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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-19
) Why We Lost Hair.

Our condition of hairlessness has
been . subject Of study by DR.. Exner,
a German biologist. Our ancestors, he
holds, were totally covered with hair,
and its disappearance may be accounted
for by the fact that its absence was
regarded - beauty, preference being
given in aboriginal mates to those
having the least of it The hairs are
modified sense organs, which have
lost all connection with the nerves.
Primitive man was probably clothed
in an irregular covering of hair, which
varied in length, color, structure and
thickness with the functions for which
it was intended. The hair now remain
ing was left for . definite purpose.
Certain hairs serve as organs of touch,
notably the eyelashea, and in less
degree the eyebrows. Both serve to
protect the eyes. In animals the hair
serves to maintain and regulate the
body heat; but in man the hair of the
scalp alone has such purpose.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-19

10 +, W. Watlington. A. H. Rahm and
Nelson F. Kinball, your heirs, devisees
and assigns:
GU are hereby notified that the under
signed has expended $1GO, in the year 1885,
IN labor and improvements upon the
MEXICAN
lode mining claim in Warm Springs Creek,
OF Boulder, mining district, Blaine county,
Idaho, in order to hold said premises un-
aer the provisions of section 1924, Revised
statutes Of the United States, being the
AMOUNT required to hold the same during
and for said calendar year 1855, and il,
within ninety days after the expiration of
the publication Of this notice, which " i'll be
published for ninety days, you fail or re-
iuSe to contribute your respective proper
, tions OF such expenditure as co-owners,
asSordng to your respective interests III
said claim viz: b. W. Watlington, one
sixteenth, $625; A. H. Kahm, one-six-
teentll, S6.25. and Nelson F. Kimball, one
eighth, sl2.5 80, your interests in said claim
VIII be forfeited to and become the prop
prty of the undersigned, under and by vir-
Tue OF said section 2324.
EDWARD BRISBIN.
First publication, Feb. Is, 1896.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-19
SCORES OF HUMAN WRECKS.

Pieiabhs Ceadttion OF Shabby s0so4ility
esss 1t the Nstional CapatsI.
Washington has more than its share
Of ''the cankers of a calm world and q
long peace" Some are reduced gen.
tlemen, who just manage keep their
heads above water and maintain .,
deprecating front in their club and go
ciety. They are too lazy to work, says
the Washington Post, and have long
since run through with what little they
have had in brief splurge, and are
now getting more shabby genteel and
seedy looking every day. They retain.
however, the debonnair air OF men OF
wealth and bear themselves bravely.
. but oh, the pinching and struggling to
keep up appearances! Oh, the sicken-
ing ordeal Of having to face the lodg-
ing-house keeper, and, worst OF all, the
washerwoman! Oh, the modification
of belonging to club, and being una
BILE to do more than sit in it, and stay
there, to be marked by the servants as
a poor devil who never by any chance
is able to reciprocate hospitality or or
der anything, to have club dues
amounting up with no prospect but
through a loan to meet them; to have
the cold shoulder shown by the very
men who helped him to run through
his money, and who now give him q
cool nod instead of both outstretched
hands. This is the pity of it, yet there
are men who endure it rather than leave
Washington. Such is the upas tree eff
feet Of the life here on them.
Lower down in the social strata you
find in these eddics of the stream OF
humanity, the hotel corridors, regu-
lar habitues, shabby genteel, social,
political and business failures, lobby
lists, promoters. hangers-on OF official
magnates, men dismissed from the army
and navy, cheap sporting gents" All
with red noses to man. Everyone OF
them has seen better days, and they all
retain even at their shabbiest stage the
manners of their prosperous years, but
they are tainted with an element OF
fawning, and, sadder still, with forced
gayety and familiarity, painful to see
and endure. Here is an ex-member OF
congress, shorn Of his previous impor-
tance and plumage, an exile and back
number" from his former district, who
has turned claim agent, or is charitably
supposed to be practicing law, while
sinking down lower and lower every
day. Here is q once prosperous buSa-
ness man who seems to have taken
contract or made a wager to drink up
all the whisky in town. There a poor
wretch who has spent the best years OF
his life in Office, has lost his place and
is now one of the procession of hotel
corridor ghosts. There some broken
down politician, who has been hanging
on here for years and has fled applica-
tions enough for Office to start paper
mill The hotel corr idors are havens
of rest for these poor, harmless, heart
broken ''cankers of calm world and. a
long peace"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-19
SUPREME MOMENT INA LAUNCH
1t ID When the Vessel First Gets Into the
.. Water.

1t IL When the Vessel First Gets Into the
~ Water.
That launch is a matter of mathe-
matics, as well rs of great skill and la
Dor, is shown by the fact that the man
of science who has the matter in charge
always makes set of ofcalculationss show
ing the strain on the ship and it's pre-
else condition ut practically every foot
of the journey down the ways. If Il
boat should get in the way, or if it
should take an unusual length of time
to knock out the keel-blocks, or if any
one of half dozen things should cause
serious delay. the scientific man knows
just how long he can wait, and just how
far the limit of safety extends.
There is always one supreme moment
in launch. and it is at a time that es-
capes the average spectator. 1t is when
the vessel gets fairly well into the water.
This is when an important factor known
as the moment of buoyancy comes into
play. II you can imagine vessel slid
ing down an incline without any water
intowhich to drop, you can see that the
vessel would tip down suddenly at the
end which has left the ways, and would
rise at tie end still on the incline. But
really, in successful launches, the stern
of the vessel is gradually lifted up by
the water, and this throws the weight
forward on that part of the ship still
resting On the ways. The force OF TIN.
water is called the moment Of buoy
ancy;' and the natural tendency of the
ship to drop to the bottom of the stream
Is called the moment of weight" Now
the moment Of huoyancy must always
I've greater than the moment of weight;
but it must net be very much greater,
for if it were it would throw too much
weight forward on the part of the ship
still on the ways, and might break them
down. or injure- the plates or keel Of
the ship. When the great English
battleship Families was launched, this
did really happen; and so great was the
struin near the bow that parts of the
cradle were actually pushed right into
the bottom Of the weasel. 1t is thh dan
ger-of disaster that causes the scientific
lanl.cher to make the most careful CAL
culations 40 to the conditions surround
ing the ship at every foot of her journey
into the water.-Frank Matthews, In
St. Nicholas.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-19

ne KErsrosH u tie ssts representative
Of th1 Great upRer Wood Elver, SawtooaA
and hmoky mining saeiona, and. located
10 it - in tAp~sar1 heart Of thsmost prom
isiue mining Vcountry on the face of the
earth. And 1iakihe aoekine uhdoue 10 pre-
sent ~ read>ss eonplsts syaopsia Of ~
mining. .news snd dsvelspmsnts,. - ~sal -
matters of local importance insand shout
Ketchum. II is an Invaluable guide for cap
itat and infofmsant.to the settler OF every
craft and position. Subscribe 4ordt, read
It. and let your friends read It.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-19
FASHIONABLE FOOTWEAR.
Ngero Aktea43on Paid t. CoAfoFt and Con-
venlence Than Formerly

lGoro A3tea33on Paid t. Comfort ard Goa.
ven1ence Than Formerly
''Of course, for carriage wear, house
wear, evening wear, the Louis Quinze
heel 10 all the go--although do not
advocate women moving about all day
in the house, for instance, with their
feet at the angle those heels enforce.
Whether q woman is walking on the
street or walking in the house her foot
should be properly poised. The low
heel and pointed toe, even an extremely
pointed toe, are to be preferred to the
broad toe and high heelwhich prevailed
dozen or SO years ago"
And about the picadilly' toes-are
they vanishing?"
A rounded toe, neither pointed nor
square. is what we are making now for
walking boots, but slippers stiA ter
inmate in sharp point, perhaps not as
exaggerated as last season.
Buckles have little to do with the
anatomy of the foot" he added, "but
want to show you these cut-steel
buckles on the patent-leather slippers =
<SaAO, HC NO<lA AAO1u tAC oAAOW "IAOO" q
variety of Cinderella-like footgear
strapped and buckled in novel and
dainty designs. They were pretty
enough for the roseleaf feet Of fairies.
''In regard to leggings, a subject SO
important to the tuniced and gated
Rosalinds who fit through our parks
and along our boulevards, it is revealed
that shapely and satisfactory acces-
sories Of the kind are being made of
black leather and pigslin. The ma
jority are buttoned for convenience in
getting into them, but the more ex-
pensive are laced with delicate preci-
sion and fit like wax.
Undoubtedly people pay much more
attention to their feet, take better care
OF them and think more of their COM
fort now than they ever did. And well
they need to do so," quoth the shoe
maker, emphatically. MANY people
are one-sitied and their bodies thrown
clear out of plumb simply from always
having balanced themselves on absurd
heels and having worn the wrong shape
Of shoe. know personally. an appar-
emily sensible woman who weighed
two hundred and twenty-five pounds
and who wore habitually one and one
half shoe with heel three inches high.
She fell once or twice and hurt herself,
but the fall was never attributed to the
shoes. have another customer, fine
looking girl of noble proportions. who
invariably orders an "A last. 1t is en-
tirelv too narrow for her. Among the
people who come to us to be fitted are
a great many whose feet are totally un-
like. They have corn. perhaps, on one
foot, and habitually walk in such a way
as to ease that foot; that is. throw the
pressure off the corn. A different set
of muscles is used and the foot enlarges
in different way from it's companion
foot. People invariably favor one
member of the body more than the
other; in measuring for leggings one
leg is often found much larger than the
other, and the same is true in regard to
feet. The shoes are made similar, but
the feet are distinctly different" IN. Y.
Tribune.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-19
Inisry - River ooAs.

A primitive notion existed amoar
the Romano and other races that q
bridge was an offense, and injury to tho
river god. as it saved people from be-
ing drowned while fording or swim
ming scnoss. and robbed the deity Of q
certain number Of victims which were
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-02-19
n whales WEIGHT.

According to Nilsson. the zoologist,
the weight Of the Greenland whale il
100 tons, Or $4,000 pounds, or equal to
that of eSelephants or 40 bears.
The herald., 1898-10-17

ordinances of a general nature then In
force and uncompiled. to he classified un-
der proper heads and shall provide for
the publication of the same in book form.
Every officer of the City shall be entitled
to one copy of such ordinances without
charge, and every citizen applying for a
copy shall be entltled to the same at cost
of publication. The Council shall. every
third year after such publication thereof.
cause all such ordinances in force at that
time to be compiled, and shall publish
the same subject to the terms and con-
ditions herein expressed.
Sec. "a. If the Council for any year
shall fail to pass ordinances fixing the an
nual tax levy and appropriating money
for the various executive departments by
or before the first day of october in any
year, then and in that case the appropri-
ations made for such department OF de.
partments for the preceding year shall
be deemed to be continued and renewed
for the current year, and the tax levy OF
the preceding year continued.
Sec. 95. The Council shall appoint from
its members a committee consisting of
three, to be denominated Finance Com
mittee, and shall fill all vacancies in the
committee. The committee shall investi-
gate the transactions and accounts of all
officers having the collection, custody or
disbursement Of public money, or having
the power to approve. allow, or audit de-
or any member thereof shall have free ac-
cess to any records. books and papers in
all public offices; shall have power 10 ad-
minister oaths and afflrmations. and to
examine witnesses. and compel their at
tendance before them by subpoena. The
committee, or any member thereof, may
at any time visit any of the public offices
and mako its examinations and investiga-
tions therein without hindrance.
The committee must at least onco in
every six months, examine the official
bonds of all city officers, and investigate
the suf1ciency and solvency of the sure
ties thereon, and report in writing the
facts to the Mayor. Such report shall
specify each bond with the sureties, and
the amounts for which each surety Is
bound. and state whether or not they are
sufficient and solvent. Upon such report.
the Mayor shall take such action as shall
be necessary 10 protect the city, and may
require new bonds when necessary. and he
may suspend any officer until a sufficient
bond is filed and approved.
The herald., 1898-10-17
ARTICLE XIV,
CONTRACTS.

Sec. III. The City OF Los Angeles shall
not be, and is not bound by any contract,
or in any way liable thereon. unless the
same is made in writing by order OF the
Council. the draft thereof apptoved by
the Council, and the same ordered to be,
and be, signed by the Mayor, or some
other person authorized thereto, In be-
half OF tho city; provided, that the APP
proval of contracts by the City Attorney,
as required by the provisions of Article
x of this charter shall be endorsed on
the draft thereof before the Council shall
have power to approve the same; but
the Council, by an ordinance, may au-
thorize any officer. committee or agent
OF the city to bind the city without a
contract In writing for the payment OF
The herald., 1898-10-17

in this charter, all demands payable out
of the treasury must, before they can be
approved by the Auditor or paid by the
Treasurer, be first approved by the Coun-
dred dollars shall be presented 10 the
Mayor for his approval in the manner
hereinbefore provided for the passage OF
ordinances or resolutions
Sec. 81. All claims and demands what.
ever against the City of Los Angeles, ex-
cept interest coupons on bonds and bonds
of the funded debt, shall be paid only on
demands as herein provided for.
The herald., 1898-10-17

Sec. 1O1. All demands payable out of
the Library Fund must, before they can
be approved by the City Auditor. or paio,
Directors of the Los Angeles Public Ii
brary, by vote of three members there
of taken with the ayes and noes and
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13

100 pair Mems Heavy Working and
Street Shoes at 0S cents.
Boys Shoes at 79c. to sl.25.
Misses Shoes at 9sc and Sl.25.
Children's Shoes at any price.
We invite you 10 call and examine our
shoes before buying elsewhere and make
yourself at home and we will De at your
command.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13
GREENWOOD.

Miss Mary and Mr.. Edgar Davies at
tended party at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Shorten, OF South Scrsn-
ton, in honor of their daughter Re-
b"cca.
Henry Evans has returned home af-
ter spending a few days with his sis
ter, Mrs. c. n. Archer, of Hackensack,
n. 7
John Nabromski, a rockman employ
Cd i'll the No. mines of the Greenwood
Coal company, had his foot squeezed
between the cars and rib.
william Mcclure visited friends in
Scranton yesterday.
Mrs. Isaac S. Davies and daughters.
Margaret and Edna, are spending a
fe" daVs with relatives in Lee.
DR.. +. L. Weston, of West Pittston.
called on friends in this place yester-
day.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13
WILL BRING OFFICIAL ORDERS.
Return OF General Graham from
Washington Is Awaited.
BY Associated Pre-


Camp Meade, Midd!etown, Pa. Oct.
l2.-When General Graham returns
from Washington, where he finishes his
testimony today before the war inves-
tigating board, he will bring with him
the official orders as to the rrpresen-
tation at Philadelphia during the peace
jubilee, If permission is granted by
the war department General Youngs
division will be sent to Philadelphia
and from there south.
There is no longer any question of
doubt regarding the movement of the
Second corps beginning October -. To-
day big batch of orders We're received
from the war department which includ-
cd the orders regarding the reorgan-
i2ation of the army and the assiCn-
ment Of the various corps to the new
Cam.s.
! '"ul nant Colonel Mates, of the
"hirt' nth Pennsylvania, rendered his
resignation t. take effect at che close
Of a ten days furlough. Included
among the discharges of generals are
Generals NJ. w. Sheafe and Joseph w.
Plume. VINO have been attached to the
Second army CORPS at Camp Meade.
Colonel Girard sent twenty-four sick
soldiers to leading hospitals today He
will send twcnty-four more this even
ing to Harrisburg and Lebanon hospi-
tails.
General Graham has issued an order
that no more furlouGhs will be granted
To enlisted men until after the move
ment % the corps, The. men in hos
pilals who are able to travel alone will
be furloughed for thirty days on recon-
mendation of the hospital surgeons,
Corporal Samuel McCamant, Com
pany d, Eighth Pennsylvania, son of
eN-Audttor General McCamant, is SER
iously i'll with typhoid fever at his
home IN Harrisburg
large donation from Providence,
L. l., contributed through the ladies'
war relief, of Rhode Island, reached
the Harrisburg hospital this afternoon.
II includes 55 pairs of pajamas, a dozen
glasses of jelly, two dozen sheets and
four dozen pillow cases. The Second
tennessee band will give concert at
Harrisburg tomorrow evening for the
benefit of st. Glare infirmary, which
Is treating fever patients sent from
CAMP
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13
JOINED THE CROWD.
You rlay Ask Why and How We Can
Sell Shoes Cheaper Than Other Shoe Stores

Sh
ia o are
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13
MINooKA.

Private James Merrick is home from
Camp George Meade on a seven days
furlouEh.
John Labronsk, driver in the No.
l shaft of the Greenwood Coal COM
pany, was slightly injured yesterday by
being squeezed between two loaded
cars.
Austin Mulherin, a former resid Mt
or this place, now a marine on board
the receiving ship Vermont, at League
Island navy yard, is visiting his cousin,
Mrs. Patrick Higgins.
The LaCkaWanna township school
board met yesterday. The teachers re-
ceivcd their monthly stipend. After
the meeting the board unfurled a new
flag to the breeze at No. l building.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13
LETTER FROM
DAWSON CITY
FOR THE TRIBUNE BY
HON. A. t. coNNELL.

Repeats What He Said in Former
Letter That the Klondike is Bad
Place for q Man to Gro Unless He
Has Some Money-Where the Most
Valuable Claims Are Located and
Their Owners Who Are Amassing
Great Wealth.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13
AFEW OF THE MANY BARGAINS:

200 pairs Ladies DonGola Button and
Lace Shoes. up-to-date toe patent
tips; were made for $780, our price, only
50 cents.
800 pair Ladies' Fine Vici Kid Lace
Shoes; plain toe; We're made In Lynn,
Mass, TO sell at {2.25; our price, only Sis
$50 oair Ladies Button Shoes; patent
tip; F. f. f. width; flexible sole made
to sell at $3.50; our price. only sl,Go
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13

$50 pair Ladies' Hand-turned Shoes at
324S and s2,9S.
Mems Shoes at half the regular price,
200 pair Mems Calf Hand-Sewed Coin
Toe Soled Shoes; made to sell at $4OO;
our price, only sl,9s
300 pair Mems Box Calf and Winter
Russet Sole Shoes at sl9S.
15O pair Mems Shoes, Congress and
Lace. made to sell at $3.50; our price, only
$l49.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13
HIS RESIGNATION
HAS BEEN ACCEPTED
1T. COL. c. c. MATES NO LONG
Err A VOLUNTEER.

Received Word Yesterday That His
Application for Release Was
Favorably Received and in a Day
or Two He Will Return to Scran-
ton--Major stillwell Temporarily
in Command of the Regiment-Lt.
Thomas Murphy Is Improving.
Notes of the Camp.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13

did not find any color" We then came
horne to replenish our grub stock and
found on our arrival that the discoverer
of the creek had "salted" his claim
by cutting up a 500 gold piece and
blowing 1t into the earth with a gun.
He sold his claim for 5000 and de-
camped. However, we are going back
again to sink a few more holes. there
may be something in 1t that escaped
the discoverer. The richest creeks in
the Klondike are the El Dorado, Bo-
nanza, Hunker and Dominion. They
are immensely wealthy. Below l ap-
pend a list of the richest claims and
the names of the owners: A. F. stand
ard, Nos. g. and Eldorado and 40
Bonanza: Louis Empkins, of Illinois,
No. Eldorado; Langlow Bros, Ia
coma, IL Eldorado; Thomas Pelkey.
Wiliamsport, Pa. al Bonanza, one-half
No. 3 Eldorado, 2 and All Gold
Creek; Miss b. A. Mulrooney, Arch
bald, Pa, owns No. 20 on Henderson
Creek below discovery, 27 Dominion
below, and an interest in 81 Bonanza
above, one-sixth of the stock of the
Bonanza, Eldorado, quartz and Placer
Mining company, 10 per cent. of the
stock of the Yukon Telephone Syndi-
cate company. and valuable claim on
Hunker.
KING OF THE KLoNDIKE.
Alex Mcdonald, commonly known as
the king, owns the following claims:
Nos. 10 Eldorado, %, %, 80, "a. 36, 81, 40,
Al, 46, all on Eldorado "a above, 6 be-
low, below, 20 below, 33 below 81, 43
all on Bonanza. No. s, 2, 3, Z, 8, 13, II,
Is, 10, 20, 81, 90, 90. "a, %, q. on Do
minion. No. IS, s, 10, 13, IL, Is, 81, 20,
30, 32, 33, "a, 35, SO, 37on Sulphur; No. 3
and above discovery on Hunker and
8. 6, 23. 26, 81, 2S below discovery on
Hunker. He is without doubt the rich
est man here and he is buying up
claims every day. Other rich owners
are William Scouse, Washington;
Charles Lamb. Iowa; Emil Gay, Ore
gon; George Lamarre, Canada; DR..
i d. Carper Chicago; Charles b. Tur-
geon, quebec; L. G. Grossly. Califor-
MIA; X. Hallstead Seattle; George w.
Cormack. the discoverer of gold on
the Klondke, and others too numer-
Gus to mention at this time, but which
l will send in my next.
George Cormack, the discoverer is
getting as high as $21S to the pan on
Ills claim. A pan can be washed in
less than six minutes.
The following is an exact copy of a
bill OF fare that hung in a Dawson res
taurant last winter: Bowl of soup, 81;
mush and milk $l.25: dish canned
corr. SLIPS: dish canned tomatoes, 50;
stev ed fruit, SIPS; slice of pie, 75
cents; doughnuts or sandwich with
coffee, SIPS; beans. coffee and bread.
81; plain steak, $3.50; porter house, S.;
Hay is $500 ton here at the present
time. | cannot tell at this writing
when I will be home, probably not for
five years. I am going to keep on pros
pecting, and that takes time.
Alex. +. Connell.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-10
HIT

Nothing else like it. Makes the skin
white and as smooth as velvet. Equal
to any 25 cent soap on the market,
Single Cake for 10 cents.