The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-01-03
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The President has appointed E.
Darwin James, of New York, and
Phillip c. Garrett, of Pennsylvania,
members of the board of Indian
commissioners, vice w. H. Morgan
Sesigned and Clinton B. Fiske de-
ceased. He also appointed Joseph
W. Haddock, Of Nebraska, govern
ment director of the Union Pacific
railroad company vice James w.
Savage, deceased.
The American Economist Asso-
citation held the fourth meeting at
Washington, D. G., December 26.
President of the Association, Fran
els A. Walker, in his address attrib-
utes the extraordinary growth of
Nationalisin in this country to the
fact that the masses have at last
come to appreciate the supreme i'm
portance of industrial relations"
industrial associations" is what
Mr.. Walker meant.
The total of business failures re-
ported by our exchanges for the
26th of last December, footed up
$2,771,1 64. Other failures are re-
ported, but liabilities are not given.
The Cuban government has off
cred $4,000 for Manual Garcia, the
noted Island bandit, dead or alive.
Armijo, the wealthiest man in
New Mexico, committed suicide
recently.
James Gordon Bennett dined H.
500 news boys on the day after
Christmas, and then presented each
of the little fellows with an order
for pea jacket to be made to fit
the owner. The boys consumed
200 twenty-pound turkeys, 1000
pounds of chicken, four barrels of
potatoes, three barrels of cranber-
ries, three barrels Of celery, 5000
loaves, 400 pies, and other delica-
cies in proportion.
A conspiracy to food the United
States with counterfeit silver dol
lars has been unearthed at Pitts
burg, Penn, and 19 persons arrested.
They were all Italians.
The great Northern railroad will
push its line through to the Pacific
coast, and a contract for building
an extension from the summit of
the Rockies to point beyond Koo-
tenai river has been let to Sheppard,
Seims & Co., of St. Paul.
Senator George Hearst, of Cali
fornia is reported very sick.
A special to the Salt Lake Tribune
dated December 20, gives this &C
count of a fight with the Indians
on Porcupine creek: "Big Foot's
band under military guard were
within Is miles of the agency when
orders were received from General
Brooke to disarm them and send
them to fort Omaha. The demand
for the surrender Of their arms was
made when the Indians opened fire
on the soldiers. The soldiers re-
turned the fire and a terrible slaugh-
ter followed The entire band of
Indians consisting of 100 warriors
and over $50 squaws and pappooses
were killed. Captain Wallace and
five soldiers were killed, and Is
soldiers wounded. Captain Wal
lace was tomahawkei. When the
news of the fight reached the agency
it produced intense excitement, and
a large number of Indians left.
Others under Red Cloud, deter
mined to stay with General Brooke
and helped to repel an attack by
renegade Indians who attempted to
capture the agency. A camp of
friendlies in sight of the agency was
burned, and the inhabitants were
believed to have been massacred by
The hostiles. Father Craft, Cath
Ollie priest. was seriously wounded
and will probably die. The open
ing OF the hight by the Indians, who |
were prisoners, was surprise to the
who were not more than
twenty feet away from the Indians
when the firing commenced. The
fight was slaughter, and will prob
ably put an end to Indian fighting
for a while at least.
The Senate has confirmed the
nomination of Henry B. Brown,
Associate Justice of the Supreme !
Court, and the bench is full again.
The editor of Detroit daily has
been notified that if he does not
drop the word "dago" from the COL
lmns of his paper something will |
happen.
Sir William Gladstone has re-
corded his 81st birth day, and is
still hale and bright
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