The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-08-07
GEN ERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary Of the
Weeks Events.

An Interesting Summary Of tn
Weeks Events.
The intense hot weather in tn
east still continues. In portions o
Kansas Sunday the thermomete
registered 100 in the shade.
| Senator Jones of Arkansas, est
notes that the people will have t
pay $50, 100000 a year more 70
their cotton and wooden goods un
der the new tariff law than unde
the old.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease, the Populis
orator, has been selected as queer
of the fall festivities, a harves
demonstration ut Topeka, Kansas
She will reign as queen for q weel
and wear $4,000 crown.
Wells, Fargo & Co. will establish
an express Office in the Klondyke
Alaska district, at the earliest op
portunity, charging s. $50 per $1,000
for transportation of gold, includ
ing insurance.
Another hot wave swept over
portions of the east Sunday. Al
st. Louis it was the hottest day oil
the season.. AT St. Joseph, Mo,
horses dropped dead in the stree,
from effects of the awful heat.
In Philadelphia recently Miss
Josie Mcdonald submitted to the
X rays in order to locate the seat
of disease in her jaw. The power
full rays destroyed her hair and
hearing, and disfgured her face with
burns.
Oscar Wilde's friends subscribed
81 500 after his release from prison
towards enabling him to make a
fresh start in life and his wife gives
him a small allowance from her
private income.
President Nc Kinley has pardoned
Harry Hammond, the ne-year-old
boy sentenced in Utah to Is years
imprisonment in the District of
Columbia Reform school for the
murder of little Clyde Robertson,
at Salt Lake two years ago.
Chief Moore of the Weather Blu
reau at Washington, in an official
tatement about the climate of Alas
ka, says in the Klondyke region,
III midwinter, the sun rises from
$3.50 to 10 A. NJ. and sets from to
2 P. NJ, the total daylight being
about four hours.
A l6-months-old baby was stran-
gled to death at Sedalia, Mo, last
A week previous i,
swallowed a handful OF coffee grains.
One of the grains stuck in the child's
throat and caused inflammation,
closing up the throat and resulting
in its death.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat
says that letter received from an
Alaskan gold miner declares that
The temperature one day last winter
dropped to - degrees below zero.
freezing his bottle of pain killer"
and he believes it was 10 degrees
colder during the night.
The Alask a. Treadwell mine, on
Douglass island, Alaska, paid its
Bird dividend, a SIS, 900 one, on the
18th ult. 1t originally cost $3.50
Nearly 81 100000 has been spent
developing the mine. The ore aver
,ges So per ton, the average cost
If milling is $1.15 per ton.
Mrs. Caroline Cox, wife of Regis
er Cox of the Helena Mont. Land
,tfice, cut her throat last Saturday
While temporarily out of her mind
Ia result of illness. She severed
he jugular vein and died almost in
tantly. She was leading woman
n social and church circles.
The Canadian Government pro-
POSES to exact aroyalty of 10 per
'ent on claims in the Yukon with
output of $500 or less, !
nd 20 per cent on any claim yield
ng above $500 annually. This, in
edition to SIS registration fee and
100 annual assessment, and every |
lternate claim to be reserved by |
be Government.
A company..has been formed in
seattle to handle the petroleum that
7as recently discovered in Alaska,
nd travellers from there say that
be company intends to put it on
he market at once. The lake is OF
Unknown depth, several miles wide
nd five or six miles in length and
be quality of the petroleum is said
D be of the finest.
The first results of the work done
y the grand jury toward purifying
he city of Leadville occurred Mon
ay night. Upon instructions from
ne city and county authorities,
Ulcers visited all dance halls and
ouses of prostitution that were
till running and notified them that
hey would be prosecuted by both
lty and county if they did not
|ose their doors at once. The or
er was obeyed, and by midnight
1e dance halls and houses of pros
tuition were closed for good.
A White Slave.