The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1899-01-21
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

len residents Va nlI OOtAs ASD~ss
were attacked with trichinoeis after
eating pork and young girl died
Of the disease.
Ten Spanish priests, who fed
from the Philippines to escape Agui-
naldo's wrath, arrived in San Fran
cisco last week.
The sword Of honor voted BY
Congress to Admiral Dewey has
reached the Navy Department and
will be held until the Admiral re-
turns to this country.
The number of train robberies in
the United States in 1898 was 70,
in which five passengers and train
men and FIVE robbers were killed.
It is reported that Grant G. Gill
lett. the Kansas cattle plunger, is
coming back to the United States to
face his creditors in Kansas City.
The epidemic of grip is still rag
ing in the large eastern cities, also
in some of the cities of the west.
In Oakland, CAL, there were 1000
cases reported last week.
The centennial anniversary of the
purchase of the Louisiana territory,
in 1903, by the United States from
France, will be celebrated in st.
Louis during the years 1908 and
1904.
A bank in New York city has
largely increased its business, par
ticularly among fashionable women,
by issuing to it's depositors gilded
check books with monograms there,
on. The bank checks are printed
in gold from exquisitely engraved
plates.
The San Francisco Bulletin says
that Lucky" Baldwin has decided
to erect an eight-story fre-proot
building on the property occupied
by the old Baldwin hotel, which was
burned several weeks ago. The
building will cost $3,00O,OOO, and
the work of construction will COM
mence as soon as the ruins Of the
old building can be cleared away.
Two new anecdotes of Dickens
have recently come to light. says
the Pail Mall Gazette. The first is
as follows: He one day related
how the title of solver Twist" had
suggested itself. The author had
long puzzled his brains to know
what name to bestow on the youth
! fal irjsh foundling, when one day
citing into one of Shillibeers om-
"a usss. then not long established
e.. ''fsuuctor slammed the door
ns s,lngted out to the driver, go
Ca, Oliver Twist" 1.-THE singularity
Of the cognomen struck me-" said
Dickens, land l said to myself,
That's the name for my new hero. ."
Upon another occasion Dickens
asked a friend if be knew what "a
'convivial glass Of port wine' was,
because, said he, Samuel Carter
Hall has just written asking if l
will go and take one with him."
Great Rabbit Hunt.
The Salt Lake Herald says: Sun
days rabbit hunt at Seco was q
heavy record-breaker. Everything
went off smoothly, including the
guns, and Z 115 rabbits were brought
home over the Short Line. There
were seventy hunters in the party,
who divided honors about equally.
There is literally no end to rabbits
at Seco.
Raised One Dollar Bills.
A recent dispatch from Fayette-
vile, Ark, says:
For several days there have been
in circulation here a number of 81
bills which have been raised to So.
The officers to-day arrested Mrs.
Martha Moss, her son Will and her
grandson, Frank Stewart. Mrs.
Moss is woman probably IS years
of age and has borne good repu-
tation; Frank Stewart is a student
in the state university and leader
of the A. l. U. band, and is one Of
the most popular boys in school.
Since the arrest Stewart has made
a statement, telling the manner in
which the work was carried on by
Will Moss in the kitchen of their
home on College Avenue, and his
mother. Martha Moss, passed the
bills for him. Stewart, it seems,
had no hand in the matter, but was
present and saw the work being
done. The figure l was erased and
a 5 was printed with rubber stamp.
Where the word one appears the
zone" was erased and the letters
Five" printed. The work was so
well done that only an expert would
detect the change.
Blue Bloods Raro In Gotham.
The names comprising New York's
exclusive set have suffered ruth
less crossing at the pen of Mrs.
John King Van Rensselaer,, who
has written book in which she is
said to argue that the Four Hun
dred is thing of the past and that
the blue bloods of society number
only 38.
When the late Ward McAliister
revised the social list ond Enn;foI