The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-18
IDAHO NEWS.

telegraph line will soon be bull
from Eagle Rock to the Nationa
Park. We hope this report is true
It would be great convenience tt
the people of the upper country ant
we believe would pay from the start
Idaho Statesman A good stor,
is told on Governor Tom Bennett
who presided over the destinies o
Idaho more than a decade ago. Il
seems that member Of the legis
lature, who had been annoyed by
his neighbours hog,..introduced bill
compelling the owner Of the pro
scribed animal to keep him within
the limits of pen. The bill passed
and went up to Governor Tom fol
his approval. To the surprise o.
the members and the chagrin of its
sponsor, it was returned with his
veto. When asked for reason he
exclaimed: 81 don't believe in the
bill in the first place, and if l did
| wouldn't sign bill that spelled
hog with big III" and Governor
with little "g."-Two men fight
over a dog; both killed and the
dog goes free. A story comes from
Bruneau, which, as near as we can
get the facts, is as follows: Ever
EFT Hill and James Davidson got
into a dispute over dog. The de-
bate became heated, strong adject-
ives were INDUCED in, charges were
made back and forth without pre-
vious consideration, until Everett
Hill, finding that Davidson had the
reader use of the English language,
took time by the forelock and shot
him, whereupon B. Rockman, a
friend of the dead man, took occa-
sion to bring the dispute to close
by shooting Hill. 1t is said there
was an old fued between the parties.
Rockman has given himself up, and
claims self-defense, there being no
witness to the shooting.
Blackfoot News: The Second AS
sislant Postmaster-General has no.
titled Delegate Dubois that an order
has been made to increase the SER
vice on route No. AZ ,2OS, from Gen
tile Valley to Lago. to three times
week, beginning May 10th; also,
that as soon as the intermediate
offices are established he will con-
slider the petition for mail service
direct from Blackfoot to Cariboo.
The First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral is considering the petition for
the establishment of the intermedi-
ate offices referred to.-The In
dams on the Lemhi reservation
voted solidly against removal to
Fort Hall reservation in council
May I'd. This settles that question.
An emigrant travelling north
ward, Wednesday, was found to have
one of Braskie' S steers in his herd
which he seems to have been tax
ing for company. Judge Hopkins
called him to the amount Of $50
for the drive.
Free Press: Fourteen Nez Perez
Indians. eight of whom are regularly
ordained ministers of the Presby-
terrain Church, were present at the
Presbytery of Idaho meeting held
at Moscow last week, and were act
i've participants in the proceedings.
Our Nez Perces are not blanket In
dams by any means, and if their
reservation were broken up and
they lived among white neighbors
they would soon make as good cit
liens as anybody.
Bellevue Press: Passenger traffic
west on the Short Line is vely light,
and Washington Territory immi-
grafton has almost been stopped.
There are over 5000 idle men on
the streets OF Seattle, and they are
all 'busted." That section is as
badly overdone as was Southern
California.
Democrat The attention Of the
Caldwell Tribune, Ketchum KEY
STONE, Grangeville Free Press, and
all newspapers in the Territory, as
we'll as the people, is called to the
fact that no public meeting has ever
been held anywhere to urge state
hood. The scheme is purely politi-
cal, and emanated from the national
republican leaders and unfolded by
Dubois, Willis Sweet & Co., whose
first move was to try and get the
democratic party committed to it,
which, SO far as this county is con-
cerned is failure. The scheming
republican politicians, not the peo-
pie, ask for and urge statehood, and
the slate they made will not be
changed. Having the strength to
run it out to success they do not
have to change it.-Judge Heath,
the veteran miner and pioneer, of
Atlanta, has for many months been
running a tunnel on one of his
quartz locations. His faith that he
would eventually strike the ledge,
and find it rich, was unbounded,
and on his yearly visits to Boise
his enthusiasm on the subject was
considered nv his friends almost a