Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-26
TEXAS ANGEL SPEAKS.
His Statement Of His Trouble with
Messrs. kingsbury and McGOwau.

desire that you permit me, through
your columns, to correct the state
ments made in an article in the TIMES
of the Gath inst, which misrepresents
in many material instances the facts of
the case. ask it of you, believing
that in the haste Of your editorial work
you accepted as true a one-sided
statement made by your informant
without waiting to,hear the other side.
In regard to the reports from Sho-
shone l only stated what heard
which was, in substance, that there had
been going on for a month past, at
that place,a series of petty prosecu-
tons of technical violations of the pc
nal statutes Of the Territory, instigated
for the purpose Of increasing the fees
of the party acting as prosecuting of.
ficer; aud several instances were cited
which seemed to corroborate the state.
ments.
| heard these reports repeated ev-
erywhere l went while in Shoshone,
and the statements were made by par
ties who stood we'll in the community,
and some of them leading citi-
zens. 1t seemed to me that from all
could learn there was a deep seated
feeling OF Indignation on the part of
the people OF Shoshone concerning
the manner in which the District At
torney's Office was conducted in that
place. l happened to refer to the
matter on my return in the presence
of one or two friends in Haley, stating
my authority, and that l did not de-
sire it to be repeated to make any
trouble; but in some way it reached
the ears OF the brother Of the District
Attorney, his deputy here, who imme-
diately wrote to MIR. MCGOWAN, sus-
pending him from the Office of Dep
uty at Shoshone. The statement in
regard to the suit in which l was en-
gagged in Shoshone is untrue. The
suit is not terminated, and it is not
my habit or disposition to wax wroth
when defeated in IA lawsuit. Defeat
sometimes overtakes every lawyer,
and have learned by this time to
take such things philosophically.
deny that had any Ill will or ILL.,
feeling towards Mr.. MCGOWAN, and
was naturally indignant when Mr..
Kinssbury accused me of having such
motives. | regret to say that for a
moment | lost my temper. But that
Mr.. kingsbury made any menace,
threat, act or moveu ent whatever that
in the least intimdated me, is a
baseless fabrication OF his fertile brain.
He seemed to take the epithet as If he
had heard it before and had become
accustomed to 1t as applied to him
an old story, SO to speak. l expected
to be strucl, there and then, and de.
served IT, and as far as my physica
means would go was prepared fol
the consequences; bat Mr.. Ningsbur,
did nothing that indicated resentment
The statement that when McGoway
came up and taxed ne with circuli.-
ting the reports, ! "took it all back,
is equally untrue. | told Mr.. Nc
Gowan some Of the instances the PEG.
tle had cited to me in which his pros
ecutions seemed small and gyoundless
one IA particular as to prosecuting &
man for stealing three apples wlicI
he gave to some children who were
playing on the street. Ills story o1
that prosecution varied from that
heard at choshoue, aud | told him il
his statement was the. iact-which he
assured me 1t vast put diiferen,
phase Oh the matter. And it seems
lny desire to do Mr. MCGOWAN full
justice in the matter is construed intc
talking it all back" l have nothing
to take back. The matters referred to
were matters OF public discussion in
/ Shosnone and stated what seemed.
and really was, a matter Of public dis
cussion and public feeling.
viii state, further, that in a con
yersa,ioa with A J. Bruner since
ne suspended NJ. McGowan, he in
formed me that he had repeatedly
heard similar reports from Shoshoue
B., L., I