Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-24

was not at any time the intention of
the honorable O. gentlemen, RatcliT
and Caldwell, to pay us the money,
and these two worthless told us that
they had prepared letter, in good
faith, to send us, saying they could
not pay us the $50 for our expenses,
but did not send it. Why? Mark
their reason: 1--WE thought if we did
send it, your nine would not come
down, and so there would be no game"
SIN good faith!" If that is good faith,
what is it to be false?
Conductor w. l.. Ryder, on his own
motion, told me that he knew that
money was subscribed Solicited by
this Ratclitf and Caldwell) by the
business men Of Shoshone to pay the
expenses of the Haley club, and that
it was we'll understood in Shoshone
that the HALEY club were to be paid
SIS for their expenses-s2O for the
Pocatello game and $50 for the Sho-
shone game.
This w. G. B. Allen quotes me as
saying: "The Shoshone manager is a
s. of b. and thief, and the bust
ness men are a set of thieving s.
of b." l brand the statement as
absolutely and unqualitiedly false, and
call upon A.. S. Senter of Shoshone,
F. Mason of the Haley TIMES, E. r.
Richards and Judge E. B. Lennon
of HALEY, to prove that it is false.
These men stood within few feet of
me, and this man Allen was in the
party, and knows in his own craven
heart that it is false. The exact lam
guage l used was: "1'hat men who
would do what Ratcliff and Caldwell
had done were dishonorable men, and
not fit for decent people to associate
with; that men who would do what
they had done would steal" People
who know me are we'll aware that | do
not use the language attributed to ne
under any circumstances, and when
one Of my friends said as much to
this Allen, he said l was drunk. This
fellow must be very we'll acquainted
with my habits Of life when he makes
such statements. He says: "Seeing
a chance to get out of TIE way, Coffin,
who created the muss, skunk out OF
the crowd and got on the train"
Mr.. II. Z. Burkhart says that after
the row had quieted down he found
me on the platform, in the crowd,
without my hat, laughing as if it was
a huge joke, and when he insisted
that l should get on the train, | told
him I must get my hat first. | can
also refer the gentlemen to Mickey
O'Brien, the "bad man from the Main
Line" as to whether | skunk out Of
the crowd at the first sound of the
battle. We did not hunt the row.
Our people had gone to their train to
60 home, and the difficulty that fol-
lowed was brought about by the fell
lows who came to us there. IT, E.
Caldwell, as an extenuating clrcum-
stance to his dishonorable course, says
that he wrote letter to me, ETC., but
did not send it. What is one to think
of a man whose moral sense is SC
blunted that he convicts himself OF
being a scoundrel and don't know
that he has done so? Who is this
Caldwell that he put himself forward
as the champion of Shoshone? She
needs no such champion, and did the
need exist, there are plenty of good
men and true among her people tc
take up her quarrel, and in this case
a contemplate dead-beat but puts hel
in a wrong light, when he presume:
so much. AS an instance showing one
of his many acts by which this Cald-
well has earned his title "Dead Beat
He is to-day owing the Rev. | T. Os
born, of this place, bill for board
and lodging furnished his family two
years ago.
What is one to think Of such u man
as w. G. B. Allen editing newspa
per, presumably the mouthpiece and
exponent of the people of Shoshone
prostituting, as he does, the liberty Of
the press by the license he takes in
williully and maliciously publishing
that which he knows of his own
knowledge to be false in regard to a
private citizen, and as to what pri-
vate citizen said, putting words into
his mouth which may be Aliens dali,
familiar, bat are not such as are cur
rent among decent men? Why, a
contemplate cur that yelps at ones
heels would show more of common
decency, and this fellow has we'll