The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-01-09
GENERAL NEWS.
An Interesting Summary Of the
Weeks Events.

!" 80A 0V0AbDs
The payroll of Butte City, Mon
tana. is SO, 600 900 per annum.
Harry Hays, an educated Nee
Perez Indian, has translated two
thousand words of his native Ian
guage into the English.
Mrs. Susan Smith. daughter of
Sheriff. elect Foxes of Buckhannon,
| w. Va, has been appointed her
fathers chief deputy in the sheriff 8
Office.
At Jersey City Monday Bob Fitz-
simmsns signed articles of agree
ment to fight Corbett on March 18th
for a purse and side bet of $1,000
! to $4,000 side.
Paris is solving the problem of
what to do with the demonetized
horse. That city now has 200 horse
butchers, and last year more than
10000 horses were eaten, the num-
Der in 1894 having been II ,227, and
in 1872 only 5,O34.
The Statesman says it is rumored
that Colonel Dewey has gone to
Pittsburg to purchase a smelter
which he intends operating at
Nampa. tits also stated that Colonel
Dewey's next project is to build q
railroad from Nampa direct to Will
low Greek and the Payette.
The Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company have offered q
reward of $4,000 for the arrest and
evidence to convict the parties
whose diabolical work caused the
horrible disaster on that line near
Birmingham, Alabama, last week.
Grace Vaughan. the actress, has
sued for divorce from Andrew Raw
son Jennings, son Of the Standard
Oil magnate of Chicago. She
charges that she was drugged by
young Jennings and taken to the
Newburg insane asylum near Cleve-
land where she was confined for
seven months before she managed
to escape.
At the Market Lake rabbit hunt
about 1000 people took part, and
1000 rabbits were killed, q large
part of them being shipped to Salt
Lake City and distributed among
needy people. Men women and
boys participated in the slaughter,
aud the little pests were dubbed to
death. Dogs aud guns were not al
lowed on the field.
A band of masked regulators went
to the house of C. w. Reddick, near
Newport, Idaho, Monday night and
called him to the door. They seized
him, dragged him outside, where
hey gave him a terrible beating
with horsewhips. He died from the
fleets. The alleged offense on the
part of Reddick was improper At
tentions to a married woman of the
neighborhood. Rsddick's friends
say the outrage was really prompted
by a desire to pay off old grudges
Of another character.
When Mayor Pennoyer entered
upon his duties as Mayor of Port
land in July last he expressed the
resolution to accept only one.hali
the salary allowed him by law,
which is 5000, as he considered it
Excessive. He has subsequently
proved his sincerity by officially
turning into the city treasury one
half of his legal salary, which ne
declined to accept on the ground
that his duties Of Office were no,
worth it, and directing Auditor
Gambell to draw a warrant for the
other half to the order Of Secretary
Walpole of the city board of char.
tiles, to be expended for the relief
of the needy.
| Mountain Home Bulletin: Sun
day evening. about Z o'clock, the
fine residence of Geo. P. Hall, on
Atlanta avenue, during the absence
of the occupants, was totally de
stroyed by fire, with all its content.
NOT one article being saved from
the flames. In a short space o.
time the comfortable home was re
duced To ashes and Mr.. and Mrs
Hall were left without even a change
of clothing, The fire is supposed
to have originated from the explo
sion of lamp, which was left burn
ing on the kitchen table. Mr.. Hal
estimates the value of the hous'
and furniture at 5000; insured il
the Hartford for $2,4OO. Notes
amounting to about $500 and "a
in money also went up in smoke.
The Oakland Zeal. Enquirer com
+ ments on the danger which turks il
, q face towel that is used in com
mon. It gives the following cas-
as an example: Annie Cayanangh
/ living at tho corner of Telegraph
avenue and Forty-eighth street, i
suffering from dangerous infection
, Of one Of her eyes, which q promi
: nent oculist in San Francisco pro
nounces to have been contracted a
school by wiping her face or eye
upon the towel used in common b!
u the pupils Of the school she attend
ed. symptoms of the disease bega'