The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-01-30

An Interesting Summary OF the
Weeks Events.

Weeks Events.
The Missouri river Is frozen solid
Ex-Queen Liliuokalana of Hawaii
arrived at Washington City las,
Saturday.
1t was 81 degrees below zero at
Duluth, Mimi, Monday, and 50 be-
low at st. Paul the same day.
The Government has decided to
foreclose the mortgage on the Union
Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads.
A resolution has been introduced
in the Nebraska Senate instructine
Senator Thurston to work and vote
for free coinage.
Geo. r. Lash, the defaulting City
Recorder of Pendleton, Or, has been
sentenced to four years. imprison-
ment and 81, 900 fine.
The Printers home of Colorado
Springs gets a bequest of $4,000
from Nicolas Marley, a printer who
died in Chicago recently.
Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of the
system of shorthand writing, died
at London Jan. 22d. aged 81 years.
His first work on the subject was
printed in 1887.
Instead Of building a branch from
Mojave to Randsburg, the Southern
Pacific has contented itself by put
ting on an opposition stage line
and cutting rates.
The remains Of Hon. Albert s
Willis, the late minister to Hawaii,
arrived at Louisville, KY, Sunday
evening. where they were inferred
in Cane Hill cemetery.
The Reno (Nev.) Gazette says it
is said that Senator Stewards prac-
tical newspaper experience has cost
him over $50, 900, and that he wants
no more of the Silver knight.
At the last election two towns in
Kansas chose women for all the local
Offices, including those Of mayor and
chief of police. Woman were also
chosen as superintendent of public
in 20 counties.
Near Perry, o. T., Monday, a
school house built of sod collapsed,
burying the teacher and % scholars
All had to be dug out. Several OF the
children were killed and the teacher
thought to be fatally injured.
The most successful musical pat
ent of the year is rubber fingers, the
of F. J. Hafne, of Phila-
delphis. A piano manufacturer
declares that these will increase the
sale of pianos, as "sny one can learn
to play the instrument by their aid
in one evening"
Frank Watson, who committed
in Butte in q 15-cent lodging
house, last week, was once wealthy.
When he was disowned his father
gave him $4,000 with which to
start in business, but through his
passion for gambling he lost his
fortune in a month.
William J. Bryan, the late presi-
Dental candidate, sent present Of
a 500 silver certificate to the baby
boy of Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Masdin of
Burlingame, To-, whom they named
William Jennings Bryan Masdin,"
and notified Mr.. Bryan of the fact.
A personal letter of congratulation
accompanied the gift.
News comes from London to the
effect that Senator Wolcott is not
satisfied with the result of his visit
there in the interest of international
bimetallism. He finds Great Brit
ain willing to bring the minis of
India into an international agree
.nent, but under no circumstances
will she take the initiative of call
ing another conference.
Terrible snow storms and bliz.
yards ragged throughout Wyoming,
Kansas, the Dakotas and north
Missouri last Saturday.
Portions of the eastern states were
also visited by snow storms and
extreme cold weather. Chicago ex
perienced the coolest weather of the
year and also the heaviest snowfall
Of the winter.
A dispatch from Chicago states
that Sunday was the coolest day in
Chicago in twenty-five years. The
registering II degrees
below zero. The suffering among
The poor class of people was terrible:
In one portion of the oity thirty
three families with over eighty little
children were found actually freez.
ing to death.
Little Pete, the most noted Chi
nese in San Francisco, was murdered
By his countrymen in Chinatown
Saturday night. He was sitting in
= Chinese barber-shop when three
Chinese entered and shot him, in.
flicting = wound from the effects of
which be died in a short time. The
murders were arrested. The murder
is the outcome of quarrel between
the two Chinese Six companies, and
i is supposed that the murderers
are highbinders hired to do the job.
Allegheny City, Penn, has the
newest kind Of n new woman. She