The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-04-11

THE rental paid on farms. houses
lots, stock and other ranches, las
year footed up 1882 $4,000.
A POOR widowed Michigoose has
sued a wealthy Michigander for $40,
600 for breach Of marriage contract
JOHNNY BULL is having serious
trouble with his subjects in India
He should let them try self-govern'
ment for awhile. =
THE absence of Farwell, Blair
and Edmunds from the Senate will
weaken the chances of Dubois for
admission very materially, and it
is possible that Clagett will get the
prize yet.
ITALY is now the owner in fee
simple of another cause Of war with
the United States. Three more
dagoes were killed one day last
week in Pennsylvania. Verify the
way of the Malta is hard in this
country.
DR.. WIN. L. LEACH of st. Joseph,
Mo-, has telegraphed to his family
that he is held as a hostage by the
Italian government, presumably be-
cause of the killing of the Malta
gang at New Orleans. Probably a
hid for notoriafv
Mr.. FR1cK, importer of pauper
dago ]aborers, doesn't seem to have
come out much ahead in the spec
ulation. The money it will cost to
repair his demolished coke works
would suffice to pay American Ia
borers for a whole year.
A HERD of dollar-a-day dagoes
were mobbed at Kansas City pork
packing establishment, April 9Th.
In the language of the late Tom Cor
win, imported laborers are being re-
ceived in this country with bloody
hands in hospitable graves
GERONIMO, ex-commander-in chief
of the Arizona Apaches, is exercis-
ing his religious talents teaching
Sunday-school class at the Verona
Barracks, Alabama. If the general
fails to instil an unusually high
order of piety into the minds of the
children of that Sunday-shool, why,
their minds are not attuned to
high order of piety, that's all.
MANITOBA has prohibited religious
instructions in her public schools,
greatly to the discontinue Of a class
to whom the spread of knowledge
is dreaded as the spread of a plague.
But if civilization is to stand the
secular school, with sectarianism
eliminated, must be upheld. Only
men practically educated can sue
cessfully cope with the practical
affairs of life.
ANOTHER conspiracy against the
life of the Car has been discovered.
Whenever it happens that ennui
comes upon the great and good
Gear, or he feels saddened and out
Of sorts, as good people will do
at times, he causes a conspiracy to
be discovered and sends few hum
dreds of his loyal subjects to Sibe-
ria and the sunshine comes back |
to his life and he is happy.
QUITE out of the ordinary course
of events Senator Edmunds has
resigned, but it is not thought the
act is contagious among republican
officials, or will become epidemic.
Neither will it diminish the major
ity of that party in the Senate, as
Mr.. Edmunds' successor will be ap- |
pointed by the Governor, and Will
be republican. Mr.. Edmunds has
been a member Of the Senate for 25 |
years, and though a man of ability |
he has never been able to rise above
partisanship, and is generally rec
ognized as an efficient and willing
instrument of the corporations.
His resignation is hopeful sign.
A SINGLE TAX theorist says: 1.-THE
single tax would bear lightly on
the small farmer and house owner,
who is merely a farmer and house
owner. and not a land speculator, as
the following illustration will show
Suppose farm is valued at 81 900,
with improvements worth $500, as
sessment 4 per cent. Under the
present system he pays $50, while
under the single tax system he
would pay but $40" This is the
plainest statement we have yet seen.
Four per cent on the land would
be $40; four per cent On the i'm
provements, $40. Double tax sys-
tenn, $50; single tax system, $40.
PIT. BARNUM, the great Snowman,
Is dead. Mr.. Barnum was one Of the
oldest, if not the oldest, Snowman
in America, and he was certainly
The most widely known and popu-
lar of all men in the world engaged
in his line of the show business.
His long life spent as caterer to
the amusement of the public illus
crates better than any other the
ability Of the man IN n,oka hia call.