The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-05-23
The burning of the town of Mus
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fifteen hundred people homeless.

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kegon, Michigan, last week, lef
fifteen hundred people homeless.
THE Denver Congress is going to
sit down on the cranks, but we are
not told who is to classify the mem
bership.
MAYOR SHAKESPEARE of New Or
leans has notified the dagoes that
intimidation must stop or they VIII
run against another cyclone.
GREEN B. RAuM, Jr., is accused
of selling Offices and Justification in
civil service examinations, and Gen.
Noble says the charges are true.
LA GRIPPE has been laboring with
the Prince of Wales for sometime,
but has given it up. The gentle
man is still flourishing as of old.
The Statesman refers to the
Charleston's pursuit of the Itata as
"stern chase" Perhaps, because
the Charleston is behind in the race.
IT has been ascertained that chief
Commissioner Quinton and the
other British officers who lost their
lives at the Manipur massacre, were
beheaded by the public executioner.
THE republican meeting held at
Salt Lake on the 18th for the pur-
pose of organizing a republican
party in Utah, was literally howl
ing failure.
A NEW York publisher wants US
to publish q IS line advertisement
for a copy of his magazine worth
25 cents. Some people believe in
advertising-atthe expense ofcoun-
try newspapers.
AUSTRIAN Jews rejoice over the
attempt to assassinate the Czaro-
witch in Japan. Much more ap-
propriate would it be in the Aus
trian Jews to mourn because the
attempt miscarried.
UNDER a low tariff there was never
n labor strike in Pennsylvania.
Under high tariff strikes are inces-
SAINT, and the scale of wages there
is the lowest found in the country.
The reader can make his own COM
ments.
THE protectionists "Belshazzar
feast" in New York some weeks ago
is still remarked on approvingly by
protection papers; but we hear
nothing of the "Nebuchadnezzar
feasts" being INDUCED in by the
protected (?) in and out of New
York.
A DESTRUCTIVE hail storm passed
over tie northern part of Texas this
week. Hail fell from six to eighteen
inches deep and destroyed 100000
worth of wheat in the vicinity of
Gainesville. Not a stalk was left
standing.
THE Illinois law taxing the Pull
man Palace Car Company on a basis
proportiorate to the number of
miles of road operated in the State,
has been declared constitutional by
the United States supreme court,
and that dictatorial corporation
will now have to cast about it for
other means Of evading the pay
ment of it's taxes.
Rev. SAM SMALL is in Canada re-
cuperating his health. 1t seems
that Sam is suffering from an at
tack Of misappropriation of funds
or something of that sort in con-
nection with the Ogden University,
and is trying the bank president
remedy. Singular what healing
effect the Canadian climate has on
constitutions undermined by the
habit of emptying treasure-vaulte.
SHERIFF LoAR and his deputies
have been indicted for murder in
connection with the Norwood,
Pennsylvania, riots. If Justice were
done they would be convicted and
executed, but of course the Grim
inal Pinkerton thugs, and equally
criminal lawyers, will manage to
suborn perjurers enough to save
them from punishment, and proba-
bly, thrust their guilt upon inno-
cent parties, for justice is manipu-
lated, not melted out, nowadays.
THE Cassia County Times saws
God Almighty intended that water
should be had for general use. This
is evident by the fact that water
flows on and on through miles and
miles of native soil until it reaches
the mighty outlet of the ocean. By
parity of reasoning God Almighty
intended the earth for general use,
for it stretches on and on until it
reaches its mighty confines, the
oceans brink, and man can no more
live without land than without
water.
REPUBLICS have been classified as
Arlstocratic and Democratic. Arts
tocratic when only few families
OF wealth or distinguished by birth,
as in Chill, control its affairs; dem