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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-22

$500
the surface boundaries, or of taking any
part of an overlapping claim which has
been abandoned, or in case the original
certificate was made prior to the passage
of this law, and hs shall be DESTROYS OF
securing the benefits Of this Act, such To-
Gator or his assigns may file an additional
certificate subject to the conditions Of this
Act and to contain all that this Act re-
quired an original certificate to contain
Provided, That such amended location
does not interfere with the existing rights
of others 1t the time when such amend
ment II made.
SEC. 8. Within 60 days after any time
ret or period allowed for the performance
of labor, OF making Improvements upon
| any lode or placer claim, the person il
whose behalf such work or improvement
| il performed, or some person for hin
! must make and record an affidavit II
substance q follows:
state Of Idaho, county Of. ...,...ss
Before me, the subscribed personally
appeared ........, who being first duI,
sworn, says that At least ...... dollar
worth of work or improvements were per
| formed or made upon 80. claim, sltpat,
in mining district, county OF 80.
| state Of Idaho; that such expenditure Ma
/ made by, for, or 1t the expense Of 800.
/ owners or said claim, for the purpose Q
holding said claim.
6iQnatnrc, 1883 80 ....-...,.
/ Subscribed and sworn to before "a
this !. day Of, 1876, !.
4 The r. fof adsnilfasetinG the osth ~
4 reccrdins the fofefdn4 a6idavit, whsI
taken before the county recorder or dep
uty mining recorder, shall b 80 cents
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
LONG SUFFERING SIRE
shuts Down on his Son and His Inter-
rogatory GimIet.

shuts Down ON his Son and His Inter-
rosatory Gimlet.
"Say, pa, began little Clarence CALI
pers, with the rising infection of one
who earnestly desires to acquire in-
formation, what -
"Oh, don't know!" replied his long
suffering sire wearily.
You don't know what, pa?'
Il don't know the answer to tho
question you are about to ask.
Why, you don't know what ! am
gong to ask, do you, pap
mo, of course not?''
Then, If you don't know the ques-
ton, how do you know you don't know
the answer to it, pa?"
Because | know | don't know |
don't know why it is that the more a
man gets the more he wants and the
more he wants the less he usually
gets, nor whether the Maine Reed was
even remotely related to the late
Mayne Reid, nor why so many men
with the big head wear such small hats
nor whether l should have preferred TO
kiss Harriet Beecher Stowe or the
Pope's toe, nor why two-faced men are
so common and two-hearted girls so
scarce, nor why the average girl is so
ready to trust her heart with young
man whom no self-respecting butcher
would trust with a pound of liver, nor
why the fellow who is always ready to
made jack of himself hates so to have
somebody else make monkey of him,
nor who the first hOo-hoo was, nor why
half man usually considers himself
the whole thing. nor how many is
many nor how few is a few; | don't
know how ! don't know what ! don't
know, nor the answers to any others of
the multitude OF foolish questions that
you are prone to ask if you are not re-
strained So now, my dear son, if you
do not at once turn off your breath in-
stead of blowing it out and let me read
in peace off you go to bed with the
speed of an arrow, taking your inter-
rogatory gimlet with you. Under
stand ?"
Yes, sir. But the question I want
ed to ask isn't foolish pa.
HI If it isn't foolish you may go
ahead and ask it. But, remember, just
one question, and no more
Well, pa, there are two of 'em that |
want to ask. One is, which is the
smartest, the man who knows enough
to know that he don't know much or
the man who knows enough to look as
if he knew everything? The other is,
If the end of the world was to come
and the earth be destroyed while man
was up in balloon where would he
land when he came down? And, pa, |
don't know which one of EN- to ask Y
World
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
the Dog Voted.

The Rev. DR.. J. C. Wingo was recent
lys reelected pastor of the Baptlst
church at Carrollton by the most unan-
imous vote ever cast by its members,
saws the Atlanta Journal
1t was at the annual church meeting
over which DR.. Fits was presiding.
One of the members has pet pug dog
that has been taught number OF
tricks, one being to rise to his hind
legs and walk at the command stand.
DR.. Wingo had retired in order that
the church might vote on the question
of his reelection. One brother had
moved the reelection of Dr. Wingo.
Another had seconded the motion, and
several speeches had been made. while
the pug dog, blinking soiemnly, sat IN
the front part of the church. The
question was called for, and Dr. Fits
put it. s.All who are in favor OF the re-
election of Brother Wingo will please
rise and stand"
Everybody rose, and then the pug
dog got up very solemnly on his hind
legs and walked around in front of the
pulpit.
Everybody laughed, and then Dr..
Wingo was informed that he had been
reelected by the unanimous vote OF the
members and the dog
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
AIyavs Paid Promptly.

Two teachers of languages were dis
cussing matters and things relative TO
their profession. DO your pupils pay
up regularly on the first of each
month. asked one of them
mo. they do not. was the reply L
Dften have to wait weeks and weeks be-
fore 1 get my pay, and sometimes I
don't get it at all You can't well dun
the parents for the money"
why don't you do as | do? al
ways get my money regularly.
How do you manage it,
1T is very simple. For instance, [
am teaching a boy French. and on the
first day of the months his folks don't
send the amount due for the previous
month. In that case | give the boy the
following exercise to translate and
write out at home: i have no money
The month is up. Hast thou got any
money? Hast not thy parents got any
money? | need money very much.
Why hast thou brought no money this
morning? Did thy father not give thee
any money? Hast he no money in the
pocket-book of his uncle's great aunt2
This fetches them Next morning that
boy brings the money. Weekly Teie-
graph
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03

Prelude ED
Against the stage Isut "a Little Coax
ing Would Bring Him Around

gainse the stage Isut Little Coax
ing Would Bring Him Around
Grafton Snedaker was the unpromig-
ing and ouly son of the richest soap
maker IN New Jersey. The head or
the house of Snedaker was widower
with au eye single to soap, and, besides
too busy pdtting up the underpinning
to his second million to thing of matri-
mony or anything that. was apart from
his business. AS may be imagined, he
paid little attention to his SON (which
was not at all unsatisfactory to the
latter so long as the bills he incurred
were not too closely scrutinized, but,
moreover. paid by Snedaker, father
When the old soap manufacturer did
contemplate his offspring it was usual
ly in the light Of a punishment inftict-
ed on himself for some of the sins OF
his youthhood
Snedaker. Jr., was twenty and in
love Except as to age. this had been
his condition in a spasmodic way for
some years The intervals OF attack
came and fingered every time a new
burlesque company came to town NoW
it was different; his passion was ma
ture, serious, and even threatened to
become chronic. Its object was SOU
brette young woman of comely aspect,
Mollie Monsoon by stage-name, who
did few vocalic-ge gesticulatory turns II
the Gryo-Comic Opera Company. For
the stage she reserved a dreamy Well
I-don' think expression in her blue,
babyish eyes; but off the boards she in,
dulged at times in unsuspected think
ing parts.
Withal she was wise and good girl,
and one fine evening at a little supper
for two at the Swelland, after the per-
lormance, Snedaker fills proposed,
continuous performance, consisting OF
Housekeeping, with parson and a
wedding ring for curtain-raiser.
The Monsoon was not overwhelmed
BY any particular sort of joyous emo
tion, nor did she appear to be lis
pleased. Yankeelike, she answered one
question by asking another. How are
we going to live2" she wanted to know,
especially as she would have to retire
from the stage. This was step, now
ever, which Grafton did not consider
absolutely indispensable, if, indeed. adj
yisable. but regarding which his mann
0rata displayed considerable firmness
Of a peachy order
The condition of things and the logic
Of the situation generally constituted a
poser for Grafton Snedaker, Jr-
There could be but one solution. We
will bring the. gov nor around and get
his consent to an allowance. He will
do it, I know" said the lover with a
forced cheerfulness the assuption OF
which came so near a real effort that
+ he perspired from sheer mental exef-
lion
Miss Monsoon was not hilariously
certain.
aPa is dearfully prejudieed against
the stage admitted Crafty this pet
name. and we had better marry quiet
| ". Then, when it can't be prevented or
\ helped, little coaxing will bring him
around d.-World
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
prin,er, Errors.

Mr.. Charles T. Jacob. who has just
issued an amusing collection OF print
ars' errors and facetiae, under the title
Of "Gesta Typographica," tells us that
a French writer committed suicide
when he found three hundred printers
errors in a work he had carefully re-
vised. The mistakes were all the work
of a too Jealous proofreader. Very IL
logically, he refrained from numbering
the reader, and took his own life IN
stead
1t must be allowed on his behalf that
no kind of error is SO maddening to
writer as the inserted error. 1t is hard
to forgive a printers reader who does
not save you from ignominy when you
have passed an obvious nlispelllng, but
it is ten times harder to forgive the
reader who turns critic at the eleventh
hour and revises your composition as
1t goes to machine. Mr.. William Black
has told us how the printers insisted,
after he had made the correction three
times on making one of his heroines
die of opinion" instead of opium
What is this, exclaimed compos-
itor, who was expecting to be promoted
to a leadership shortly, Sermons in
stones, books in the running brooks
Impossiblei He means, OF course,
Sermons in books, and stones in the
running brooksi" And new reading
Of Shakespeare appeared next morning.
A sporting compositor thought
Cricket on the Hearth must be slip
of the pen He made it Cricket on
the Heath A writer on angling had
the JOY of seeing his sentence, The
young salmon are beginning to run,
printed THE young salmon are begin
ming to swim another thoughtful
compesitor having been at work. Hap
pier was the transformation OF the
sentence. Bring me my toga- into
Bring me my togs.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
H.d peparted.

A certain eminent judge who was re-
Gently reelected, wnen he was asked
about the facility with which he turned
from one case to another, replied that
he had learned that from what he
saw at baptism of colored people
when he was boy. The weather was
very cold, SO that to immerse the can
didates they were obliged to cut away
the ice 1t befeli that when one OF the
female converts was dipped back in the
water, tho cold made her squirm about.
and in q moment she had slipped from
the preachers hands and was down the
stream under the ice. The preacher.
however, wassnot disconnected. Look
ing up with perfect ealmness at the
crowd on the bank, he said: -Breth-
rem, this sister hath departed hand
me down another"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
As weird as His own Posters.

When Homer Davenport, the dis
tiDguished cartoonist, went to Europe
last summer he didn't leave behind him
his keen sense of the ridiculous or his
tools for depicting the funny things of
the old world.
Davenport made tour of the Paris
ian studios and the cafes where the
French artists were wont to congre-
gate.
One of the most characteristic
sketches he made is the desperately ar
tistic gentleman with neglige hair and
an absent expression. This artist de-
signs posters and is in direct competi-
tion with the midnight Welsh rarebit
and the fizz that is dry at $3.50 per fizz.
The difference between this poster ar
tist and Davenport is that the former
talks high art and draws badly, while
the latter simply makes good pictures
and refuses to talk about EN-.
An artist is always good subject for
another artist to guy pictorially, and
when the guyed one happens to be a
living caricature, as was the case with
this gentleman the fun wakes more fu-
rious. Davenport can be cruel with his
pen when he chooses, but he knows, as
every Other clever CdTlcdlufiSL hnO"S'
that truth to nature is sometimes more
funny than any exageration.
The clever poster man wasn't a bit
pleased when he discovered the Ameri-
can draughtsman sketching his 'phiz,
but then the Frenchman wasn't aware
that a distinction was being conferred
upon him. nor did he suspect that
million good-natured Americans would
look upon his ultra artistic features
New York Evening Journal.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
THE HAPPIEsT HEART

Who drives the horses Of the sun
Shall lord it but day;
Better the lowly deed were done,
And kept the humble way.
The rust will find the sword of fame,
The dust will hide the crown;
Ay, none shall nail so high his name
Time will not tear it down.
The happiest heart that ever beat
Was in some quiet breast
That found the common daylight sweet
And left to Heaven the rest
John Vance Cheney.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03

According to the London Live Stock
Journal, our exports OF horses to Eng
land ia rapidly increasing. and it looks
September 80, 1897, we exported Se,SoI
Aorses to England. OF this number,
e2,252 were purchased in the United
States and S,051 in Canada. Last year
Tor the same nine months we exported
from the United States only l5,413.
The increase this year over 1895 is g.
239 The average price realized in
England this year was trins over one
hundred and twenty-four dsiIars.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
IN 3 DAYS
VIA
The Overland Limited

Leaves Chicago 600 P. M, every
day in the year Buffet Smoking
and Library Cars. All meals a La
carte" in Dining Cars. Palace
Drawing-room Sleeping Cars
through to Salt Lake City and San
Francisco without charge.
Through Tourist Sleeping Cars
to California and Oregon.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03

While Mark Twain was III in Lon
don q few months ago, report that
he had died was circulated. 1t spread
to America and reached Charles Dudley
Warner in Hartford, Conn. Mr.. War
ner Immediately cabled to London to
find out il it was really so. The cable
gram in some way came directly into
the humorist's are;s and he forthwith
eabled the following reply: Reports
ct my death greatly sxaggerassa- -
Wave
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21

are going to vote. Are you siding with
the commercial class, or are you not?
Mr.. Stanley is an excellent representa-
tive of that commercial class, and Gov
ernOr Leedy is as good a representative
of those who are opposed to CONNER
cialism. Against which name will you
make the X on the ballot this fall?
Something Fundamental
Your action really means more than a
protection of your own interests purely
They are bound up with those of other
citizens of the republic, and your vote
will count one way or the other. Let
us get at a fundamental principle. A
government points ultimately to a de-
mocracy or to an aristOcracy We are
reaching toward the former, but the Re-
publican party is not wanting to drift
that way. Look at the great reforms in
history. They have all been fought out
for greater freedom. Religious and pO-
litical freedom have been battled for
now, our fight is for industrial freedom.
That is the labor question, the social
problem. Do you want the advantages
thai come from a democracy in religion
and in politics to be added to economics.
With those three all attained we shall
have a government such as we had hoped
for, free from the taint of commercial
ism. Without industrial freedom there
can be no true freedom, and opposed to
it is the commercial class, the class de-
string an aristocracy in industry. Their
party is the Republican party, the one
that proclaims government to be a ma
chine to rule people; yours is the other
side the party that understands govern
ment to be an association of individuals
for their mutual welfare and advance
ment
Remember this when you go to the
polls.
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21
Number of Cattle and Swine Of Kansas

The number Of cattle and swine in
Kansas. as reported from assessors to
the State Board of Agriculture, shows an
increase that should be very gratifying.
The gain in the number Of milch COWS
is 533S7, or nearly 10 per cent. The
largest gains were in Wabaunsee, Usage,
Mitchell, Pottawatomie, Nemaha, Clay,
Lyon and Stafford counties. There was
falling off in nineteen counties OF 5,S35
head Bourbon county leading with a de-
crease of 1,16S. The total number OF
mich cows is 605,925.
OF cattle other than milCh cows 1885,
140 head are returned, which is a net in
crease of 1874, 1877 head or 24,57 per cent
This is the largest number and largest
increase ever returned in Kansas. The
nearest approach to it was in 1891, when
the State had 1,770,591 head. There has
been in increase in ninety-three coun-
ties, amounting to 406, 15O, and twelve
counties show a decrease amounting to
1853 The big gains were 21,SSO in
Cowley; $4,000 in Clark; 16,O27 in Lyon;
1888 in Riley; 1888 in Jewell; 12,717
in Marshall; 1874 in Barber, and 1O,245
in Comanche. Johnson, Douglas and
Miami led in the decrease.
OF swine the State has more this year
than ever before, and 366,577 head, or
1927 per cent, more than last year.
Seventy-twO counties round up an in
crease of 423,1O1 head, while twenty
three counties have a decrease Of 56,524.
The most conspicuous increase is in
Jewell, where it amounts to 22,3S0 head;
Brown, Phillips, Smith and POttawatO-
mie show also big increases. Butler,
Reno, Sumner, Wabaunsee and Barber
are the counties showing largest losses.
The number of horses in the State is
returned as 777,82S; of mules and asses
84,223, and of sheep 207,4 ,4S2
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21

In a recent speech ]. Ralph Burton
spoke of "the taint of socialism" 1t is
safe to wager that the people Of Kansas
would rather have a dozen taints Of So
cialism than half a taint of ]. r. Burton.
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21
Cuban President Issues An Address.

President Masso OF the Cuban repub-
lie has issued an address to the army
in which he extends congratulations
over the termination of the struggle for
liberty. The part that the United States
has taken in the matter is enthusiast
cally commended and it is asserted that
every Cuban heart should be grateful to
it's protector. He is liberal in his praises
of the army Of Cuba and salutes the ma
tive soldier as a model of abnegation
and heroism. His perseverance is said
to be equalled only by his bravery. To
the United States is given the credit for
driving out the Spaniards and the Amer
lean people are referred to as "Our ally
of yesterday, our host Of to-day, our
friend always"
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21
Some Reasons Why Constitutional Con-
ventiOn Should Be Called.

The world advances, and In time OutgrOws
The laws that In our fathers day were best;
And, doubtless, after US, some purer scheme
VIII DO shaped out by wiser men than we.
Made wiser by the steady growth OF truth.
LOWELL.
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21

The pr Q S e n t
constitution was
framed more as a
necessary formal
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21

Over 100000 men are employed by the
railroad systems of this country.
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21

try the same ten
dency is visible,
until we have to-
day come to a
nOint where OIIr
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-02-25

Logan, Utah, Feb. ia man Civ
ing his name as Benjamin Caldwell,
who has arrived here, claims to be
walking from Denver to Dawson City
ON a wager, made by Millionaire
stratton, of Colorado Springs, and an
other Colorado capitalist named Moffitt.
The conditions are that Caldwell
must walk the distance, starting with
10 cents in his pocket. If he succeeds
he will receive $25, 900 from stratton,
from whom ne has card of introduce
tion. No time is set for his arrival at
Dawson, but he is expected to reach
there by June /.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-02-25

Ottawa, Feb. 17.-Mr. McInnis, OF
British Columbia, speaking in the house
of commons, asked if the government
was aware that the United States au-
thorities at Skagway and Dyea continue
to compel all purchasers of Canadian
goods to take an official escort while
crossing the disputed territory, and to
pay So per day for such escort. Mr..
McInnis also wanted to know if some
arrangement had not been made be-
tween the United States and Canadian
governments doing away with this Sin
tolerable discrimination.
Premier Laurier, in reply, said that
the arrangement referred to was an off =
cial one, and consisted of an UNDER
standing that regulations should be
issued by the secretary of the treasury
which would render effective the privi-
leges of bonding Canadian goods over
United States territory at Dyea and
Skagway. These regulations, he said,
had been issued, though they had not
yet been officially communicated to the
Canadian government. He believed
the regulations would prove satisfactory
to Canada.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-02-25
ACCIDENT PLEA SUSTAINED
Important Decision by Judge Sanborn
at st. Louis.

st. Louis, Feb. 17.-In decision of
the United States court of appeals
affirming the lower court wherein Mrs.
Sarah Smith obtained judgment against
the Western Travellers Association for
5000 for the death of her husband,
Judge Sanborn gives the judicial con-
ception of the word accident.
+. NJ. Smith died from blood poison
in 1895 as the result of a sore toe, the
skin of which had been abraded by q
tight shoe. Mrs. Smith attempted to
collect the policy, but was resisted by
the association. A jury in Judge Ad-
ans court gave her the full amount of
the policy. The association appealed.
Judge Sanborn held that the death
of the defendant had been brought
aoout by an external agent and it was
an accident. What is not the result of
design or Encouragement, said the
judge, is accidental. No man inten-
tionally wears the skin off his toes,
and such injury must be considered ac-
cidental.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-02-25
RAILWAY IN WHITE PASS.
English Company to Build From Head
of Lynn Canal TO Lake Bennett.

u
Montreal, Feb 17.-C. H. Wilkin-
son, representing the British Yukon
Company, says the construction of a
railroad through White pass, from the
head of Lynn canal to Lake Bennett,
will be begun Immediately by his COM
pany. The road, which will be As
miles in length, will be completed
within 80 days of the beginning of the
work.
The British Yukon Company, of
which the Duke of Teck is president,
also holds charter from the Dominion
government for the construction of the
road through White pass. The an
nouncement, some weeks ago, of the
governments having negotiations with
Messrs. Mann and Mackenzie, deter
mined the British Yukon Company to
build the road over White pass at once.
The width of the track will be three
feet six inches. The grade over the
pass will be three per cent, and at
points where the grade is the steepest
what is known as the "a. B. T." rail
will be laid. This rail, which is used
in the Hartz mountains in Europe, has
notches for the gripto cog wheel, and
is part of the locomotive. Mr.. Will
kinson says the road Will be completed
by the middle of the summer.