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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

AN American Type Founders AS
ISOLATION has been organized, COM
posed of English Plutocrats, and
will be incorporated under the laws
of that part Of the cars domains
known on the maps as New Jer-
sey." The purpose of the syndicate
is the purchase and consolidation
of all the of leading type foundries
Of the United States into a trust, for
the control of that exceedingly. prof
liable branch of business in this
country. The dispatch announcing
this new deal explains that the
stock will be issued in this country
and transferred to English pur-
chasers in London, and that the
price of type will not be advanced.
The net profits on type are not less
than fifty per cent, which is enough
to:satify the most greedy of dealers !;
but we shall be much surprised if
prices are not reduced and kept be-
low living profit until the small
concerns are forced to retire from
the business. That being done the
trust will fix a scale Of prices to
suit themselves, and they will be
based, like railroad charges, on what
the traffic will bear. So much for
our modern legislation.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
The Tariff Taxes.

The doctrine that the importer
pays them for US, says Hon. VIM. R.
Morrison, is apparently exploded !;
and from his argument it is equally
apparent that the other doctrine,
that the foreigner pays them is ex-
ploded. For, he argues, eff the
foreign maker were permitted to
and did sell in our market 100 tons
of iron at 81 400, or $14 per ton,
duty free, the maker of iron here
must sell at the same price. If a
duty of Sc per ton were imposed on
the foreigner be must sell it for
800 if he returns with the same
amount for his iron. But suppose he
does not add the duty to the price,
but pays it himself, sells his iron
at the same price as if he paid no
duty, $14, and returns with So a
ton, how would the maker of iron
here be benefited or protected? 1t
is only because the duty goes into
the cost and price of the foreign
article that the domestic producer
is protected. To afford protection
a duty must be tax
The foregoing is too clear to be
misunderstood by anybody, and too
unassailable to be controverted by
any honest-minded person. 1t is
simply indisputable and absolutely
frNQ
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
Notice of Forfeiture.

To BARNEY DAUGHERTY, his heirs, assigns
or legal representatives:
You are hereby notified that We have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred 1907 dol
lars in labor and Improvements upon the
I.EvlNA lode mining claim, situated on
the divide between Trail creek and Lake
creek. in Warm Springs creek mining dis
trict, in Alturas county, Idaho, in order to
hold said premises under the provisions of
section 2324, Revised Statutes of the United
States, being the amount required TO hold
the same for the year ending December 81.
1891 that your proportion of the same is
1913 $3.50, being one-third; and if within
ninety 600 days from the service of this
notice, or within ninety go days after this
notice by publication you fail or refuse to
contribute your proportion Of such expend-
iture as co-Owner, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the un-
dersigned. under the provisions of said
section 1924. EMIL KLEUPFER.
ALEC KLEUPFER.
Ketchum, Idaho, Jan. /, 1892.
First publication. Jan. 2, 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

The Statesman quoting the ac-
ton of the National Wool Manu-
facturers Association in memorial
lzing Congress against any change
in the tariff on wool and wooden
goods, charges that the democrats
of the Crisp-Springer wing of the
party" urge that free wooli is "neces-
sary for the welfare of the wooden
manufacturing industry" Possibly
the Statesman is correct, but we
have yet to meet with any such ar
gument in print. The argument is
that free wool is necessary to fur
nish a market for American woods,
and to enable manufacturers to
make good article Of wooden
goods by mixing the longer for
eign fibers with our short woods.
The pretended wooden goods of
home manufacture now sold in
our markets are made of shoddy,
cotton and cowhair, and are not
worth making up after they have
been purchased, and it is noticeable
that the sheepmen have not thus far
been duped into asking that the
Mckinley tariff be not interfered
with. They have the fact to deal
with that their wool is lower in
price than before the adoption of
that pretended protection, and
p,any understand its cause.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
Whoop-lal

1 am D. B. Hill.
Alias Tricky Dave"
I am from New York.
The Sun" is my mentor
And l. am reputed statesman.
am, moreover, drawing card:
I recently drew two salaries at once;
One as Governor of the State honor so,
And one as Senator in tOga drest,
Though performed only one service.
And that was to myself,
In furtherance of my designs,
For I'd be President.
do bestride the issues of the day
(Siiver coinage and protection).
As some colossus might bestride cobweb
But hold my minions firmly to my will
AS am held by that "Old Man of the Sea,
That prarient anarch. Charles A. Dana,
Whose pleasure tbs, and glory, too.
To feign democracy. and to sit
Upon the shoulders Of reform
And ride it to defeat.
My speeches for free silver are
But tinseled clap trap
Meant to lure the Western voter
TO my net. They are delivered
With wink at Wall-street sharks
That means: III get the miners vote
And he'll get left. y See?
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
A Greenhorn in the Mines,

The Cnur d'Alene Miner, know
ing nothing about mines, except
such knowledge as it has imbibed
from overhearing bar-room CONVEX
sations among tipsy miners, jumped
to the silly and altogether untena-
BILE conclusion, sometime ago, that
leadmining was actually a bust
ness in this state. The KEYSTONE
at once exposed and demonstrated
its error; bnt instead of permitting
itself to be set right it continues to
affirm its nonsensical proposition
as if repeatedly saying twice one is
four" would make it 80. But it has
failed to adduce a single fact or
argument that affords any support
to its position whatever, and has
depended entirely upon the weak
ling's resort of applying epithets,
as if the personal shortcomings Of
the editor of the KEYSTONE were
pertinent to the establishment or
disestablishment of the business of
lead-mining here or elsewhere. Poor
fellow Somebody has told him
that there is not lead mine in the
CGur d'Alene country; that not
mine there would ever have been
located; that there would not be a
miner there to-day nor a paying
mine but for the presence of silver
in paying quantities in the lead of
the camp, and he is angered at US
because of his enlightenment. This
we regret, but cannot help it, We
will add, however, for his further in
formation and consequent discom-
future, that lead-mining is bust
ness and pays in Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri, where the mines are con-
tiguous to navigable waters, and
where miners work for 6Octs. a day !;
and that it is business and pays
in those places because of those
conditions, the former of which is
impossible and the latter undesira-
BILE in Idaho. AS we have said be-
fore, lead-mining in this state is an
incident to silver-mining, and not
a business, and we never want to
see the day when miners wages will
be so low that lead at its present
price can be mined here at a profit
We want the damnable class legis-
lation that demonetized silver re-
pealed in order that the silver miner
may conduct his business profita-
bly, and successfully, and we want
wages in the state kept up to the
highest point that will give the en-
ployer living return for his in
vestments and his efforts. If this
is to be a "blawsted British free
leader" and an ignorant democrat,
we cheerfully accept both epithets.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
THE Messiah craze is again ram

THE Messiah craze is again ram
pant among the redmen. When
the honest and pious agents steal
his rations down to the point of
starvation, the aforesaid redman is
always affected that way. The
emptying of his stomach seems to
have the effect of emptying his head
at the same time. Shoot the agent
anl feed the Indian, or else shoot
the Indian and hang the agent and
the Messiah troubles will come to
an end; but don't miss a chance to
exterminate the agent.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

SOME of our exchanges declare
that minister Egan degraded him
self by escorting three Balmacedist
refugees to Valparaiso. They for
get that no man ever degraded him.
self by doing kind act, nor ever
did disinterested act of kindness
that did not elevate him by the do
ing. If Pat Egan never does any
thing worse than saving life, the
American people will not complain
of him for degrading himself. They
approve of that kind of self-degra-
datiOn.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
Lotus Land.

We received q letter this week
from our old California home by
the sea, which almost made us long
to be there, to enjoy its beautiful
scenery, bask in ite sunshine and
be soothed by the incessant music
of oceans restless pillows. There
is no winter there. Even now the
golden orange is being ripened in
that glorious summerland by the
benignant rays Of a sun that never
loses its life-giving warmth. There
flowers bloom forever and the land
scape is bright with many hued
flowers and robed in a fadeless YER
dure, and the very air is fragrant
for twelve months in the year with
the odorous perfumes of fruits and
blossoms and resonant with the
joyous songs of birds. To the out
ward senses nothing is lacking.
Nature there has been singularly
lavish in the bestowal of all gifts
that can charm the eye or delight
the mind. Ventura county is to
the beholder an Eden of perfection
and haven of peace and rest. But
the serpent has entered even that
bower of paridise-the serpent OF
monopoly. Selfishnesss reign SUI
preme. The beauty of the verdur-
Gus and floral landscape, the bird
songs, the fragrant atmosphere,
the vernal valleys, the murmuring
streams, the ripe and luscious fruits,
the health-laden breezes, the sea-
scape's glories, the mountains ma
jesty, the oceans song and his sub
Unity, are for the rich only. Sc
cured against the possibility of
want by a generous soils album
dance, and far removed from win
ter's rigors and the exposures to
cold and storms that tend to keep
alive the sympathies and humanity
of people of more northern chimes,
the southern Californian shrivels
and shrinks into an ease-loving,
careless, selfish human mouse, in
capable of a single thought of re-
gard for the misfortunes, or even of
the rights of his fellow men. The
penalty this of a perfect climate.
The poor-there need be little
said about them-shiver in their
novels, unable to buy fuel, and die
of throat and lung diseases; for in
that steaming climate people are
thin looded and require fire to keep
them warm, especially of mornings
and evenings. If they chance to
own or be able to rent a piece of
land and try to raise a few pigs or
chickens, their places are raided
and their property destroyed by
predatory animals which find breed
ing places in some adjacent wild
held by a rich land-grabber and
placarded from A to lizard: "No
hunting or shooting allowed on
these premises" If they hire out
they are treated as hogs unfit to
enter the presence of their royal
benefactors. And so the beauty Of
the most beautiful spot on earth is
deprived of its charms to all except
the rich and the selfish.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

STATE OF IDAHO,
County of Alturas. 3D.
To A. G. BEM1s:
You are hereby notified that we have ex-
pended one hundred 1907 dollars in labor
and improvements upon the
SILVER CLOUD
lode, situated in Little Smoky mining dis
trict, Alturas county, State of Idaho Gas
will appear by affidavit filed January S,
1892, in the office of the County Recorder
of said county,, in order to hold said prem
Uses under the provisions of section 1924,
Revised Statutes of the United States, be-
ing the amount required to hold the same
for the year ending December 81, 1891;
and if within ninety days after this notice
by publication you fail or refuse to con-
tribute your proportion of such expendi-
ture as co-owner, together with the costs
of this advertisement, your interest in said
claim will become the property of the SUBJ
scribers under section 1924 of said statutes.
b. +. OLIVER.
WILLIAM TURNER.
First publication, January g. 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
No Trouble About It.

There are at this time $500, 0o0, 00(
worth of silver bullion and colnt
stored in the treasury of the Unltec
States. The bullion is there because
the law does not permit Of its coin
age into money, and the coin il
there and kept there as a means Of
keeping up the false pretense that
silver cannot be circulated among
the people as money. But every
dollar of this money could be cir.
culated and the people would be
glad to receive it at 100 cents on
the dollar.
River and harbor improvements
and coast defenses, telegraph, tel.
ephone, railroad, steam and sail
lines of ocean vessels are needed
and urgently by our people to the
amount of probably twice $500,
600, 600. Moreover, there are mill
ions of idle men, day laborers, car
penters, machinists, shipwrights
and workmen of every grade and
class in our country whom the gov
eminent could employ to construct
the needed defenses and improve
ments. These men and their fami-
lies need the money they could thus
earn. There are also thousands OF
traders who would be benefited by
supplying these laborers and their
families with provisions and cloth
ing; and government having first
remonetized silver not a laborer
nor trader would refuse to receive
its coins dollar for dollar, but all
would be glad to get it, and those
being as ten thousand to one of the
swindling knaves who, with Sher-
man at their head, caused the de-
monetization of that metal, would
by their simple act of receiving it
at once force it into universal cir
culation.
What an enlightened government
would do then would be to first re-
monetize silver and then appropri-
ate the entire sum of the silver in
the treasury for purposes Of river
and harbor improvements, coast
defenses, telegraphs and the like,
and employ our idle laborers to
build and operate them. By the
adoption of this course the silver
now a burden and an expense to
the people would be converted into
a public blessing. Taxes would be
reduced-and to the extent of $780,
100000 obviated. Our idle popu-
lation would be employed. An in
creased demand for the products of
labor would encourage, stimulate
and reward productive enterprise.
The country would be supplied
with needed increase in its money
of circulation. Our coast towns
and cities would soon be safe from
successful bombardment by foreign
ships of war, and thousand edu-
cational, commercial, military and
social advantages would accrue to
US as a nation, which, under our
present bungling so-ca!led states
manship are impossible. But of
course nothing OF his kind will be
done. 1t would be an innovation
upon the established usages of the
fools and tools who make our laws,
and a trespass upon the vested"
rights of the vagabond class whose
sole means of support is found in
the vicious legislation devised. plot
ted and completed by them and
their paid lobbyists and purchased
congressman.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
Notice Of Forfeiture

To GEORGE A. CHAPMAN and WV. a.
or their heirs or assigns: .r
You are hereby notified that that IN. IN, dol.
pended the sum Of one hundred ION nm the
lars in labor and Improvements y. " claim
blue JACKET lode mln 1ansr miles
situated on Eagle creek, aboSSI eess'C Greek
from Ketchum, in Warm Spr'"fkS aho, -
mining district. Alturas county, "a Statutes
REQUIRED by section 1924. Revised u,onnt r.
Of the United States, being the r a.ip ending
quired to hold the same for the yea nortion D
december 81, 1891; that your pr ;1p the sid
the same is as follows. to-W,l; II = Libby
George A. Chapman and VIM .md Fl i within
n too days from the service liter S
notice, or within ninety (9o) days ys refuse TO
notice BY publication you f a. su nc e1peadt
iture MS co-owners, your lnte!s1 ~ the ~.
claim will become the properly - 81 I'd
dersigned.s under the lgg1AjRFER
' Kstchn,n. Idaho, January !, III ira
Frat publication January .
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

SECRETARY PINKHAM says the re-
publican party has neither head nor
tail. The Secretary is half right.
The party has no head to speak of,
but its representatives in Office, in
Guiding Secretary Pinkham himself
have affixed to it tale of incom-
potency, laundering and infamy
that will be told to its and their
sorrow many time during the year
of 1900
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

IT has been given out that if the
silver bill is passed the next Con-
gress will pass the force bill. The
alarm contains too many contln-
gencies to frighten anybody not
anxious to be frightened, and if
there is any sincerity in the silver
men they will pass the coinage bill.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

GAcNoN, Sprague, Cronk and
King, recently arrested at Salt Lake
under the charge of counterfeiting
and passing counterfeit money,
have had their examination and are
held in the sum of 5000 each for
their appearance before the grand
Jury; but there seems to be no ev-
idence of Importance against Mark
King, and unless something further
is developed he is not likely to be
indicted.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

ANNE CAMPBELL, recently con-
victed ct Boise of passing counter
felt money, has been sent 10 a
Michigan female reformatory for
two years. That will probably be
more wholesome than would like
term in our state boxing institute.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

Dr. GRAVES, the Denver poisoner,
has been denied new trial, and
sentenced to be hanged, but it is
thought. Governor Routt will COM
mute his sentence to imprisonment
for life. At this distance there
seems to exist little cause for exec
utive clemency in his case.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

Now that the silver mines of the
Cmur d'Alene have shut down the
intelligent editor Of the Miner
should put gang of men to work
on his lead mines. They are pro-
tected and ought to pay.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

STATE AUDITOR MooDY having
succeeded in getting himself full Of
liquid patriotism-about the only
thing our state officials ever do sue
coed at-a few days ago, collided
with Con Tatro and was so badly
wrecked that he had to be drydocked
for repairs.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

SENATOR MIrcHELL's daughter, of
Oregon, is to be married to prince
in February, his highness gracious
ly accepting the dollars of her daddy
encountered by the daughter of her
1o11xy
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

SPEAKER CRISP is laid up by a
case of la grippe, and Benton Nc
MILAN of Tennessee, and one of the
brightest men in the House, is act
ing speaker.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

CAPTAIN ScHLEY says Pat Egan
ia a minister of whom any nation
might be proud, but we havn t nearo
vet what Pat Egan says about Cap
tain Schley.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
NOTICE TO MAIL SUBSCRIBERS,

JAcKsoN's DAY, the anniversary
Of the battle Of New Orleans, was
celebrated in many places in the
United States on the 9Th OF this
month,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

"WHo own the taxing power IN
this country?D asks Hon. w. L:
Wilson. Why, the corporations, OF
course. Give US something harder,
Mr.. Wilson.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16

CHARLES PINNEY, father of Boise
City's worthy mayor, Hon. James
A. Pinney. died at Haley on the
18th Of this month, aged 80 years.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
NEW TODAY.
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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-01-16
MILWAuKFE
BEER

The Metropolitan Saloon and p.,
have recently been in the hands oi a d.''an
tive artists. who have finished them u; e
style made famous during The ' rs m u.
LOUIS MY when that monarch xs .s ga,ss
ing the celebrated Castle of Ver,s; n OO'la-
We respectfully invite old friend, :,
the public generally to call and %. M
assuring them that they will be ,,s.,.,
courteously and served to the Queen, t,,.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-02-19

When we read how the people of 200
years ago paid Sc, 900 for a single Dutch
tulip bulb we think pityingly of the
foolishness of the Sixteenth century.
But when the people of 200 years hence
read how Americans of the present paid
over 500, 900 for one horse, is it certain
that they will not look back on us with
feeling akin to that which Miss Fanny
Squeers expressed for Nicholas Nickleby
in her famous postscript? One hundred
and five thousand dollars for Axtell,
100000 for st. Blaise, and now for the
young 2-year-old trotter Arion price
has been paid greater than either of
those named. If English Richard had
lived in our time he might well have
been willing to give his kingdom for a
horse, since his whole kingdom just at
that nick of time would have been
worth scarcely more than Axtell, st.
Blaise OF Arion. There is no sign of
prices for trotting and thoroughbred
stock going lower either. On the con-
trary, they crawl steadily higher. 1t
will be curious to know whether this
thing will last till every grocer wagon
has attached to it 2:0S4 horse. The
craze will not soon die out for fast
horses from the fact that every few years
now sees the record lowered, especially
for trotting horses, and there will natu-
rally be desire to know the final limit
of the speed that can be got out of
horsehesh,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-02-19
An Egyptian Curiosity.

In July, 1881, there were discov-
cred in the ancient city of Thebes,
the mummies of Egypt's mightiesl
Pharaohs, among them that of Rame-
ses the Great. There were also
found seals, coins, statuettes. pre-
served food, and few rolls of papy-
rus, some Of the latter being of great
value, curiously bound together, and,
Notwithstanding the mould and mil
dew Of ages upon them, as easily read
as if written yesterday. A queer lit
tie book entitled, GA Night with
Rameses H." has been executed SO
cleverly, that the oxydized seal, sug-
gestion Of mould, antique coloring,
and partially decayed and ragged
edged papyrus carry at once to the
mind the possession of a veritable
relic from the dawn of civilization.
Mailed to any address on receipt of
6 cts. in stamps, by j. c. Aver Co.
Lowell, Mass.