The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1883-06-27
Dta<rrsn On sELTIsHNEss.

Secretary Teller " tho effect thAt min
tna patantees may desisnat~ IN which,
II papers published Il equal distance,
their applications shall be Published,
The Hailsy Times takeafright u'ecause q
i Iandj0 once change1, and quotes the SEQ
tion in Revised Statutes which states
that applications for patents on mining
clasma shall b. pnbltshed IN the nearest
PAPER 10 such claims. Everybody
knows Of should know that nothing can
interfere with the latter Of the law, but
tho Times goes Wild over the loss of 10
monopoly on mining patent publications
and ahrieks to SEQ justice mcated ont to
decent jon.nals. II Says.
"A wear an1 haIf ago the Times which,
then ~ now, was BY great odds tlls lead
ing paper OF Wood River, had all the
patent business ~ the upper country So
cured Relying upon tho section just
quoted. Frank q. Harding threw u
patent paper into K1tchum. The pa
ner was nm illcgitimate child, legal bas-
tHrd. but tfiA lack Of decision ri tho then
Register of the Boise Land once made
tho paper. ~ applicants for some twenty
fise applications which were awaiting
tho Registers decision, being In hnr-
nv 70 secure their patents, finally pre-
vailed upon the publisher Of tho Times
10 withdraw his objection to the paper,
and took the chances OF all adverse suits
bascd Upon the illegstimacy OF the pno-
LEGATION, that might he raised. Under
Neerstary Teller's decision all those APP
piicAtIons would have come TO the
Times. and thu KEYSTONE would there
fore, even now, have not the slightest
apology for existence"
This Ii most buso and dastardly Ms
sasslt upon tho honored founder Of a
newspaper that would innowise allow IT'S
conscience 10 be contaminated by com-
parison with the HALEY Times, mud such
nn one a. conld arise only from the yilest
motives. II In n despicabia attack upon
Henry r.. Cook, who labored hard in
the interests OF Wood River during the
first three months of the KKysroSE's ex-
issenee and 4 sneer upon the present
management that viii be met with con-
tempt by comprehensive public. The
kmfaroKx Ii not only OF earlier date
fhan the majority Of newspapers on
Wood River to-day. but it has been en-
tireIy self sustaining since birth; 1t vas
instituted through the enterprise Of Mr..
Cook, for time its editor and propria-
tor. To work in tile interests Of an unde-
veioped aud unrepresentad country.
It grex steadily III merits as a
TRUTHFUL exponent Of the vnsi
mineral field around 1t (which the
Times would have monopoIIzed aud lett
nnwrittenl. md IL has stepped honestly
Independently and vigorously up The
pathway that has lead ketehum To the
superiority IN real weHlth. Tho Key
zTaxn xas recognized ~ too HinnIsIcanl
10 be trampled upon by petty mon
epalist it WIS usherad into respected
life by afiIdavitH that are still III exis-
tenea and net ashamed 10 compare will
anything the Times Gun produce. The
kxrsrosK. IN tho ayent of its situation
became Justly the reeipiant Of a number
Ut patent publications. that assisted i
mneh IN an esu!y struggle for existence
II grew independent Of such supple
nansary support however. t.ni now has
we'll established and wide spread eIreuIa
ton. ~ the only representative Of .
sast mineral country. Whom taken In
hand hy the present ewner. 1t eoutainst
not Il single 1.-Two patent. and cut of from
the upper country by the Vienna Re
parfar. hald not the slightest hope O
anything beyond the established sup
port III subscriptions aud business I'D
sertisanlsnts. still Ne owe an sopolog,
iar existence. A pity Tia the Tilnes can
run the UNIVERSE that there are othe
men with equal right sand better ability
to represent the truth. that men nj prin
eipai .poIl the vile plannings Of tho un
prineipaled; thai tile Haley Times fsile
10 XIII the kKrs1oAEh by encouraging til
yiennA Reporter. that the kKYsrox
lived after the foriner died aud virtual
robbed the Times Of $1,000 in paten,
last Winter; that the Times by the KEY
STONES survival. failed to get cliane
Il rub tie Haley ssxs- Miner Of $la
III PATENTS last Winter aud lust nut h,
isA.t tl,at u certain Hsileyite IL ifritatu
ny u wsrt.
hams nj tins newspapers ire trying
Kill elf Dskota's prospect by pubIishin
ii tories about tho Territory bein
literally .uarniiug with mosquitoes TN
Ara ~ large. AZ eagles. aud eduauy