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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-12-09
GEO. j. LEWIS, Agent.
Notice of Forfeiture.

fe JOHN W. PLATT, his heirs or assigns:
You arc hereby notified that have ex-
pended the sum of five hundred (50O) dol
lars in labor and Improvements upon the
DEER TR ALL lode mining claim,
situated on the Smoky divide, about twen-
ty-two miles from Ketchum, in Warm
Springs Creek mining district. Alturas
county. Idaho, as required by section 2324.
Revised Statutes of the United States, be-
ing the amount required to hold the same
for the years ending December II, 1887, to
December 81, 1891; that your proportion OF
the same is $3.50, being one-halt; and if
within ninety (9) days from the service OF
This notice, or within ninety (9) days after
thus notice by publication you fail or re-
fuse to contribute your proportion Of such
expenditure as co-owner, your interest IN
SAID claim will become the property OF the
Undersigned under the provisions OF said
section 1924, FRANK ]. LEMON.
Ketchum. Idaho, July %, 1892.
First publication July 30, 1892
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INDIANS AND COMETS.
A Relief That the Sun Chases Stars ana
Bites Them.

A Belief That the Sun Chases Stars sno
Bites Them.
When the last comet was streaming
in the sky was camping one night IN
a canyon near the foot of Cooks peak.
In the party was an old and-for an
Indian-fairly intelligent Ute, named
Sam. Sam had been attached to some
cavalry troop at Fort Cummings as
scout, but his day of leaving the service
being reached he attached himself to
me-for a consideration-says writer
in the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Pointing to the comet asked Sam
what he could say in its defense from
the standpoint of Ute. Sam was, un-
like most Indians. great talker, and
could speak English very well. he
was ambitious to perfect himself in
the language, and readily seized on
every chance for talk. Indeed,
discovered him on one or two occasions
all alone and talking vigorously at 3
mark like a savage Demosthenes.
.sTell about that?" said Sam, point
ing toward the comet. "Sam do 1T IN
a heap easy. The sun is the man and
he have moon for squaw. The stars
big stars and little stars-are all their
children. The sun don't like 'em. Ii
he catches one he eats it. This makes
the stars heap 'fraid, and when the
sun has his sleep over and comes OUT
the stars run and hide. When the sun
comes stars go-creep into holes and
hide. But the moon is good. She
loves her children-the stars-and
when the sun sleeps she comes out IN
the sky, and the stars are glad, and
they come out of the places they hid
in. and forget to be 'fraid and play.
But when the sun wakes again they
run. He is always after them and he
catches them sometimes. This one,
continued Sam, again pointing to the
comet, ssthe sun catch one time. He
got away, though, but the sun ~ M. slaaa MN
SO. Now he's heap scared and SO keeps
his face always toward the place where
the sun is sleeping"
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ACTIVE VOLCANOES.

Burning Mountains of south and Central
America That Do Deadly Work.
The volcano of Abina, in Peru, which
for century and a half had been con-
sidered extinct, suddenly awoke from
its long sleep the other day and began
pouring forth lava, smoke and ashes in
such quantities as to obscure the sun
up to the date of the last report, says a
Panama correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Press.
Together with this news comes an
account of remarkably severe earth
quakes in Ecuador that shook the
whole Pacific slope and extended far
into the interior. A series of rapid,
violent shocks continued one minute
and some seconds. It created the
greatest terror in Guayaquil, where at
every convulsion it appeared as though
the pile-built structures must go over.
However, no damage to speak of oc-
CURED there, but several accounts of
disasters had arrived from the in
terror. At Canar seven families and
their homes are known to have been
swallowed up by the earth. One Gu
bursting open of the doors Of the peni-
tentiary. Many convicts escaped be-
fore the demoralized guards could pull
themselves together to prevent it.
Then the guards fired indiscriminately
on the prisoners, those fleeing from
crumbling walls as well as those es-
Gaping The city waterworks were SO
damaged that water famine was i'm
minent. This series of shocks was felt
over an area of eighty thousand square
miles. At almost the same time COto-
paxi and Turgurahua burst forth in
such terrible activity as has not
characterized them during the last
two centuries. The South American
volcanoes frequently ravage their inn
mediate neighborhood, but it is be-
lieved here is another instance that
they are safety valves that render the
continent habitable.
Reports of unusual volcanic activity
all along the line of the continental
backbone have been coming in since
the beginning of the year, and those
more recently to hand indicate a
steadily increasing disturbance. Alarm
ing accounts arrived last week
from Mexico of the condition OF
Colima, which, pouring forth vast
volumes of lava and a regular bonn
bardment of rocks and ashes, had sent
the people of Jalisco fleeing in terror
from their houses. Only few months
ago dispatches from Chill and Peru
told of fierce outbursts among the
volcanoes of the southern Andes, and,
later vet, of the seismic disturbance in
the volcanic region of Cauca, in
Colombia, by which an entire mountain
ridge was swallowed up and deep de-
preston left, while elsewhere in that
same region two rivers were buried by
the side of mountain tumbling into
the valley.
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HE WARMED UP.
The Bank President Lost That Chilly
Feeling Very Suddenly.

F0elinS very SuuucAAy'
A well-known contractor walked
into a bank in this city the other day
to cash a check for forty dollars, says
the Washington Post. The paying teller
looked at the check few minutes,
then counted out four hundred dollars,
and handed it to the contractor. who.
although he noticed the error, said not
a word, but rolled up the bills and
wadded them down into his pocket.
This happened in the morning, and
about two o'clock the same afternoon,
before the officials of the bank had an
opportunity to discover the error, the
contractor walked into the Office OF the
president of the bank.
sis this bank responsible for the
errors of it's clerks?" he asked the pres
ident.
s'If it can be proved that any OF our
clerks have erred" replied the presl-
dent, in very chilly manner, I'VE Will
make the correction"
ssWen, nobody saw this error made
but myself" continued the contractor,
'and my word ought to be sufficient
proof, l think"
81 am sorry, SIR" said the bank pres
ident, 'sbut we shall have to have ad-
ditional proof. We require this IN order
to protect ourselves; that is all"
ssVery we'll, SIR" replied the con-
tractor, rising to leave. 81 am sorry |
cannot furnish what you demand. The
error referred to was the payment OF
four hundred dollars for check that
called for only forty dollars; but, as
no one saw me receive the extra three
hundred and sixty dollars, I suppose
you will not want to correct the mis-
take. Good day, sir
sHold on! Come backr' shouted the
bank president, who by this time was
very.wide-awake to the abyss to which
he had been led.
The matter was soon adjusted salts
factorily, and now when any person
reports an error at that bank the first
question asked is: s'In whose favor?'
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due to him is forwarded by the board
of trade officer, and thus his earnings
have a chance of reaching his family
instead OF filing the pockets of the
crimps. The superintendent Of mcr-
camille marine at Gravesend has been
sent to Dunkirk to make the necessary
arrangement for the introduction of
the system, and if successful there
it will be extended to other ports. 1t
is estimated that between 1882 and
1898 British sailors were robbed of
two hundred thousand pounds in Dun
kirk alone.
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MARIE ANTOlNETTE'S REFUGE.

Edeecomb, Me-, Was to Have Been the
Home Of the Exiled Princess
There is building in Edgecomb, an
old square, white house, concerning
which an interesting story is told,
saws the Lewiston Journal. This ira
dition is that at the time of the French
revolution Capt. Samuel Clough, the
owner of the house, who sailed a ship
between Maine and France, was en-
gagged to bring to this country no less
valuable treasure than the unfortu-
nate queen, Marie Antoinette, and
that quantities of rich stuffs, furni-
ture and silver were put aboard his
ship for the use of the exile, whose
destination was to have been this
same house, which then stood in West
port, it having been removed to the
main land on a raft sixty years ago. 1t
is yet occupied by Capt. Clough's de-
scendants.
One circumstance which lends con-
firmation to this story is that similar
legend attaches to a house in Dorches-
ter, Mass, the famous Swan mansion.
then owned by Col. Swan, who spent
much of his time in Paris, but who set
tied permanently in this country after
the French revolution, his house being
adorned in princely fashion. Now
Capt. Clough and Col. Swan had money
dealings together in Paris, Capt.
Clough in 1894 having had contract
to purchase fifty thousand dollars
worth of lumber for the colonel.
What more likely than that Col. Swan,
who was q warm friend of Lafayette,
should have engaged the Maine cap
tain to aid him in plan of such great
Importance as the attempted rescue
of the French queen, with which he is
n~olifod
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JEWS LEAVING SWITZERLAND.

Driven Out by . Law Forbidding Animals
to Be Rled to Death.
Switzerland has hitherto been re-
garded as the most enlightened and
progressive of all nations of the old
world, and has for centuries been
known. as the cradle Of liberty and
freedom. Readers will learn with sur
prise, therefore, says the New York
Tribune, that we are about to witness
an exodus of the Jews from the small
republic, due to the enactment OF
measures characterized by as much in
tolerance as those decreed by the car,
for which he has been roundly abused.
According to a legislative poll, just
made of the entire electorate OF the
Swiss republic, the Jews are hence
forth to be prohibited from slaughter
ing animals used for food in the man.
ner prescribed by the Talmud. In
future the slaughter of any animal is
absolutely forbidden unless it is rem
dered insensible before being bled.
This practically debars the ten thou
sand Hebrews established in Switzer-
land from eating meat, and restricts
them to vegetarian diet. The people
responsible for this extraordinary
piece of legislation are the members of
the society for the prevention OF
cruelty to animals, who, after having
their demands in the matter defeated
in both houses of the federal legisla-
ture, have now succeeded, through the
new piece of constitutional machinery
known as the referendum, in attaining
their object by appealing directly to
the people, most of whom are without
information on the point at issue,
while the greater part of the remainder
are entirely Indifferent to the matter,
one way or the other.
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VcToRIA's CROWN.
It IL Worth . Million and Half OF
Dollars.

Dollars.
The crown worn by Victoria weighs
nearly two pounds, says the Pittsburgh
Dispatch. It comprises more than
5000 precious stones set in various de-
signs. The most prominent gem is the
ruby given to Edward, the black
prince, by Pedro, king of CASTLE. It
is in the front of the crown, set IN
Maltese cross composed OF seventy-hve
large diamonds. The lower part OF
the crown band contains row OF 1873
pearls, the upper part 112. Between
them and in front is large sapphire.
Back of that again is smaller sap
phire surrounded by six others and
eight emeralds. Between the two
larger sapphires are designs contain
ing 2s6 diamonds. Above the band are
eight more sapphires surmounted by
eight diamonds, and the same number
of festoons contain 100 diamonds. Be-
sides the Maltese cross there are three
Others around the upper part OF the
Gro Un containing 386 diamonds, and
between the four are four ornaments,
each with a ruby in the center and
containing respectively "a, 66, IS and
81 diamonds. From the crosses rise
four arches composed of oak leaves and
acorns, the leaves containing 728 dia-
monds. The thirty-two acorns are
each of single pearl and are set in
cups made of ffty-four diamonds.
Above the arches stands the mound,
containing $50 diamonds, and above
the mound is the cross, containing .
very large sapphire, four very large
and 1OS smaller diamonds. All the
stones are genuine, and not, as in some
other European crowns, colored glass,
which has replaced the genuine stones.
The crown entire is valued at 81 $780,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-12-09
ELECTRIC LIGHT BUGS.
Giant Beetles That Are Attracted
to the Cities
Mammoth Winged Insects That Were
Unknown Previous to tho Introduce
tion of the New Illu-
minAtor.

Electric bugs have made their ap-
pearance in Pittsburgh and have led
the Dispatch of that city to make q
study Of them.
These bugs were in America when
the country was first discovered and
are very common in European coun-
tries. Before electric lights were
known the bugs were seldom seen and
not often were specimens of them OBJ
tanned. AS soon as electric lights ap-
peared in city, so did the bugs.
The bugs resemble flies in shape.
They have six legs or claws, glossy
wings, body like beetle and rather
large eyes. Directly between the eyes
they have what is called spear. This,
their only weapon of defense, is about
three-eighths of an inch long in full
grown bug. Their sting is very pain
full, but it is not poisonous. They
never fight unless interfered with.
Electric bugs do more good than
harm. They eat up the smaller in
sects, and it's a novel way they have,
too. of catching them. If they had to
fly after insects to catch them they
would never capture any. They lie
upon their backs with their six tiny
claws in the air. Then they move
them slowly to and fro, and thus at
tract the attention of their prey. AS
soon as an insect alights upon one of
the claws it is promptly seized and de-
voured.
The bugs make their appearance as
soon as the warm weather sets in. They
are rather small at first, but in less
than a month they attain their full
growth.
Some of them measure over three
inches in length and are nearly an inch
wide. They lay their eggs in the bot
tom of rivers. 1t is estimated that one
female bug will lay three thousand
eggs in three months during her life
time. The eggs remain in the mud
during the winter and are hatched by
the first warm wave.
Toward the end of the summer when
insects become scarce the bugs kill
small fishes and eat them. A swarm OF
the bugs will go after small fish and
stab it to death with their spears.
They then carry the carcass of the fish
to the bottom of the river and it lasts
them for food many days
These bugs can propel themselves
through the water faster than fish.
Fishes fear them, although they are
never attacked by them when insects
are to be caught. These bugs have
been known to kill some good-sized
fnny specimens.
The first cool wave that comes drives
the bugs to the river, where they re-
main until the frost kills them. When
they die they are eaten by the fishes as
a sort of poetical retribution, no doubt
They are more numerous in the city
now than at any other time. If the
bugs remain away from the water
until daylight they cannot find their
way back to the rivers until night sets
in again. Daylight has the same effect
on them as electric lights, only they fy
| high in the air instead of in circles OF
against lamp globes, and consequently
! do not die from exhaustion,
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NEW USE FOR THE BICYCLE.
A Boston Genius Makes It Carry . Fire
Extinguisher.

A Boston Genius Makes It Carry . Fire
Extinguisher.
Boston has discovered new line OF
usefulness for the bicycle. Some in
ventive genius, says Hardware, has
fitted a wheel with small chemical
tank and fire ak, with which expert
ments are now going on at the house
of ladder company in South boston.
One of the bicycle houses of that city
fitted up machine of this sort some
time ago and sent it to the worlds
fair to be placed in its exhibit, and the
machine at South Boston is the second
one of the sort ever tried. The captain
of the ladder company says that the
practical value of the experiment could
not be estimated at present. The ma
chine is being tried by one of his men,
who is a watchman and for whom it
was made.
1t is ladies' light roadster with
cushion tires, and with its whole outfit
weighs about sixty pounds. The chem
ical tank, fixed between the head OF
the machine and the seat, holds about
two gallons of chemicals, which
amount as an extinguisher to twelve
pals of water. In speaking of the ex-
pertinent the. captain says: ION the
back bay or in the outskirts OF the
city, where there are good roads, the
machine may be of use in extinguish-
ing slight fires caused by smoking
chimneys, blazing curtains and the
like, but on the pavements of the city
it would probably be of little practical
use. One in each engine house would
probably be all that the department
would ever use, and as yet the expert
ment has not even been brought to the
attention of the fire commission"
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Of the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region.

tered the studio where Rosa was at
work. She rose to receive her visitor,
who threw her arms about her neck
and kissed her. It was only short in
terview. The imperial vision had de-
parted, the rumble of the carriage and
the crack of the outriders' whips were
lost in the distance. Then, and not
till then. did the artist discover that.
as the empress had given the kiss, she
had pinned upon her blouse the cross
of the Legion of Honor
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-12-09

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 prom
Using mining country Oh the face OF the
earth, and leaving nothing undone TO pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis OF Al.
mining news and developments, sas we'll as
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 it, read
it, and let your friends read it.
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Notice of Forfeiture.

10 J. P. FULLY, his heirs and assigns:
You are hereby notified that l have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred (10O) dol
lars In labor and improvements upon the
YOUNG AMERICA
lode mining claim, situated in Little Smoky
district, Alturas county, State OF Idaho, in
visions of section 1924, Revised Statutes of
lhe United States, being the amount re-
CURED to hold the same for the year end
ing December 81, 1892 that your proper
eion OF the same is $40, being one-tenth !;
ana II within ninety (0O) days from the
service of this notice, or within ninety (90)
lays Sas after this notice by publication you
iaii or refuse to contribute your proportion
o. such expenditure, including costs of
ppG;nphcation, pup your interest in said claim
NH become the, property of the under
sSixned S.x3a under the provisions of said section
@0-a. JOHN GORMAN.
First publication, June II, 1883.
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A Live Toad in . H.l1stone.

A hailstorm visited Pawtucket, r. l..
the other evening, such as has not vis-
tied this vicinity for years, if within
the memory of man. One woman
picked up q large hailstone and allowed
it to melt in her hand. She thought
something was inside the little piece
OF frozen rain, but was surprised to
f1nd when all had melted q little live
toad or frog in her hand. There is =
quite general belief that great many
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-12-09
rnuAnia and the Artist.

It is said that Emperor Napoleon
III. was desirous of bestowing the
cross of the Legion of Honor upon
Rosa Bonheur, the eminent artist, put
hesitated, fearing the popular Judg-
mcnt might condemn the giving OF II
to a woman. Leaving home in the
sum.aer of 1865 for an excursion ne
left the empress as regent. From the
imperial residence at Fontainblean II
was only a short drive to By. Inc
countersign at the gate was forced
and. unannounced, the empress en-
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Maximilian's Ruse.

Apropos of the recent train robberies
an old story told on Maximilian is re-
called: When Macmillan was emperor
of Mexico he broke up trai1 robberies
by q trick. He disguised three hum
dred soldiers as peasant women and
placed them on train. A gang OF
bandits stopped the engine, when the
three hundred disguised soldiers rose
and fred q volley that killed one hun
dred robbers. After that the trains
were not molested.
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rr.nce.. New Postal card.

France is soon to adopt an interest
ing innovation in the postal card sys-
tenn. The cards will be issued IN the
form of check books, with stubs. The
sender of the postal card can make
memoranda Of its contents on the
stub. and can have this stamped at the
most Office before the card is detached,
50 that q verified record OF the CORE
spoudence can be kept.
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Postage Stamps In Paris.

It may not be generally known that
Paris is the great postage stamp mar
ket of the world. There is a regular
bourse held every Thursday and Sun
dav in a corner of the Champs Elysees,
where hundreds of men, women ana
boys congregate with their postage
stamp albums and packages OF stamps
for sale and exchange. 1t is said that
thousands of francs change hands
there every market day.
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HUNTING THE RACCOON.
Exciting Sport In the Fall on tn
Western Reserve.
An Exceeding1y Tricky Animal That ca
BE Captured Only by the Assist
nnce of Trained
Dogs.

The corn is fully ripe in the shock in
many fields on the western reserve,
and the season for raccoon hunting, Or
"cooning," as it is more often called,
has arrived, with its attendant scenes
of sport and excitement. He who has
never experienced the pleasures Incl
dent to night in the woods with
trained "coon" dog during the month
of October can only learn what he has
missed by enjoying such an outing at
the earliest opportunity, says the
Cleveland Leader.
To hunt the raccoon at night with
success, trained dog is Indispensable;
for the scent, disposition and 'coon"
education of the dog are directly re-
sponsible for the number of peits
which are brought in at sometimes
early hour in the morning. In the Sc
lection of dog for the sport it isr.not
best to choose a hound, as the ability
and persistence of these dogs in ''giv-
ing tongue warn the raccoon of his
danger and give that crafty little
animal ample time to seek safe seclu-
sion in the hollow of some large tree,
which size and value prevents the
hunter from cutting down. Il the
dogs education has been neglected.
and he manifests an inclination to
follow the trail of rabbits rather than
that of the raccoon, the hunter will
not be likely to carry anything home
further than the remembrance OF
midnight ramble in the woods.
However, many dogs about whose
ancestry there clusters an imperish-
able halo of mystery, dc-e'Qp iata -