The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-12-04

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Congrees will convsne n onday.
At Dawson men to locate claims
arc in demand. and arc paid from
II 900 to 81 500 for such services
Some Indians were lynched in
North Dakota not long ago, and now
one Of the surviving squaws sues
the county for $50, 600.
While the preacher was denounc-
ing horse stealing sixteen horses
hitched in front of = church ct o.
mond, Neb., were stolen.
A gold statue is to be made of
President Mckinley for the Paris
Exposition that will contain bullion
to the value Of 81 $50, 600.
It is said that Miss Susan B.
Anthony will make . number OF
woman suffrage speeches in Nevada
during the campaign next year.
A Honolulu dispatch says that
Senators Pettigrew and Dubois do
not find that the natives of Hawaii
favor annexation to the United
States.
A Seattle Lumber Company will
erect three sawmills in Alaska this
winter to meet the large demands
for lumber for boats on the Yukon
next spring.
A Seattle firm has agents in Phil
adelphia who have purchased and
are training dogs for the Klondike.
They expect to have 800 well-broken
dogs ready for shipment from that
city by March.
Coffee is now cheaper than it has
been since before the war, say the
old dealers, and if the fight between
Arbuckle and the other coffee deal
ers last, pound packages may be
given away with a chrome thrown in.
The White House. during the
course ofevents, has cost s., SOC, 900.
The Salt Lake Tribune suggests
that a new palace should be built
for the Presidents on the high land
beyond the Capitol aud Library,
and the old house be converted
into q museum.
At Grove City, Pa, the other day,
Joseph Kiser was getting ready to
butcher hog, which was tied to
stake by a long rope. The hog
started to run, and the rope became
entangled about Kiser's legs, and
he was thrown into the pot of boil
ing water, and was scaided to death.
While demolishing an old house
at Yarmouthsport, Mass, the work
men discovered q hugh beehive be-
tween the walls. There were myr-
lads of bees, and the workmen were
forced to retreat. One whole side
of the building is solidly packed
with honey, and it is expected that
hundreds of pounds will be taken
out.
Fifteen thousand employees of
the Missouri Paci6c-Iron Mountain
railway system, whose salaries were
cut from five to twenty per cent in
1893, owing to prevalent hard times,
have been made glad by . procla-
nation issued by President George
Gould restoring wages to their for
mer basis. The men whose salaries
were cut included officials, Office
men, engineers, conductors, train
men, telegraph operators, station
agents and machinists. Their sal
aries range from $50 per month to
$4,000 a year.
A. R Hill, a banker of Providence,
R. l., had a negro Pullman porter
arrested at ST. Louis one day last
week for attempting to rob him of
a package containing $42, 900 while
travelling on the train between Bal
timore and st. Louis. At the court
Mr.. Hill related his story as follows:
Just as the train passed Odin, ILL.,,
about 6 o'clock in tho morning the
porter pulled the curtains aside and
reached into my berth. He took
SO out of my trousers pocket, and
then thrust his hand into my inside
coat pocket, where / had an envelope
containing $4,000 in cash and
checks. I awoks just in time to
save the envelope. Igrappled with
the negro and the encounter at.
tracted the attention of the Pull
man conductor, J. B. Hodges. He
ordered the negro to return the $40
be had TAKEN"
Terrible Windsterm In Alaska.
A dispatch from Victoria. B. c..