Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-09-16

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WOOd-Etc.
SIR: You have seen fit to lend the
sanction Of your name and official no.
s't'on to the circulation of foul SLAM.
ders concerning me. As you claim to
oe . gentleman, presume that you
nave been misinsormed by parties who
are interested in discrediting my hon.
est and unceasing efforts to prevent
the commission Of fraud in this
community. Heretofore, when such
scurrllous attacks have been made
upon me through the columns of
would'be rival newspapers, l have
permitted them to pass unnoticed,
we'll knowing that my busy, open, use
1ul public life, was accepted at home
as complete refatation and vindica.
ton; while the sheets referred to.
having little or no circulation, could
not DO me much damage abroad. You,
SIR, are astranger--here to-day, liable
to be elsewhere to morrow; and as I
am not sufficiently acquainted with
you to know if your good opinion is to
be had, l will endeavor to secure it bv
making candid statement, and thus
showing you that at least deserve it.
You will excuse brevity, as my time
and space are of some value. l pre-.
sumo that your etfusion in yesterdays
"patent CUTS" is the outcome, not of
the scribbler's itch-of the cacaothes
scr'bendi-but of a feeling that had
wronged you.
l will first enceavor to dissuade
you. In all my remarks upon the land
laws, as interpreted and applied by
Commissioner Sparks, have care.
fully RETAINED from confounding the
individual with the class. This was
very forcibly shown in the following
paragraph, which quote from a re.
cent article:
The Especial agent" of to-day is
liable to the same objection. Al
though personally he may be a very
high toned. honorable man las pre-
sumably is the case with Mr.. Cald.
weID, still the very nature of his
office is Objectionable and repulsive;
and that office should, therefore, be
abolished.
You must admit that l did not re-
fleet upon you, sir, whatever l NAV
have done with regard to the Especial
as class.
While carefully abstaining from
making any specific charges, you
quote the old "saw"-
Ono thi,f e'er felt the halter draw
Win BOou OptulOu VI the law
and refer to "land grabbers in such
a way as to convey the impression that
am one of the class. All the land
that l claim on Gods footstool is en-
braced in 16O,acre lot on Camas
Prairie. That land was taken up un-
der the timber culture law after the
opening of the HALEY Land Office
sumo two years ago-and l have al
ready broken and cultivated 50 acres,
Of which 10 acres are planted to wal
nuts. There is also 1t miles Of good
lence on the land. That this is all
awful know, because l gave the
for the work to Receiver
Waters. Now, sir, am l not fully
within the law? You admitted this
when you wrote that you had not ire
is your word, sir-me
% Washington. You have therefore
lone me an injustice in this particu.
ar.
will point another grieyous wrong
which you have done me, to-wit: by
writing the following:
am a stranger in this community
md comparatively unknown to the
FOOD people of Wood River. yet l
rave too much confidence in their in
diligence, too much faith in their
ense Of justice and fairpIay, to think
hey will accept against me the un.
statements of one who Il
IN informed,) has been repeatedly |
nd publicly cuffed, kicked and COW
'ided by gentlemen whom he had
illi6ed through the columns of his
busiye sheet. |
l have NEVER, either here or
lsew here, been "cuffed, kicked and
owbided." l have never vili6ed any
rivate individual through the col
INNS of this paper. This has never
cen an abusive" sheet. l defy
roof Of the contrary.