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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-03-01
LookIHe FOR HIS HEAD.
A Dead Freight Conductor is Seen
Searching For Missing Link.

Trainmen on the Lake Erie ant
Western Railroad, between Findlay
and Fostoria, O., are greatly dis
turbed over what they claim is the
! ghost of dead freight conductor
The conductor was killed one night
last November, about eight miles
east of this city, by his train break.
ing into two sections in such man.
ner that he was thrown to the track
from the car on which he was stand
ing, and beheaded by the wheels be-
fore the train could be controlled.
This accident occurred near the
little town of Arcadia, at a point
where dense woods nearly arch the
track above the rails, and here it is,
the trainmen assert, the ghost of
the mutilated conductor-who was
known in life as Jimmie Welsh
makes its appearance nearly every
night as the midnight train going
west from Sandusky reaches the
spot where Welsh met his fate. The
engineer and other officials of the
train say that when these woods are
reached an object looking like
headless man comes walking slowly
out toward the track with lantern
in it's hand which it waves backward
and forward, as if searching for
something. The trainmen are pos
tive that it is the ghost of Welsh
hunting for the head which was
severed from the body by the car
wheels. They insist that this OBJ
ject Is plainly visible until the en-
gine passes by, when the phantom
slowly turns and fades away among
the trees.
Two crews have already aband-
oned this run, and have been trans
ferred to other divisions of the road
on account of this alleged ghost;
and the engineer who brought: this
train through last night was so ter
rited over encountering this head
less conductor that when he reached
this city it was with difficulty that
he was persuaded to remain on his
engine until relieved at Lima. He
said that he would not pass through
another such experience for any
sum of money. No other trains
are annoyed by this ghostly con-
ductor, but this is explained by the
fact that 40 other crew passes the
spot where poor Welsh lost his life
at the time of night when he was
decapitated by the wheels of the
train. The story has thoroughly
alarmed all the employees of the
road, and unless the spirit of Jim
mie Welsh is appeased in some way
this midnight train will have to be
abandoned.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-03-01
A COlored ROmuluS.

| Some twenty months ago woman
living on the banks of the Brazos
missed her three-month-old baby
from the pallet where she had left
it lying during an absence of few
minutes. Search was made for the
infant, but no trace of it could be
discovered, and the whole affair was
wrapped in profound mystery until
a few days ago. A party of gentle
men were riding through a some
what unfrequented portion of the
thick woods that border the river,
when they were startled by seeing a
strange object run across the road.
Thinking at first sight that it was
wild animal, several of the party
were about to fire on it, when the
one who had been nearest to it
called to them not to shoot, but to
ride it down instead. This was
done with difficulty, for the under
brush was thick, but at last the
creature was overtaken in dense
copse. It was half running, half
leaping, first on all fours and then
nearly upright.
The gentlemen dismounted and
attempted to lay hands upon it, but
chattering frightfully and savagely
biting and scratching, it broke away
from them. They could see that it
had a human face, though the brown.
body was covered with long, tangled
hair, and the nails of the feet and
hands so long and curved as to be
claws. It ran with incredible swift
ness, getting over fallen trees and
dense masses of creepers at rate
that obliged its pursuers to exert
themselves to. the utmost to keep it
in view. 1t finally ran into an i'm
mense oak tree that lay uprooted
in the ground, and the hollow trunk
of which formed yawning cavern.
By the dint of poking in the tree
with sticks the party succeeded in
driving out an old wolf, which inn
mediately took to its heels. It was
hot pursued, as it was not the OBJ
ject sought. This, too, was finally
and lassoed with a lariat |
made of hides. It bit and scratched
30 fiercely that it was thought ad-
visable not to approach it, and it
was half dragged and half led home
with the lariat about its neck, howl
ing and yelping like wolf.
The fact of the negro woman's
child haging disappeared was we'll
known to all and it was decided
hat this must Be the child. The
I'D wolf had evidently stolen it and
FOR some reason adopted It 40 its
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-03-01
He Didn't Want to Sleep With the
Whole Democratic Party,

Recently, about midnight, a pas
senger with carpet sack in one
hand and heavy shawl in the other
entered a prominet hotel in this
city. Walking directly to the office
he hailed the clerk. 1t being late
at night almost every one had left
this popular exchange and the clerk
had fallen to nodding. Awakened
by the salutation of the stranger
he jumped up.
"Ah, Mr.. Harris, glad to see you
just arrived, l suppose, from New
York;"
"Just in; very tired, have not
had my clothes off for two days;
straight from New York. Can you
give me a room?"
II am afraid not we are very full"
"You must stretch a point, for /
must have a room," replied Harris.
After looking over the register
some moments the clerk said:
II can put you in the same room
Governor Hill occupied the last
time he was here"
"Ah I" replied Harris, "that will
suit me. l was born a democrat,
have lived a democrat, and hope to
die one. Send me up-L want to
wash and 60 to Sleep"
A waiter was Immediately called,
who, taking the carpet sack in one
hand ard a light in the other,
started-Mr. Harris following-for
142. Arriving there they entered a
large and handsomely furnished
apartment, with four beds-one in
each corner Of the room-two gem
tlemen in each bed, except one
there only one. The gas from the
chandelier was dimly burning over
a large square table on which stood
in graceful neglige six glasses, the
remnant Of used-up punches, two
decks of the best eagle-backs, a
large spittoon at each corner of the
table, with tobacco guilds rising in
them sugar-loaf fashion; unmen-
honables everywhere around. Har-
ris looked mournfully around; the
waiter started off. Harris called out:
''Stop, Mike, I'll go down with
you in moment"
''See here, l am perfectly willing
20 occupy the same room Governor
Hill occupied, but I'll be darned if
[ want to sleep with the whole dem
'cratic party !-Atlanta Constitu-
ion.
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when the concierge and some of the
tenants rushed into the room and
called upon him to stop, asserting
that he had pierced the ceiling and
impaled the tenant who occupied
the room above. He went up stairs
with them, and found the tenant in
question, violin maker, sitting
fixed to the floor and writhing in
agony. The instrument was eau
tiously withdrawn from his flesh,
but the injury inflicted was so seri-
Gus that he was confined to his bed
for three months. The case caused
great deal of amusement in court to
every one but the poor violin-maker,
who was only awarded $50 francs
compensation for three months loss
Of work, while Dubois was fined 16
francs for negligence.
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Execution in China.

Reporting the execution of eleven
pirates in Soochow, a correspond
ent ailudes to the manner in which
executions are fixed. In other
countries the criminal knows before
hand the date of his death, and has
time to prepare for his fate. But
in China all is different. Had the
Hebrew prophets lived in that coun-
try, they would certainly have cho-
sen an execution as the emblem of
sudden destruction. At Pekin, the
vermillion pencil marks the death
warrant, which is Immediately
handed to courier, who instantly
mounts a horse and rides off to his
destination. The posts supply fresh
horses, and he goes onward, eating
and sleeping in his saddle, never
halting by day or night, in SUM-
shine or rain. After riding seven
hundred miles, he reaches Soochow,
and delivers the warrant to the gov
ernor. Three messengers are i'm
mediately dispatched, one to the
district magistrate who presides at
the execution, and who repairs at
once to the place; q second to the
camp for an escort, and the third
to the Jail. The victims are bound,
dragged before the image of the lord
of Hades, which is in the prison,
and pay their respects. They are
then placed in cages, carried on
coolies backs, and at rough trot
the cortege sets out for the execu-
ton ground. The nerve and blade
of one executioner are never trusted
in Soochow to take off more than
three or four heads. If there is q
greater number of criminals, assist
ants are employed. There are gen
orally from fifty to one hundred ex-
ecutions per annum in Soochow,
where all tbs criminals Of the prov
ince of Kiangan, with a population
Of Fl ,O00, 900 are executed, They
are mostly pirates
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Picked Out Her Wedding Presents

Not long ago an Atlanta young
lady was about to be married-she
is married now, may heaven bless
her and keep active the business
tact with which she is endowed.
The following story has leaked out
by the merchants comparing notes
from time to time:
About two weeks before the time
the wedding was to take place this
young lady visited the various
stores in the city. At each of the
jewelry stores she called the pro-
prietor aside and told him of her ap-
preaching marriage and then said !:
'Now, it is very probable that
some of my friends may come in
here and select me a present. It's
horrid to get something you don't
like, so [ want you to look out for
me, and if you can satisfy yourself
that present is about to be pur-
cased for me, induce the purchaser
to buy something l will now select"
The proprietor could see nothing
wrong in granting such a request,
and the young lady selected anum-
Der of pieces of jewelry which suited
her taste. They were marked and
the clerks notified. This was re-
peated at the crockery, music and
book stores. From all that can be
learned the scheme worked we'll,
and on her wedding night the happy
bride had few presents with which
she was not pleased. = Albany
Journal
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pEpRAyED RoYAl1Y.
A Prince Tries to Exhibit His Wife
While Bathing to Friends.

| It is difficult to conceive a NOR
thoroughly contemplate personag
than the new sovereign of Monaco
who, Notwithstanding his affecta
ton of religion and science, is colo
shouldered at every one of the roya.
and imperial courts of Europe on
account of his depraved and des
picable character.
Of the crowning indignity tc
which he attempted to subject his
beautiful wife, Lady Mary Hamil.
ton, and which led to her final flight
from beneath his roof, it is impossi-
BILE for one to speak. It will be suf-
6cient to state that both the Prince
of Wales and the King of the Bel
gians, who are acquainted with the
true facts of the case-and neither
of them can certainly be accused of
anyinordinate prudery-absolutely y
decline all social intercourse what
soever with his highness of Monaco.
There is one insult, however, of
which the prince was guilty toward
his wife, which, although known to
but few, was the origin Of the bond
of sympathy between the Princess
and the Count Tassilo Festetics de
Tolna, her present husband.
Gentlemen, I invite you to wit
ness spectacle such as you have
never witnessed before. The prin-
cess, my wife, is accustomed to
battle daily toward one or two
o'clock in the morning, when all the
remainder of the world is asleep,
and to spend almost an hour swim
ming about in the sea at the palace
steps. Come, let US look on, and
then surprise her with an ovation.
Come, gentlemen, | say, it is sight
for the gods!"
One among the guests present
had the courage and chivalry to
raise his voice against the outrage
and to denounce the prince as be
1t was Count Tassilo
Festetics, one of the proudest and
wealthiest mobiles of Hungary.
By some means or other, Princess
Mary, who is the only sister of the
Duke of Hamilton, became &C.
quainted with her husbands pro-
ject and the counts opposition
thereto. She never forgave the one
nor forgot the other. The conduct
of the prince merely served to in
crease the intense adherence with
which she regarded him, while the
chivalrous behavior of Tassilo Fes-
tetics stirred the very depths of her
heart. She had at the time no one
10 whom she could turn for SYM
pathy and advice. It was her own
mother, the late Duchess of Ham
lton, nee Princess of Baden, who,
n conjunction with Napoleon III,
lad forced her into the hateful al
lance with the hereditary Prince
If Monaco.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-03-01
A High-C Cut Mind Should Accom-
pany q Low-Cut Dress.

Women who wear decollete
gowns, says the Washington Post,
comprise three classes, but one of
which is justified and wears it with
propriety. The women "to the man.
or born," educated to it, taught the
propriety of such exposure along
with her catechism, wears this dress
as soldier does his uniform, as a
matter of form, of duty, of neces-
sity, and of habit. Such women
wear this exposeful garment with
no more notion of indelicacy than
is entertained by the dusky belle of
the Sandwich Islands, when she
makes her debut in a string Of beads,
a colored apron, and clinking ank-
let's. The second class not so well
warranted, in following the fashion,
are the women not educated to it,
ladies whose early life and training
were not in decollete circles, but
who, instead, imbibed much of the
stern puritanism, of prudishness, of
provincialism if you will, of ortho-
dox teaching, of modest example,
and of rural simplicity.
The woman whose sudden rise of
position tempts her into an unac-
customed barring of neck and arms
against her conscience, commits an
impropriety.
The third class are the vain wom-
en-, the silly and coquettish women,
the women who have perfect figures
and malformed intellects. These
are the women who have, in their
eagerness for admiration. disgraced
the social regalia and made it a re-
proach. The important thing is
not how the body, but how the
mind is clothed
When . high-cat mind goes out
in company with . low-cut dress,
the world does not concern itself
with the robe. Bat q decollete
spirit will perrpeate an assembly,
though its neckhAnds tickle it's ears
and its wrist-frills mask the hand,
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Notice to Creditors.

Estate OF, ALBERT w. COSsTOCK, de-
ceased.
NOTICE rs 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 exhibit
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-
nm, in the said county of Alturas.
GEO. NJ SNOW,
A Administrator of Estate of Albert w. Com
stock, deceased
Dated at Ketchum, Idaho, Oct. 2, 1880.
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TY, IDAHO, SATURDAY, MARCH /, 1890.

own. The mother declared that
this conjecture was correct, claim
ing that her child had had mall
formation of one ear, which pecu-
liarity was found in the monster.
It is kept tied up in her cabin, suf-
fering no one to lay hands upon it,
and is fed on raw meat, as it re-
fuses to touch any other food. The
woman has hopes that she may yet
reawaken the human in it, but in the
mean time she is reaping harvest
from the crowds who come daily
from all parts of the country to in
spect the strange creature.-Sandy
Point Special Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Death Of the Last Member OF Pc
culiar Family.

The death of Emanuel Jones, who
was killed in the Indian territory
recently, recalls to the memory Of
many Of the people of this part ot
the state the history of remarka-
BILE family, of which he was the
youngest. In 1882, Reuben Jones
and wife arrived here from South
Carolina and purchased a farm
three miles from this place, where
they resided until their death, lead
ing lives of the ordinary country
people. To them were born seven
children, five boys and two girls,
each Of whom showed no unusual
propensities until arriving at the
age of puberty. At this stage of
life they each developed a taste for
sun-baked clay, taking it in small
quantities at first, but gradually
increasing the amount until they
made it their sole diet. They were
hospitable people, and if their visi-
tors were so inclined, would talk
for hours on the matter of clay
eating. They procured their diet
from the bottom and sides of a
large spring on the farm, and after
working the clay, would roll it out
into cakes of about one inch in
thickness, then cut it into pieces of
the size of an ordinary biscuit and
place them in the sun to dry, after
which they would store it in the
smoke-house for further consump-
ton. Wherever they went they al
ways carried quantity with them,
and could be seen nibbling at the
mud with evident relish. It had
no apparent effect upon them for
awhile, and they would do an ordi-
nary days work. AS the abnormal
habit drew stronger on them their
color began to change to a dull
yellow.
Their mud eating finally caused
the death of all except Emanuel,
none Of them living to be 80 years
old. Just before death they all
presented a horrible appearance,
being so bloated they could hardly
be recognized, and after death the
stencil was so fearful that no un-
dertaker would go near them, and
the family had to perform the last
rite for their dead.
None of them ever married, and |
after the death of the parents,
the only one of the fam
lily left, sold the farm and left for |
the west, where he came to his death
rom violence. The spring from
which these extraordinary people
procured their source of supplies
vas visited by our correspondent
o-day. The earth about the spring
has the appearance of ordinary yell
ow clay, and how the people could
ubsist on it for 10 or IL years is a
nystery.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A Voice From Heaven.

"A VOICE from heaven.
A correspondent writing from
Salt Lake City to the Chicago Her
aid says: asked the wife of on
of the most prominet and wealthy
Mormons in the city if she believed
polygamy was right.
81 guess I do," she hesitatingly
replied. II was always taught te
believe in it,"
NHave you ever practiced it?"
"Not much. think it would be
rather unhealthy for nay husband il
he ever tried to bring a second wife
into my home"
Sand don't you think other Nor
mon women feel very much as you
do?"
"Most assuredly. Woman is the
same in her instincts the world over,
and Mormon women love their hus-
bands just as dearly and devotedly
as his love to her is as sacred as
other wives. She will not, except
through religious enthusiasm, share
her husbands affections with an
other. Mormon women have been
religious martyrs, and there is not
one among them, except the unfor-
tunate creatures who were almost
prostituted by it, that does not re-
joice at seeing polygamy put an
end to by the Edmund's law"
This woman said there lived in
her immediate neighborhood an
aged Mormon and his wife. One
morning at the breakfast table he
solemnly told his wife that during
the night he had a revelation and
that a voice from heaven had COM
manded him to take q second wife.
A painful silence followed this an
nouncement. At last the white
haired old lady spoke. Her vice
trembled as she choked down the
sobs that came yelling up from her
heart, but she falteringly said:
every well, Hezekiah, if you feel
that it is your duty to do SO l have
nothing to say. You and I have
lived together happily nearly forty
years and | have always tried to be
a good. and faithful wife. Still, if
your love has been chilled by my
and white hairs and you
want to cast me aside for a younger
and prettier wife, do So"
The conversation ceased and she
went about her household duties.
The old man was troubled. He had
not expected his wife would take
him as she did. He expected a
stormy scene, a food of angry tears
and a violent row. His wife's meek
and simple reply staggered him..
But he began making preparations
Tor another wedding and the sub
ect was not broached again for sew
sral days. Another breakfast was
nearly finished, when his wife qui-
,tly laid down her knife and fork
md looking steadily into her hus-
oand's face, said:
"Hezekiah, l had a revelation last
hight, also"
"Indeed," exclaimed the husband.
"Yes, Hezekiah, an angel came to
ne from heaven and commanded
ne, if you take another wife, to get
shotgun and blow your head off,
nd l shall obey the command to
he letter."
Hezekiah did not marry again,
nd both he and his wife are still
wing happily together.
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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
oe resumed Monday September 2, 1889. The
necessary for tirst-class education. The
languages, linear drawing, vocal music in
t-laSS, plain sewing and ornamental needle
"oTk form no extra charge.
!, terms are modified when two or more of
%he famlly 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
railroad lines
TERMS MODERATE.
For catalogues, address as above.
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Nearly Bored to Death.

One of the most singular cases on
record has just come before the po-
lice court Of the Seine. In July last
q man name Dubois took 4 room
in the Rue T1ayersiere, and one of
his FIRST acts Bas to put up swing
lamp. In order to fix it, be began
boring q hole in tho ceiling with :
centre-bit, and was hard It work,
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The KEYSTONE has long been acknowl-
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 leay,
ing nothing undone to present its readers
complete synopsis OF all mining news and
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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Manager Dime Museum-"Want
bigger salary, do you, hey?"
Living Skelcton-''I do, sir"
eff you don't get it, you'll leave
US, will your"
(Hungrily) "No, sir. I'll eat up
your fat woman. That's the kind
Of q hairpin I am =
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to most novel means to get their
logs to the river banks. After wait
ing for snow in vain they resorted
to crude oil, and the slides are now
being creased by this means.
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BR1DE-"Are there many tunnels
on this railroad, Charles, dear?"
Bridegroom-"Quite number,
dearest. | selected it on purpose.
If remember rightly we are COM
ing to one in a few minutes"
Brakeman entering)-"Select
your partners for the tunnel, please"
America.
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ON account Of the mild winter the
lumbermen Of tho Pennsylvania
woods have been compelled to resort
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PROFESSIONAL.


TTOREEY-AT-L Ketchum, Idaho
a Practices in all the Courts of the Ter
ri.orv. Conveyancing and procuring OF
tents speciality.