The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-05-30

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TIE Philadelphia Record, rabbi
anti-silver paper, denounces its OF
ponents as cranks. The troubl
with the Record is that it canno
turn all the crapks.
PROF. BERNHE1m now cures ~
berculosis by the TRANSMISSION 0
goats blood into the veins OF tnt
patient so none but poor people
need die of tuberculosis unless some
person secures a corner on goats.
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE is conva'
lescine. and the report that his in.
tellect is failing is contradicted. Il
seems, much to the discontinue Of
Prince Russell, that Blaine will
neither die nor become an imbecile
JUD BoYAKIN, the agricultural
editor of the Idaho Democrat, has
an apricot tree growing on his place
which had fruit on it ten days ago
az large as walnut. This should
admit Jud into the Holy Of holes
of the Farmers Alliance.
PRESIDENT HARRISON made lac
speeches during his western tour
without once referring to silver,
remarkable oratorical feat, truly,
considering that silver is more prom
inently before the people among
whom he travelled than any other
subject whatever.
OFFICIALS of the Spokane and
Palouse railroad were at Lewiston
a short time ago, and stated that
rails for a road to that place would
be laid by June first. Should that
happen-and there seems to be no
reason why it should not-Lewis-
ton will have a boom this summer.
THE Central Pacific railroad net
ted 500, 100000 from 1872 to 1873,
inclusive. The company had not
q dollar invested that was not pub
lie money. The farmers along the
line of the road, who had their own
money and labor invested, Melted
something less than 100000
mortgages in the same time.
Mr.. DELAMAR, the Idaho mining
man, offers 100000 to give that
state a proper exhibit at the Worlds
fair. The Salt Lake Tribune signs
for ten such men in that city. We
have ten such in Helena, but eight
or nine of them are a little back
ward about coming forward.-Hel-
ena Independent.
DURING snowstorm at Central
City, Colorado, last week, lightning
struck telephone pole and running
along wire to the shaft-house of
the Saratoga Mining Company,
thence down wire to the bottom
of the shaft, 500 feet, communicated
with battery for firing blasts, ex-
ploding several of them. None of
the miners were killed.
PRESIDENT HARRISON remarked |
in one of his flights of oratory"
delivered in Nebraska on his return
from the Pacific coast: II have seen
the miner delving in the peaks"
We have been 80 years in the mines,
and have traversed all Of the region
between British Columbia and Chi
huahua, without ever having seen
3 miner "delving in the peaks"
RECENT statistics show that the
very wealthy inhabitants of Fifth
Avenue of New York, says Mr..
Rhodes Buchanan, have in one year
but ope-eighteenth as many chill
iren as the same number of fami-
lies have in the poorer neighbor.
hood of Cherry Hill. The cause Of
his unnatural state is not far to
seek. The abortionist is a frequent
visitor on Fifth Avenue, but is dis.
pensed with on Cherry Hill.
PRESIDENT BAIMAcEDA, of Chill,
says of the 70 ships that touch reg
nlarly at Chilian ports, 81 are Eng
ish, % German, 9 are French, 7
ire CHILEAN and 3 Italian, but not
'ne from the United States. This"
le adds, lis not as it should be,
ince We are all Americans, whether
'orn on the Northern or Southern
continent, and especially since we
younger republics of the South
'ave built ourselves upon the shin.
ng example of the stronger republic
# the North"
MAJOR WILKES is confident that
york on his Salt Lake. Haley and
'uget Sound road will soon COM
hence: He says they have already
nade five-year contracts to transfer
100000 feet of lumber and 24O,-
w tons OF ore annually, and also
ave made contracts for 100000
ons of coal to be taken north each