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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-08-29

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NAYS. H. g. HvSTINeToN R.s. WILSON.
NAYS. HUNTINGTON q WILSON -ATToR-
vi HEYs-ArLAw-01fices French's block over
First National Bank, The Dsiies- oregon.
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COLUMBIA LODGE, NO. S, /. o. o. F.-Meets
u every Friday evening at 80 O'Clock. IN X.
OF p hall, corner Second and Court streets.
Soiourning brothers are welcome.
h CLoUeH, sec'y. Fla. BILLs,N-lG-
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PRoFEssioNaL oAhDr.

ID. 'palfiiees ;esEffaetlon 81 teeth Also teeth
@et on flowed ninun platess Rooms: Sign.o OF,
he Golden Tooth, Second Street-
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hR q. Z. SANDERS, -. =;
., E2-Es;EI, e 7: :ISl, y q q ;afivsn sue
cessor to DR.. Tucker. Office over Frencns'
Bank, The Dalles. Or.
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16oDERN weoDMEN OF THE WORLD
vi Mt. Hood Camp No. SO, Meets Tuesday even
ingof each week intthe X. of p. Hall, at $50 P Il
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DAId,Jss ROYAL. ARCH CHAPTER NO. g.
of each month at 2 P. NJ.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
Shortening the Lines.

81 suppose" said an Engineer on
Western road, "that most people
who travel think we travel over the
same line, if we are in the employ
of one company all the time, that
was originally laid down. That is,
they think that when q railroad is
built it never changes it's course.
"Most of the trunk lines are built
in hurry in this country. After
they have been in operation for a
while the company begins to figure
on how they can make better time.
This is not done altogether by in
creasing the speed, as some may
suppose, but by what we call short
ening up the line.
"Take this division on which I
am now running, for example. l
have been here ever since the road
was in operation and the road has
been shortened on my run nearly
eight miles, and it has been short
ened between Chicago and St. Joe,
Mo-, forty miles. The public don't
know it. They think we are run
ming faster than we used to. We
are making q little better time than
we used to, but the principal reason
why we are is because we have short
ened the line" Chicago Tribune.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
Imbedded in Snow.

There is fruit-grower in Ken.
lucky who evidently thinks a great
deal while sitting under the shade
of his own vine and fig tree. He
noticed that in three out Of five
years his best apples and peaches
were killed by March frost, and he
set himself the problem of finding
some means of so prolonging the
winter in his latitude that the trees
would not wake from their hibernal
sleep until spring was far advanced,
After trying various experiments
he hit on the idea Of digging a cir
cular trench around the roots OF
each tree, filling it with pounded
snow and ice and then covering up
with q thick stfatnm of clay. 1.-THE
plan was perfectly successful. The
ice melted, but 80 slowly that its
influence kept back the flowers
from three to four weeks. In other
words, trees which used to bud in
March can thus be made to prolone
their winter sleep until the begin
ming Of April, when the danger
from night frosts is generally past. :
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
A Cup Of Cold Water.

A young Englishwoman was sent
to France to be educated in HUI
guenot school in Paris. A few even
ings before the fatal massacre of
st. Bartholomew's day she and
some of her companions were TAX
ing walk in a quiet part of the
town where there were sentinels
placed. One of the soldiers, as the
young ladies passed him, besought
them to have the charity to bring
him a little water, adding that he
was very i'll and that it would be as
much as his life was worth to leave
his post and 60 and fetch it himself.
The ladies walked on much Of
Tended iat the man for presuming
to speak to them, all but the young
Englishwoman, whose compassion
was moved, and who, leaving her
party, procured some water and
brought it to the soldier. He beg
ged her to tell him her name and
place Of abode and this she did.
Some of her companions blamed
and others ridiculed her attention
to q common soldier, but they soon
had reason to lament that they had
not been equally compassionate, for
the soldier contrived on the night
of the massacre to save the English
woman, while all the others in the
house were killed.-lrish Times.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
why Should We wear Mourning, I,

The custom is outworn; it is an
anachronism in the nineteenth CEN
tury. It is unchristian; it clouds
the spiritual significance of the
resurrection with the ever present
expression Of temporal loss. 1t is
cruel; it forces helpless and inno-
cent people into action, which en-.
tails privation and unnecessary suf-
fering. It is untruthful; it makes
false outward show of changes in
sentiment. And it is essentially
vulgar, for it presses private affairs
upon public notice; it thrusts
claims Of fashion and frivolity upon
3 time which most greatly moves
the heights and depths Of being,
and it forces its superficial world
liness into tho fiercest throes which
can ever rend human nature. Why
then do We still wear mourningf-
Mary Elisabeth Blake, in the North
American Review for July.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
Senator Ingalls, Believes in Bad Luck

A gentlemen was taking dinner
with Mr.. Ingalls, not long ago when
the subject of the Senatorial can.
didacy of Mr.. Ingalls, came up.
Ingalls, cut the matter rather short
by saying: "Under no circumstan-
ces whatever could be persuaded
to be candidate for the seat vacat-
ed by the late Senator Plumb. Un-
der no circumstances whatever
In explaining the matter to group
of statesmen in Topeka the other
day the gentleman said: "Mr In.
CALLS reasons for being 80 positive
about this are purely the result OF
superstition. He is the most super
stitious man ever knew. He never
leaves the house and returnes with
out sitting down before leaving
again. He feels nervous if he sees
the moon wrong. He has an idea
that the Plumb seat is an unlucky y
one. He once spoke to me of it
before Plumb's death, and spoke OF
how he felt about such things.
Lane, who first occupied it COM
mitted suicide in Office; Ross re-
tired in disgrace; Caldwell resigned
to keep from being expelled, and
Plumb's tragic taking off was al
most ominous. Senator ingalls, be-
lieves in bad luck and could not be
made to occupy the seat. He will
wait till PETERS terms expires and
then take his chances. OF course
that will be in 1897, but ingalls,
will be only little rising of sixty
years, with at least fifteen of use
fulness before him even then
Kansas City Journal.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
Foreign and Domestic Fruits
Kept constantly on hand.
TOBACCO AND. CIGARS
And Smokers Articles.
Give me trial and will guarantee entire
satisfaction.
Netice.Of Forfeiture.

10 N. r. EVANS, his heirs or legal repre-
senAtives:
You are hereby notified that we have ex-
pended two hundred (2O0) dollars in labor
and improvements upon the Shntty
Cup East and Shutty Cup West
iSedes, situated on Trail creek, in Warm
springs Creek mining district. Alturas
county, Idaho, in order to hold said prem
Ses S under the provisions of Sectaon 1924,
revised Statutes of the United States, be-
asg sg the amount required to hold the same
.Vf .e the year ending December 81, 1891 that
the Proportion Of said expenditure due
nom you, n. r. Evans, is $33 1873, lawful
money OF the United States, and If within
naiy n.aety days after the publication of this
,;oe Mo.ice you fail to contribute your proper
in, hoh OF such expenditure as co-owner, your
interest in said claims will become the
property of the subscribers under said Sec
''0h z5A. l.. J. BARNARD.
S. j. FRIEDMAN.
naiiey, Idaho, Jan. IA, 1892
First publication, Jan. 30. 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
Bits Of Information,

There are $50 mountains in the
United States each exceeding 1O,-
600 feet in height.
It takes eight times the strength
to 60 upstairs that it requires for
the same distance on a level.
A Russian can plead infancy for
long time, as he does not come OF
age until he is 26 years of age.
A man can hire a horse in Japan,
keep two servants, and live on the
fat of the land, all for o little over
E5 a month.
At Quito, the only city ia tho
world on the line of the Equator,
the sun sets and rises at 6 o'clock
the year round.
The Maxim gun still holds the
record for quick firing, for it can
deliver $50 shots each minute, OF
124 each second.
There is no statute law compell-
ing q woman to take the name Of
her husband at marriage, but it is
a universal custom. .t
In one of the public schools in
New York city there are 71O pupils,
all but ten of whom are of foreign
birth and language.
It takes 100000 words of tel
egraph to tell the story of Nation
al Conventional to the different
daily papers of the country.
There are 81, 400, 900, 900 in gold
in circulation throughout the world,
and good authority asserts that
81 100000 of that is lost annually
by wear.
The smallest spots we can see on
the moon with the unaided eye oc.
cupy about one-twenty-fourth of
its visible era-i. e., some 10000
square miles.
When cotton thread was first
made, $40 yards of it made pound.
Hence it is No. /. A pound con-
tanning twice that number of yards
is No. 2, and so on.
The Capital of the United States
ha shifted its quarters twelve times.
Another shift from Washington, it
has been prophesied, means the
downfall of the Union.
According to the census of 1890
there are Il, 1000, 900 people living in
the states and territories west of
the Mississippi river, almost one
fourth of the entire population of
the United States.
This globe has had 66, 1927 ,842,-
237 ,O75, ,266 human inhabitants
since the beginning oftime. To even :
bury this vast number the whole ?
landed surface of the globe, every
inch of it, would have to be dug
over 12O times.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
Nothing Romans but the cemetsry

"Do you remember the White
Pine boom in 1852" asked George
w. Church, of Los Angeles, Cal
ifornia. 1.-THE Creede, Colorado, ex-
element reminds me Of it, although
the camp at White Pine was much
larger. Away up among the sage
brush Of White Pine Mountain Was
located the camp of that name. At
one time moro than 5000 people
carried on business there. Houses
were erected by hundreds, and rev.
elry went on day and night. Now
tho place is deserted. The houses
have fallen int decay. Hsre and
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16

The KrYsroxn il the sole represen ntatlv@
OF the Great Upper Wood River. 6awtooth
and Smoky mining regions, and, located
as it Is In the very heart Of the most pron-
ising mining country Oil the face Of the
earth, and leaving nothing undone to pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis OF al
mining news and developments, ~ well -
matters of local importance in and about
Ketchum, it is an invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant to the settler of every
craft and position. Subscribe for 1t, read
il. and let your friends read it.
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there a log cabin remains, through
which mountain squirrels scurry at
the sound of mans footsteps. Prac-
tically all that is left of White Pine
now il its cemetery. During tho
boom of '67 men died there by
thousands. Those who did not sac
cumb to mountain fever and pnea-
monia met violent deaths, and were
buried on a sage-covered side of tho
mountain. Wooden "head-stones"
were erected to the memory of the
departed ones.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
The Advantages Of Free Coinage

| x00 AOVW0V0800 ~ : A0V SOAAo80
Mr.. E. H. Hahn, who has resided
in the city of Mexico for severa
years, being interviewed by the
Denver News, says:
"Free coinage of silver in the
United States will be the greatest
financial blessing that could bt
vouchsafed Mexico and the South
American countries. The adoption
of free coinage act will turn
almost the entire trade of the south.
ern republics to the United States.
1.-THE Mexican silver dollar to.
day is worth about 50 cents, max
ing the rate of exchange about 142,
The Mexican people in paying their
debts must pay on that rate of ex.
change. Whether they pay in Amer
ican dollars, English pounds and
shillings, or French francs, all fig
ure on that basis. If the American
silver dollar is remonetized on the
basis of 1873, the Mexican silver
dollar, having more silver than
the American silver dollar, will be
at least at par. The situation then
will be that the Mexican merch-
ant and the merchant of all the
countries of Central and Spanish
America using silver standard,
can buy his goods in the United
States and pay for them in dollar
which is at par. Should he buy
his goods in any Of the gold stand.
ard countries he must add to the
price of his goods the difference Of
exchange between the gold and sill
yer rate, amounting to something
over 40 per cent. The result will
be that either gold countries will
have to remonetize silver or aban.
don their trade entirely in the single
silver standard countries.
"The Spanish republics now trade
principally with England, France,
Belgium, Germany and Italy. En-.
gland competes with the United
States on hardware and cutlery, and
controls nearly all the cotton trade
A large amount of iron work il
shipped into those countries from
Belgium. The United States is the
natural supply point for those coun
tries and with 40 per cent advant
age, through free coinage, the vas
trade of the South would flow into
this country. Mexico to-day is pay
ing for all her goods in a depreci
ated currency. This is felt by tht
whole nation as a hardship. Tht
depressing effect of this unnatural
condition has an evil influence or
all branches of trade. The mining
interest is especially damaged by
the deprecated currency.
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Only q Whistle.

OF tho many personal relics Of
John Brown, a collection of which
is being made for exhibition at the
Worlds Fair, one in Georgetown
has escaped the vigilance of the
collectors. It is the battered old
silver whistle with which Brown
used to summon his followers to
his secret meetings in the stormy
days just before the war, says the
Chicago Tribune. It was formerly
held by Colonel Lewis Washington,
the proprietor of the Dumbarton
estate in old Georgetown, who was
present with Lee when old Brown,
with his followers, were captured.
All that search revealed on his per-
son was bunch Of keys, a little
money and this old whistle. He
gave the money and keys without
protest, but pleaded for the whistle,
which, of course, insured his not
getting it. It was carelessly tossed
into Colonel Washington's secre-
tary, where it lay for years, until
it's present owner, a cousin of the
Colonel, happened to see it, and
asked for it as a curiosity. The re-
quest was readily granted, for with
the Colonel the old hero of Osawat-
omie was naught but a vagabond
filibuster, and the only comment
he made was, "Take it if you want
it. I only wonder why I have kept
the thing so long as I have" Thus
the relic came to its present resting
place.
Its form is best described by
likening it to long-tailed tadpole
that had grown q dorsal fin the
length of its body. What CORES
ponds to the tail is Z slender pipe,
through which a current of air is
blown futewise across the hollow
bulb at the end, giving thin, yet
mellow sound of peculiar timbre
that is very penetrating.
Residents of the ferry eaid, after
the capture, that for weeks before
they had heard that whistle sound
at night without knowing its mean
ing. But the negroes knew it, and
for them it was the engine whistle
of the underground railway that
carried so many Of them away from
Dixie to the land of freedom.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
Well.Fed Americans.

l believe the American is the bes
eater in the world" said Robert A
Howard of Baltimore at the Lindell
"as he is also the best-fed man. HI
knows what is good to eat and how
to cook it, and combines in his menu
the best dishes of all nations but
with all that he is wofully deficient
in his eating in one very essential
respect, and that is he persists in
slicing his bakers bread as he does
his poundcake. On a recent trip to
Europe I noticed that the French.
man never cuts his bread, and the
man who applies his knife to LOAF
in French restaurant or hotel is
at once set down as i'll bred. The
Frenchman always breaks bread
and pulls it to pieces, instead oi
slicing it as we do.
"There is excellent sense in this
custom, too, as I have found, for
bakers bread eaten as the French.
man eats it is undoubtedly sweetel
and tastes much fresher. One fad
[ noticed among the English l am
unable to express my contempt for
The Britisher, you know, is nothing
if not outre, and this is as true oi
his eating as others of his affairs,
What would you think of . restau.
rant or hotel that would serve you
duck or other bird that smelled
like dead mule that the buzzards
wouldn't eat? And yet that is the
way the Englisman has his bird
served, and he's bull-headed enough
to swear that he loves game meat
only when it is tainted. I hope
that form of Anglomania will never
run riot in this country."-G Globe.
Democrat.
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ing. But for that ceaseless drip oi
water the solitude would be that oil
the grave. But for the fiery orbs
of that wild beast creeping down
the gulch to investigate the strange
sounds heard at intervals, the dark
ness would be that of the first day
of creation. Listen
II got away from them in the
darkness and they can't find the
trail-ha! ha | hal They had the
money and l was bound to have it.
Did the fools think I was going to
dig and delve for gold in the earth
I'd have wiped out the whole lot If
l hadn't lost my bottle Of poison
every last one of m It's all right,
though-ha! ha! ha! hap
Raving? Yes The solitude and
the darkness and the thought of
tomorrow and the next day, and
the next, have driven him to insan-
ity. He will live on for several
days yet, but God has been more
merciful, than man. Those who
doomed him may never return, but
hunters and projectors and Indians
will stand here and cry out in hor-
ror at the sight of a dead body sup
ported by a rusting chain. No man
will utter prayer over it-no man
give it burial. They will go away
to speak of "Skeleton Gulch" and
to shiver about their camp fires as
they recall its awful blackness and
solitude. NJ. QUAD.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-16
A Great Speculator.

A few months ago Benjamin +.
Hutchinson, better known as "Old
Hutch" was the recognized King
of the wheat pit at Chicago. The
lift of his finger sent the market
up or down, as he willed. The price
of our staple food and export cereal
depended upon his combinations.
The fortunes of thousands were
the plaything Of his speculations.
He was regarded with something
of awe as an operator whose skill,
pluck and luck were invincible.
His movements in the market were
bold to rashness. He was a great
speculative genius in the public
estimation.
By-and-by things took a turn.
"Old Hutch" got on the wrong side
of the market. He went up like a
rocket and he came down like the
stick. He disappeared subsequent
ly turned up in other cities; was
believed to have been stricken with
insanity, and put under surveillance
without absolutely restricting his
movements. The latest news of
him after long chapter of eccen-
tricities is that he is running little
establishment in New York which
seems to be waveringin its develop
ment as between q cheap restaur-
ant, a whisky saloon, a junk shop
and a mission. Here "Old Hutch"
eats, sleeps and does his own wash
ing, on the premises, and talks semi
religious and philosophic nonsense
to the boys and men who besiege
the place out of curiosity. If the
man is not absolutely and legally
insane, he is evidently cracked" /"
Perhaps "Old Hutch" is no crazier
to-day than when he was the Wheat
King of Chicago. It is hard to ex-
plore all the crooks of diseased
mind. It would be rash to say that
mere luck was the secret of his
temporary success in manipulating
the market. He must have had
streaks of business astuteness to
account for his career. Yet all the
time his methods savored of mad
ness. The saying that "great wit
to madness nearly is allied" must
be accepted with reservation. An
exaggeration of certain faculties,
ordinarily of practical use, may be
allied With madness, but not real
mental superiority. The man of
good, all round intellect does not
60 mad, unless under peculiar cir
cumstances. The fact remains that
a semi-madman, under business
conditions which now prevail, was
able for long time to rule or ruin
a great commercial and speculative
interest, and to inoculate the whole
course of trade with the madness
of his methods. 1t is not altogether
new experience. In varying forms
and degrees it has manifested itself
in the old world and the new on
various occasions, and on both sides
of the continent. In minor way
it has shown itself in the mental
and nervous breakdown of specu-
lators. The history of this phase
of business life is punctuated with
broken hopes and hearts and sui
cides. The great speculator, or the
intense one on small scale, is not
a great man. lie is a bulging man !;
great, perhaps, in one direction, and
so small in others that he is apt to
lose his equilibrium and come down
with crash, bringing others with
him. Then the world for the first
time suspects his insanity.
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The Spaniards luckily struck the
auriferous portion of the globe.
More gold has been obtained from
Spanish-America than from any
other part Of the world.
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next in age was the Maryland
colony.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-19
Monmouth Park Races.

MONMOUTH PARK, Aug 19.-Following
are the results OF yesterdays racing:
First race, mile, straight-Equity lie
CHamilton) l, Beansy 1l5 (W. Midgely)
g Osric ia (TaraD 8; time lao. Betting.
Equity to l, Beansy 2 to l, Osric to /.
second race, Select stakes, for 2-year-
olds, q mile, straight-Don Alonzo 1lS
(Taral) /, st. Michael 113 Ooggett) 9,
Lawless 116 (Sloane) 3; time 1:13I4. Bet
ting-Don Alonzo to 3, ST. Michael 6 to
!, Lawless 80 to l.
Third race, the Delaware handicap, IL
miles, outer circular course-Raceland 1iS
Nambley) 1, Pessara 119 (TaraD 2, Kill
deer 100 wv. Midgely) 3; time 2:0sA Bet
tinr-Raceland s to 8, Pessara to 8, Kill
deer to /.
Fourth race. q mile, straight-Rain-
bow III Uittlefield) l. Annie f. colt Ill
QIamilton) 2, kebecca Rowett colt wv.
Donohue) 81 time 1:l3A. .Betting-Rain-
bow to 1. Annie 4. colt 13 to 8, Rebecca
Rowett colt to 5.
Fifth race, furlongs, outer circular
course-Julien 103 (W. Midgely) 1, Pick
nicker 1l6 (Clayton) 2. Leonawell III
(TaraD 3; time l:274. Betting-Julien
a. to /, Picknicker 4 to 1, Leonawell
to1.
Sixth race, q mile STRAIGHTFORWARD 103
Uambley) !. Yemen 30 (W. Midgely)2, St
Hubert 100 QittlefieldD 81 time 1:l2. Bet
ting-Nomad to 20, Yemen s TO 5, st.
Hubert 20 to 1.