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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-06-18
Beheaded the Dead,

! A strange story Of superstition
is reported from Homoliez, in Hun.
gary. Several bodies of men had
recently been found there with their
heads cut off. An investigation was
made by the police and it turned
ont that these mutilations had in
eyery instance been committed by
younp men who were betrothed to
The widows Of the departed persons.
The husbands bad died natural
death, aud their widows believed
that in case they married . second
time their first husbands would re-
appear and destroy their welded
happiness; hence they had per-
suaded their new bridegrooms to
decapitate their deceased partners.
Pail Mall Gazette,
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Notice of Forfeiture.

10 NJ. r. EVANS, his heirs or legal repre-
sentatives: ~ ,' -
You are hereby notified that We have ex-
pended two hundred (20O) dollars in labor
and Improvements upon the ahatty
Cup East and Shnfty Cap West
iSodes, situated on Trail creek, in Warm
springs Creek mining district. Alturas
county, Idaho, in order to hold said prem
,ses under the provisions of Section 1924
iKesised Statutes of the United States, be-
,ng the amount required to hold the same
tSf tbs the IN: year ending December 81, 1881; that
xne proportion of said expenditure due
rom you, NJ. r. Evans, is $33 33H, lawful
money OF the United States, and If within
ninety days after the publication OF this
noIlce you fail to contribute your proper
;n Hoh OF such expenditure as co-owner, your
interest In said claims will become the
property of the subscribers under said sec
"oh 1924. l.. J. BARNARD.
", s. J. FRIEDMAN.
haley, Idaho, Jan. II, 1892.
First publication, Jan. 30. 1892.
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She Couldn't Tell . Lie.

A few days ago one of our sewing
machine agents received q call from
q lady who desired to purchase q
machine. The agent gave her :
price on . certain machine which
suited her, but the price was about
IS too high, and she talked and
talked for an hour to get him to
come down that much. Finally he
exacted = solemn promise from hen
never to tell il, and came down 70
her figure. The money was paid
and the agent thought no more
Of il untii : week later, when the
lady returned end handed him >
S. bill With the sorroWfu1 remprk !:
Here's the other IS; 1.csnf keep
from telling that = pantou Movl
Republican.
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KETCHUM ALTURAs COUNTY IDAHO SATURDAY JUNE H. 1892

tenance Independently of their hus-
bands. The government also pro-
tects these women from the cruelty
of their husbands, in case the mar
riage should prove unhappy, by
divorcing them from the tyrannical
husbands and giving them in mar
riage to other men. With all this
apparent immortality among the
Japanese, woe to the man who in
suits a woman or invades the sane
tity Of a home. Is was doubtless
this sentiment that cleared Lieut..
Hetherington of the murder of
banker Robinson. Saint Louis
Globe Democrat, June 2.
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1ABoR's saEAT STRIKE.
He Took 81, 800, 900 Out Of tho Little
Pittsburg within -Four 1onthA

Ex-senator Tabor, of Colorado,
was in Washington few days ago,
and during his stay here he said he
was going to make a big fortune out
of his Mexican mines, his suits
concerning which have just been
settled in his favor. These are old
mines, which are being reworked,
and Tabor paid, I am told, $50, 900
for his interest in them, and he con-
tracted at the same time to put up
stamp mills and to build such ma
chinery as would enable them to
go in at the side of the mountain
and get right at the great vein of
ore in that way. Tabor became a
millionaire in month once, but it
is said he made 81 100000 out of
the Little Pittsburg in four months.
Senator Tabor might have had q
fair reputation as q business man
and as a practical millionaire had
he kept out of politics. But he lost
his head when he made his millions
in less than month, and nothing
but a spick-span new wife and a
famous position would satisfy him.
The story of his divorce from the
woman with whom he had lived
and worked all his life; of his mar
riage in the office of a justice of the
peace in st. Louis to a divorced
woman, and the joke which he per-
petrated upon President Arthur and
Washington society when he had
brought this woman to Washington
and here married her, as it was sup
posed for the first time, would make
one of the most interesting plays
that could be based on American
history.
And what has become of the first
Mrs. Tabor? In the suit for ali
mony which she entered against
Tabor she was granted with her
divorce something like 100000
worth of Denver real estate. This
was decided over to her, and with
the growth of the city it has SO in
creased in value that she is now
worth more than $1,OOO,0OO. She
is a woman of high character and
she impresses one as being kind,
intelligent and motherly. She now
moves about in the best society in
Denver. / understand that Tabor
is crazy to get back to the Senate.
Washington Letter to Pittsburg
Dispatch.
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The stock We Prefer.

The preferred stock of . corpora-
ton is 80 called because it has .
preference over the common stock
in the payment of dividends. The
face of the stock states to what per
cent it is preferred, and dividends
to that rate must be paid from the
company's net earnings before the
common stock receives any divi.
dends. The dividends on . pre-
ferred stock are sometimes made
cumulative. In that case, il there
is = failure to earn the guaranteed
rate one yesr, the unpaid dividend
remains q charge on the net earn
ings ahead Of any claim on the
common stock, and al passed divi-
dends must be paid before anything
can be distributed to the common
stock kholders.
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A Wonderful Clock.

The Warschawskij Dujewnik, q
paper published in Warsaw, Poland,
describes q wonderful clock, which
will be exhibited in Chicago. The
clock is the result of six years of
earnest work by q matchmaker
named Goldfaden, in Warsaw. It
represents q railroad station with
waiting rooms for travellers, tel
egraph and ticket Offices, an outside
promenade and a fountain in oper-
alton. Alongside of the station
are seen the tracks, with signal
booths, switches and water reser-
voirs, in fact, everything belonging
to q European railroad depot. In
the dome of the central tower of
the building is q clock showing the
local time, while in each Of two
other towers there is a clock, giving
the time, respectively, of New York
and Pekin. In both of the towers
last mentioned q calendar and bar
ometer are seen. Every quarter Of
an hour it gets lively at the station.
First the telegraph operator does
his work-issues the telegram to
signify that the track is clear. Then
the doors of the building are opened.
The station keeper and his assist
ant appear on the platform. At the
ticket Office the cashier is notice
able; the guards leave the signal
booths and hoist the barrier !; long
row of passengers is observable in
front of the ticket Office; baggage
is hauled; one of the guards rings
the bell and q train runs into the
station. While the whistle of the
locomotive is blown, the train stops !;
a workman goes along the row of
coaches and hits tho axles with q
hammer, while another one pumps
water into the water tank Of the
locomotive. After q third signal
with the station bell the train starts
and disappears in a tunnel on the
opposite side. The station keeper
and his assistant leave the platform
and the doors of the depot building
are closed, the guards enter their
booths and quiet reigns. After fif-
teen minutes the same trouble COM
mences again.
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He Went skyward.

Across the river, nesting under
the green hills of Washington, is a
place known as Hungry Harbor,
the scene of quite a fish-packing in
dustry. The North Shore cannery
is located here, and besides the
Cinnamon a number of Films are
employed. The other day one OF
the latter class was trying to find
a suitable place to enjoy his noon
day smoke, when he espied an
empty whisky barrel standing in
a sheltered corner of the building.
It looked innocent enough as he
approached and seated himself
thereon, the fumes arising from the
inside causing the drowsy Finn to
think that he had, indeed, struck q
snap.
lie got out his ever ready clay,
and striking a match in the usual
style, pulled away until the pipe
was we'll lighted. The match Was
nearly burned out when he spied
the dark, black bung hole, and out
of curiosity, perhaps, dropped the
burning end into the barrel. The
next moment the air was filled with
the Finn, an assortment Of boards,
barrel-heads, slaves and anything
else that happened to be lying
around loose in the neighborhood.
He came down safely, and except
for. the loss of his eyebrows and
mustache, which were burned of,
was rnhurt. As soon as he could
collect himself SO that he knew
where he was, he sneaked away and
hasn't been heard of. at the cannery
since.-Astoria Town Talk.
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Trees that Grow Needles and
Threads Them.

That there are more wonders on
the earth, in the sea, beneath the
earth," and the sky above it than
ever Horatio imagined, is q we'll
known fact which that .worthy's
most ardent admirers will not at
tempt to deny. Take for an instance
the famous needle-and-thread tree.
Imagine such q luxury and the
delights of going out to your tree
and plucking a needle threaded all
ready for use. Odd as it may seem
to US, there is on the Mexican plains
just such a forest growth. The tree
may not exactly be q tree in the
true sense of the word, partaking as
it does more of the nature and char
acteristics of a gigantic species Of
asparagus. It has large, thick,
fleshy leaves, such as would remind
one Of the cactus, especially Of the
one popularity known as prickly
pear. The needles" of the needle
and thread tree are set along the
edges of these thick, Aeshy leaves.
In order to obtain one fully equip
ped for sewing, it is only necessary
to push the "needle" gently back
ward into the deshy sheath (this to
loosen it from the tough outside
covering of the leaf), and then pull
it gently from the socket. If this
operation be properly carried out,
one hundred or more fine fibres ad-
here to the thorn like 80 many spider
webs. BY twisting the 'sneedle" dur
ing the drawing operation, the
thread can be made of any length
desired. The action of the air on
the fibres toughens them amazing
y, q thread from It not larger than
common No. 40 being capable
Of sustaining : weight of five
pounds j; about three times the ten
sile strength Of common "six-cord"
SPOOL cation.
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A Negro State.

homa a negro state, which the white
settlers were at first disposed to
ridicule, is being managed with a
great deal of skill. The man who
is engineering it is E. P. McCabe,
ex-State Auditor of Kansas, who
asked the Republicans of that state
for a second term of Office only to
be cast out of the party. This pol
itical disappointment, together with
a great deal of social ostracism at
Topeka, determined McCabe, who
is said to be almost,a white man in
appearance, and highly intellectual,
to found a negro state. He called
to his side the most intelligent ne
groes in the Kansas cities, and the
work of organizing "colonies" was
begun at once, and prosecuted with
so much energy that when Oklaho-
ma was thrown open to settlement
10000 negroes crossed the border
to get foothold in the new coun-
try. They came, of course, largely
from the southern states. McCabe
led one of the parties himself, and
to help the cause established news
paper in the interests of his race.
This organ he distributed through
the south as we'll as Oklahoma. 1t
boldly advocated the plan of dis
possessing the whites of political
power. The idea fascinated the
southern negroes, and they contin-
ued to make up COLONIES" in spite
of the protests Of planters, who saw
the laborers in their fields dwind
ling in number. The plan proposed
in the beginning was to distribute
the negroes so that a majority of
black voters would be possible in
each representative and senatorial
district. Whenever cabin or house
became vacant, a negro was put in
by McCabe's managers. The open
ing of the Sac and Fox, and Potta-
watomie Indian reservations to set
Element last fall helped the scheme
wonderfully, and the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe country will soon be filled
with negroes, for it is too hilly and
unproductive to tempt the more
ambitious whites. Hundreds of me-
groes are said to be arriving daily.
They are willing to put up with all
kinds of hardships if they can Sc
cure forty acres of ground and
dependence. Those arriving first
make homestead filing, and the
land is then divided among others
coming later. It is thought that
within three years these lands, dis
dainfully left by the whites, will be
producing good crops ofcotton and
corn, and that the negro population
will be at least 10000. At the pres
ent writing there are seven large
colonies of negroes in Oklahoma,
and within the next sixty days there
will be upward of sixty colonies
established, if McCabe's plans do
not miscary. There are said to be
100000 negroes in the south organ
lied for settlement in Oklahoma.
A few years may see two negro SEN
ators at Washington.-N. Y. Post.
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The KE1sroxE is the sole representative
OF the Great Upper Wood River. Sawtooth
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Ketchum, it Is an invaluable guide for cap
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it, and let your friends read it.
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1uE MONKEY AneuAse.
Scientists who Do Not Agree With
Professor Garner.

Professor Garner's theory of 9
language among monkeys as perfect
and distinct in itself as that of the
human family has not achieved any
encouraging recognition among the
scients of the country. DR.. G. D,
Brinton of Philadelphia takes de.
cided stand against Professor Gar
ner. At q meeting Of the Nineteenth
Century Club in New York city on
Tuesday evening Professor Garner
explained his theory at some length
DR.. Brinton followed, and said that
while the professors scheme of pre-
serving the various cries of the
monkeys by means of the phono'
graph is an original and effective
one, some of his ideas concerning q
monkey language are, in his opin-
ion, decidedly at fault. Professor
Garner holds that the articulate
language of human beings is simi.
lar to the language of monkeys,
DR.. Brinton could not agree with
the professor on that point.
Human speech, he said, "is NOT
derived from the sensations of pain,
pleasure, hunger or the like, as Pro-
fessor Garner holds. It is the de-
velopment of the logical and not OF
the emotional faculty, and is the
simplest form Of expression. If fol
instance, q man were to address you
in language with which you were
wholly unacquainted, he might be
protesting his love for you, while
you might believe he was express.
ing the opposite sentiment and vice
versa. With the brute language it
is different. It is not necessary
thet one should be student of the
language of dogs to understand the
difference between the yelps of rage
emitted by one of those animals
when his tail is trodden upon and
the bark OF JOY at meeting his
master.
Language is purely conven-
tional and manufactured product,
such as the brute creation are not
competent to produce. The cries
of q monkey are very similar to
the interjections of the human Ian
guage, but, like these parts of the
human speech, they cannot be
parsed. Therefore, l hold there is
no language among monkeys"
DR.. Perry, professor of Sanskrit
in Columbia College, agreed with
the remarks of DR.. Brinton.
Prof Garner felt rather incensed
at the remarks of these gentlemen,
but still maintains that monkeys
can speak, and will start for the
scene of his peculiar researches in a
week or so.-Philadelphia Record.
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patient and faithful slaves always
fare. He does more work on less
feed than any animal that lives
He works all day and rustles al
night for a supper which is made
without partiality from sagebrush
greasewood, tin cans or old gunny
sacks. He is an abused, maligned
maltreated and kicked ass.
He has been the miner and pros
pector's friend everywhere. A story
of the search for precious metals
in the mountain wilds, which does
not give him a prominent place
will be but half told tale. The late
Senator Chaffe once gave an order
for an oil painting typical of pros
pecting life. A score of subjects
and suggestions were made, and he
finally chose the prospector and his
ass. It was q fitting suggestive com
bination that could scarcely be i'm.
proved.
The ass receives his Mexican
name in this country, and is known
as "burro." He is also called the
Colorado Nightingale. He isa sing
er, but there is a difference of opin.
ion as to whether his voice is sweetly
melodeous and always in tune. We
had one once that always came to
our tent at daybreak, thrust his
head in and sang a morning song,
He was very expert in lodging the
boot that was regularly thrown at
him, and then went away content.
We veritably believe that our part
ner's remark was true when he said
that the "d-d cuss always laughs
at the joke" We know they can
laugh, for We have seen them do it.
Once we saw a dog brought into a
mining camp which had never seen
an ass, and when he saw ours he
rushed at him barking and evident
ly intending to go for him. The poor
burro was half scared to death,
and sent out q terrific bray, as
though it was his last aganizing
remark. This was a surprise to the
dog, which had never heard such a
noise, and he turned and fled howl
ing in fear. The change that came
over that burro when the dog ran
was ridiculous. He laughed if ever
a man laughed. And always after
that, when he saw that dog, one
could see in his actions that he re-
membered the event and tried to
scare him. He did not act 80 with
any other dog. His appreciation
of the humor in the thing was so
constant that every man in camp
came to enjoy it and watch for it
and laugh at it as did the burro.
Patiently, kindly, faithful, friend
ly to children as dog is friendly,
bearing burdens with remonstrance,
laboring for his owner all the time
and doing good instead of harm,
this is the lot and mission of the
ass. He is Of more value in the
world than half of the men who
the earth, and to whom
the applied epithet, ass, would be
an undeserved complimen.
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tie. Travelling by rail is entirely
foreign to their nature, and they
will require the most delicate hand
ling. They will be shipped in par
lor horse cars. Bunch grass will be
cut and baled and shipped to Chi.
cago. No one doubts Mr.. Miles
ability to make the exhibition q
success. ss.-Helena Independent.
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The Colorado Nightingale.


to the man who brought the rep
utation of the ass into disrepute,
says the Denver Mining Industry.
Whoever it was that originated the
contemptuous idea conveyed to a
fellow human when you tell him he
is an ass, made a bungling job of
the work. It was intensified by the
fellow who perpetuated the senti-
ment with the oft quoted remark,
Stupid as an ass" The truth is
the ass is neither contemplate
nor even stupid animal. Accord
ing to the Bible he is the only
quadrupid ever endowed by the
Almighty with the power of speech,
and stands the most favored of all
animals by Omnipotence, being the
only one that ever saw the angel Of
the Lord. He deserves it. "Patience
is a virtue," and the ass is the per-
sonification of concentrated pa
thence, and is therefore virtue itself.
Isn't that good logic !
We are rather inclined to the
opinion that modern standards
liken q virtuous man to an ass on
account of his possession of virtue.
This is the derivation of the epithet.
We are also inclined to think that
modern standards treat with con-
tempt the possession of that ASSAM
inc a uaiity. When q man let's what
the world calls q "good thing" 60,
the world calls him an ass. When
a man in business does, not ia ke
every possible legal chance to make
profits, without scrutinizing its
morality, the business world thinks
he is an ass. When q man carries
the burdens Of others he is fittingly
called an ass. We are rather in
clined. to think that to be called an
ass by. most people is not altogether
without its compensations. Con-
demnation by some persons is more
to be desired than approved. There
are men whom we can all love for
the enemies they make.
We are defenders of the ass. We
are quite we'll prepared to hear your
remark about defending relatives,
etc. We are admirers of the ass.
He is the one animal that carries
our burdens without bucking, re-
monstrance or complaint. He is
the only quadruped on earth that
is like Grover Cleveland. He never
changes his opinions. He is hon.
estly and soidly, persistently con-
sistdnt1y stubborn. His image
should be engraved upon Cleveland
banners, and born at the head Of
every Cleveland torch-light process
sion. He is the typical Bourbon.
who never learns anything and
never forgets anything. One al
ways knows what his opinions will
be, or "where you will find him."
Tho asss place in natures econ
omy has always been an important
one. He got on the deck Of this
earth to help Adam, be carried the
meek and lowly Saviour, and hesl
gone on in his patient way assist
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Pats Ready Hetort.

A Bishop was travelling in min.
ing county and encountered an old
Irishman turning q windlass which
hauled up ore out Of shaft. It was
his work to do this all day long.
His hat was eff, and tho sun Wa
pouring down on his unprotected
head. sst
"Dont you know the sun win
injurs your brain If you expose II
in that manner," said the good man.
TIE Irishman wiped the swoat
o6 his forehead and looked at tho
clergyman. "Do ye think I'd -
doin' this Ill day il I had any
brains?" be said, and thsn b Bevt
tho handle another tuxn.-4ilwoas
kee Wisconsiu. IA
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