Missouri river would be held
up as an awful example of western
|awlessness, and be commented up
On far and wide.
A BOLD INOVATION.
The frequenters of Central Park,
New York, were treated to novel
sight, novel at least in that locality.
The other day Miss Nettie Littel, a
pretty, stylish young Virginia girl,
Of good birth, appeared riding
spirited gelding, "man style" Miss
Littel was accompanied by a male
escort. She bestrode her mount
With ease and rode so cleverly erect
md gracefully that those who no.
iced the novelty Of her riding ad-
nired her ladylike carriage. Her
costume was cutaway jacket with
White flannel under vest and a
leavy double-kilted divided skirt
# walking length, so arranged as
o be used for street wear unno-
iced. With it she wore knicker-
cookers and high top boots, max
ng light and comfortable costume
or either walking or riding. Miss
.ittel thinks "a side-saddle is
ruelty to both horse and woman"
She learned to ride astride when
'hild among her native Virginian
Hills, and could never accustom her
elf to any other style. Mrs. Jen-
less Miller, the apostle of dress re-
orm, has long urged women to
,dopt the same style as men in rid
ng. it being at once safer and more
lealthful. Her daughter rides in
hat way and wears charming and
.raceful habit somewhat similar to
liss Littel's.
THE sULTAN's FLESH.
A dispatch from Berlin says that
'rince Bismarck's private physician
Or. Schweinger, is at present in
tructing two of the personal medi-
al advisers Of the Sultan of Tur-
ey how to relieve that monarch
t the enormous overplus of flesh
rom which he suffers. The Turk
'h physicians are to practice and
Experiment. on similar cases in Ber-
N for six months before they will
e permitted to undertake to cure
heir royal master.
STANLEY TO BE DECORATED.
On June 10th the University of ,
ambridge, England, will confer ;;
pom Henry M. Stanley the degree
t doctor of laws, on which occa-
ion there will be a banquet, and
ludatory speeches will be delivered. !,
is reported-and Stanly does not
eny it-that early in July he is to :
larry Miss Dorothy Tenant, the J
rtist. 1t is also said that shortly !,
fter his marriage Stanley will be !
ppointed by King Leopold Govern 5
r-General of the Congo free state. :
[e will then become ruler under
ne sovereign, the King of Belgium, :
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