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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
MAKING BRICKS WITH OIL.
Found to he Cheaper and Better T0an
Any Other Fuel

=
Any Other Fuel
An experiment of considerable in
.terest to brick manufacturers and deal
ers has been tried in brickyau in New
York state, fuel oil being used instead
of wood or coal oil to burn kiln of
bricks. Fuel oil is the product left after
crude petroleum has been refined. 1t
has been used for some time as fuel for
engines and furnaces, but its adapta-
biity for the more delicate operation
Of br.-ning pottery or bricks is recent
discovery. The success of the expert
ment, says the Pittsburgh Dispatch, is
likely to reduce the cost of brick max
ing in a considerable degree. Forced
draught is an important factor in the
system, and by it the heat from the
burner can be directed at uniform
temperature toward any part of the
arch of the kiln. The oil runs in pipes
around the base Of the kiln and feeds
directly from the burner in the arch i'll
the interior. The forced draught "feeds
in with the oil, and by the turning of
q valve the heat can be regulated at any
point within the arch.
It is claimed that the use of oil is
much cheaper than that Of either coal
or wood for brick burning. The cost of
burning LOCO bricks with wood at five
dollars cord is so cents; the ccst where
coal is used is 50 cents; with oil the cost
is SO cents. In burning bricks with wood
12 men are required every "a hours: if
oil is used two men can do the work.
The new method is quicker, completing
the burning of the kiln in six days, in
stead of seven or eight, as formerly, and
the bricks are better, because with the
forced air draught the temperature of
the kiln is entirely under control.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
GREAT QUANTITIES OF FOOD.
The Productive Power OF the Un1teA
States II Now I'm Evidence.

Vhe productive rover OF tine UD1teO
States II Now in Evidence.
Michael g. Mulhan, F. S. S., in North
American Review, writes: It appears
that as regards quantity three Ameri-
cans now export as much as five did
90 years ago, which suffices to show how
groundless are the predictions of some
writers who tell us that as population
increases SO the surplus products for
expectation must diminish. In the
last 20 years population has risen from
5000, COO to II .O0O, 900 souls, an increase
Of SO per cent, and at the same time
the weight of exports has risen ITS
per cent; that is, three times as fast
as population.
The quantities of food yearly ex-
ported are sufficient to feed sc, 1000 900
persons in Europe, from which it ap-
pears that American farms raise food
for 100, 1000 900 people yearly. The west
ern prairies are capable of carrying
double the present number of live stock.
and producing ten times as much grain
as they do, so that. for at least century
to come, there is every probability that
the exportation of food will increase
with population. The same is true as
regards cotton, the crop having risen
125 per cent. in 90 years.
The world is only beginning to have
evidence OF the enormous productive
power of the United States.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
THE MAGNET IN SURGERY.
Useful in Drawing steel from the
Flesh.

F1G0ns
A young laundress thrust broken
needle into her right hand while wash
ing clothes. The needle having disap-
peared in the flesh, the surgeon, who
was consulted several days after the ac-
cident, refused to perform an operation,
fearing lest he should be obliged to
make number of incisions amid the
ligaments Of the articulation. Two
months afteward, says Cosmos, the
girl lost the use of her right hand, and
the least movement of the fingers
caused her exquisite pain. Drs. Go
rinewski and Cerestin then determined
to extract the needle with the aid of
a magnet, drawing it into feshy re-
gion where an incision could be made
without danger. To cause this move
ment they chose very feeble electro
magnet. But difficulty arose; the
needle having entered point first it
would have to be drawn out backward,
the broken part in advance. The first
trial lasted two hours with short inter
walls for rest, without appreciable re-
suit. Before the third trial, the girl
said that she felt pricking in the palm
of the hand near the place where the
magnet had been applied and where
the needle ought to appear. At the
ninth sitting, finally, the needle ap-
peared beneath the skin and came out
whole, broken end first, without pain
and without loss of blood. It fixed it.
self to the pole of the electromagnetic,
and the young laundress was cured
This result-the drawing of needle
through the fesh-is very remarkable.
In "a hours after the first trial this
needle was extracted from the inside of
the hand, after lying there more than
two months.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
BIG TELESCOPES.
Things That May Be Revealed with the
Modern Glass.


Modern Glass.
There have been wonderful develop
ments in the science of astronomical
observations during the last few years,
but it is believed that we are only on
the threshold of greater discoveries
than any that have yet been made.
Astronomers are greatly interested in
the immense Photographic telescope
which has lately been completed for
the Harvard college observatory and
will be sent to Peru, where the atmos-
pheric conditions are said to be far
superior to those at any other station
hitherto occupied by astronomers. It
is the gift, says the Los Angeles (Cal.)
Times, of Miss G. w. Bruce, of New
York, who, at the suggestion Of Prof.
Pickering, furnished the fifty thousand
dollars which the instrument has cost.
The object glass is constructed sub
stantially like an ordinary portrait
lens, but is two feet in diameter, with
q focal length Of eleven feet; in ap-
pearance, therefore, it compares with
an ordinary telescope of the same di-
ameter very much as mortar with a
Krupp gun. In Photographic efficiency,
as measured by the quickness with
which it can secure the impression of q
faint star or nebul@, it is about four
times as powerful as the thirteen-inch
lenses Of the telescopes which are now
engaged in charting the heavens, and
the compound lens enables it to cover
an area nearly five times as Large; j. e.,
in. Eve minutes it will photograph stars
as fast as the older instruments could
reach in twenty, and will take in five
times as large portion of the sky. BY
longer exposure fainter and fainter
stars can be reached beyond any limit
now assignsble. IT has been supposed
until lately that we had about reached
the limit Of capacity in telescopes, the
making Of lenses for these instruments
being most difficult and tedious job,
requiring several years to complete,
and necessitating the greatest care to
avoid even the smallest flaw, which
would render the telescope worthless.
#. however, there is anything in q re-
cent discovery which Is reported to
have been made BY an inventor In Eu-
rope, We may expect before long. to see
Telescopes constructed compared with
which the most powerful now in nse
are mere toys. This inventor claims to
have discovered method by which =
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08

KETCHUM IDAHO SATURDAY. JANUARY s, 18s8


number OF lenses may be welded to-
gether without detracting from the eff
fciency of the glass. If this is true
what wonderful discoveries may not be
in store in the field of astronomy? AL
ready with the latest telescopes in use
it is impossible to see an object on the
face of the moon as large rs our court
house. With telescope Of greatly I'M
creased power we should be able to find
out what those so-called canals on the
planet Mars really are, and whether
that planet is inhabited, as appears
probable from the fact that it has an
atmosphere, while it's surface is diver
sified with land and water. The pos
sibilities of astronomical research offer
q most romantic field to those who have
taste for anything beyond their inn
mediate surroundings
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
Notice of Forfeiture.

signs: .-3i A0''' ~
nanSa, rSa are hereby notified that have ex-
iaxo iars - tne sum of one hundred (1OO) dol
'' 10 labor and improvements upon the
=, WELLINGTON
tJue sbant mining claim, situated on Bear gulch,
IN NV Woa aiiIee miles northeasterly of Galena,
copntu muoq River mining district, Blaine
Revisssd RSiss Idaho, as required by section 1924.
inp eu tha Statutes of the United States. be-
for e tbe amount required to hold the same
that 'ne We year ending December 81, 1895
benz sH, your proportion of the same is $50
from tba bbae,half; sh and if within ninety days
ninetr. .1e service of this notice, or within
yon 'ty gays after this notice by publication
port,onu au &C or refuse to contribute your pro-
incluS;noci illSn o. such expenditure as co-owner,
your r;tg ;n1 legal costs Of this publication
pronerttGe @ interest in said claim win become the
pr;,y proy;s;cy. OF the undersigned, under the
'sions OF said section 1924.
~''GMaun, Idaho, January ID. iaa6
1 publications, Jan. Is, 2oo. :
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08

The KrYsfoNt Is the sole representative
Of the Great Upper Wood River. 6awtootA
aed-sncAy niniag regions, ands located
as tits In ths very heast ofsths most prom
ising mining country on the face of the
earth, and leaving nothing uDaons to pre-
sent its readerss complete synopsis Of all
mining news and developments, - well AZ
matters of local importance IN and about
Ketchum, it Is an invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant to the settler of every
craft and position. Subscribe 4or.it. read
it, and let your friends read it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
stevsnsoa Loved By His Readsrs.

9tovensoa Loved By His Readere
Isuppose there are few boys and girls
who have not heard Of Robert Louis
Stevenson, the great author. 1t was
Mr.. Stevenson's good fortune that his
looks should not only be widely read
and admired, but that, as they read
first one and then another, people be-
gan to like the man who wrote them.
until he became not mere name on
the title page, but the invisible member
of many households, and the personal
friend of those who had never seen
him; so that at last, when death stopped
his pen forever, the light grew dim in
many pleasant home and the world
seemed emptier to thousands who
speak the English tongue.-St. Mich
olas.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
cosT OF soLoMoN's TEMPLE
The Seven Years Work Figured Du2
I'm Dollars and Cents.

The seven Years WORK F18 DuHS
I'm Dollars and Cents.
A noted atatistician and investigator
who has lots of time for such work
has been doing some figuring on the
cost of the Temple of Solomon, and
says few people even in these days OF
palmy extravaganza and millionaire
display have an adequate impression
Of the enormous cost of the great tenn
pie. According to Villalpandus, the
talents of gold, silver and brass were
equal to the enormous sum of & $780,
$4,000. The worth of the jewels is
placed at figure equally as high, says
the Philadelphia Record.
The vessels of gold; according to Je-
sephus, were valued at 100000 talents,
which, reduced to English money, was
equal to $575 5,296, ,203. The vessels of
silver, according to the same authority.
were still more valuable, being set
down as worth & SAC, $4,000. Priests
vestments and the robes of singers,
s2,010,0CO, and the trumpets, 100000.
To this add the expense of the build
ing material, labor, etc., and some won
derful figures result. Ten thousand
men hewing cedars, 10000 bearers of
burdens, $4,000 hewers of stone, over
seers, all of whom were employed for
seven years, and upon whom, beside
their wages, Solomon bestowed E6,733,-
97O.
If their daily food was worth so cents,
the sum total for all was G SO. 3.877 O8S
during the time of building. The ma
terials in the rough are estimated al
having been worth E2,545, 1897 900. This
gives a total, just for this much of the
expense, which by no means expresses
the whole cost, Of $40, ,719, ,76O,e61, or
about E52,117,O34, ,S67 40
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
Notice of Publication.

tSB, W. Watlington, A. H. Rahm and
nelson :. KiIuball, your heirs, devisees
,spd assigns:
leu are hereby notified that the under
;nils ;shea mas expended $lOO, in the year 1895,
~ 'aoof and improvements upon the
MEXICAN
iooe mining claim in Warm Springs Creek,
boulder, mining district, Blaine county,
aa aaaano, In order to hold said premises un.
s.l S.a, tne provisions of section 1924, Revised
s,ssues s OF the United States, being the
amount required to hold the same during
aHa Sist lor said calendar year 1895, and if,
tha a,snin ninety days after the expiration of
,ue nrt publication of this notice, which will be
fuu. fpuoiished for ninety days, you fail or re-
sisna /" contribute your respective proper
s"na. vns OF such expenditure as co-owners,
saiS ing TO your respective interests in
s;,t si,u eialm viz: B. w. Watlington, one
teSehth, S6.25; A. H. Rahm, one-six-
sen.h' eh.li' sS:25. and Nelson f. Kimball, one
VIII nntth, sl2;5o, yonr interests in said claim
sr,n n oe forfeited to and become the prop
tn thy 81 The undersigned, under and by vir-
"' VI SAID section 2324.
n. EDWARD BRISBIN.
FIRST publication, Feb. Is, 1885.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
A MUCH ABUSED PHRASE.

For Which Medical Experts Are
Largely Responsible.
In reading the report of the Penham
trial one cannot fail to be sadly inn
pressed by the serious use by medical
experts of that much-abused phrase,
''heart failure" as scientifically descrip-
tive Of the possible cause of the death of
Mrs. Benham. This unhappy express
sion, says the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle, has been applied, as though
it described a disease, only within a
few years, and it is still more recently
that the medical fraternity has fallen
into the slovenly habit of using it, in the
sense indicated. Now, it is the common
and convenient servant, not only of the
careless layman, who may rot know
hetter, but of physicians, who are
either in doubt as to the real cause of
patients death, or are too lazy to be
accurate.
There are various diseases of the
heart, functional and organic, and these
may eventually lead to heart failure.
and consequent death, but it is a rank
abuse of long-suffering language to
confound the result with the cause.
tuberculosis, typhoid fever, the care
less riding of bicycles, and electrocu-
tion, all lead the way to heart failure,
and science has not yet discovered any
other immediate cause of death, what
ever may be the contributing agency.
There are few more wantcn perver-
sions Of the mother tongue than this,
which is first cousin to the almost equal
atrocity found in similar use of the
word malaria. 1t is enough to give a
fastidious personta chill to read of some
one who ''hns" malaria, as though this,
too. were an ailment, instead of an at
mospheric condition leading to disease.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08

see. But the great man has "a counties
named for him in "a different states.
don't see why some of the new states
that came in after the revolution were
not named for Adams and Jefferson
and Monroe and Madison and Patrick
Henry andother fathers of liberty. But
suppose that even these great men had
their enemies in congress, and they COM
promised on the Indians. Partisan poll
tics had much to do with it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08

The last annual report of the Indian
railway administration shows that in
India there are only 1880 miles of
railway laid down and $1,000 sane
toned. Since 1885 the yearly addition
to the mileage has been dropping stead
lily. Then it was 1000 per annum. For
the next four years there was . steady
average Of 900. In 1891 it sank to 600
miles This year it Is only 42s. The
government, hampered by the vanish
ing rupee, can do nothing or next to
nothing more, though the talkings are
lucrative in times Of depression.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08
All Royalty Related.

Nearly all the royal personages OF
Europe are cousins, and not very far
removed, as it has been laid down by q
German genea!ogist that every crowned
head Of Europe, excepting Turkey. is
descended from one or other of two
sisters, who lived about $50 years ago,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08

All kinds OF paper pulp will carry
from five to fifteen per cent. of their
own weight Of clay, and q small addi-
tion of this adulterant, il IL can be prop
erly called %, IL believed by manv
makers to improve the quality of the
paper.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08

Circular Saw for Datehers.
Circular.saws are being used in butch
er shops, q frame being attached to the
block and extending over it to hold
the saw in position on spring arm,
80 it can be depressed a. it is rapidly
revolved by means Of a crank and chain
pear
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08

Cheap Meat In Australia.
Meat in Australia II IN inexpensive
food. Mutton frequently can be pnr-
chased there ct one penny . pound
Fish 10 stll cheaper.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-01-08

xrysrosE is the legal newspaper OF
1n1 snrings Creek, Wood River and
om.tooth Mining Districts.
% rEams OF SUBSCRIPTIONS
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Six mon ontb, 100
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The age-herald., 1898-04-21

mands the first battalion, was brevetted major of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for
 meritorous services in his department during the war He was made lieutenant colonel of volunteers April g. 1866, for faithful and zealouS services in the sub sistence department and was made a colo mel of volunteers on November 26, for the same.
 Captain Cyrus s. Roberts was made a
 first lieutenant on March ?. 1867 for gall lant and meritorious services in the bat
 tie of Winchester, Va, September 19, 1894; captain on March for gallant conduct at the battle of Fishers Hill; major of vol
 unteers for gallant campaigning in the
 Shenandoah and in West Virginia. Captain Wm. P. Rogers enlisted as cor
 poral in the Seventh Maryland infantry on August 21, 1862, and discharged May 4, 1865. He was second lieutenant of the For ty-fourth infantry was transferred to the
 Seventeenth and was made captain Decem- Der 23, 1884.
 Besides this most of the officers and men
 have seen active Indian and strike service. The assembly call was sounded at S:30 and
 both sections pulled out of the depot few minutes apart.
 The crowd was anxious for more and lin-
 gered around the depot, it being rumored
 that another regiment would pass through
 at about Il o'clock. This proved erroneous.
 however, and the crowd slowly dispersed. More Are Coming Two more trains, consisting of fifteen cars left Decatur this morning at 12:35, and were scheduled to reach this city about o'clock. These soldiers are a portion of the Fourth infantry from Fort Sheridan, H., and are also bound for Tampa.
 At 10 o'clock last night three more train loads of troops left Chicago for New Or leans, via the c. & E. I. railroad and the L.. & N. These trains will reach Birmingham about o'clock this afternoon. The three trains are made up of two sleeping cars, sixteen tourist cars. two baggage cars, two horse cars and fifteen other cars. These troops belong to the Nineteenth infantry, stationed at Fort Wayne and Fort Brandon, Mich.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21
TAlLADEGA TATILE.
s. W. Peek, One of the Best Known Citizens of
 the County, Dies.
Special to The Age-Herald.


 Talladega, April 2O.-S. W. Peek, one of the best known citizens of the county, died at his home at kenfroe, about nine miles south of this place, yesterday morning.
 Large shipments of lumber are being made from this place now. All the saw mills are running at their fullest capacity. "Our Orphans" is the name of a little paper published here in the interest of the Presbyterian orphanage. The home will soon have a press and materials and the paper will be gotten out by the inmates of the home.
 The city was full of popuists today it being the occasion for the holding of their county convention. The following gentle men were nominated: J. A. Edwards, for probate judge; R. B. Candle and Jos. Camp, for representatives in the general assem- ply; s. H. Stewart, for commissioner of the First district, and A. T. Jones, for com missioner of the Third district. The nomi- mating of circuit clerk was referred to the executive committed Several speechos 8 were made and they were all genuine popu- list ones, all referring to fraud" perpe- trated by the democratic party, robbng them of their just dues. The nominees are all good man, but are not strong enough to defeat the democratic nominees.
 postoffice has been established at Sum- nyside about six miles east of this town.
 Lots of cattle are being shipped from this city. They are bought up by home men with home capital and then stall-fed until ready for use, thus all the profits are kept at home.
The age-herald., 1898-04-21
SAM NAPIER BITTEN
 BY A MAD HORSE
Bitten by a Mad Dog and Yester- day Developed Hydrophobia.
 Naper in a Bad Fix

A horse mad from hydrophobia, yester- day nearly killed Samuel Naper, who runs a small grocery store on Twenty-fourth street, between Eighth and Ninth ave- nues. pr. Bankston, who attended the injured man, pronounces his injuries dan gerous, especially if hydrophobia should set in.
 About o'clock yesterday morning Ma per was aroused by a negro saying that his (Napers) horse was very sick and to come out and attend to him. As soon as he could, Naper went out and began to examine the horse. The animal was rear ing up and tearing his own flesh with his teeth. Naper approached too near and the maddened brute began an attack upon him. He bit him all over the arms and chest, and when Naper fell he began to paw him with his hoofs and continued biting him. After awhile the men of the neighborhood succeeded in beating the horse off with sticks and Naper was taken into his store to receive medical atten- tion.
 It seems that the horse was injured sev- eral weeks ago when being taken from a car and was also about this time bitten by mad dog which Naper afterward killed. Nothing was thought of the in cident until the terrible disease developed yesterday. As stated above, the attend- ing physician expresses grave doubts as to whether Naper will succeed in throw ing off the effects of the injuries inflicted by the mad horse.
 When the horse was driven off from its attack upon Naper, he began wild run down toward the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham railroad, about block away. Man and beast gave him wide berth, but it is thought that he bit one or two other horses on his way. Down at the railroad track there was narrow opening between some cars and a fence, into which the horse plunged. The space was very narrow and great holes were torn in the animals sides before he came to stand But at last his strength gave out and he rolled over under car, stone dead.