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Value Of Metals.

Fully SO persons in every hun.
dred, if asked to name the most
precious metals would mention gold
first, platinum as second, silver as
third. If asked to name others a
few might add nickel, and a very
few aluminium to the list.
Let US see how near the truth
they would be. Gold is worth
about $24O per pound, troy; plati-
mum $3.50, and silver about $12.
Nickel would be quoted at about
go cents and pure aluminium So to
50 to the troy pound.
We will now compare these prices
with those Of the rarer and less
well-known of the metals. To take
them in alphabetical order, barium
sells for 1915 a pound, when it is
sold at all, and calcium is worth
81 800 pound, while cerium 10 .
shade higher-its cost 10 $50 an
ounce, or 81 800 q pound. Chrom-
ium brings $500; cobalt falls to
about half the price of silver, while
didymium 10 the same price Is GER
ium, and cerium $40 cheaper on
the ounce than calcium, or just
81 $50 per pound.
If the wealth Of the Vanderbilts
be not overestimated, it amounts
to nearly $2O0,WO,OOO. With this
sum they could purchase 312 tons
of gold and have something left
over, but they couldn't buy two
tons of gallium, that rare metal
being worth 81 $50 an ounce. With
this metal the highest price is
reached, and it may we'll be called
the rarest and most precious Of
metals.
Gucinum is worth $3.50 per
ounce; indium, $l58 irinium, 1858
per pound; lanthanium, SITS, and
$50 per ounce. Medium
costs 1928 per ounce; asmium.
palladium, platinum, potassium and
rhodium bring, respectively, $64O,
$500, $50, $50 and $512 per pound.
Strontium costs $128 an ounce;
$144; tellurium, 50; ath-
orium, 272; vanadium, $3.50; Wit
rum, $144; and ziconium, $3.50 an
ounce.
Barium ia more than four times
as valuable as gold, and gallium
more than 1852 times as costly.
while many of the metals are twice
and thrice as valuable.
Iridium seems to be chiefly used
Tor pointing gold pens. and many
IF the metals mentioned have but
! limited sphere of usefulness.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

Boise has now curfew law. The
small boy who wants to play on
the streets ct night need not cay
1.-THE curfew shall not ring tonight, /"
for it will ring 1t s o'clock just the
same.
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ros.pb Rothwell, one of the les
80. If the Independence mine, 10
. .' = lay-of on account Of q
sore finger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

T.. C, Foster arrived from Red
pock, Mont, on Tuesdays train to
l n couple of weeks with rela.
s !.s and friends in ketchum.
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Tho San Francisco Mining and
Scientific Press says there will DO
two great ''rushes'' in 98, that Of
individual adyenturere to the Klon-
dixie and Of European nations to
partition China. which will be Of
vast industrial benefit to the Pacific
coast.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

Charlie Judge returned to HALEY
Wednesday from his trip to Virginia
Iitv. Montana. His injured leg
.ill gives him trouble and no is
ohJioed to use crutches.
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Bishop Talbot left Boise Tuesday
nr Laramie. He stopped At Poca-
:" ,0IIo Thursday 10 lay the corner
' ', Of the new Episcopal church.
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mere are many in this commun.
!, =! VINO will probably be interested
W ~ OF the whereabouts Of Mrs.
, .uilo turner who gained such no.
U'esy on Wood River several years
i ~; :, The HALEY Times says: Mrs.
iullo Turner Titenia } is in London,
uus.and' and meeting with very
s sa.ss success: She is driving the
~, ,Oskueys wild with toe-dancing. and
wy pfoiuslon of her jeweIry. They
, ,"s enthusiastically to her ear
, ,used hngsrs," and her astonishing
, ~ soslng She has evidently taken
n oy storm. Mrs. Turner laugh,
80. .uaaclng class here about two years
sssO; and gave a soiree at the Ho,
., p,.ngs, and one in the new brick
r f'oas Of the Al,uras Commercial
SI, .,.1 before it was quite com
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

General J. B. Winters of HALEY
:. . S,;Il at deaths door. He lies in q
y . '' state nearly all the time.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

Miss Valsris Dollarhide, Ketch-
um's efficient and popular postmis-
trsss, was i'll several days this week
with la grippe. Her sister, Mrs. H. L.
Swift, ably discharged the duties of
the office during Miss Dollarhide's
absence from her post.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

The Dillon, Mont, papers state
that the hanging Of Theodore Dur
rant brought . feeling of universal
relief to every inhabitant of that
city, tho home Of Blanche Lamont.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

r,.nk j. McGuinness, Of Belle
we, registered At the Overland hotel
po;se Thursday.
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Sterling Tucker writes the KEY.
STONE from Mokalumne Hill, Cal,
once one of the most prosperous
mining towns in the state, tina,
The place is overrun with miners
out Of employment. He says there
are ten men to one job at the mines.
such reports of dull times are COM
ing from all parts of California.
aud Nevada also. 1t seems, after
all though suffering from tempo
faFy paralysis of her chief industry.
'ASsr mining, owing to the low
pslc' Of the white metal, that Idaho
Oilers more opportunities for EN-.
Payment than any other of the
nelghboring mining states.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

Delegate Callahan Of Oklahoma
has introduced Z bill TO make one
Territory Of Oklahoma and the In
dian Territory.
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The Caldwell Record SAYS: ut is

The Caldwell Record says: 1T is
said that Governor Steunenberg' g
sleep is disturbed by the dread Of
having the revenue bill attacked,
for in the event of its being declared
illegal the legislature would have to
be called in extra session, and this
would be enough to drive IN ordina-
~ temperate governor to hard drink.
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The December number of the
National Magazine reached our ex.
change table this week. The mag.
szne is equal in every respect to
Munsey's, the Cosmopolitan or any
Of the popular monthly journals OF
this country. 1t contains interest
lug stories, all illustrated. and liter
Ay matter, which makes it q valu.
able magazine for family library.
II is published at Boston, Mass.
and is only 81 per year.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

u,s Martin Regli has been visit.
~" t,;ends at Soldier the past week.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

rn;l Rasmussen came up from
rrpsus mine yesterday.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

Beat fsbaees Spit and snsks yssr Lin Away.
To quit tobacco easily ard forever. be mag
netic. full OF life. nerve and vigor. take No-To
BAG, the wonder worker. that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, sos or u. Cure guaran.
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Startling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

70 Cure C0nstipattoa Forever.
take CAsoarots Candy Cathartic l0c or IA
e @. G. G. tail u ours, druggists refund money.
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8duaoeo 1our Bowels with Casearoto,
Candy Catharttc, cure constipation foeeves.
~, -. II C. c. G. iail. druggists rofund nonsS.
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IDAHO NEWS.
Items Of Interest Taken From Our
State Exchanges.

/ Silver City is to have an electri,
plant.
An epidemic of measles 10 pre-
vailing in Mountain Home.
L. NJ. Roberts, proprietor of thu
Daily Patriot published At Lewiston
has skipped out and unpaid print
ers have possession of the plant.
The Senate has confirmed the
nomination of Edwin NJ. Yearian
of Junction, Ida, ~ Indian agen,
OF the Lemhi agency.
Tho Statesman says state war.
rants are in demand and there is q
prospect of a premium being paid
for them. The capital seeking this
form Of investment 10 said to be all
local money.
Henry Capps, who killed w. A.
Onweiler near Meridian, Ada county.
in October, 1895, and sentenced to
three years in tho penitentiary for
the crime, was pardoned Tuesday
on condition that he will leave the
state within thirty days
Blackfoot News: The 1872 patients
now in the asylum are in fairly
good physical health. They are
all up and about except one old
lady over 81 years of age, who keeps
her bed from the weakness incident
to old age.
Shoshone Journal: James Burns,
the sheep man, was arrested on
Tuesday on the charge of grand
larceny. tits alleged that he placed
his own brand upon sheep that were
picked up by his herLer and that
already bore the brand of other
sheep men in this locality. The
particular sheep in question had
the Winchester brand upon it at
the time Burns branded it. The
charge is a serious one and the pen
atty severe should the allegations
be proven. His examination was
set for trial Thursday.
ST. Clair Did Not Hang.
Notice of appeal to the supreme
court in the case of HI. C. St. Clair,
to hang on Friday Eyes
.erday) for the murder of John
Decker, was served on the sheriff Of
Boise county Monday. This acted
IS stay Of execution.
News From Al.ska.
Boise Statesn,an.l
Mayor Alexander a few days ago
eceived q letter from John Benton,
of Boise. who 10 now in
)yea, Alaska. Benton says in part
81 got here on the 18th and found to
~ surprise that they have ~ 6ne eli.
1ate here ~ in Idaho. Wages are not ~
God ~ reported in the papers. Carpen.
ers get 81 to IS cents per hour and work
even or eight hours . day. Common
aborers receive $3.50 and board. Work
} slack at the present time. All of the
are building on wind and not
loney. All kinds of stores and shops
nd business houses are doing we'll.
liners are coming out over the trail, two
r three every day. Some bring gold and
" the country is all right and Others say
is no good. Brennan and Rinehart are
Ding into Dawson in about five weeks"
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No-To-Bo for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong. blood pure. SOC ~. All druggists
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Snow In Southern Callfornla.


A dispatch from San Barnardino
Jan. 10th says: The plains of San
Bxrnardino are white with snow and
the trees in the orange groves are
breaking with its weight.
There was an unprecedented fall
of snow last night following the ex-
treme cold spell which has visited
this section this side of Tehachapi
mountains.
In the Yucaipe valley, six miles
east of Redlands, one of the centers
Of citrus culture. ten inches of snow
fell. In Redlxnds itself three inches
are reported.
The snow is from one to three
inches deep in the streets of this
city. Broken down orange trees are
reported in nearly all the orchids.
The San Francisco cemetery
authorities refused to allow Theo-
dors Durrant's body interment
within their sacred precincts, SO the
parents decided to carry out their
sons request to have bis remains
cremated. They applied to have it
done at the Odd Fellows crematory
in San Francisco and were refused.
They then took the body to Los
Angeles and had it sent to the Pas
adena crematory where Wednesday
noon it Was reduced to ashes. The
parents had all that was mortal
of their son placed in a small urn
and left with it for their home in
San Francisco.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

7" =, .nidemic of la grippe 10 pro.
;l;ne in Ketchum.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-15

THERE'S THERE'S, demand flesh meat
;. Ketchum.
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Notice of appeal to the supreme
court in the case of HI. G. St. Clair,
sentenced to hang on Friday Eyes
terday) for the murder of John
Decker, was served on the sheriff of
Boise county Monday. This acted
as q stay Of execution.
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consolidation OF the silver forces
for the congressional campaign this
fall. It was agreed that all silver
partisans of whatever party afilia-
ton should be urged to maintain a
solid front against the Republican
party, 40 that party advocated the
policy Of maintaining the gold
standard.
Chance L. Harris, one Of tho old
est newspaper men in tho West,
died suddenly At Butte, Montana,
Sunday morning, apparently from
the effects Of fall. He went home
about / o'clock and slipped on the
ice, from which he appeared to
have sustained . sprain or rupture
internally, and he complained Of .
severe pain in the region Of the
heart. He grew rapidly worse and
died before medical attendance
reached him.
The friends Of silver are determ.
insd to capture tho HouEe Of Rep
rssentatives in the next Congress
and are already preparing to inaug-
urate rcd hot campaign. Tho sill
YER men Of Idaho are on the alert
and listening for the bugle sound
which will call them to arms in the
great battle for the white metal.
They fully realize that there 10 .
willy and unscrupulous foe to con-
tend With and if they win the fight
it will only DO BY hard work and
tho fusion Of silver forces.
The record-union., 1898-11-01
THE MARIA TERESA.
The Former Spanish Warship En-
Route to Hampton Roads.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-The Navy
Department has received a cablegram
from Caimanera in regard to the sail
ing from that place for Hampton Roads
of the Maria Teresa, which is, up to
this time, the only one of the Spanish
ships fioated. She is under command of
Captain Harris, who was detached
from command of the Vulcan for the
purpose. Commander Blow assumes
the command of the Vulcan, and his
flag on the Potomac is taken by Com
mander Craven
The Teresa sailed from Caimanera at
8 o'clock yesterday morning with the
Vulcan and LeonidaS. These vessels
viii escort the Teresa most of the way
to Norfolk. The Cincinnati also start
ed with the Teresa, but she was to- go
only as far as Cape Maysi, and thence
across to Port Antonio.
1t is probable that with fair weather
the Teresa will reach Hampton Roads
about Tuesday next. There she will
be surveyed by the Naval Board,which
will report to the department the prob
able cost of putting her into condition
for naval service. The advices so far
received at the department indicate
that this is going to be an expensive
undertaking, but nevertheless it will
be carried forward as much from senti-
mental as we'll as from practical con-
siderationS.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-A telegram
has been received at the Navy Depart
ment stating that the Maria Teresa
passed Cape Maysi, Cuba, this morning,
going at the rate of six knots under her
own steam All we'll -
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TAX ON FOREIGN CORPORATIONS.
DECISION RENDERED BY THE
u. S. SUPREME COURT.
Sustains the Constitutiona1ity OF
That Feature of the New York
Law Relating to Subject.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31-The United
States Supreme Court to-day an
nounced its decision sustaining the
constitutionality of that feature of the
tax levy of New York which lays tax
on foreign corporations doing business
in the State according to the company
employed.
The case was Instituted against
James Roberts, Comptroller of the
State of New York, to test the law and
to vacate an assessment made on the
capital of a large Western drug house,
having a branch in New York City.
The lower court sustained the validity
of the law, and the Supreme Court now
affirms this decision.
Judge ShiraS, in announcing the
courts opinion, said the law was set
tied that State may impose such
conditions for permitting a foreign cor
poration to do business within it's
limits as it may judge expediert, and
it may make the grant dependent upon
the payment of a specific license tax or
sum proportioned to- the amount of its
capital used in the State. This was not,
the court held, a discrimination against
the products of outside States.
Justice Harlan announced the dissen-
sion of himself and Justice Brown. He
said the former decisions of this court
had been uniform against State laws
which favored domestic firms, corpora
tions or persons as against those from
other States. If each State set up a
system of special taxes on these out
side bodies then it would in the ag-
gregate amount to a sort of protective
tariff system, overcoming the freedom
of trade between the States.
Chief Justice Fuller announced the
courts opinion affirming the judgment
! of the Supreme Court of Montana in the
case of the st. Louis Mining and Mill
ing Company against the Montana
| Mining Company, involving rights III
mining claims.
| The case of the Knights Templar and
Masons' Life Indemnity Company
against c.. r. Converse involved to some
extent that clause in many insurance
| nolicies as to the freedom OF travel by
the party insured. Payment on an in
| surance policy was resisted on the
/ ground that death had resulted While
| the INSURED was travelling outside the
limits allowed by the policy. The Court
| of Appeals of the Seventh Circuit de-
| c;ded in favor of the beneficiary under
the policy, and the company applied to
the Supreme Court for writ OF GER
| terioari. The decision to-day denies
the application for the writ.
| A rehearing was granted in the case
of the United States against Earl -
| Coe. involving certain rancn claims IN
| Arizona. The application for rehearing
was based in part upon the statement
that Justice McKenna, while Attorney
General, had directed the Government
case through his assistants, ana mao
later participated in the nearing ano
determination of the case.
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PACIFIC COAST LIMITED.
Fast Service From Chicago to be
Resumed To-Day.

CHICAGO, Oct. 31.-Commencing to-
morrow the Pacific Coast limited serv-
ice will be resumed. The route will be
the same as that by which the Sunset
limited ran last season-Chicago and
Alton, ST. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern, Texas and Pacific.
The train will leave Chicago at p.
M and ST. Louis at 10:30 p. m. every
Tuesday and Saturday, and arrive at
Los Angeles at p. m. every Friday
and Tuesday, and at San Francisco
at 6:45 D. m. every Saturday and We'd
nesday. A fast through day schedule
will also be in effect eastbound.
The train will be broad veStibuled,
heated with steam, lighted with gas,
and the equipment will consist OF COM
posite cars, containing barber shop,
bathrooms, buffet, library and smok-
ing apartments; ladies' parlor and IL
brary observation room cars; Pullman
compartment stateroom and drawing
room sleeping cars and dining cars.
The entire train will run through soma
between Chicago, ST. Louis and Les
Angeles. and will also carry pullman
drawing-room and sleeping cars De
tween Chicago, St. Louis and san
Francisco.
The record-union., 1898-11-01

! WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-The ma
jority of the annual reports of the In
dian Agents to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs are of an encouraging
nature, and indicate a progress gem
orally along civilized lines. Some of the
reports, however, are not so gratifying,
and make some surprising statements.
! Unusual in an annual report is the fol-
lowing arraignment in the report of z.
M. Yearian. in charge of the Lemhi
| Agency in Idaho:
These Indians, as a tribe, are honest
and peaceable and kindly disposed, but
are about as degraded and ungrateful
a set as one finds. They have been
humored, and, like spoiled children,
want thingst their way, and their condi-
ton, mode of living and barbaric prac-
tees would indicate that undue con-
| cessions have been made on the part
of the agents. While some will avail
| themselves of the opportunity of earn
ing their living by civilized pursuits,
| others lead a lazy, vagabond life.
"They are addicted to gambling, horse
racing and dancing, and the influence of
the so-called medicine man operates to
the disadvantage of the tribe.
Their real advancement has not been
what it should, or what it was possible
to have been under the circumstances.
In the agents annual report for 1882
on the Lemhi reservs ton, I find that
twenty Indian families were en-
gagged i'm farming; fifteen years after
ward / cam report but forty-one follow
ing agricultural pursuits. an increase of
| twelve, not one convert a year. What
wonderful progressioni
Morally, these Indians are the same
practically as they were twenty years
ago; financially they are but little bet
| ter off, Aside from a few small farms.
wagons and farming implements held
by some of the more energetic and in
dustrious, they have comparatively
nothing except a great number of
worthless ponies, which if they did not
own they wodld not be any worse off.
No horned stock are owned by them at
| all.
1T would be unjust not to state that
few have farms and keep constantly
at work trying to establish for them
selves comfortable homes. A majority,
however. seem to content themselves
with their present condition, and con-
tinue in the old channel, leading a life
of idleness and degradation"
Agent Fuller of the Blackfoot Agency.
Montana, referring to the opening of
the ceded portion under the mineral
| land laws last April, says prospecting
| has been practically fruitless, and pre-
diets the abandonment of the so-called
mineral strip before the 1st of Novem-
| ber
| j. r. Jewell in charge of the New
York Agency, in his report alleges that
after careful investigation the funds OF
the Seneca Nation are almost wholly
absorbed by the officers of the nation,
and that they are in collusion with
white men for such purposes. Agent
Jewell says:
s'The officers notoriously use the
| funds of the nation to purchase the
votes of the ignorant and illiterate In
dians who on election day are always
anxious for a small sum of money. The
better class of Indians are not numer-
Gus enough to overcome the power OF
these corrupt Indians, who have the
| funds of the nation with which to
corrupt the masses and perpetuate their
| corrupt dynasty"
The record-union., 1898-11-01
INDIAN AGENT CLAPP.
Sioux Start a Movement for His
Forcible Removal.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 31.-Word has
reached the Interior Department. OF
trouble threatened by a band OF young
Sioux on the Pine Ridge Agency, in
South Dakota, who are reported 10
have started an organized movement
for the forcible removal or Indian
Agent Clapp from the reservation.
Secretary Bliss, commenting on the
matter to-day, said that despite the
claims of the young braves, who
threaten to take steps themselves un-
less the Secretary UTcfefS -a--efaaA8ey
there is nothing on file at the depart
ment that is averse TO Agent Clapp;
that the agent is an army officer who
is executing his duties satisfactorily.
and that the question Of transfer is not
to be entertained.
The record-union., 1898-11-01
Fatal Rail Accident.

ST. PAUL (Minn.), Oct. 31.-A Win
nipeg (Manitoba) special to the dis
patch" says The special naval train
was derailed east of Rat Portage at
1:30 o'clock this morning by a broken
rail. The tender, two baggage cars
and three colonist cars went over an
embankment ten feet high. Frank
Fleckney and William Miller, boys from
the training ship Agincourt of Chat
ham, England, were killed. Samuel
Harrison, stoker, of Edinburgh, and
Thomas Burns, seaman, were injured
also a man named Smith, from Papi-
neauville, Quebec, who was stealing a
rido
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Gift to a University.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 31-Asa Van
Woe1ner, a wealthy retired merchant
of this city. aged so years. to-day made
gin through trustee to the Uni
versitg of Cincinnati of $4,000 10 be
used Hfor the erection of a fire proof
libracg building for the University
A man can wear fine Prince Albert
coat without knowing a great deal.