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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13
Silk in Bank Notes.

In spite of the skill and industry
of counterfeiters they have never
made a bill which did not have one
or more vulnerable spots. Some of
the products Of their handicraft
may seem perfect to the unframed
eye, but the expert will find that
each one, like Achilles, has some
thing lacking in it's armor Perhaps
the feature of good treasury notes
which counterfeiters have found it
most difficult to initiate is the two
lube silk threads which run length
wise through them. They are lit
tie over an inch apart, and though
sometimes almost invisible, they
form part of every bill issued by the
Government Bureau of Printing
and Engraving. A. L. Drunlmond,
chief of the secret service of the
Treasury Department, who has had a
long experience with counterfeiters
and their wares, explained to re-
porter recently why it was SO difficult
to copy good bills in this respect.
"In the first place." he said, 1.-The
silk threads are put in the paper
when it is made in the factory. To
make paper of the kind used by the
Government requires a big plant
and lots of capital, so counterfeiters
are kept out of it. Even if they had
the necessary money they wouldn't
be fools enough to risk it all for the
chance of making bogus bills. 1t
would be exceedingly Improbable
for a paper manufacturer who al
ready has factory to make the
paper, because to do SO is a peni,
tentiary ohense"
Mr.. Drummond then showed the
reporter counterfeit 50 bill which
had single silk thread running
lengthwise through its center. "This
is the only bad bill that / ever saw
with a silk thread in it. Even this
has only one thread, instead of two,
80 it would not be dangerous to a
skilled teller. l have never heard
of more than two other bills like
this one. 1t is easy to see that the
counterfeiter split this note, put in
his thread and then pasted the two
parts together again. The frayed
edges showed that. The fellow
must have been very stupid not to
know that genuine money has two
threads instead of one. An expert
can easily tell when bill has been
split in two and pasted together
again, so the silk threads would not
deceive them."-N. Y. Tribune.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13
The Bogus Butter Market.

The atempt to suppress the man.
ufacture of oleomargarine by put
ting tax upon it has proved an
utter failure. The sales OF stamps
by the Internal Revenue Bureau
during the four years since the law
was passed show that the industry
has grown, despite this attempt
on the part of the Government to
suppress it. The sales in 1885 az
gregated $4O7 $40; 1887, $642,7 10;
in 1888, $686.674; and in 1889,
1924, ,499; while thus far, in the ten
months Of the fiscal year 1891, the
aggregate Of stamps sold is 1884
944, or more than for twelve months
in any previous year. The ductu-
atoms in the manufacture OF OLE
omargarine arc. found to follow
almost exactly those in the butter
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13
A Soldiers Story.

William Higgins, a young soldier
discharged from the army in Utah,
applied for lodgings at Pottsburg
station house the other night and
told the following story: 81 sacri-
feed honor for friendship" he said
simply. "Myself and a friend
named Franklin enlisted together
from Troy just a year previous to
the date of my court-martial. We
had served our apprenticeship to
the soldiers profession in the New
York militia, and were as fond of
soldier life as Of each other. A
years service only confirmed us in
our liking for the army. | wished,
above all things, to spend my life a
soldier, and so did he. But he was
quarrelsome, and the fear of severe
discipline could not prevent his en-
gaging in brawls with his fellows.
For one of these offenses, which
came to the knowledge of the Off
GERS, he was sentenced three months
to the guardhouse, which meant he
should work on the road with an
armed guard over him. ! had been
his guard several times and he made
no attempt to escape. 1t did not
occur to me that he would, as we
were 200 miles from a railroad. ]
grew careless and one day when my
back was turned he took to his
heels. saw him in time to have
shot him, according to orders, but
l could not do it. He had been my
friend, and was endeared to me by
a thousand remembrances of little
kindnesses we had done each other
I let him escape, but | would not
have put him to such a test had
been the prisoner and he the guard
II was sentenced to three months
in the guardhouse, and to leave tht
army in disgrace. When my time
came to go my comrades made uI
purse of $26 for me. With this
purchased clothes, for my uniforms
were, of course, taken from me.
have walked a good part of the wa,
from Utah since November 18th
though I, Of course, beat my way
on boats and freight cars wheneve'
could. When l reach Troy | hope
to find friends who will help me-
Atlanta Constitution.
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Bits Of Informatlon.

California has 2675 giant trees left.
There are 42,OOO,OOO Australians.
Americans are the greatest meat
eaters.
The fly spider lays an egg as large
as itself.
The male of the silkworm moth
travels at the rate of 100 miles day.
Under the law of Moses only IL
offenses were punishable by death.
The amount of gold in the world
would Fl all room "a feet each way.
The total forest area of the United
States is estimated at 4S1 ,764 ,59S
acres.
In twenty years there has been no
counterfeiting of postage stamps in
this country.
There are about $500 counties in
the Union, with an average size Of
about 900 square miles.
The word nicotine is derived from
the name Of John Nicot, who intro
dued tobacco into France.
OF the 1928 fires in Massachu-
setts last year kerosene caused 255,
matches 262 and electric wires 81
The growth of New York is mar
velous. The natural increase of its
population now exceeds 10000 each
year.
The product Of gold in the United
States the last sixteen years has
aggregated the enormous amount
of $572,6OO,O0O.
If all parts of the United States
were as densely populated as Rhode
Island, the population of the coun-
try would be 945, 100000.
Medical statistics prove that it is
less dangerous to life to go on an
Arctic exploring expedition than
to have an attack of pneumonia.
There are spiders no bigger than
a grain of sand, which spin threads
so fine that it takes A 900 of them to
equal in magnitude a single hair.
After time sheep may be useful
only for mutton. Wool, the chem
lists say, can be made more cheaply
from wood fiber than it can be grown
on sheep.
1t is estimated that the wealth of
the United States now exceeds the
wealth of the whole world at any
period prior to the middle of the
Eighteenth century.
Don't wager that ten 1O-cent pieces
weigh as much as a silver dollar.
They do not. The Superintendent
of the Mint says they only weigh
nine-tenths as much.
The first census in the United
States was taken in 1890, year after
the foundation of the government
under the Constitution, when the
aggregate population was 1928, ,214.
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Hints for Travellers.

Nausea from the motion of the
cars may be prevented in the fol-
lowing way: Take sheet of writ
ing paper large enough to cover
both the chest and the stomach, and
put it on under the clothing, next
to the person. If one sheet is not
large enough, paste the edges of two
or three together, for the chest and
stomach must be we'll covered.
Wear the paper thus as long as you
are travelling, and change it every
day if the journey is long one.
Those who have tried it say the de-
fense is perfect one.
Those to whom the term Sleeper
is hollow mockery may profit by
the experience of statesmen and
others who travel frequently, and
have the bed made up with the pill
low toward the locomotive. Just
why this should make sleep easier
is not explained, but the plan is
hlgniy recommended.
II you are ever in straits for a
clean handkerchief or two when no
washerwoman is within easy call,
try this plan: Upon reaching your
hotel take all your soiled handker-
chiefs, wash and rinse them, and
spread them out smoothly on the
window-panes. Be sure that there
are no creases, and that the corners
form right angles. When dry and
carefully folded no one could tell
that they had not been ironed.
Heavily embroidered handkerchlefs
will not look as smooth as plain
ones, but will certainly defy detec-
ton across car aisle.-Ladies
Home Journal.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13

A statistician says: Few are
aware of the vast number of people
that can be placed on a small tract
of ground. When we speak of mill
ions of men we are apt to picture
ourselves an almost boundless mass
of humanity; yet a million men
standing close together, each oc-
cupying not more than four square
feet, could be placed on patch but
little more than third of mile
square. A square mile will accom-
modate 1865. 900. The whole pop
ulation of the world could stand on
two townships.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13

The KEYsroNR has long been acknow
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-
complete synopsis of all mining ews and
developments, as we'll as matters of local
importance in the growth of Ketchum, the
future metropolis of Idaho, lis aninyalua.
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.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13
The California Miner of '40,

The early miner has never been
truly painted. protest against
the flippant style and eccentric
rhetoric of those writer's who have
made him terror, or who, seizing
upon sporadic case of extreme
oddity, some brawling wretch, have
given caricature to the world as
the typical miner. The so-called
literature that treats of the golden
era is too extravagant in this direc-
ton. In all my personal experience
in mining camps from 1S49to 1854
there was not case of bloodshed,
robbery, theft or actual violence. l
doubt if more orderly society was
ever known. How could it be 9TH
erwise? The pioneers were young,
ardent, uncorrupted, most of them
we'll educated and from the best
families in the east.
The early miner was ambitious,
energetic and enterprising. No un-
dertaking was too great to daunt
him. The pluck and resources ex-
hibited by him in attempting mighty
projects with nothing but his cour-
age and his brawny arms to carry
them out was phenomenal. His
generosity was profuse and his SYM
pathy active, knowing no distinc-
ton of race. His sentiment that
Justice is sacred was never dulled.
His services were at command to
settle differences peaceably, or with
pistol in hand to right grievous
wrong to stranger. His capacity
for self-government has never been
surpassed. Of a glorious epoch, he
was of a glorious race.-E. g. Waite
in Century.
THE body of Mary Ann Grier,
who disappeared from her fathers
house near Wanatah, Indiana, near
ly forty years ago, was found last
week in an abandoned iron pit. in
perfect state Of preservation. An
tiseptics contained in the water
having SO thoroughly prevented
decomposition that even the color
of the flesh seemed unchanged, nm
til perfect petrifaction made decay
i'm possible. Her father. now more
than 80 years old was taken 70
where the stony image Of his dauRh-
ter lev, when he broke down utterly,
and laying both hands on tho body
cried out: my Mary, ! thought
you were gone awayl Thought you
we're bad" and It 49, mors th9n AZ
hour before he could bsspesspaded
! to return home. = - = :
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13

A German chemist has invented
a preparation which, it is claimed
when applied to the soles Of shoes
has the effect Of increasing their
wearing capacity from five to ten
times, besides making them water:
proof. The preparation is applied
after the shoes are finished and the
soles are buffed. The right to use II
has been sold to the Bavarian Gov
eminent for the army. The inventor
SAYS it has been tested in the Ger
man Army satisfactorily,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13

an easy stimuIant for them to pro-
cure and did not polute the breath
like whisky. One doctor told me
his system had become 80 saturated
with morphine that he was able to
take 245 grains Of the poison be-
tween the hour of 6 one evening
and 6 the next morning.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13

market. Thus during the winter Of
1SS9-'9O butter was plentiful and
cheap, and as a result the trade in
oleomargarine declined heavily,
while during the last few months
butter has been scarce and high,
and the sales of oleomargarine
stamps have been large-$137,513
during April, as against only $685.
29O in July last.-Exchange.
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How tho Morphine Habit is Acquired.

J.H. Hansford, a Brooklyn, N. T.,
newspaper man who spent some
time at the Dwight, ILL.,, Sanitarium,
where whisky drinkers and NOR
phine eaters are cured by the "chlor-
ide Of gold" treatment. says: "One
peculiar thing about the morphine
patients is that seven-eights Of them
are physicians. I talked with sev-
eral of them and inquired how the
habit was formed. They told me
the drug had been taken when they
were compelled to remain up sew
eral nights with patients and had
been deprived Of their rest. It was
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
Nav s 1891.

Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
May S. 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his inten-
non ., to make final proof in support OF his
s'aim, and that said proof will be made be-
Tare 1re the Register and Receiver at HALEY
!asho, on June l5. 1891, viz: Abilah
Adams, for the SW a Sec IL and W Il NV
4 Bee. IA. TIP. 4 n, r. II E.
ne names the following witnesses tG
prove @ his continuous residence upon. ano
cultivation of. said land, viz: II. NJ. Stew
MI John Monks, Frank Mats, of ketch
Id; IIin; Idaho; Louis Bourgeois, OF HALEY
W. 7. RILEY, Register.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-06-13

The influx of gold into England
it is believed will raise the reserve
fund of the Bank of England to
$87 600, 600 by the middle Of June.
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Result of Pure Cussedness.

BRADFORD, Pa, Aug. 20.-Anson L.
Pratt, fireman of the Campbell Lumber
road, was killed today, and John Calvin,
engineer, and an unknown man fatally
injured. Pratt and Calvin, in making
up the train left one car at the top of a
steep grade, placing block of wood un-
der the wheel to hold it, while they
pulled another car from siding. Two
young men coming along, knocked the
block from beneath the wheels and the
car started down the grade. One of the
young men was on the car which he had
helped to start, but becoming frightened
at the speed it attained, he jumped and
was fatally injured. The car smashed
into the engine and wrecked it, the car
also being wrecked.
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nE HAD rwo WIVES.
And the Question Now is Whether His
Death was Accidental.

San FRANCISCO, Aug. 2O.-July oath
last, Carl Shorr, mining prospector
from Australia, was drowned while
bathing in the ocean near the Cliff
house, in sight of his wife to whom he
had been married but week. It was
thought Shorr left considerable property
and his wife has been trying to find it.
Todaya woman who says she was Shorts
wife arrived here from Butte, Mont,
aud met Mrs. Shorr No. 2. On compar-
ing their stories, singular story of the
drowned mans duplicity was unfolded.
Mrs. Shorr No. says she was married
to Shorr ten years ago, and they accu-
mulated a little property in Butte. Her
husband went to Australia and last May
wrote her to join him there. Instead OF
waiting for her he took passsge for San
Francisco. With him came Miss Tay-
lor, whom he married on reaching here.
He expected by the time he reached
San Francisco that his first wife would
be on the way to Australia. Instead she
missed the steamer and it is thought
that Shorr, fearing prosecution for big
amy, committed suicide. The second
wife gave all her money to Shorr and is
now left penniless.
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switchmen ON a Strike.

PEORIA, H., Aug. 20--A strike is in
progress in this city by the switchmen
employed by the Peoria & Pekin Union,
a line which is the terminal for the Big
Four, the Jacksonville, Southeastern
the Lake Erie & Western, the Peoria,
Decatur & Evansville, the Terre Haute
& Erie, and the Peoria C Western roads.
all of them being involved, or rather be-
ing discommoded by this strike. The
grievance is the general yardmaster, Mr..
Bell, who has lately advanced man in
preference TO some of the extras who
have been working for the road. Only
mail trains were allowed to leave the
city till noon today, when the passen-
ger service was restored. Freight bust
ness is at standstill, no trains being
made up or going out of the yards.
There is a great deal of perishable
freight now on hand. The probabilities
of settlement are not good at present.
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AMONG THE RAILROADS.

Rate War Inaugurated Yesterday in Pas
senger Rates Chicago to New York.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 2O.-A big rate war
was inaugurated here today to New
York, caused by the Baltimore & Ohio
making an excursion rate at $3.50 to
Atlantic City, which is less than the rate
one way. The Erie notified the Balti-
more & Ohio several days ago that if it
did not withdraw the rate Immediately.
a rate of one fair would be made to New
York. The Baltimore & Ohio declined
to Withdraw the rate, and the Erie an
nnouced one-fare round-trip rate to
New York, effective August %. The
"Big Four" Chesapeake & Ohio, and
Pennsylvania, met the rate today. The
action of the Baltimore & Ohio, it is al
legged, is direct violation of the trunk
line agreement. The Generalization of
rates will probably extend to other
points. The Western lines, it is reported
have demanded differential rates.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-08-21
Chicago,s Peoples Party.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2o.-At the Grand
Pacific were taken the first practical steps
towards the establishment in Chicago of
a peoples party. The conference was a
secret one, held because of the presence
in the city of W. F. Wrightmire, secre-
tary of the national citizens industrial al
lance, as well as of the board of organ
ization of that body. Preparatory work
has been formed in nearly all of the
wards, while nearly 10000 names have
been pledged to the support of principles
and the candidates of a third party.
The work OF organization will continue
to be pushed.
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No One Seriously Injured.

SWANSEA, Wales, Aug. 20.-Ten thous-
and people were assembled at the
National Eisteddford, or musical society
when cioudburst occurred. The can
vas-covered pavilion, in which the COM
petitions in Welsh minstrelsy were be-
ing held, collapsed, but, though panic
ensued in the audience of 10000 and
many were trampled under foot during
the rush for shelter, no one was seriously
injured. 1t is probable that the session
of 1898 of this society will be held in
Chicago.
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ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
For Want of Attention a Man Bleeds to
Death.

For Want of Attention Man Bleeds to
Death.
New YORK, Aug. 20.-The last day of
the Platt Deutsche fest at Urion Hill
was marked by bloodshed. About
O'Clock last evening several visitors to the
fest were shooting at ranges. a crowd
of boys was dangerously near the tar
gets, and John Shurer, one of the spec
ial policemen, was sent to drive them
away While he was clearing the
ground he was struck in the leg by
stray bullet. The blood gushed forth
with the squirt that always accompanies
severed artery. A crowd gathered
around the wounded man, but no one
seemed to know enough to staunch the
flow of blood. The only concern was to
get Shurer to the Hoboken hospital. A
brewery wagon Syas secured and Shurer
was bundled into it. He was hurried to
st. Mary's hospital, but just as he was
placed on cot he died. The physi-
clans say an artery was severed and that
Shurer bled to death. He was an ex-
policeman of Union Hill, and leaves a
| family. 1t was not known who fired
! the shot,
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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEF.

The grain market in Chicago is still
booming.
Jay Gould and party were in Pocateilo,
Idaho, today.
Yesterday tramps attempted to fire
the Spokane Falls Jail
The Virginia, Arkansas and Georgia
alliances met yesterday.
Edward Blair, murderer, was hanged
in Columbus, O., yesterday.
Sixty bodies have been recovered from
the recent terrible flood in Austria.
Four miners were killed in mine ex-
plosion near Burke, Idaho, yesterday.
One hundred delegates of the farmers
alliance met in Topeka, Kansas, yester-
day.
The contending factions in Chill are
on the eve of giving each other another
chill
The Southern Lumber company, of
Atlanta, Ga, failed yesterday for 81
25O, 600.
At Seattle, yesterday, Marse Jensen
attempted to shoot Thomas Mullen, an
attorney.
Captain E. F. Marshal, wealthy
steamboat man of Seattle, committed
suicide yesterday.
Frank G. Almy, the brutal murderer
of Christie Warden, has been located at
Hanover, Oregon.
The mandate of the Oregon commits
sioners is that the new railroad rates
must go into effect.
Two human (2) brutes will attempt to
pound each other into a jelly near Van
couver, WASH, today.
President Harrison celebrated his
fifty-eighth birthday at Mt. McGregor,
N. Y, yesterday.
Thomas A. Sutherland, editor and
proprietor of the Sunday Welcome,
Portland, was drowned last evening.
Clark Woodman, one of the wealthiest
citizens of Omaha, Neb., was found dead
in bed, yesterday, in Chicago hotel.
In desperate attempt,to break out of
the Washington penitentiary, yesterday,
two convicts were killed by Sheriff w.
Gleason.
The American Wheel company, of
Chicago, the largest corporation of the
kind in the world, was placed in the
hands of a receiver yesterday.
Portland wheat Market.
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