The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-07-24
GEN ERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary Of the
Weeks Events.

= An Interesting Summary Of Il
I'll Weeks Events.
q Tho breast of the Sioux Ajax tunn
b 1t Tintic, Utah, Is now 2700 feet into Il
: hill.
n The conferees on the tariff bill ha,
agreed to the senate rate Of ~ cents
, pound on lead.
During the year ending June 80, -
there were coined 81 ,208, 701 silver dolla
at the U. 8. minis.
In the presence of 10000 peopls at
concert In Prospect Park, Brooklyn,
. T., Bandmaster Migrant held . corne
note 125 seconds.
/ In Rossland, B. c., several mimi
claims have been gotten rid Of BY tn
owners By rafting. One was xppropri
ately named the White Elephant.
| A 5000 orchidfrom Venezuela is on
exhibition IN the Temple gardens in Lon
don. 1t has white flower shaped like
sea-guli with outspread wings, and ,
gold and vermillion heart.
Munkacy, the famous painter has Ron,
violently insane and cannot live tong. He
| will leave his wife in poverty, although
his paintings sold at fabulous prices.
One Of them, "ChIist Before PLATE" sold
for SIT, 900.
The Bradley Martins, of bal masque
fame, will hold their receptions during the
next London season in the house which
Barney Barnat0, the diamond king of
South Africa, who committed suicide ut
sea, intended for his own occupation.
The disagreement between coal miners
and operators in Birmingham, Ala, was
ended Tuesday by compromise, the oper-
at0rs agreeing to pay 671c per ton, q
reduction OF 21<c. Wednesday about
1000 men who have been on strike since
July Let resumed work.
j. j. O'Brien, one of the best known
dry goods men on the Pacific coast, died
suddenly last week ut Highland Springs,
Lake county, California, while out hunt.
ing. When found he was sitting under q
tree 10 an attitude of repose. 1t is sup
posed that he over exerted himself.
A negro 6end criminalIy assaulted Mrs.
Martin Thomas, who was alone in her
house at Eba, Ala, with her six. months
Old baby, one day last week. After the
assault the brute struck the woman on
the head and threw her On the bed beside
her sleeping infant. He then covered her
with pine wood, which he set on fire. The
flames attracted some passers by, who
rescued the woman in time to get her
dying sratement. The baby was burned
to death, and the negro was caught by |
The citizens and hanged.
- Powderlys Reward.
The President has nominated Terrence |
V. Powderiy for commissioner general Of
immigration. That is PowderIys price
tor selling out to Mark Hanna.
ForsakinE Fort steele.
The Spokane Chronicle of the 18th
nst., says:
V. ID. Glass returned yesterday from a
rip to Fort Steele, B. G. He says that
are forsaking that country for
he Kootenay. He says the face of the
ar th stands on end there and mosquitoes
re as large as chickens and as yenOmous
- rattlesnakes.
A Sheep ShearinE Machine.
A steam power sheep shearing machine
in operation at Hillsrd, Wyo. Con-
lected to the steam engine there are two
ong strips of shafting running past the
hearing pens. At each pen the clipping
lachinc. which is held in the hand of
he operator, is connected with the power
haft by flexible tube. 1t is said that
he machine clips the wool much closer
ban it eau be done by hand. |,
Met Deserved Fate.
John Sargent, resident of Jacksons
[ole, who it is charged recently murdered
is wife BY starving and beating her to
cath, was lynched in the mountains near {
Ackscn's Hole last week by . posse of
tizens who had been in pursuit of the
murderer for some weeks. Sargent Is !;
$50 charged with the heinous crime of
his little 8.year old daughter
ohn D. Sargent is the man who was a I
artner of Robert Ray Hamilton, whose =
drowning in 1891 was regard
as most mysterious affair at the time. | q
nee Sargent's troubles last spring, init s
ations have been thrown out that he
new moro Of Hamilton's death than was 9
.veloped.
Charles Croker Dead. s
Colonel c. F. Croker, first vice presi- !,
mt of the Southern Pacific Company, ;
ricken with apoplexy and paralysis y
'out two weeks ago died at his palatial h
'me in San Mateo, Cat, Saturday even
q. He was AZ years Of age.
Charles r. Croker was born ia Sacra- r,
entO, Cal Dec. 16, 1854. His father, a,
larles Croker, the millionaire railroad
ojector, was a native of New York but n,
l849 came to California. The railroad d
agnate gave his son . good education
was destined to follow, placed him At
g age Of 81 as clerk in the Office of "
3 divisionpuperintendent on the Oak
I'd wharf. Here he worked faithfully "
: the same pay the other clerks received.
len after trip to Europe he served a. ca
,rk in the general freight Office of the ch
uthern Pacific in San Francisco. ToI
'ther advance him, the Office of third m
e president was created aud conferred co
on him. From this he rose to be first
q president.
having died he subsequently ia
mayed the estate, valued at over $20..
1000. He was popular with his asso- m
ties and the business public. tn
EDUCATE Your Bowels With C.soarsts.
andy Cathartic. euro constipation forever.
26s. II G. G. c. fail, drugEtsts refund money.
Something new in the fishing line fr
8 been brought before the public ne
Fisher and Wright of Tacoma. sl