Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-02-12
ALLIANCE TIMMoNs.

"The Boise Sentinel wants to know
the whereabouts of one Timmons,
life insurance agent who has been
swindling the Boise people. He has
visited Mountain Home twice during
the past few weeks--was here about
week ago-but that he was writing in
surance policies or on some other
racket, we don't know"
The above appeared in last week s
Bulletin. 1t was printed for the bene-
fit of the public, but that afternoon
Mr.. Timmons called and informed us
that we had been misled by the Senti-
mel and produced documents to con
vince us of the fact; said that the Senti
mel was paid to SANDER him and his
company and that libel proceedings
would be commenced against the Senti-
mel editor. After Mr.. Timmons' ex
PLANTATION we must admit that it is our
impression that he has been misrepre-
scented and we regret alluding to the
Sentinel's remarks in any manner
whatever-Elmore Bulletin.
Timmons has been complaining that
he had no paper to champion his
cause against the Sentinel. Now that
he has found one he is liable before he
gets through with this new feature of
the discussion to wish he h as not
found it.
Friend Payne is fully convinced that
Timmons is an abused man and that
he would not swindle any one. We
will wager the cigars with the Bulletin
that he has swindled people in Noun
tain Home, and possibly the Bulletin
editor is among the victims. ii Tim
mons issued any insurance policies in
your town, take the trouble, Mr.
Payne, to go to those who took them
out and ask them if they were not
given to understand that their policies
are what is called paid-up policies.
Then take the document itself and
read these words in section three;
"Should an emergency arise, through
epidemic or otherwise, whereby the
board of trustees deem such rates in
sufficient to meet the above specified
requirements of said association, addi-
tional premiums, equitably adjudged,
may be levied to meet such emer-
gency." Here is a provision that en-
ables the trustees to levy an assess
ment whenever they see fit. If an
insurance man goes to the editor of
the BULLETIN and induces him to take
out a life insurance in his company,
and tells him that his policy will cost
him So per quarter, and denies or con
ceals from him the fact that his com
pany at any time is liable to call for
more money in the shape of an assess
ment the Sentinel calls that swim
die. Ii this has not been done in
Mountain Home, the cigars are on us.
We would like to know what kind
of documentary evidence he produced
in the BULLETIN Office to satisfy Mr..
Payne that the Sentinel misrepre-
sented him. We charged him with
defrauding a widow lady at Oxford, in
Oneida county, Idaho, and he did,
and there is no way on earth whereby
he can avoid the responsibility. We
charged him with obtaining the use of
T. w. r. Nelson's horse and buggy in
Oneida county, then running away
with the property and selling it. The
law does not call this stealing, but the
man who would do such trick is
worse than a horsethief. Mr.. Nelson
is ready to appear in open court and
substantiate this charge.
Did our space permit we could pa
rade great long list of other crimes
that this man has been guilty Of. AS
for a libel suit--whatl Timmons &c
into court! That is the last place on
earth he would think of going. This
is what happened when he returned
the other day from his last trip over
the Oregon Short Line. The Sentinel
Office was one of the first places he
made for. In explaining the article
which appeared in the BULLETIN he
did not say in SO many words that the
editor OF the BULLETIN was liar, but
he did say that when be represented
him as threatening the SENTINEL with
libel suit it was false representa-.
ton. He asked if he could have the
privilege OF inserting a paid advertise.
ment in our columns, and was told
that he could not"
The above appeared in the Boise
Sentinel of last Thursday, and the
most surprising sentence to us is
that wherein Captain Gum boldly
asserts that the BULLETIN is cham
pioning the bad acts of Timmons
and unfolding a fraudulent life in
surance company. And why? Sim
ply because the BULLETIN then be-
lieved it had wronged man and
proceeded to right that wrong, as
gentlemen always do but scrubs
never. But we must now humbly