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The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-04
III STRAWBERRY.
IT'S Early History aud tho wide Zone In
which IL II Found

IT'S Early History aud tho Wide Zone In
which IL IL Found.
The wild strawberry Is very widely
difYused over the surface Of the earth,
being found in the chill regions Of tn
north, as we'll Us in the sunny climcs o
the south. II is not q tropical plant,
however, and, except on mountain
sides, In not found south of latitude
thirty-eight degrees north. On the Eu-
ropean continent II grows extensively
from the Lapland and the Shetland
isles to Italy and Greece. II In also
found throughout western Asia, but In
unknown In China and japan. II has
grown abundantly on the bleak hills Of
Iceland for centuries II In found In
America from Labrador and British Co
lumbia TO the pine woods Of the south
ern states and on the high lands of
Mexico and the Andes. The hardy
plant. with its tiny scarlet berry, may
be said to girdlc the earth on the line
Of the Polar circle, and several hundred
miles southwark, except that II Is not
found In the basin Of the river Amoor, in
Siberia. Though history and story arc
alike silent as to the cultivation OF the
strawberry in early times. we know
that the fruit was we'll known in En-
gland in the fifteenth century. Shakes
peare has three illusions Ito strawber-
ries. In "Henry w." the Bishop OF Ely,
In illustration Of the good qualities
which the young king possessed. in spite
of his will habits and Objectionable
companions. says:
The strawberry grows underneath the nsttle.
And wholesome berries thrive aud ripen Desrs
Neighbored by fruit Of baser quality.
The reference here Is, obviously, 10
the wild berry. But In the play Of
Orchard Ill" Strawberries are spoken
of az growing in the Bishop of Ely's
garden at Holborn, and this seems to
show that the berry was cultivated
with considerable care as early as the
latter part of the fifteenth century;
! though Haydn's dictionary of Dates AS
serts that the common strawberry was
brought to England from Flanders In
1880. II Is curious TO note that one
hundred years after the crafty Richard
begged some OF the bishops straw Der
rics, wcsind q description Of q garden
at Holborn, the property Of the rich
Barber-surgcon Gerard, wherein four
kinds Of strawberries-s great variety
for the time-were successfully Guilt
waited. The third Shakspearean allu-
sion to this fruit 10 In reference TO the
ili-fated handkerchief Of DesdemonA.
which was spotted with strawberries.
-Horticultural Times.
The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-04

They say that Growers sure to win;
They say they're bound to put him in;
They say the white house IL, In truth,
The only place for BABY Ruth.
But when we've passed election day
Miss Ruth will stop at Buzzard Bay,
And while she chcws her tecthing ring
Her big papa will hear US sing:
Chorus-IArra-ra, Boom decay etc
The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-04
Msster of the sitaatAon.

First Boy lat q summer resort)-How
long arc you going to stay here?
Second Boy-TiIl ! get tired.
First Boy-What's you going To do
with It?
Second Boy--I heard papa say he
didn't care how long mama stayed here.
When ! get tired, I'll tell mamma wot
papa said, an then she'll 20 right back
Good News.
The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-04
A POLITICAL TA.RA.RA.

II you will listen close enough
You'll hear q democratic hun;
Yol'll heal them telling, onc and oil.
Just what they mean To- do this fall.
They've said the same thing oft tcforc-
They howl until their threats are sore;
But we don't seem to fear u thing,
And while they yell VIC simply sing;
Chorus--Ta-ra.ra, Boom-do-ay' etc.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

NEW YORK is solid for Hill until
the other side is heard from. This
state of things means a split in the
democratic party, and if the dele
gates to the Chicago convention are
wise enough to profit by such sit
uation, must result in the nomina-
ton of Western man as the only
way to heal the breach and save
the New York to the democratic
party next fall. The ruction be.
tween the two parties is necessarily
permanent. No Hill man could
vote for an anti-Hill man without
disqualification, nor could a Cleve-
land man vote for an anti-C Cleveland
man, but they are all democrats in
their way, and can vote for West
ern man who has not identified him.
self with either faction with perfect
consistency. Moreover, each side,
if the thing were properly managed,
would gladly accept this as a solu-
tion-and it is the only solution
of the difficulty their unfortunate
schism has placed them in, and give
an energetic and hearty support to
the nominee, whoever he might be.
Viewed in this light we regard the
division of the Hill and Cleveland
men as a piece of good fortune to
the party, for we want a Western
man nominated and see in this a
chance to secure what we want.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

THE Statesman says "the small
minority of visionary free traders,
however, dishonesty bring charges
that it (tho tariff is not honestly
applied" We don't know what to
think of or how to characterize this
absurd statement. It is utterly
without foundation in fact as we'll
as vulgar without provocation. No
free trader charges any such thing.
Free traders deny that tariffs are
right in principle, caring nothing
about their application. And if we
wanted to retort in kind we should
be compelled, viewing the subject
from our standpoint, to call the
protectionist dishonest or a fool.
We cannot see how he can believe
what he says about the effect OF
protection or its imagined benefits,
nor how he can assert and believe
the wages of the laborer are adj
vanced by reducing the price of his
products; but our experience has
taught us that no two see alike, and
that the greatest absurdities are ac-
cepted by many minds as perfectly
consistent, natural and common
place truths, and we generously
categorize the protectionists in that
class and refrain from calling them
dishonest or fools. II is q weak
ling's subterfuge to apply elithets
to an antagonist in debate,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27
A FOOLS Errand.

Secretary Foster has gone to En-
gland, and will meet Goschen, Brit
ish Chancellor Of the exchecquer,
and have a conference with him in
relation to silver coinage. 1t is not
probable that Mr.. Goschen will as
sent to reconciliation. The situa-
ton is too advantageous to his
country to be readily abandoned.
They entrapped us into demoneti-
cation with their eyes open, and
having demonstrated the CONNER
cial wisdom of the measure, we have
to force them from their vantage
ground by proving our financial in
dependence of them and of Europe
or suffer on. But we are independ-
ent of them in all things, and 80
soon as our statesmen realize this
fact and act upon it, silver will be
remonetized, and there will be no
more. tampering with the worlds
money. England and Germany. are
the great creditor nations of the
world. All debts must be paid in
the products of labor. By demon
citing silver the purchasing power
of gold was advanced IS per cent ;
the debt paying power of the prod
ucts Of labor diminished in the
same proportion. This increased
the debts of the debtors, who are the
laboring classes, So per cent. To
remonetize silver would, therefore,
remove this fictitious Indebtedness
of IS per cent and restore creditor
and debtor to their original status.
The creditor class would no longer
be able to exact IS per cent more
than their dues. demonstration
will, therefore, be sternly resisted by
all of this class, and by all under
their influence and sway. But when
we have learned to rely on our own
resources and remonetized silver,
France and other states Of the Latin
Union will join US at once, and
England and Germany, not being
self-sustaining, will be forced by
commercial exigencies beyond their
control to follow our lead. They
cannot produce their bread and
meat nor buy it except from US,
and having these articles to sell to
people who must buy and buy from
US, we can dictate our own terms.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27
PERFECT FITS GUARANTEED.
Repairing of Watches
Promptly attended to.
s .ss s,.ss {Postoffice Store.
Notice Of Forfeiture.


State of Idaho, County of Altaras-ss.
To NJ. ]. LANE and ]. S. WILTON, their
heirs, legal representatives. or assigns :
You are hereby notified that have ex-
pended one hundred dollars, in labor and
improvements, upon the YELLING.
Ton lode, situated in Wood River min
ing district, Alturas county, Idaho. in order
to hold said premises, under the provisions
of section 1924, Revised Statutes of the
United States, being the amount required
to hold the same for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1890; and if within ninety days
after this notice by publication you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion Of
such expenditure as cO-owners your pro-
portion being $4,000, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the SUBJ
scribcr under section 1924 of said statutes.
JOHN CAREY.
The above amount can be paid to w. II.
Watt. ut his office in HALEY, Idaho, who
is hereby authorized to receive and receipt
for the same. JOHN CAREY.
First publication, Jan. %, 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

AT last (if the report proves true
we shall be forced, reluctantly, to
accept Mr.. Blaine as a strategist.
The President, in opposition to the
expressed wish of his Secretary of
State, appointed, so said, one W. N.
Grinnell, a nephew of tavern-keeper
Morton, to the office of third assist
ant secretary. The Secretary "went
to bat," says the Salt Lake Herald,
"by placing his factotum, ex-M Minis
ter Foster, in the third assistants
gorgeously furnished room, and Mr..
Grinnell was permitted to camp in
the elevator" Strategy, my boy,
strategy" as Brick Pomeroy used
to say.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27
If John Sherman were to die We

If John Sherman were to die We
do not know what the anti.silver
idiots would do for arguments and
resolutions, for all Of their attempts
to put themselves on record, SO far
they have plagiarized from this ser
want of Shylock until his platitudes
and claptrap have become offensive
~ stale. The latest and meanest
exhibition of this intellectual servil-
ity and paucity of ideas was ex-
hibited in the packed convention
at Albany, New York, that nomi-
mated Hill delegates to the Chicago
convention. It resolved that 1--WE
are against the coinage of any dol
lar which is not of the intrinsic
value of every other dollar of the
United States" All vague unmean-
ing nonsense and q lodging of the
silver issue.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

THE St. Louis Republic, the Gal.
weston News, Indianapolis News
the Courier-,Journal, the Chicago
Times and the New York World
the greatest and strongest demo
cratic papers in the country, are
opposed to Hillism. These great
journals have sense enough to dis
tinguish between individual demo-
Gratis and democracy, and are not
willing to see the party sacrificed to
the unscrupulousness of any mans
ambition. They know it is undem-
ocratic to pack conventions and say
so, as it is their duty to do, and
alarmed by their outspoken bravery
Mr.. Hill has already begun to hedge
His menials will be appointed by
his packed convention, but it is
given out that they will 60 to Chi.
cago unpledged. This ruse will
deceive only men willing to be de-
ceived. Only political tools and
unthinking hero worshippers will
be. caught by such gudgeon bait
and we feel almost like congratu
lating Mr.. Hill for having done his
part toward securing the nomina
ton of western man. For we hope
and are about persuaded to believe
that his shifting insincerity on the
silver question, and the trick BY
which he secured the New York
delegation to Chicago will result in
the nomination of a Western dem
ocrat for president next June who
will honestly represent democratic
principles. With such q man vic
tory would be certain.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

AMONG New York democrats who
oppose Hills methods are found
such eminent and honored names
as Frederick r. Coudert, ex-Mayors
Tiemann, Grace, Cooper and Hew-
lit, Oswald Ottendorfer, Ellery E.
Anderson, C. J. Canda, Everett
Wheeler, ex-Justice McDaly and
ex-Secretary of the Treasury Fair
child. When these men and their
following are downed where is the
strength of the democratic party in
New York to come fromq
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

IT is cheering sign Of the times
that the New York World, the In
dianapolis News, the Galveston
News, the st. Louis Republic, the
Courier-J ournal-the ablest and
most influential democratic papers
in the country - are outspoken
against Hills methods of nominal
ing himself for president. We are
hopeful that he will not get the
nomination, and we are certain he
will not be elected if he does.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27
Notice Of Forfeiture.
To EpwlN BRAY, his heirs or legal repr'
sentatives:

To EpwlN BRAY, his heirs or legal repre-
sentatives:
You are hereby notified that have ex-
pended the sum of two hundred ZOO dol
lars in labor and improvements upon the
LIVE PINE lode mining claim, stu
ated on Boyle mountain, in Warm Springs
Greek mining district, in Alturas county
Idaho, in order to hold said premises un-
der the provisions of section 2S24, Revised
Statutes of the United States, being the
amount required to hold the same for the
year e enans than and tine
proportion Of the same is $780, being one
half. and if within ninety days from the
service of this notice, or Within ninety days
refuse 0 to ss Soar 81
such expenditure a. cO-owner, your inter-
tin said claim will become the property
Of the subscriber Under the -provisions OF
said section x5A. JOSEPH CARNE.
Ketchum. Idaho, Jan. n, 1882.
First publication. Jan. 80, 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

THE postmaster of Cheyenne was
arrested Wednesday of this week on
a warrant issued from Streator, ILL.,,
charging him with embezzlement,
while receiving teller of a bank at
that place ten years ago. He de-
MES the charge.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

On the 18th day of this month
there were 5000, $50 in silver shipped
from this country to Europe. From
there it went to India to be en-
ployed in reducing the price of
Southern cotton, in accordance with
the demonstration plan.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27
ANT1-s1LvER liars have commenced
filbustering under the leadership OF
Tracy of New York, to delay action
on the silver bill.

SOUTHERN cotton is selling at .
cents pound, and fat cattle at ~
cents, and this is the legitimate
outcome of protection and Demon
citing legislation.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27
Notice Of Forfeiture.
To GEORGE A, CHAPMAN and WV. II. Ai''.'
or their heirs or assigns:

! " OkOWeiE n. AHAFAAN GIN W -
or their heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that n nav aoi.
pended the sum Of one hundred wv I he
lars in labor and Improvements uPo'r .;m
BLUE JACKET lode mining cIs .;iss
situated on Eagle creek, about eleven DIX n's.s
from Ketchum, in Warm Spring. t NJ !,
mining district. Alturas county, iG r9.tntes
required by section 1924, Revised o. ,nt re-.
of the United States, being the amou on1;ne
quired to hold the same for the year enuI q
December 81, 1891: that your propo41h...ys. aid
the same is as follows. to-wit: f95 IT. T;b b
George A. Chapman and VIM, =; r r
SIS SIX. being one-third and II y Wins this
ninety (9O) days from the service 90 =. this
notice. or within ninety days are, atI,,e to
notice by publication you fail OF - leernend-
contribute your proportion OF sucn Il said
iture - co-owners, your interests t - nm
claim will become the property OF t "a said
dersigned.t under the PROVISIONS pER
section 1924. J. 3: q n ~
Ketchum, idaho, January !, le0 ;soa
First publication January = 'o'''
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

Regular meetings of the Ketchum Fire
Company will be held at Metropolitan Hall
on the first Monday Of each month ct
o'clock '. y. BY order OF
W. 4, GsEkxHow, Foreman,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27

DEER are said to be quite plenti.
full around Zine Grove,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27
NOTICE TO MAIL sUBsCRIBERs,

The date printed ON the wrapper Of each
paper denotes the time mp to which the
subscription has been paid.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-27
milwaukee
BEER

The Metropolitan Saloon and p..,
nave recently been in the hand, Of da a'io"
ave artists. who have finished them 1; ~ ~
style made famous during the re; ~ we Ne
LOUIS xiv when that mona! CHI was fn;, OF
ing the celebrated Castle OF Verss;IIsvv ul'd
We respectfully invite old friepas ~.
the public generally to call and "a. ~.
assuring them that they will be tre,,.t
courteously and served to the Ouesr,s
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-08-04
CANT ITEMS.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
CANT, August 3.-Uncle Jack Brown
is quite sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Renie are spend
ing the week at his fathers.
Ed Renie has sold out his stock of
groceries at Higbee and will locate
near Centralia.
Lutte Payne is clerking fer Brown &
Co., Kansas City.
A letter from Joe Hit says he is
very much pleased with Utah and has
gone to stay.
Mrs. Robinson, nee..Emma Groves, is
expected this week.
Mrs. Collie, nee Atkins, of Des
Moines, Ia. is at home for the Fair.
A letter from George Condict states
he was married in California.
Mosshi Fisher, of Columbia, is visit
iting relatives here.
Madame Rumor says Prairie View
will have a wedding soon.
Mr.. Cunningham, of Winchester,
hy., Is visiting his sister, Mrs. Nc
Sharp, near Cant.
d. X. Crockett's new house will
o be ready to occupy.
Mr.. and Mrs Louis Farrah are visit
ing in Mexico.
The Misses Wagner, of Des Moines,
Ia, are spending this week with Mrs.
Atkins.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-08-04
RUSH HILL ITEMS.
correspondence of the Ledger.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
RUSH HILL August 3-The rain q
few days ago brought harvest to 8
standstill; however, it is in full prog.
ress now.
A pleasant gathering at the house
of J. w. Coakleys Saturday night.
Henry Coles self feeder ION his
threshing machine) wouldn't work.
Oscar Hoffmeyer runs Henry Coles
engine this season.
Many farmers are stacking theiI
grain.
The great number of bumblebee
nests will render a sanctified meeting
a public necessity this fall.
John Bick will shortly lose both his
clerks. Rich will go to school this
winter and Pete will take Horace
Greeley's advice and go West.
J. w. Harper had a sale last Satur.
day.
Hay harvest is nearly over.
Corn is coming.
1t is understood that Mrs. e. F. Col
Inns will move to Quincy, ILL.,, to edu-
cate her youngest son.
If the LEDGER can explain to us
how she expects silver States to sup.
port such anti-silver men as Grover
Cleveland and Ben Harrison she can
do more than anyone has done yet,
and while she promotes Grover Sc
earnestly let her step out and explain
the mystery, and greatly oblige
BILL DUFF.
[How many "Silver States" are
there, anyway? What figure does the
silver question cut compared to the
fairfield. LEDGER.l
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-08-04
BENTON CITY ITEMS.

Correspondence of tn, Ledger.
BENTON CITY, August g. -Four
loads of hogs were shipped from here
last week-one by Albert Williams
and three by Jas. Dowell.
One of E. l.. Cohoon's horses was
killed by lightning i'm one of the recent
thunder storms.
Mrs. Sarah Cofiman, of Ohio, is Wis.
iting in this locality.
VIM. Hamilton keeps cool this hot
weather with the chills.
Mrs. Ed Hale, of Auxvasse, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Hartman VIII.
son.
Little Earl Wilson, a two-year-old
son of Hartman Wilson, met with an
exceedingly narrow escape last week.
He was about to drown i'm q well
when his father saved him-just In the
nick of time.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-08-04
gate to state union, Fl. L. Robin

D.
son.
I. J. Sims, j. N. Cross and R.
H. Cauthorn were appointed to con-
fer with the directors of the Fair
Association in regard to inviting
Hon. Jerry Simpson to deliver an
address at the October Fair.
Mexico was chosen as the place
Of the next meeting on Friday and
Saturday before the 4th Sunday in
October. Bro. J. r. Shell was ap-
pointed delegate to attend the State
Road Convention at Chillicothe.
Resolutions were adopted in memory
of the late l.. L. Polk, president
of the National F.&L.U. The Union
remained in session all night and
when daylight came Tuesday morn
ing the members were winding up
the meeting with an old-fashioned
love feast. The most prejudiced
eye cannot fail to see that the F. q
l.. U. is a worthy organization-one
to be encouraged by all who have
the best interests of mankind al
heart. E. e. JONES, Sec'y.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-08-04

Mr.. MCKINLEY explained to the
people at the Lakeside assembly
at Madison, Wis, that the duty on
diamonds and jewelry was placed
at % per cent, while on some of the
cheaper kinds of WOODEN goods it
was placed at $50 per cent or more,
because, if a high tax were laid on
diamonds, etc., they would be
struggled, and pay no tax. "Why,"
said he, democrats do not seem to
know anything about it. Thomas
Jefferson and John c. Calhoun
taught us that we must put a low
duty on things like diamonds il We
wanted to keep any revenue.
Democrats know that probably as
well as republicans do. But they
do not agree with MIR. Mckinley
that enormous taxes should be laid
on certain things because they cam
not be struggled easily, and that
low taxes should be laid on Other
things because they can be SNUG
gled easily. They hold that tht
fact that such luxuries of the rich a
diamonds must be taxed at a low
rate is a good reason why neeessar
les that cannot escape should alst
be taxed at a low rate. They d.
not subscribe to the republican doc
trine that it is right to rob a poo
man of half his possessions because
you can catch him and hold him
and right to let the rich man go un
robbed because you can't catch him
If you must put a light tax on th'
luxuries of the rich, then in mercy
if not in justice, put a light tax OF
the n~ecessaries of the poor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-08-04

his name heading every subscription
list with the largest amount. All
indicate the greatness of the man in
public matters. 1t was not these
that constituted, in my eyes, his
chief greatness. 1t was the purity
of his private life; his private and
secret benevolence; his sympathy
for the weak and unfortunate; his
love for the young and his encour-
agemelt and assistance for those of
them striving to obtain foothold in
life.
| am unable to remember when |
did not know Governor Hardin by
sight and by reputation. He had a
reputation known even to me before
[ had reached the age of ten years
of being thoroughly honest in his
private relations and pure and IN
corrup'ible in his public life.
When was a boy of six years he
commenced the practice of his pro-
fession and the establishment of a
character in Fulton, five miles from
my fathers farm. Often, forty years
ago ard probably more, have /
heard my father and other old men
speak in the highest terms of Char
lie Hardin, as they all called him
in those days, and of his integrity as
an adviser and his fidelity and zeal
as an attorney. He had already
made a reputation which he MAIN
tanned and strengthened throughout
his after eventful life. / may say,
and wish to say here, that when a
young man, by his course in life
obtains the approval and the COM
mendation of the old, he can be as
sured that he is on the right road to
usefulness ssand honor. The char
acter young Mr.. Hardin chad thus
formed was the foundation, not
only of his future usefulness and
honor but of his financial success
and prosperity. No young man
can lay a irmef or more durable
human foundation upon which to
build thanintegrity fidelity and dill
gence. These were the materials out
of which he built the foundation of
his usefI and honorable Life. They
stood mistaken the perilons period
through which bis life Was passed.