The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-12-22
legislature has a chance

legal publications and territorial
printing. The newspaper is en-
tirely ignored by the present laws
of Idaho. Under the present code
and We do not believe there is a
parallel ease in the United States
"a notice is called legal which is
written on an old scrap of wrap
ping paper, in a hand that would
even make Horace Greedy blush,
and pasted on a fence post or nail
ed up against somebody's hen
house, intimating that probably
more people would read it On a hen
roost door, in the dark, than if it
were published in a newspaper, as
it ought to be-. There are a few
notices that the law requires pub
lished, but they are woefully in the
minority. The law should require
all notices of a legal nature, in
Guiding calls for election, proceed
ings of county commissioners, etc.;
to be published, and fix a fair and
just rate of compensation. Again
the Territory of Idaho sends $780,
900 east for printing every year,
that ought to be and can be done
at home. Under the present law
Idaho print shops are brought into
direct competition with eastern rat
houses. The official who let's the
contracts has nothing to say. The
law says he shall award the con-
tract to the lowest responsible bid
der, and if the required bond is
furnished, he can do nothing but
award it. We know of two cases
where an eastern house put in a
bid of only about SIS less than an
Idaho house, and while the official
would gladly have given the work
to the home house, he was handi-
capped by the nonsensical and I'M
just law, and forced to send the
work away. If it is thought I'M
wise to make law requiring all
Idaho printing to be done in Idaho,
in the name Of common sense re-
peal the law that is equivalent to
saying that it shall all be sent
away, and allow the awarders of
the printing to use little of their
OWN discretion. Give Idaho a show
and at least give Idaho enterprise
The preference. In these days of
close competition there is no dan .
ger of any Office making a "fat
hing" out of it. ssThose days are
past. We will venture the asser-
ion that in the long run the terri ;
orial printing bills will not be in I
creased. If you can't dc anything '
or us, for Gods sake quit working
against US. At present all law IA
yors the eastern printer. Give us {
show if nothing more.
"A deplorable state of affairs
xists in Indian Valley, this county, i
which should be. remedied in some {
way. Not long since the trustees r
f that school district refused to let
fifth-rate, tin-whistle show outfit i
ccupy the school house until suf-
icient rental was put up in adj
'ance. This just act of the trus- Z
ees highly insultcd a few roughs 7
nd on that night they proceeded 9
o fill themselves on the best and
ighest grade of Indian Valley =
heep dip and started out on their {
ellish-bound raid. They rode to c
ifferent citizens houses, shooting, c
wearing and using obscene, pro-
ane and threatening language, and
t one place they rode into the cor
al, lassoed the COWS and turned |
hem out. At last they reached the t
bject Of their spite-the public !
chool house. Here they partly =
He'd the well, tore down the priv =
IS and threw the seats through the
Iindows of the school house; q
acked and spurred their horses
bus making them kick the rustic
if the side of the building, and
therwise injuring the premises.
md the last we hear of this sweet L
cented, low-bred, ill-gotten gang
nondescripts, they were edifying 7
by sending little punches /
straw and matches, inclosed d
, envelopes, through the postoffice }
} the trustees. Of course, this ele- =
lent should be attended to accord
'g to law, giving each and every
ne the full extent of the penalty
imposed for such crimes, if posi- Il
lie, but they should be punished II
sverely, for such base and low \
own things have no right to an Il
Sistence in any portion of the E
orld. The good people of Indian
alley will not stand but very little
ore of their doings-Weiser Lead