The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-03-06

bond for faithful performance Of the
contract. Upon the back of the bid is
this endorsement: Filled Jan. Ia 1897.
W. G. Dunbar Jr., Clerk, BY H. q. Dun
bar, Deputy. 1t may be noted here
that the contract to do the county
printing was not entered into with
Steunenberg Brothers until January
23rd, nine days later.
Mr.. Dunbar was asked by Mr.. Syms
il he had seen the affidavit of two of
the Commissioners which was pub
Hshed in the Record. Mr., Dunbar
said he had not, but had heard of it,
Mr.. Syms intimated that the Commits
sioners had evidently put the clerk in
hole. Mr.. Dunbar then in substance
made the following statement: The
bid of the publisher of THE CALDWELL
TRIBUNE to do the county printing
was regularly filed and placed among
other documents of similar character.
When the board reached the class of
business in which the printing bid be.
longed Mr., Howard King picked up
and broke open the envelope contain
ing the bid submitted by r. II.
Davis, publisher of THE TRIBUNE.
He held the document before his eyes
for some moments in the attitude of
reading it. Being that he was there
for the express and sole purpose OF eX.
aiming papers which were presented
for the consideration of the County
Commissioners, the conclusion was ir-
resistible that Mr.. King was reading
the document be held before his face
and gazed upon, but he may have been
stepped in profound fit of mental alb
straction. After gazing upon the paper
before his eyes until satisfied, he threw
IL down upon the table and looked u
look. Something in that look attract
cd the attention of Hon. Chas. j. f.
Peterson who promptly picked up the
paper and gazed upon it too. Possibly
it was abstraction or alteration or in
digestion that occupied his faculties.
Mr.. Dunbar does not wish to be quot
ed as Venturing an opinion as to what
troubled the Hon. Chas. j. F. Peterson.
Mr.. Dunbar is not prepared to say that
the Hon. Peterson read the paper he
held in his hand, but Mr.. Dunbar is
willing to swear that when the Hon.
Chas. J. f. Peterson, Commissioner of
Canyon County from the second COM
missiOners district, discontinued gaZ-
ing upon the bid of the publisher of the
CALDWELL TRIBUNE he, the aforesaid
Peterson, threw the bid into the middle
of the table exclaiming: so, st we
did not call for bids on that subject
And Mr.. Dunbar will make affidavit to
the fact that the word used by Mr..
Peterson for which the letters st here
stand was not sugar or street but some
thing which no gentleman would put
into his mouth. Mr.. Dunbar does not
recollect seeing this bid in Mr.. Knox's
hands, but it may have been there.
However, he distinctly states that the
TRIBUNE's bid was regularly be-
fore the commissioners; that it was ex-
amined by two of them and sneeringly
commented upon by one Of them. 1t
was put before the board just the same
as all matters of similar character are
presented. 1t was disposed of very
much the same as many things which
do not meet the approval OF the com
missioners are disposed of. The Ian
guage accompanying final disposition
of THE TRIBUNE's bid was possibly a
little Tanker than usual but perhaps
the disapprOval was more emphatic.
Now this matter stands between the
County Commissioners and their clerk.
1t looks very much as though some
body has lied or that somebody has
gone crazy. Yet there was nothing
that anybody noticed in the demeanor
of any membeE of the board to indicate
that his mind was not working as usual.
1t somehow seems to us that there are
three men in Canyon county whose
names will not frequently embellish
published allidaVits.