The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-04-07
state News.

Idaho Democrat: K. p. Plov-
man will put in the greater portion
of the coming season running his
big hydraulic gravel claim 1t Idaho
City.
The Gilmore Bulletin says the
water in the Mountain Home res-
ervoir now reaches the 48 foot notch,
and its vast surface presents tho
appearace Of m inland sea.
AGrand Army committee has de-
manded Of the governor m investi-
CATION into the affairs Of tho Sol
diers' and Sailors home ct Monte
Vista, on the ground of misappro-
priation Of funds. The charge 10
made that more than 500, 900 has
passed through the hands Of the
trustees without reliable record.
Tho Paystte Independent says,
the Farmers ditch project, of which
Hon. A. J. Crook Of that city is the
chief promoter, 10 making progress.
A survey has been completed, and
. meeting of parties interested was
held to make definite arrangements
for the work of construction to be-
gin at once.
Lewiston Teller: Major VIM.
Hyndman is expected to reach Lew .
iston this week.
All reports from Washington re-.
garding the reservation bill are fav-
orable. A strenuous effort is being
made to push the matter through
With al due haste. A telegram
has come, hunting up Surveyor
Briggs. The department wishes
to communicate with him. This
is = favorable indication and the
outlook 10 still hopeful.
Pocatello Tribune: tits rumored
that telegram passed through this
city yesterday, directed to Captain
Van Orsdale, announcing that the
lease of the mineral lands on the
reservation to the Kenyon Company
of Butte had been approved by the
Department at Washington. Just
what tho nature of this lease is, We
do not know, but w have been in
formed that the lease gives the COM
pany an exclusive right to control
the mineral lands of the reservation,
but requires it to suitcase to any
person who may make q find and
location, and who afterwards COM
plies with the regulations of the
company in regard to thu" same, and
pays in such royalty as it may de-
eide upon.
Boise Democrat: And now cruel
death has again taken from US brave,
generous, noble-hearted Capt. w.
H.. Nye, a leading citizen of the
state and a resident Of Boise for
nearly thirty years.
At about one o'clock on Friday
he left his place of business and
went home for luncheon. Not feel
ing we'll, instead of eating he re-
clined upon the sofa, intending at
the usual hour to return to the drug
store. Not arousing at the proper
time, Mrs. Nye spoke to>him, and
receiving no response she gently
shook his body. Repeated at
tempts failingto arouse her husband
Mrs. Nye summoned neighbors
and physicians were called who at
once discovered that he was dying
from appoplexy. His spirit winged
its flight shorty after four o'clock.
Capt. Nye was formerly one of the
owners of the Idahoan mine near
Bullion, and at one time could have
sold his interest for q fortune.
Moscow Democrat: Gov. Nc
Cornell has again succeeded in get
ting his name in print. This time,
40 on all other occasions, he is ''in-
terviewed," and anyone knows what
that means, for when Mcconnell
subjects himself to an interview.
he does cut some of the most ass
idi6ed capers with his tongue. To
= Spokane Review reporter, the
swarthy William winded up q half
column in this way:
II do not believe that q single
Democrat will get a seat in the leg
islature, or any Office in any coun-
ty in the state at the next election
and the Populists will get mighty
few. Democracy has done the
worst for Idaho, and Idaho has
enough of it. We can never recover
from our present Aattened-out con-
dition of affairs, until the free trade
policy, in which the third party 10
Just 40 bad as the second, is turned
down by . vote that will speak in
. voice of certainty"
"Isn't Idaho . little unfortunate
in having q gubernational campaign
% often 40 every second year?" the
governor was asked.
1.-THE governors arcn'tat any rate.
Two years is enough for any man"
The governor said he did not
want denomination; "But," he add
ed, II shall Be in the fight for the
seat in the senate now held by Mr..
Shoup."
"Are there any new candidates in
the fleld?"
The governor answered that there
il one, Judge Clagett, and added,