The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-03
POLITICAL NOTES.
Phonix, with . Word for Kinney, Lewis
and Vineyard. Returns to AShes.

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tary) finds fault with Kinney be.
cause he dropped into the Alturas
hotel bar and gave Art Smiths
FOUNDERS" a square talk from the
shoulder. Picotte. c. S. (corres.
ponding secretary says Kinney
was drunk and doesn't want people
to vote for him. Campaign lies are
as numerous in the brain of the
Times man as these are black hairs
on a Spanish woman. In the same
article, Picotte, c. s. Correspond
ing secretary says vote for Art
Smith, the SOBER, industrious, fru-
gal sheriff.
This is the unkindest cut of all
against Art. We all know that Art
has his tank two-thirds full three
hundred and sixty-tive times in a
year. If industry and frugality
consist in running gambling rooms
in connection with the Alturas no.
tel, then Art is success. Last
winter, room was specially fitted
up for gambling in the third story
of the Alturas hotel. 1t was a pri-
vate gambling room; It was run on
the industrious" and frugal !"
plan. It was meant as bait to all
travelers-commercial men, drum
mers, ranchers, business men, as
all of this class were the victims Of
the industrious" and " frugal
methods.
The FOUNDERS" that lounge
around Smiths hotel are ready to
'do up" anybody in any kind of a
game. And certainly Art Smith,
the republican candidate for sheriff,
must know of their methods. These
FOUNDERS" are very anxious to de-
feat Kinney. They will start any
kind of a report and make noun
tain out of a mole hill, if such
piece of manufacture would accom-
plish their ends. Yes, the FOUNDERS
are against Kinney. Is Kinney to
be defeated by the FOUNDERS"
whose chief occupation is to gamble
and "do up" the unsophisticated?
Is Kinney to be defeated by board
ing-house fiendsl l submit these
two questions to the honest citizens
of Alturas. 1t is nothing uncom-
mon for the "rounders" and board
ing-house fends around the Alturas
hotel to start campaign lies against
Kinney.
People in HALEY are astonished
that a man of Picotte's previous
reputation among moral people
should attack any one as being i'm
moral. Picotte formerly 'bummed'
around HALEY as drunk as any
common drunk. Whenever per-
son is openly accused and COM
monty talked of on the streets as
doing an immoral act, so disgust
ingly immoral and so shockingly
horrible as to turn mems stomachs,
it is high time that the disgustingly
immoral scoundrel pull in his horns
and not attempt to pose before a
community as teacher of morals.
VINEYARD AND LEWIS.
The diyisionists are making a
red hot fight for their legislative
ticket. They are attacking Vine
yard and Lewis with well sharpened
spears. We know that these two
gentlemen are ernest in wishing to
preserve "the empire of Alturas"
intact. They are thoroughly CON-
petent men, very familiar with par
Elementary usages, and would rep
resent US in our territorial council
with the credit our great county
deserves. Elect them.
HALEY BLOW OUT.
Major Hill, Colonel Hill, General
Hill, Dung Hill, or some other kind
of Hill, from Bellevue, addressed
the citizens of HALEY last Saturday
evening. He mauled the Confed-
crates in true Beatty style. He
knocked Grover down and tried to
pull his shirt off without unbutton-
ing the collar. Of course, the shirt
tore, and Hill got wrathy because
Grover had big neck. What sat
isfaction it is to some orators &?
to stamp the life out of the Confed-
crates, twenty-five years after they
grounded arms, end two thousand
miles from the scenes Of the CORY
conflict. 1t is reported here that
there was as much argument in
Hills harangue as there would be
in "a last years cat" Deputy Har-
ris, the usual dispenser of the Con-
federates on Wood River, has thus
far kept off of the scene of blood
shed and carnage.
A twenty-two-year-old STRIPPING
by the name of Parsons, attempted
to say something about Bessemer
steel. He didn't know anything
about it and forgot his piece and
Quit in time to save himself the
humiliation of breaking down. The
torch-light was grand fizzle. BY
actual count, there were Is men
and 43 boys. BORROWERS speech
reminded me of the time, when he
raised the pot on pair of deuces,
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