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The record-union., 1897-12-28
Smallest CITY in the World.

John De Saline bears the unique dis
tinction of being Mayor of the smallest
city in the world. He is the chief exc
cutive of Fenton, a beautiful little ham
let on the picturesque Meramec River,
fifteen miles to the south and west of ST.
Louis
There are less than one hundred people
In Fenton, yet it has been an incorpora-
ted city for more. than twenty years
And during that time it has grown CON-
siderably. When it was first inco p j atei
there We're less than forty-five inhabi-
tants in the place.
1t is the only city of it's size, in all
probability, in the world that is incor-
porated and has Mayor and full quota
of citSy officials
None of the city officials Of this unique
little place are paid salaries. Instead
they receive certain fees for the per-
formance of their specific duties. 1t has
been long time since any of them col
iected any money, and even the City
Marshal, who constitutes the entire po-
Ice force OF the city, has not made a cent
out Of his job for something like three
years No arrests are made in Fen
ton, and it has been so long since the
squire had case that when the last
magistrate died some years ago it was
not thought worth while to elect his sue
ceSsor.
There is no politics in Fenton-at least,
not in so far as municipal elections go.
And, for that matter. there have been
no elections for a decade
There never has been a defaIcation in
Fenton. Fred Wehmeyer was detailed
by the Board of Control to keep the
books of the corporation, and the public
funds raised by taxation We're expended
by the Mayor in person, by and with
the consent of the board.-St. Louis Re-
public.
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PLEASANT SURPRISE.
A knights OF Pythias Presentation
Last Evening.

At the melting of the Bureau of Re-
lief of the Knights of Pythias lodges
of this city last evening T. H. Water
land, ex-Secretary Of the bureau, who
had served in that capacity for three
terms, was the recipient of most
pleasant surprise.
After the regular order of business
had been disposed Of and at the proper
moment. Q. G. Hopkins, the present
Secretary and young attorney Of this
city, arose and in an eloquent and i'm
pressive speech presented to Mr.. Wa
terland, on behalf of the bureau, a
handsomely engraved solid gold watch
charm, emblematic of the order which
he had so conscientiously served, and
as IN appreciation of those services.
The recipient responded to the call
for speech in few well-chosen re-
marks.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Robert waring has returned from
Berkeley for the holidays.
General John F. Sheehan and son, ).
F. Sheehan, Jr., of San Francisco are
in the city on business.
DIR. T. W. Snowden, who had faint
ing spell and fell in the Postoffice build
ing on Saturday and had to be assisted
to his home, has entirely recovered and
is about again.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cross of Los An
geles are stopping at the Golden Eagle.
Rhyas Thomas is up from San Fran
cisco
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The Accident to- MI. Mexican.

A lady member of the family OF Geo.
Mexican, the elderly man who was in
jured on Sunday, requests the state
ment made that Mr.. Mexican did not
step off a street car while 1t was in
motion. She says he had just alighted
from the car and was on the ground,
when it started up and struck him, and
that he was thrown down. She says
he was painfully injured. Mr.. Nc
Kean is in the employ Of Hale Bros. &
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Election of Officers.

The election of officers of Sacramento
Forum. No. 1419, last evening, resulted:
A. Z. Grigsby, President; c. NJ. Hines,
First President; J. w. Bird, Sec
ond President Miss Lille Hue
bren, Secretary; w. D. Kilborn, Treas
urer; S. G. Thompson, Historian; 0. F.
Babcock, Orator; F. c. Chinn, Assist
ant Orator; W. w. Pearson, Porter; g..
w. LaRue, Guard; S. r. Deake, Chap
lain; DR.. W. H. Henderson, Medical
Examiner. S. G. Thompson was elected
Director. to serve three years.
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More Young Lawyers.

William S. Howe, son of Professor E.
P. Howe, was yesterday examined be-
fore the Supreme Court and admitted
to the practice of law in any of the
State courts. His brother, S. Luke
Howe, is practicing lawyer here.
Charles Holl, son OF the veteran law
yer, Judge S. S. Holl, also passed his
examination yesterday, and is now
privileged to practice in all the courts
The record-union., 1897-12-28
Hotel Arrivals.

Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel
yesterday: F. Haiti, Woodland; James
H. Jones. B. H. Vincent, F. w. Titus,
E. Mandel. l.. H. Cleft, Rhyas Thomas,
C. A. Thurston. NJ. S. Bornsten, j. n.
Mcdonald, John Smith, San Francisco;
John Cross and wife, Los Angeles; w.
A. Jacobs, New York; H. Patton,
Vacaville; George L. McCandless, city;
f. r. Cowlis, c. D. Zimmerman, Adela
Jackson, F. d. Perry. New York.
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For Better Lives.

To-Day officer Dan Healy Of the So
ciety for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Children, will take Mamie Anderson,
the fourteen-year-old heroine" of
much recent scandal, to the Beuiah
Home in Alameda County, where the
women of the Salvation Army will
strive to make a good woman Of her.
Mr. Healy will also take to the Mag
dalan Asylum twelve-year-old girl
who has been leading a wicked life.
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Charge Dismissed.

Several days ago Dave Ellis, the ex-
pressman, swdre to a complaint charg-
ing T. j. Waldron with threats against
life. In the Police Court yesterday
morning Ellis stated that he no longer
had reason to believe that Waldron
would execute his threat, and as a
consequence the latter was discharged.
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Goods at Auction.

At and { o'clock to-day Bell & Co.
viii commence the sale at auction at
the Bazaar, S15 K street. the contents
Of several showcases of ladies' and
gentlemen's goods. Sales every after
noon and evening. AT 10 a. m. on Fri
day Showcases, counters, ETC., will be
sold
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Yellow journalism.

Managing Editor to Reporter-I want
you to go down to the yellow fever dis
trict and give US a frs -class sensation
for our next yellow edition All your
funeral expenses will be paid, and you
Will be expressed home in a rosewood
coffin with silver handles-Atlanta Con-
stitution
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Due to Natural Canses.

DR.. Reith made an autopsy yesterday
on the body OF Michael Field, who on
Sunday was found dead on the floor of
his room, whittier he had gone to sleep
off the effects of Christmas spree. 1t
was found that death resulted from
heart disease
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Foundlings' Home Christmas Tree.

At 2:30 p. m. on Wednesday the
Foundlings' Home Christmas tree fes-
tivites will be held at the home All
friends of the Institution and visitors
generally will be welcome guests on
that Occa sion
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There Were Thirteen.

The examination of applicants for
teachers certificates commenced yes
terday morning at the Perry Seminary
Thirteen aspirants for pedagogical hon.
ors put in an appearance, and not one
of the masculine gender among them.
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A Residence Robbed.

Mrs. Perry Curtis, who lives at
Twelfth and streets, yesterday re-
ported at police headquarters that a
valuable clock had been stolen from
her residence
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No Apology Necessary.

NJ. Funakochi. the Japanese Consul
for San Francisco has been recalled hy
his Government and has notified Gov
ernor Budd that he will leave A. Sc
gawa. Secretary of the Consulate, In
charge during his absence.
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Only Routine Business.

A meeting of the Sto te Board Of Ex-
aminers was held yesterday, Secretary
of State Brown and Secretary of the
Board Markley being present. Only
routine business was transacted.
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Children's Society.

There will be a meeting of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children at 7:30 o'clock this evening at
O. w. Erlewine's office
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Scandinavian Ball,

On Wednesday evening, the Doth, the
Scandinavian Benevolent Society will
give holiday ball at Pythian Hail.
Music by Fleming's Orchestra.
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The Bigger Half.

81 cannot understand" said the bach
elor clerk, why mans wife Is called
the better half"
You would said the married clerk
'if you had to divide your salary with
ne."-Cincinnati Enquirer
The record-union., 1897-12-28
GROCERIES CHEAP. .

groceries. Don't think that because [
quote low prices the goods are not right.
The reason | can sell so cheap is that L
have no high rent to pay, buy in largo
quantities and get discount for cash. and
keep store expenses down to the minimum.
\ trial order Will save you money. JOHN
RILEY. Tenth and +. Phones 159 and 474.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

Marc Antony gave the cook who pre-
pared the banquet he gave in Cleo
patra's honor a city julius Caesar
paid his cook 81, 600 a year.
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Jacob Hyman's Funeral,

The funeral Of the late Jacob Hyman
will take place at 2 p. m. to-day from
Masonic Hall.
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GENERAL AGENT. IF YoU

save time and money write TO John +.
Cooper. P.O. box No. $50. Sacramento. Tel
ephone number-Sunset black, al Resi-
dence, l62T Z street. VIII attend TO any
Kind OF business iutrusted to him: will
select, buy and ship goods of any kind. or
II you want TO swap or exchange any
tninS; city or country property exchanged
You vii. save time and money and make
good bargains Terms moderate. Salts
faction guaranteed. Money 10 loan.
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He is very skillful palmist, one Of the
best. His exhaustless cornucopia is as
pretty and clever q trick as one may
wish to see. His final feat is an elabo-
rate affair. 1t involves his supposed
disappearance in a box from which in
stantly appears a handsome young wo-
man, while Leroy. apparently, in the
same instant pops up and as quickly
disappears in a similar box suspended
above the stage. A few seconds later
Leroy comes running down the aisle
from the dress circle entrance. 1t is
entirely comprehensive how the trick
is done, but its cleverness is not dimin-
ished by that fact The same bill to-
night, with a change of programme for
the Boys Band, which will play Aus
tro- Hungary Army March" komzak,
"Fantasie from Wagner's operas,
Strobl; "a Fallu Rosza" Hungarian
melodies), Sander; "Tambour Major
March, by Niklas Schilzonyi, the ac-
complished tutor and leader of this WON
derful band.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

FOR RENT AT $50 \ YEAR-SIX-ACRE
chicken ranch one and one-Quarter miles
from Sacramento STROBEL, 317 j.
d25-otdltw
The record-union., 1897-12-28

10 X ST.-EMPIRE HOUSE-NICELY
furnished suits and single rooms.
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Manager Henry has arranged with ).
Hirsch, one of the crack wheelmen or
the c. c. W., to contest for mile heat
with the Terrible Swede," John Law
son, in the "Ole Olsen" entertainment
at the Metropolitan Theater next Satu:-
day afternoon and night. On that occa-
sion the boxes will be dressed in the
colors of wheelman Hirsch's club. VINO
knows but the Sacramento lad may wor-
ry the Swedish champion, and leave MN
in the rear?
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TO LET OR RENT.

ga l4TH ST.-NICELY FURNISHED
front room. suitable for l or gentlemen.
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IS REWARD-LOST OR STOLEN FROM
l705 O street. pug dog-answers to the
name of Joe" d2S-2ts
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TO RENT-TWO NICELY FURNISHED
rooms, also small house. Apply 40S ~.
d23-7t
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TWO FLATS OF 3 ROOMS EACH-TN-
Quire Hartford House. l022 Fifth street.
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VETERINARY SURGEONS.

DR. c. L. MCGOWAN. VETERINARY
Surgeon and Dentist. Lockhart Stables
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FOR RENT-WAYSIDE SALOON, FIVE
room house, barn, windmill and 10 acres
land. CARL STROBEL. Agent, 317 j
street. d23-6td-1tw
The record-union., 1897-12-28

LoST-A FOX TERRIER-ANSwER
10 the name of Spot" Return to Saddle
Rock and be rewarded
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1216 I ST.-TWO FURNISHED HOUSE,
keeping rooms. Call after p. m.
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PERSONALS.
OPTICIAN.

WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF
optical goods: eyes tested free by a
& FLOBERG, dealers in jewelry and
precious stones.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

DIR. d. F. FOX-Off1ce and Hospital, Ills
10th Residence, SIS 18th. Cap. phone, 301.
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POULTRY. Bargains in thor9gqgh-
Rocks. Wyandottes, Leghorns. etc Poul-
try supplies and dog cakes. soaps and
remedies. f. Il. TOWNSEND & CO, 19@o
J street. Capital telephone. 40.
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LOST-SILVER BRACELET. RETURN
to 1918 G street; liberal reward d27-2ts
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ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR-TIE
WEEKLY UNION. The best weekly.
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$40 - UNFURNISHED ROOMS FOR
housekeeping at SIC Fifteenth street. Call
before noon.
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421 10TH ST.-5-ROOM HOUSE. RENT $40.
Inquire RILEY'S Grocery, Tenth and T.
streets.
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CRYSTAL PALACE, go6 J STREET.
The choicest OF wines, liquors and cigars.
Call and be convinced. SCHNEIDER &.
FREYGANG, Proprietors.
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CITY REAL ESTATE.

FOR SALE-RARE CHANCE FOR GOOD
investment. Choice lot on Sutter Ter
race, 21st ST., S0x160: can be profitably di
vided into good .ots.
1922 NJ cosy home, rooms and lot: sold to
close an estate.
Attractive building site, S0xs0, S. E. cor.
10Th and N, opposite Capitol Park; street
improvements paid for; make an offer.
Choice corner lot in Oak Grove. near the
Baptist Church.
Orange avenue Oak Park 8 lots near cleo
trio cars: buy now at moderate price
MILLS-GALVIN COMPANY, SOL street.
Real Estate and Loans, Insurance No
taries. Best Bonds, San Francisco Ex-
change, sold.
The record-union., 1897-12-28
LosT-FouND.

STRAYED-DECEMBE 18TH. FROM
the Merkley ranch on the river road a
bay mare; weighs about LOCO pounds
Return TO r. A Merkley at the place.
and receive suitable reward
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Try McMorry's Blend coffee. 35c.
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BooKBINDERs.

THOSE MAGAZINES, THAT MUSIC.
gather it up and have it bound at E. w.
Breuning's. 319 ] street. Sacramento.
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MAYS NCY-COLLECTIONS Quick
returns. we are the collectors who never
let go: all classes of collections; prompt
returns. 401 ] street.
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PACIFIC GROVE BAKERY.

We make speciality Of strictly home
made goods. Try our domestic bread;
can't be beat Rice Bros. SIS ].
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FURNISHED ROOMS AT HOTEL Model
Suits and single. Eighth and H.
6o915 1 STREET-NICELy FURNISHED
housekeeping rooms; also suits and single.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

WANTED-TWO JAPANESE. WAITER.
Waitress and women for country EN-
ploynent Office, 921 Sixth street Sunset
Phone 541 Red
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WANTED-A WOMAN THAT IS A
good cook. Apply 631 NJ street.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

VJAVI co.'s OFFICE REMOVED TO
the Eclipse Building. So6 J street.
Rooms ! and 2. Hours l to 8 .. m.
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CHEAPEST SOLING ON EARTH
Gents. 45c; ladies. 35c, at 1O11 street.
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JAPANESE DOMESTIC AND RANCH
hands furnished on short notice at jap
anese Inf. Agency, S17 Sixth street
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rlADE OVER.

Are you going to move? Ring up Rivett's
steam Carpet Cleaning Works, Twelfth
and .. Telephones 2s2 and black 952. Old
carpets made over. Cleaning &c per yard.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

CHIEF MOHAWK QNDIAN DOCTOR,
9O2 Sixth guarantees TO cure all cases OF
catarrh and similar diseases by botan-
ical treatment or no pay; no drugs
used Teeth extracted without pain.
The record-union., 1897-12-28

LARGE STORE AT SOC X STREET; good
location. Inquire upstairs.
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DEhIABLE
~ and ENTERPRISINC
Sacramento Dealers.
CHRISTMAS HAS GONE

But CARLOW & MILLER are here to do
your business for your plumbing and tit
ting. 1880 ] street.
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TO LET-FURNISHED ROOMS WITH
bath: cheap 1913 X street
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.HOWE'S ACADEMY HAS OPENED
night school at 1919 street; shorthand.
bookkeeping, grammar, normal and
high school studies; individual instruc-
ton.
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GENERAL NOTICES.

s. F. DYEwORKS REMOVED TO 2511
street. Work on short notice.
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FOR SALE-S6 ROOM LODGING HOUSE
books. Address W., this Office.
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CLOTHES ARE CHEAP. TT
will paw YOU to have yours renovated or
dyed. ]. DUCHEZ. Cleaner and Dyer
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PLUMBING GAS. STEAM AND
WE hot water fitting;
special attention to now work: estimates
at all times Chris Schmid. 1927 Ninth ST
Cap. Tel. Alb: Sunset. Black 904.
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WE ARE THE LEADERS OF LOW
prices on Xmas trees. Don't forget to call
oysters. poultry, game, etc. American
Fish Company, IA j.
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CHICAGO CHIMNEY SWEEP s E5l

vent loss from fire Have your chimneys
cleaned by Egan Bros, S21 X, next to
Eale Bros; white labor. Tel-Sunset 903
black; Cap. 102.
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OYSTER MARKET We serve

oysters in all styles but every day from
to 7:30 p. m. first-class full course table
d'hote dinner at 25c. WILSON'S, SIT X.
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MATTRESSES. No Nc o., ONE CAN CAN
or honester mattress Large stock or
chamber, parlor and dining-room furnit-
ure. Fair treatment and easy terms w
ID. COMSTOCK. Fifth and K streets
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FRENCH ART DESIGNS LESSONS
free; large stock. Cook, agent, 419 L.
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WANTED.

WANTED - TWO NEWFOUNDLAND
mastiff or st. Bernard, dogs. Moderate
prices only will be paid. Address E.
BRADFORD, Bruceville. Sacramento
County. d18-3ts
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12-RoOM LODGING HOUSE. RUNNING
Iull, for sale. Address S. E., this office.
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FOR SALE.

CHEAPEST AND BEST HAY IN TIKI
city at c. E. ADAMS, 1l06 j.
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PRIVATE KINDERGARTEN AT 1922 \
street MRS E. r. HILLS
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PIONEER PICKLE WORKS.: SAUER.
kraut, etc. 172C L. Adam Bergman. Prop
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1000 MEN TO HAVE OLD HATS MADE
new. 1O24 Eighth. w. l. KOURKE
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typewriting, normal and grammar grade
classes reformed January Sd. Tuition Sc.
Howes Academy
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-02-27
WOLCOTT Is ROASTED.
His Personally Conducted Tour" il the
Laughing Stock Of England.

A London dispatch of February
22d says: The mission of United
States Senator Wolcott to Europe,
in the interest of bimetallism, is the
subject of long article in the Pail
Mail Gazette to-day, in which the
paper says there is not bit of evil
dence that Mckinley is in sympa-
thy with Mr.. Wolcott's mission. nor
is there the slightest indication
that his visit to Europe had even
unofficial sanction.
In conclusion the Gazette says !:
Senator Wolcott came as a private
advocate of cause discredited by a
majority of his fellow countrymsn.
Under such circumstances to ex-
pect he would receive official sup
port from the foreign opponents in
such a cause, required degree of
childlike simplicity rare any where
and which no one would expect to
find in Colorado. On his return
Senator Wolcott will find that the
newspapers alone will display any
anxiety regarding the result of his
personally conducted European
tour. He has met many distin-
guished people in England. France
and Germany, but in not one of
these countries did he find that BIZ
metallism was considered necessary
to its welfare. Though the mission
was absolutely fruitless, it was
quite as successful as it deserved
to be-"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-02-27
Influence of the Press.

Gov. Mount, of Indiana, has
asked the editors of the various
newspapers in the S ate to help him
in passing upon legislation. He
has just sent out circular letter,
in part as follows:
Persons having direct and special
interest in the passage Of certain
bills naturally see to it that such
measures are promoted with all
possible expedition at every stage
Of progress, while the people at
large, less attentive to such matters.
often permit grave injustice to be
done by their non-action.
"The Governor is firm believer
in the influence and integrity Of
the press, and believing, further
more, that the newspapers of the
State reflect the will of the citizens
generally in q trustworthy manner,
he requests your cooperation to
the extent of sending to this office
marked copies of issues of your
paper in which you comment in
favor or against legislation now
uending,o
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-02-27
Idaho's Opera BouHe.

The Idaho solons returned to
Boise Tuesday morning from their
junketing tour to Salt Lake. The
State furnished the per diem of the
members and attaches, and the rail-
road company, transportation. The
Statesman says that the members
were all tired and sleepy from the
effects of their trip and little in
clined to resume their duties in the
Legislature. The only thing that en-.
gagged their time and attention at
Tuesdays session, after all, was the
motion to adjourn, which was dis
cussed at such length that it was
the regulation time to adjourn when
they ended the important contro-
versy.
Verify, the session has furnished
material for an opera bouffs that
would eclipse any that has ever
graced the metropolitan boards. II
is no wonder that the people are
expressing disgust at the levity of
a maj ority of the members, who act
more like they were at picnic than
in the Legislative halls in the capac-
ity o. law makers.
Only five days more of the legis-
lative session, or rather four work
ing days, and what has been done !!
Where are all the reform measures
that were promised? The time that
should have been devoted to the
interests of the State has been spent
in just tinkering with the laws, and
when they have not been engaged
at that, have either been discussing
motions to adjourn or "skylarking"
over the country.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-02-27
Listen, Ye OMce-Seekers.

There is tidings of great joy for
the hungry office-seekers through
out the land. The good news comes
from Washington that Presiden.
Mckinley is likely to suspend or
revoke the sweeping civil-service
order of President Cleveland, where
by nearly all of the officers in the
executive branch of the Govern.
ment are taken into the civil SER
vice act. Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio,
who is one of McKinley's closest
friends, and who has been one OF
his staunchest and most capable
political supporters, in an interview
Monday with Washington News
representative, said:
Il believe that President McKin-
ley will revoke or suspend the
sweeping order which took all OF
the officers into the civil service
classification. | have been investi-
eating the matter thoroughly, and
one of the ablest lawyers in this
country has given me an opinion
concerning the case. He says the
Executive can reverse bis own deeds
just as legislative body can recon-
slider an act" ....
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-02-27
Mckinley Gets q Pair of Boots.

A New Jersey shoemaker has
presented Mr.. Mckinley with an
elaborate pair of boots to be worn
at his Inauguration. The boots are
made entirely from material OF
American manufacture, and thirteen
different States are represented by
the materials. The legs are maroon,
a leather manufactured from goat
skin, being soft and pliable. Patent
calf was used in making the vamp,
which extends part way up the leg,
giving a neat finish to the boots,
which are known to the trade as
tongue boots," The soles are
made Of white oak tan leather, and
are sewed on with linen thread by
hand, 20 stitches to the inch. The
legs are sewn with black silk. The
lining is white kid, as soft as velvet.
The height of the boots is Is
inches, and the size ~
They would be worth at retail
$25. When the shoemaker began
working on the boots, he had new
apron, which be used only when
working on them, and which be
says be will never use again, but
keep as a memento.
People from all over thiss section
of the country have seen the boots.
One man drove..1O miles to see them.
1t is estimated that over 1000 people
have gezed upon the boots.