The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-10
GEN ERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

An Interesting Summary OF tne
Weeks Events.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani will spend
a portion of the season at Cape May
There were eleven thousand Chris
tian Endeavors in Salt Lake last
week.
Walter Worden, the condemned
train wrecker, has been granted an
other respite until October 18th.
A gold mine under q cemetery al
Leadville, Colo, is being guarded
from claim jumpers by armed men.
At Leadville, Colo. the Fourth
of July was ushered in With q
severe snowstorm. Six inches of
snow fell.
Thomas Durrant, the aged grand
father of Theodore Durrant, is dy-
ing of q broken heart at his home
in Los Angeles.
The Elko Independent says one
of that towns native Americana
on Thursday sold six horses for
$50 to invest in bicycle.
The striking coal miners sayithat
in some of the mines abled bodied
men working twelve hours a day
could not make six dollars month.
A genius has evolved the idea of
adjoining Butte with forest trees.
His scheme is to furnish evergreen
trees every month, and as they die
replace them.
Charles J. Stuckey of San Fran
cisco, has brought suit against the
proprietor of a gambling house for
$I715, money that Stuckey's wife
is alleged to have lost at games of
chance.
The new anti-gambling law in
Montana, which went into effect
July 1st, even prohibits shaking
dice for drinks, and makes playing
cards for prizes in social gatherings
unlawful.
A recent dispatch from Atlanta,
Ca, states that the old Populist
party will be dissolved, and out of
its ruins Tom Watson and the
middle.of-the-roaders will organize
a new party.
A Chicago ambulance went three
miles at breakneck speed at night
to rescue a man who had broken
his wooden leg. The joke was not
discovered until he had been taken
to the hospital.
Ex-Governor Mcconnell of Idaho,
who WAS named by the President
as one of the five Indian Inspectors,
expects to leave soon for Oklahoma,
where there are Indian matters to
be looked into.
Mrs. E. Alice Kamp of Idaho,
has been promoted in the Pension
Office from $500 to $1,000 position,
and Norman H. Camp of Idaho
from a $1,000 to $1,000 position in
The War department.
The people of Alabama have
placed a silver star on the spot
where Jefferson Davis took the
oath of office as president of the
Confederate States of America on
the BALCONY of the state capitol in
Montgomery. -
Thousands of acres of corn and
fruit have been withered in central
and western Kansas by the terrible
hot winds that prevailed for three
days last week. Harvest hands
were driven from the fields on &C
count of the scorching winds.
A cloudburst at Duluth, Mimi,
July Sd did great damage in the
city and surrounding country.
Streets were washed out, pavements
torn up and many buildings loos.
ened from their foundation. Bridges
were washed out and traffic sus-
pended.
A terrible storm ragged through
out south Germany the latter part
of last week. Hailstones as large as
hens eggs fell. Crops, vines, trees
and whole orchards were destroyed,
thousands of hares and cartridges
with other game were killed, and
great damage done to property.
Eight head of buffalo were shipped
from Missoula, Mont, last week in
palace horse-cars. The price paid
for them was $4,000. Thirty-two
more will be shipped in December,
bringing $4,000. They were pur-
chased by Hyrum B. Adams who
owns 200 head, which runs upon
the Flathead Indian reservation.
A general strike of United Mine
Workers of America was ordered
on July 4th by the National execu-
tive board and also by the district
presidents. AS q result over two
hundred thousand half starved
coal miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio.
Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia
have laid down their mining imple-
ments and refuse to 60 to work
again unless they are paid living
wages.
The Gun Was Loaded.
A dispatch from Ell Paso, Texas,
July 9Th saws: David Farrelas