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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-06

as wolves. They were masked, and soon
bullets from their WIncheSters began to
whistle around u.s.
Boys said Robinson, we must take off
that brake, and then keep our feet for a
lightning trip to the bottom. If a man
rails. we can't stop to rescue him.
" The brake was removed and the heavily
loaded sled shot ahead like locomotive.
We approached the steepest part of the hill
and swept downward for a half mile or so
ike birds upon the wing. Then Robinson,
who was in the lead, ran over an uneven
spot and broke his snowsnoe With the
most surprising quickness he leaped upon
the sled AND the race continued without in
terrupton.
I'm less time than il takes to tell it we
were at the bottom of the gulch and halted
at the mouth Of the cavern. The sled with
It's precious cargo was hauled inside, and
Robinson led US to his arsenal, a dozen
loaded Wholesalers. The next instant our
pursuers swept down to the mouth of the
cavern and were met by very unexpected
and deadly fusillade from hidden enemy.
They were taken completely aback in
game in which they thought they had the
upper hand. 1t was all over in a moment
and the outlaws disappeared, leaving more
than half their number dead upon the field.
TO make long story short, we remained in
that cavern but few days, sent spies to
Jul CdlHps duu ledTneu InhU JD6 SURVIVORS
OF the outlaw band had ridden our animals
out of the country. The snow was deepen
ing daily, but Robinson declared that we
must get out of the mountains on snow
shoes, following totally unfrequanted trails,
and drag that loaded hsad sled with u.s.
He explained that in the spring the outlaws
would return in force. and certainly effect
our capture If we remained.
Taking from the store of food in the
cave enough to last us upward of month.
we set out, the thickly falling snow quickly
obliterating our trail For thirty days we
toiled through that wilderness like verita-
bic galley slaves At last on New Years
day, we reached stage road leading to
Lewiston. ard applying to a raucher, we
hired his team and sleigh to haul load OF
alleged quartz from new strike to Lewis
ton. We said we were prospectors and had
lost our horses in the mountains.
We reached Lewiston without accident,
and the half million at last rests safely in
hank
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-06

You may be helpless, but when you are
attacked at home with biliousness, catarrh
OF the stomach, dyspepsia, inactivity of
the liver, govt or rheumatism, you are
not helpless. The remedy is Carlsbad
Sprudel Salt. 1t is an Alternative and
ellminative remedy which dissolves tena-
cious bile, allays irritation and removes
obstruction by aiding nature, and not by
sudden and excessive irritation, as most
cathartics do. 1t is of great benefit in
temporary and habitual constipation,
liver and kidney diseases, chronic catarrh
of the stomach and bowels, rheumatism
and govt, &c, and should be used early
for pamphlet. Eisner & Mendeison Co.,
Agents, and Importers of Mineral Waters,
6 Barclay St., N. Y.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-06
Rismarck's Former Cook the Quickest.
From the Pittsb,lrq Dispatch.


The quickest cooking, automatically at
tested, was done not long ago by Prince
Bismarcks former chef, who is now chief
cook in a famous restaurant of Berlin. He
had made q bet with regular guest. of the
place of 325 that he could kill, dress, COOK
and serve chicken in six minutes. The
exploit was to be performed before invited
spectators
At 9 O'Clock on the appointed evening the
cook appeared with his gas cooking stove
on platform in sight of all in the room.
He waved the chicken around his head and
it cackled loudly. Decspitating the fowl
with one blow OF glittering knife, this
gastronomic expert within sixty seconds
had removed every feather from it. The
gas stove was already lighted. with a
broiler upon 10. The fowl was cut open
and drawn in ons other minute and placed
upon the hroiler; a hot dish garnished with
watercress was at hand, and it lacked just a
second of the six minutes when the chicken
was served.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
The Seven Golden Cities.

Early in the Sixteenth Century,
not later than 1880, in the time of
Nuno de Guzman, Viceroy of New
Spain Mexico), remarkable story
was told to the friar of the City Of
Mexico by an Indian. This red Joe
Mulhatton said that directly north
of the Mexican capital, about forty
days. journey, there lay seven cities,
each as large as the City of Mexico
itself, where the inhabitants did
nothing but work in the various
arts in which gold and silver are
employed. With the characteristic
spirit of the invader Guzman sent
az. armed host in search of the
Seven Golden cities, but they re-
turned without accomplishing the
object of their mission. Later on,
about 1888, Mendoza, the then Vice.
roy of New Spain, sent Friar de Mia
in quest of the "Cities of Gold"
After his return to the capital MIA
published narrative of his trip
and adventures, in which he Says
81 found Cevola, the largest of the
cities, to be place of very many
houses, all five stories high, all Of
the vessels and ornaments therein
being ofpure gold. The
people are white and use vessels of
gold and silver, for they have no
other metal in such abundance"
"Forty days. journey north of the
City of Mexico" would mean some
where in what is now United States
territory, probably New Mexico.
The United States Government has
made something of an effort to find
the lost "Cities of .Gold." all of
which have proved failures. See
Smithsonian report of 1885,
Louis Republic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
The "Buzx' of Insects Wings.

Now, it is not the "buzz" but the
noise that is supposed to be made
by the wings of insects in flying
that will be the subject of this
mote" / had intended to discuss
the buzzing noise caused by either
the slow or rapid fight OF such
creatures, but a critical investiga-
ton has warranted the conclusion
that the wings play no part, Tor, if
they do, it is but minor one, in
the buzzing noises so often heard
to come from the direction of in
sects on the wing. Iknow that the
supposition that the wings makes
the noise is even more than plausi-
BILE on first thought, but the result
of repeated experiments by the best
entomologists show that the pre-
vailing hypothesis is erroneous. 1t
has been found that horse1ies, bees,
bumblebees and other insects of
that ilk, can be held by the legs and
made to produce the humming or
buzzing noises so characteristic Of
the two-winged insect family, even
though their wings be entirely re-
moved; and that partial (say the
clipping of half or two-thirds Of
each wing) removal Of the organs
of flight only serves to increase the
shrillness of the noise. The part
Of the insect by which alone the
sound is produced is the cavity
known as the thorax, which cores
ponds with the chest or breast Of
larger animals. The inside lining
Of this cavity is thin, resonant
membrane to which are attached
the wing and leg muscles. Two
small holes or air passages COM
municate with this natural Eolian
harp, and the motion Of the insects
wings and legs causes these holes
10 open and close with every turn
made necessary BY the divers ins
and outs Of flight. The inflow and
outflow Of air through these holes
(which may be compared to breath
ing, and which really is 2 species
Of that interesting operation), is
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
Ritz of Information.

The first horse railroad was built
in 1926.
In China cats meat is a remedy
for lung diseases.
Arizona is the only state that has
herd of camels.
Two-thirds of the male popula-
ton of the world use tobacco.
There are still over 5000 widows
of veterans of the War Of 1872 on
the pension rolls.
A brain specialist says that near
ly a quarter of all the cases of in
sanity are hereditary.
More divorces are granted III the
United States than in all the rest
of the Christian world.
In 1907 the name America was
given to the Continent, and in 1870
it first appeared on the map.
An ice yacht has travelled a mile
in 10, a running horse in 1:354,
a torpedo-boat in 1850, a steam
yacht in 2:12.
There are seventy-two places
called ST.. Etinne in France and
thirty towns called Washing
ton in America.
The beak of the musquito is a
tool-box, where he keeps five sur
gical Instruments lance, spear,
a needle, saw and pump.
The fourth verse of the twentieth
chapter of Revelations contains
more words than any verse in the
New Testament-sixty-eight.
The South contains 16,868,208
whites and 6, 6,996,16 colored inhab-
itants. Mississippi has 747,720 col
ored and 539, ,7O3 white Inhabitants.
Sixty thousand people in the En-
erald Isle speak Irish only. There
are 4O,O 600 mud cabins in that coun-
try, consisting of but single room.
On January /, 1866, the Northern
Army numbered 657 TAT men pres
ent for duty; the Southern Army
at the same date numbered about
439, ,675.
The first transaction recorded
with silver as medium of ex-
change was Abraham's purchase of
the cave of Machpelah for 400
pieces of silver.
The largest number of men en-
listed from the thirteen states OF
America during the Revolutionary
War was 86,761 in 1875. The
aggregate of troops furnished the
Union Army in the war of 1-65
was 2,32O,272.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
New Cure for Pneumonia.

A novel operation was performed
a few days ago at the Philadelphia
hospital by Visiting Physician w.
E. Hughes, in the presence of the
resident staff and nurses, and the
result has been so favorable that it
is now the opinion of the medical
men interested that q new and inn
mediate cure for pneumonia has
been discovered. The operationco con-
sisted in a patient who was recover
ing from the disease being bled and
his blood infused into the arm of
the sufferer. The patient upon
whom the operation was performed
was white man who had been
brought to him by the district sur
geons. The convalescent from
whom the blood was extracted was
colored man. In describing the
operation the New York World says !:
An incision was made in the white
mans upper arm, and one of the
veins was isolated for about half an
inch. After it had been bound and
the natural flow of blood stopped
slit was made in it and q glass
tube with a wide aperture was In
serted. Then about pint of blood,
extracted from the arm of the col
ored man, was poured in Gravity
carried it into the veins, and soon
the blood was coursing through the
mans body. In order that the body
should not be supercharged with
blood similar amount was extract
ed previous to the operation. This
was black and unhealthy looking,
while the blood infused was OF
bright red color.
After the operation the mans
temperature arose, and symptoms
similar to those that were noticed
after the Koch lymph injections fol-
lowed. In few hours, however,
change for the better set in, and
yesterday morning the mans tenn
perature was normal and apparently
he is a we'll man. According to the
theory acted upon, the system of a
convalescent is full OF pneumonia
bacteria antidote, and when the
blood charged with this is infused
into a sufferer it works cure i'm.
mediately.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17

The KEYSTONE is the sole representative
of the Great Upper Wood River. Sawtooth
and Smoky mining regions, and, located
as it is in the very heart of the most proRi :
ising mining country OIL the face Of the
earth, and leaving nothing undone to pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis OF all
mining news and developments, rs well as
matters of local Importance in and about
Ketchum, it is an invaluable guide for cap
itaI and informant to the settler of every
craft and position Subscribe for it. read
it. and let your friends read it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17

the Niagara power tunnel to exam
inc the ground, study conditions
and plans and give an opinion as
to the feasibility and practicability
of the work. He received the fee
named. Other experts from the
world were also consulted, and there
was concentrated upon the plans an
amount of expert knowledge such
as has rarely been invoked for any
one undertaking.-New York Sun.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
A Canadian Antidote for Snake Bitas

DR.. J. H. GARNER the naturalist
of Lucknow, Ontario, Canada, has
given the following advice to cor
respondent in this city. He writes /:
I'm regard to snake poison. The
plan is simple. Have on hand :
First, some iodide of potash in q
tightly corked bottle; second, some
sweet spirits of inter; third, bot
tie of whisky as valuable stimu-
liant and help, but it is not needed
as positive requisite.
If q finger, a foot or leg be bitten,
first Of all apply a ligature between
the bite and the body and make an
incision Ca cut like the letter X)
over each fang mark as soon as
possible to make them bleed, or let
the person bitten suck the bite free
~ or get it sucked. Next give the
suffer a small teaspoonful (oEe
drachm) Of iodide Of potash dis
solved inca teacup Of water and
allow him to retain it on his stom-
ach for ten or fifteen minutes. Then
give . tablespoonful Of sweet
spirits Of inter in water or tea and
leave the poor fellow alone. Above
all things do not get nervous nor
into fuss. It does no good. # you
have whisky you can give as much
as . pint At intervals. A second
dose Of iodide, ETC., may be given
from is to 80 minutes after the first.
It will act equally as good on dog
as on man. Carson City Appeal. !.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
Both From One State.


preston that there is something in
the Constitution Of the United
States which prohibits the election
of President and Vice-President
from the same state, and so far has
this impression spread that it has
been asserted in all seriousness,
seemingly, that if the coming cleo
ton were to be thrown into Con-
gress, and the House were to elect
Mr.. Cleveland President, the Senate
would be compelled to elect Mr..
Stevenson Vice President, because
Grover Cleveland and Whitelaw
Reid are both residents of the state
of New York.
Before delivering an ex-cathedra
judgment on a constitutional ques-
ton it is a good idea to read that
instrument and see what it's provis-
ions are with regard to the point
under discussion. The 18th amend
ment, which is the only part of the
constitution of the United States
which relates directly to Presiden-
tial elections, provides that "the
Electors shall meet in their respect
i've states and vote by ballot for
President and Vice President, one
of whom, at least, shall not be an
inhabitant of the same state with
themselves" What does this mean?
Obviously that if the nominees
should both be from the same state
the Electors from that state could
vote only for their nominee for
President or Vice President as they
might choose, but not for both; but
in no other state, except the one in
which the candidates resided, would
there be any inhibition against vot-
ing for both. The only result would
be that in the aggregate vote of the
Electoral college one of the candid
ates would lead his colleague by
Just the Electoral vote of the state
of their residence.
But If we 60 step farther and
conceive of the election as being
thrown into Congress it will be
found that even this inhibition dis
appears. The provision of the con-
stitution, in the same amendment,
is that "if no person have a major
ity"-that is, of the electoral col
lege-'then from the persons hav-
ing the highest numbers, not exceed
ing three on the list of those voted
for as President, the House of Rep
resentatives shall choose immedi'
ately, by ballot, the President" AS
to Vice President, under similar
conditions, the provision is that
"From the two highest numbers on
the list the Senate shall choose the
Vice President"
That is all there is of it, and it
will require superhumaningenuity
to deduce from such language the
conclusion that if the House Of
Representatives should elect as
President citizen of New York,
the Senate is precluded from elect
ing as Vice-President a citizen OF
the same state. Our democratic
friends may rest assured that if
there shall be no majority in the
coming electoral college the chances
of Adlai E. Stevenson being Vice
President will be so infinitesimal as
not to be worth mentioning, and
that in all probability, the United
States would have President and
Vice President each of whom would
claim New York as his residence
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17

"The resources of the lecture
room are decidedly increased" says
the Independent, when Prof. Dewar
was able, in q lecture on chem
istry in London lately, to produce
liquod oxygen in the presence of
the audience literally by pints, and
to pass liquid air about the room
in claret glasses. Oxygen liquefies
at about $50 degs. below zero, and
air at 343 degs. below zero. If the
earth were reduced to q tempera-
ture of $50 degs. below zero, it
would be covered with q sea Of
liquid air thirty-fve feet deep. Pro-
fessor beware process of liquefyins
oxygen and nitrogen was with 100
pounds of liquid etbylene and SO
pounds Of nitrous oxide, with the
aid Of two air pumps and two COM
pressors driven by steam.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
The Bottom of the Ocean.

There is common but erroneous
notion to the effect that a human
body, or even a ship, will not sink
to the bottom of the profounder
abysscs of the oceans, but will, on
account of the density of the waters
at great depth, remain suspended
at some distance above the surface
of the earth. This is an error. No
other tate awaits the drowned sailor
or his ship than that which comes
to the marine creatures who die on
the bottom of the sea; in time their
dust all passes into the great store
house of the earth, even as those
who receive burial on land. How
ever deep the sea. it is but a few
hours before the body Of q man who
finds his grave in the ocean is at
rest upon the bottom; it there re-
ceives the same swift service from
the agents which, in the order of
nature, are appointed to care for
the dead, as comes to those are rev.
erently inhumed in blessed ground.
All save the hardest parts of the
skeleton are quickly taken again
into the realm Of the living, and
even those more resisting portions
of the body in time are, in large
part, appropriated by the creatures
Of the sea floor, SO that before the
dust returns in the accumulating
water to the firm, set earth, it may
pass through an extended cycle OF
living forms.-Scribner's Monthly.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17

the true cause of the sound which
we call the Cumming" or "buzzing"
of the wings. Any curious person
50 disposed can test this by catch
ing an insect of the class named
and closing the airholes with wax.
Be careful not to injure the creature
or the results Of the experiment will
prove neutrality-suspicious..
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
A Recipe for Making Anarchists

The New York railroads have es-
capped the danger of general strike,
but will the peril to which they
came 80 near make them more just
and careful in their dealings with
the men who work for them? A
correspondent of a New York city
paper tells a little story which sug-
gests very big moral: There was
an accident on the New York Gen.
trail Railroad some miles west of
Albany in which man was seri-
ously hurt. A woman witnessed
the whole occurrence and testified
truthfully to the facts as they were.
She was the wife of one ofthe brake
men on the road and admitted it.
On returning home she told her hus-
band oil about it and he said !:
"Well, my head is off," by which he
meant that he would be discharged.
Next day he received notice of his
release"
The discharge of that brakeman
was doubtless the work of some di-
vision superintendent, full of the
idea of his power, and probably the
president, vice-presidents and other
officials at headquarters never heard
of the story till it appeared in the
newspapers. But if Chauncey De-
pew, the president of the railroad,
heard of it, and did not immedi-
ately order the restoration of the
brakeman to his place (and there is
no mention of such an occurrence },
then Depew would not deserve the
reputation which he has obtained
for shrewdnees and good general
ship. There is no corporation in
the world go big and powerful that
it could afford to perpetrate an act
of injustice like that. A corpora
ton could better afford to lose a
million dollars than to have even
one such an act as that stand on
the record against it. Such an. in
Justice is enough to turn an hon.
est, respectable man into an anar-
chist and to make thousand SYM
pathizers with him. In fact, as q
recipe for making anarchists, riot
ers and car burners, the discharge
Of employees because they or men,
bers of their families may have per-
formed duty as citizene, and told
the truth in court, instead Of lying,
could not be improved upon.-Oak-
land Enquirer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-09-17
WHAT SWALLOWED JONAH?
Perhaps It Was q White Shark In
stead of q Whale.

There ls no argument valid upon
q premise of inherent impossibility.
It used to be concluded beyond
question that there were no black
swans, because it is impossible to
conceive q black. swan. But one
harmless and unconscious black
swan from the Antipodes put all
the ingenious thinkers to rout.
Hume argued from his conception
of q true induction that the major
premise must include all possible
cases. This he thought conclusive
against a great deal of popular be-
lief. But what test have we of the
possible? It is harder to believe
that we have explored and classi-
fed the whole field of knowledge,
than that ravenous fish-with no
higher end no lower thought in its
meager brain than a plentiful din.
ner-should have swallowed and
then disgorged man. Beside, we
are not without evidence that such
piscine conduct is at least possible,
Jonah was sailing in the Mediter.
ranean-right along its whole
length-from Joppa in Palestine, to
Tarshish, in Spain; and it is this
very sea that even at the present
day huge fish, the white shark, is
found; and not only this, but the
bones of much larger species now
extinct. For the word used in the
Bible is general term for large
fish, and it includes in various wri-
ters, sharks, tunnies, whales, dol
phins and seals. This white shark
attains such a size that it has been
known to weigh four tons and
half. One that was exhibited last
century over Europe weighed near.
ly two tons, and very nearly re-en.
acted the part of Jonah's fish. A
British war vessel was sailing in the
Mediterranean when a man fell
overheard. A huge shark instantly
rose and the unlucky seaman dis
appeared within its mouth. The
Captain fred gun at it from th'
deck, and as the shot struck upon
it's back it cast the man out AGAR
and he was rescued by his compan
ions. They forthwith harpoonet
the fish, dried him and presented
him to his intended victim.
In the beginning of this centur,
! shark was taken AZ 1urinann, anl
in it was discovered the body of
woman excepting the head. In
stances are recorded upon gooe
authority of specimens being fount
in the same sea: One with a sea
calf in it's stomach as big as an OK
another with a whole horse, ant
another with two tunnies and man
That man could live there for |
considerable time seema by n,
means impossible.-The Culver.