The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-26

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GENERAL NEWS
An Interesting Summary Of tn,
! Weeks Events.
| The New York Hersld has started q
fund for Mark Twain, the American hu.
morist. opening the list with subscrip-
ton Of $1,000.
A dispatch from Madrid says Premiel
Canovas is willing to pay the widow Of
DR.. Ruiz $40, 900 if the United States viii
not press an official claim.
A submarine tunnel to connect Scotland
and Ireland is under construction by the
| British Government, the estimated cost Of
which will be $35, 0O0, 900.
A cablegram from Madrid says thai
the reports of intended annexation OF
Hawaii by the United States causes fear
among the Spanish people as to our course
toward Cuba.
John W. Macksy, the bonanza king,
has purchased . ranch of over 100, 200
acres near Houston, Texas. It - said
that MackAy will stock the place with
thoroughbred horses and make . breeding
farm.
The Supreme Court of California in
the appeal case of H. W. Payne, has de.
cided that the inheritance tax passed by
the Legislature four years ago is constitu-
tionsl. Payne has to pay into the treas
ury, $1,000 on legacy of $4,000.
The Omaha and Kansas City smelling
companies threaten to remove their plants
to Mexico if the duty on lead ores Is in
creased. The shelters say they want
those ores for fuxing purposes and they
cannot afford to pay increased duty upon
them. Increased duty, they claim, will
compel them to go out of business or re.
move to Mexico.
B.F. Butler of the Mint bureau; W. A.
Talmanson of Illinois, and Joseph Fire
bsugh of California, left Washington last
Saturday for San Francisco to superin.
tend the annual settlement and to weigh
and count the coin and bullion in the
mint in that city, amounting to about
$54 100000. On their way the commit
tee will also weigh and count the bullion
and cash on hand at the Carson, New,
mint, amounting to $4,000, 900.
A recent dispatch to the New York
World from Havana says: determination
in the island is an appalling, actual fact.
The death rate is increasing. A promi.
nent Spanish medical officer, who has full
knowledge of the interior, says should
the war be prolonged Is months the
western half Of the island will be en-.
tirely depopulated. The death rate is
likely to double next month. Contagion
will then NOW the people down rapidly.
Miss juliet Corson, the celebrated
teacher of cookery aud whose work on
culinary art made her name a household
word all over the country, died in New
York city last Saturday from the effects Of
an operation for the removal of q tumor.
The railroad strikes in 1877 brought her
into prominence. At her own expense
she circulated $4,000 copies Of . book
showing workingmen's wives how they
could prepare q substantial meal for 10
cents.
A strange tale is vouched for by one of
the London papers. 1t says that wealthy
member of the aristocracy has paid $3.50
for . room on st. James street. He is
suffering, it is alleged, from . hideous
malformstion of cOuntenance, and will
witness the procession with bis attendant,
all other people being excluded from the
room. For 81 years, it is further stated,
only two people have seen his face. The
unfortunate man drives every night about
London, and, on entering aud leaving his
carriage, according to the newspaper, he
covers his head with hood.
Thirteen negroes who formed part of
the 200 sent TO Liberia by the Interna-
tional Emigration society in March, 1896,
arrived in New York city Monday. They
say that the scheme has been . total fail
ure, that many of their number died of
starvation and fever, that the society did
not fulfill the contract, and that many
members of the expedition are stranded
in England, unable to get back to their
homes. According to the stories told by
those who returned Monday, when they |
landed in Liberia their leader deserted
them, taking Whatever Was provided for
them except the land.
Reaching Out for Ore.
A dispatch from Denver, Colo, June 10,
SAYS: President Otto Mears of the Silver
ton road has started on journey through |
Idaho, Montana and British Columbia, for
the purpose Of making arrangements for
the shipment of great quantities of ore
to the Philadelphia smelter ct Pueblo,
which will be enlarged. Simon Guggen-
helm, vice.presideut and general manager
Of the Philadelphia Smelling and Re6p-- !
ing company, will join Mr.. 4ears at |
Spokane and accompany him to British |
Columbia. --
Snakes In Mail Bags.
The Post Office Department At Wash.
ington has been engaged in Al investiga
ton of the presence of live snakes in
mail bags in Oklahoma. Snakes have
been found frequently among mail matter
1t post offices 10 the territory, and have
caused much worry to employees who have
to handle and open the bags. Tho com.
received in answer to in
quiries indicate that some practical joker
with the postal service has
been at the bottom of the matter.
Tossed On the foaming Billows
You may never have been, but if you cross
The Atlantic, no matter how smooth the
watery expanse, without sea sickness you
sre-well, lucky voyagcr. that is all. Old
tars who have spent their lives on the ocean
waves, who were almost born. so to speak.
With their "sea legs on" suffer now and
hen from sea sickness in very tempestu-
BUS weather. Sea captains, tourists. com.